Dedicated hunt sab. Also interested in animal rights, anti-fascism, land rights and intersectionality. I also have extremely fluffy cheeks.
#YPG
Veteran
Cooper Andrews, the American volunteer who was martyred near Bakhmut recently, alongside Heval Çiya and Dmitry Petrov, posted this to his social media just before going to the front.
I'm sure you're all familiar with the concept of Security Theatre - security measures that don't make you safer, but make you feel safer, causing you to take risks and become less safe.
I'd like to introduce you all to Medical Theatre.
From Kobane to Raqqa to Afrin and Serekaniye, antifascists from around the world have fought and died alongside the brave people of North and East Syria, and we will continue to do so until all are free!
#RiseUpAgainstFascism
if anarchists were serious about immediate destruction of the state, the big gotcha to answer wouldn't be the logistics bs but rather the military question. which may very well have a good answer but "shrug" is not one, and neither is "we'll launch fireworks at them"
I hear the the National Guard have made Washington "just like Syria", so I'm really glad for whichever third of the city is now self-governing and has the most egalitarian democracy in the world.
Today, Turkish airstrikes in North and East Syria have targeted
- A medical clinic
- Two oil production facilities
- A joint base of the Coalition and local Counter-Terror Forces (YAT)
This isn't about fighting terrorism, it's about making life here impossible.
The "there won't be any logistical organisation in an anarchist society, so everyone will starve" criticism is confusing to me, coming from a country where every single protest movement is completely dependent on anarchists for their logistics.
Middle class westerners love demanding that the revolution preserve their standard of living. They never like it when you point out that their standard of living relies on the exploitation of lots of people, and that they might lose some comforts once those people are free.
I don’t expect anarchists to solve every problem in the world.
I do expect them to be able to solve things like “how will we coordinate production sufficiently well that peoples standard of living won’t be worse”
A very clever friend once explained to me that every "tear gas treatment" except water relies on using a chemical reaction to neutralise the tear gas (or other chemical agent), and that you absolutely should not, under any circumstances, create a chemical reaction in your eyes.
Feeling deeply depressed about that video of everyone filming as a protestor got arrested in the US. Either get involved or get out of the way. No event needs to be filmed a hundred times, and those 200 hands could be keeping someone free.
@MulhollandL0ver
That's good. So long as you all keep not making a fuss or demanding dignity or reminding us that you exist or asking for equal protection under the law or wanting to use public bathrooms or thinking you can leave the house without being harassed, then I guess we can tolerate you.
Updates from the earthquake-
- Assad is demanding 50% of all aid passing through regime territory
- Rescuers in the Turkish-occupied territories are refusing to help Kurds
- Turkish police are driving Syrian refugees from their camps, presumably so Turkish survivors can use them
To clarify my position on the current conflict in Palestine: violence against civilians, like all abuse, is an ideological decision. And on this scale, with this much filming, it was clearly a high level decision done as part of a military strategy.
🧵: Over here in the autonomous region of North and East Syria, we often like to talk about how we aren't separatists. But a lot of people don't seem to understand why we say that, or what we mean.
Fortunately, I like explaining things.
Make Rojava Green Again activists in Rojava say Google Murray Bookchin!
Bookchin's theories of Social Ecology and Libertarian Municipalism have inspired revolutionaries around the world, but especially here in Kurdistan.
@LeahabShaffer
As a recovered addict, I'd just like to point out that this is awful, that it must have taken a special type of awful person to have conceived of and worked on it, and that I sincerely wish awful things upon everyone involved.
An IFAK should contain the minimum supplies to allow you to survive 1 common battlefield injury long enough to reach a proper medic. Tourniquets, haemostatic gauze, chest seals. If something can be fixed with a plaster then you do not need to fix it on a battlefield.
I'm going to be offline for a few hours, but the situation currently
- airstrikes all along our northern border, plus Sinjar, Medya, Qandil
- no reports of troop movements on the border
- no SNA mobilisation
This is an awful night, but it doesn't look like an invasion.
