Saturday,
August 15 at 1 pm EDT
(Check
Your Timezone)
A
panel
discussion
celebrating the
history and
resistance struggle
of the Kurdish
freedom movement.
Click
here
to register for a
free or by donation
ticket to the event.
Free eBook of Your
Freedom and Mine
with a ticket.
August
15, 1984, signals the
beginning of the
Kurdish freedom
movement led by
Abdullah Öcalan. The
revolution in Rojava
would not have been
possible without
decades of resistance
and the ideological
works of Öcalan and
the Kurdish Workers’
Party (PKK), which had
special emphasis on
the principles of
participatory
democracy, confederal
solidarity,
anti-capitalism, dual
power, and feminism
(expressed in
Jineology).
This
panel brings together
world-renowned leaders
and experts on Kurdish
history, politics,
journalism, and
activism. The
discussion will offer
crucial insight into
the dramatic history,
reality, and prospects
of the Kurdish
Question.
When
you purchase a ticket
for this event, you
will be sent an eBook
version of Your
Freedom and Mine:
Abdullah Öcalan and
the Kurdish Question
in Erdoğan's Turkey
(Black Rose Books,
2018).
We
also encourage you to
check out the
excellent series our
comrades at PM Press
have put together of translated
works by Abdullah
Öcalan.
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The
Livestream will begin
Saturday, August 15 at
1 PM EDT.
- Click
here to
find the time of the
event in your
timezone.
- Click
here for
the Youtube
livestream. The link
will also be emailed
to you before the
event if you
register on this
Eventbrite page.
Send
in your questions
and comments for
the speakers in
YouTube's live stream
chat or by email to jason@blackrosebooks.com
You
can view our most
recent live stream
here: The
Forgotten
Revolution: The 1919
Hungarian Republic
of Councils.
*****
Thomas
Jeffrey Miley
is a Lecturer of
Political Sociology at
the University of
Cambridge, and a
member of the Board of
the EU Turkey Civic
Commission (EUTCC) and
a Patron of Peace in
Kurdistan. He is
Co-Editor, with
Federico Venturini, of
Your Freedom and Mine:
Abdullah Ocalan and
the Kurdish Question
in Erdogan's Turkey
(Montreal: Black Rose
Books, 2018).
Meral
Çiçek was
born in a Kurdish
guest-worker family in
Germany. She became
engaged in politics
and women's activism
at the age of 16 with
the Kurdish Women’s
Peace Office in
Dusseldorf. While
studying Political
Science, Sociology and
History at the
Goethe-University in
Frankfurt she began
work as a reporter and
editor for the only
daily Kurdish
newspaper in Europe,
Yeni Ozgur Politika,
for which she still
writes a weekly
column. In 2014 she
co-founded the Kurdish
Women’s Relations
Office (REPAK) in
Southern Kurdistan
(Northern Iraq). She
is also an editorial
board member of the
Jineoloji journal.
Born
in Kobani, Syria, Saleh
Moslem became
involved in the
Kurdish freedom
movement while
studying chemical
engineering at
Istanbul Technical
University. He was a
founding member of the
Democratic Union Party
(PYD). In 2003 he
became a member of the
PYD executive council
and was elected as
Co-Chairman of the
party in 2010 and held
the position until
2017. He is now a
member of the
Co-Presidency Council
of the party and lives
in Qamishli, Syria.
Reimar
Heider is a
physician by training
and a human rights
activist. He is one of
the spokespersons of
the International
Initiative “Freedom
for Abdullah Öcalan —
Peace in Kurdistan”
and has translated
several books by
Öcalan into German.
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