@genericpanic
@AeroDork
That doesn't sound like a rabies issue, just a racoon issue, so I'm afraid the rabies vaccination program is unlikely to help you.
If it helps, you could probably beat them in a fight if you had to.
For those of you just joining us: the reason transphobes hate Stonewall so much is that Stonewall used to be transphobic as hell - I'm pretty sure they mainstreamed the aggressive use of "LGB" to signify transphobia - but then had a good look at themselves and changed sides.
When you have a war, you'll get murderers and rapists turn up. It attracts them, unfortunately. Here are some of the ways you can deal with them:
1. Shoot them. Quick, easy, blame it on snipers or something.
2. Kick them out. Solves the short term problem but not the long term.
To celebrate 10 years of the Rojava Revolution, here's a handy guide to who all these groups are, what their acronyms mean, and how they're related. Dedicated to every journalist who's ever had to work out if the YPG are a government or a militia.
#10YearsRojava
This Cass Review section jumped out at me. The quote from a Lived experience focus group participant: "its okay to have different plans for medical transition" - "just hormones, or just surgery". Cass uses this to justify the below statement. They are not the same 1/
"Wir haben nichts gegen Kurden, wir haben nur etwas gegen die PKK"
In Diyarbakir wurden nun viele zweisprachige Straßen- und Richtungsschilder abgehängt und durch rein türkisch sprachige ersetzt. Kurdische...
Hey,
@MrAndyNgo
, am I going to be on your fascist kill list too? It won't be my first. I'm a member of an antifascist militia who violently drove conservatives out of a major city back in 2017, causing notable amounts of property damage in the process.
#antifamugshots
In almost every revolution, the first place that counter revolutionary forces start to organise is around patriarchy. Among men whose goal was never total liberation but only personal advancement, and whose main goal becomes preventing or reversing women's liberation.
I wish I could say I'm shocked that the Turkish army is continuing to shell Tel Rıfat even during the earthquake. No amount of Kurdish suffering will satisfy their bloodlust.
Kendal Breizh, a Breton YPG volunteer, has been martyred fighting against the Turkish invasion of Afrin.
Şehîd Kendal was one of the most dedicated revolutionaries I have ever known, and he would have been proud to have given his life for freedom.
Şehîd Nemirin!
In solidarity with the people of Northeast Syria and in memory of our comrade Waka, who fell in action against Daesh, Underground Badger Syndicate stand with the SDF against Turkish invasion and genocide.
Kurdistan will be the graveyard of fascism!
#StopRacistTurkey
This is actually an important point. PKK attacks follow a consistent pattern:
- Military targets.
- Extremely careful to avoid civilian casualties.
- Claimed soon afterwards.
- Dead attackers are publicly named.
The Istanbul attack matches none of these patterns.
The
#PKK
claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide attack less than 2 months ago in Mersin,
#Turkey
.
One of the two women attackers involved was from NE
#Syria
, according to the PKK itself:
Raqqa, four years ago: Life at the back of the front was mostly dull and predictable. Get woken around 3-5am when the night sentry got bored. Sit on these chairs and watch for daesh until logistics came. Wake friends, eat breakfast, sit on the chairs some more.
Assad: Kurds are not citizens of this country, we should take away their land and give it to Arab farmers.
SDF: Has to work with the regime out of desperation.
FSA Fanboys: You did this because you and the regime are both Kurdish Supremacists who hate Arabs.
@GilbertArielMa1
Spoken like someone who's never had to fight for anything in their lives. Also like someone who's never paid any attention to Iranian domestic politics. If you had, you'd know that there are multiple ongoing insurgencies against the Iranian government.
Taking one of these onto a battlefield or any other situation where you need an IFAK will reduce your chances of survival. At the very least, it will slow you down. And if you have a battlefield-relevant injury, nothing in here will save you.
This is one of the most important roles of our military forces - arming and training society, particularly women and minority groups, to ensure that genocide can never happen again in this land.
"We are still Armenian" - Ş Nubar Ozanyan Tabur, an Armenian Diaspora militia, commemorate the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. It was a hugely powerful event, declaring their defiance to fascism but also their solidarity with other oppressed peoples.
#ArmenianGenocide
If someone had somehow not known about Hamas before this conflict, this should tell them everything they need to know about how they would govern. Nobody is going to be liberated by a group whose ideology centers abuse and subjugation through violent displays of strength.
I see this meme a lot and normally I dislike it, but in this context it's giving me a lot of emotions. I'm not really motivated by hope any more, but this makes me feel like I should be. Because our martyrs were, if nothing else.
I see posters of Anna every day - at home, at work, in the street. But still sometimes it suddenly hits me again that she's gone, and it's like the bottom falls out of the world all over again.
Rest easy, Heval. I hope the world we're building can do justice to your dreams.
This is a story that's always fascinated me: a mostly Kurdish refugee camp in Greece, abandoned by the state due to Turkish pressure, but surviving through self-organisation and Democratic Confederalism.
The funny thing is, we already live in a system where there's constant violence and nobody faces any consequences for it, but people are fine with that because it happens along patriarchal lines.
The US completely controls the airspace used for the attacks, and the Turkish air force is hopelessly outclassed by the American one. Every single one of those aircraft could have been shot down without US personnel breaking a sweat.
#BREAKING
: The US is “dismayed” by Turkey's recent deadly airstrikes in northern Syria, and calls for “an immediate de-escalation of violence and respect for established ceasefire lines” - a State Department spokesperson tells Rudaw English.
For my followers who aren't experts on middle eastern politics, here's a summary and explanation of all that stuff I've been tweeting about for the last few days - Turkey, Gare, all that stuff.
When I first returned from Rojava, I didn't want to admit to having any mental health issues from combat experiences. It took years before I was able to really admit it to myself, let alone other people. And a big part of that was because people wanted me to have those problems.
FFS! Heval Argeş, who fought against Daesh with the
#YPG
, is being held even longer in prison on ludicrous charges of 'terrorism'. This whole case is a joke, and I hope he wins a hefty amount of compensation once it gets thrown out.
#RiseUp4Rojava
Well that was a stressful day. Sabs in the field getting run down by quadbikes, fireworks being thrown at the vehicles. But we kept them moving, stopped any kills, and saw two foxes get to safety. Thanks to Bristol, Bath, and South Wales Sabs!
#HuntSabs
#KeepTheBan
#TrailHuntLies
It's very funny that that Rhodesia fanboy is describing the Rhodesians as "a militaristic, pastoral people" "outside the global industrial order", with "cruel, aristocratic" traits, but they were just the English. You cannot noble savage the English.
@CENTCOM
Any idea who could possibly be killing your allies? Any idea which country opened the airspace for them to do so? If you aren't willing to name Erdoğan then this is an empty gesture that disrespects their memory. Do better.
If you want something immediate you can do to help the people of Northeast
#Syria
as they face betrayal and invasion, donate to Heyva Sor. The more resources they have for their vital humanitarian work, the easier the SDF's job will be.
#riseup4rojava
#StopRacistTurkey
#YPG
#SDF
Today we opened our new comprehensive primary health care clinic (CPHC) in
#Serekaniye
, and in this way we have now with our partners 12 similar centers those work 24/7 in (Minbij, Raqqa, Kobane, Derezor, Hasake).
#kurdish_red_crescent
Like clockwork. The US gets to go into turkish-controlled areas to grab a high value jihadi. Turkey gets to bomb Shengal and kill some yazidi children. This deal-making with people's lives makes me sick.
It was literally a conference about how the Treaty of Lausanne was bad because it split Kurdistan into four parts and that's the root of all the problems in the region.
PKK’s long-time dream of splitting Kurdistan virtually came true yesterday during an event it organized in Europe.
The militant group is trying to create a fake flag for each part of Greater Kurdistan.
📸 SM
"[Turkey is] conducting ethnic cleansing by removing a group of people from their lands, and replacing those people with other refugees, and also inserting terrorist groups into these places, like Afrin."
- Col Myles Caggins, former coalition spokesperson
YPG be like "I'm just gonna sit in this mountain cave all winter and hand-make a sniper rifle that fires a 2cm wide explosive anti-aircraft round over terrifying ranges"
Seriously, that thing'll go through a building and kill you on the other side.
I'm seeing so many people on here using anti-war, anti-imperialism rhetoric to push pro-war, pro-imperialism positions. It's exhausting and infuriating.
Extremely funny extract from Pompeo's book:
"The meeting [with Turkey] went bad. We said that we would work with the Syrian Kurds to defeat ISIS. I've never seen anger erupt so quickly in a room. Kalin and Fidan shouted-called and then quickly left the room."
AKP propagandists are now openly admitting that Turkish forces are targeting civilians. But they're justifying it using the pretzel logic that a Turkish bomb would never harm civilians, so everyone on these cars, hospitals, schools, ect must be a hardened PKK fighter.
It seems so-called leaders of the terrorist organization YPG/PKK in Syria left military vehicles and started traveling in civilian vehicles to hide from Turkish armed drones. But it doesn't seem to work very well.
Your regular reminder that "Rojava Network" often publishes misinformation, that their misinformation always serves to undermine the revolution, and that the truth they publish between the misinformation to make themselves seem credible can be easily found elsewhere.
Nonsense.
Usually don’t comment on this stuff but a lot of people think RN is an official or credible account - I don’t want anyone to think this report is credible and use it as a source for some unrealistic scenario or disinformation campaign against the AANES/SDF
I don't know what's going to happen in Turkey now, I don't think anyone does yet. But whatever happens, our forces will still be guarding the border, those of us in civilian work will keep doing everything we can to support them, all of us will continue to build the revolution.
If I wasn't interested in liberation but rather an occasional cycling of oppressors, a belief that everyone should get a turn at subjugating others and that being a former victim justifies being a perpetuator, then I would support the Israeli apartheid state.
Jihadis love claiming that 250,000 people have been displaced from Tel Rıfaat, a town with a population of 20,400. They also like to talk about how it was previously "run by the FSA", but they don't like to talk about which FSA group ("Conquest Brigade of the Islamic Front").
- The Turkish state is continuing to bomb south & west Kurdistan
- Aid gathered by NGOs is confiscated and relabeled as aid provided by the Turkish state
- Turkish soldiers are touring the earthquake zone, taking photos of themselves "helping", and leaving without doing anything
Troubled and saddened by reports of Yezidi civilian casualties in Sinjar, Iraq, including the death of 12-year-old Salah Nassir. Our condolences to the victims & their loved ones. Yezidis have been subjected to much violence and, like all people, deserve to live in peace.
"Bristol Hunt Saboteurs send our solidarity to the people of Northeast Syria, who are currently under attack from the Turkish state.
"We call on everyone to join solidarity actions this weekend."
#riseup4rojava
#StopRacistTurkey
#StopErdogan
Analysts: "The trouble with western intervention in Ukraine is that it will give weapons and influence to groups who our governments disagree with ideologically, and may lead to difficult diplomatic situations after the war."
Me, a YPG Veteran: Yes.
Turkey systematically destroying the places that produce electricity and heating oil, just at the start of winter, is pure evil. Temperatures in the north regularly drop below zero in the winter, and many are still living in tents after the last Turkish invasion.
I've just been to see
@jiboazadiyefilm
, and it's fantastic. I urge everyone to go and see it as soon as it's subtitled into a language you speak.
It follows the heroic resistance to the Turkish invasion of Sur in 2015, aimed at crushing the democratic resistance there.