https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyTa_gJkYwI

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#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava B.C. student sneaked into Syria to witness a revolution [UPDATES]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/from-observation-to-activism-one-canadian-mans-experience-of-syria/article27538414/

When Cody Bergerud left Saltspring Island for northern Syria, he didn't tell anyone where he was going...

RELATED UPDATE: When Cody Bergerud left Saltspring Island for northern Syria, he didn't tell anyone where he was going.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/revolution-for-our-times-rojava-northern-syria/

RELATED UPDATE: Witnesses to the Revolution in Rojava

https://mesopotamia.coop/witnesses-to-the-revolution-in-rojava/

RELATED UPDATE: Kurdish YPG Female Fighters

https://m.blog.naver.com/pzkpfw3485/220831300228

RELATED UPDATE: The Rojava Revolution and the model of democracy without a state

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839439548-032/html?lang=en

RELATED UPDATE: Rojava: frontline of capital’s war on the environment

https://newint.org/features/2018/08/17/rojava-frontline-capitals-war-environment

RELATED UPDATE: Eyewitnesses to the Rojava revolution: women empowerment

https://roarmag.org/essays/eyewitnesses-rojava-revolution-bookchin-sahin/

RELATED UPDATE: The Rojava Revolution – A Decade On (Part I)

https://rojavainformationcenter.com/2022/07/10-years-of-the-rojava-revolution-much-achieved-still-much-to-come/

RELATED UPDATE: Women, Life, Freedom

https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy-and-society/women-life-freedom-6232/

RELATED UPDATE: Jina Amini was a Kurdish Woman Like Me. Here’s Why That Matters.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/2/hassane-op-ed-jina-amini/

RELATED UPDATE: ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’- UW Iranian Scholars for Liberty join over 200 universities in wave of global protests

https://www.dailyuw.com/news/jin-jiyan-azadi/article_c70a0bd6-7768-11ed-92ce-df74c1397a57.html

RELATED UPDATE: Brandenburg Gate in Berlin illuminated with 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi'

https://anfenglish.com/women/brandenburg-gate-in-berlin-illuminated-with-jin-jiyan-azadi-64307

RELATED UPDATE: The Kurdish feminist revolution

https://newint.org/immersive/2023/02/23/iran-kurdish-feminist-revolution

RELATED UPDATE: Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom): The Genealogy of a Slogan

https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/08/jin-jiyan-azadi-woman-life-freedom-the-genealogy-of-a-slogan

RELATED UPDATE: International days of action kick off today

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/international-days-of-action-kick-off-today-68340

RELATED UPDATE: Thousands of activists arrested across Iran since the beginning of the year

https://anfenglishmobile.com/human-rights/thousands-of-activists-arrested-across-iran-since-the-beginning-of-the-year-68341

RELATED UPDATE: Facing challenges and looking ahead: SDF commander’s vision for Rojava’s Future

https://medyanews.net/facing-challenges-and-looking-ahead-sdf-commanders-vision-for-rojavas-future/

RELATED UPDATE: Rojava Revolution, 11 years on

https://anfenglish.com/features/rojava-revolution-11-years-on-68370

RELATED UPDATE: YPJ says the Rojava Revolution got its true meaning with the Women's Defense Units

https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/ypj-says-the-rojava-revolution-got-its-true-meaning-with-the-women-s-defense-units-68371

RELATED UPDATE: Musician Nathan Felix sends message to mark anniversary of the Rojava Revolution

https://anfenglish.com/features/musician-nathan-felix-sends-message-to-mark-anniversary-of-the-rojava-revolution-68376

RELATED UPDATE: KNK blesses 11th anniversary of July 19 Revolution

https://www.hawarnews.com/en/haber/knk-blesses-11th-anniversary-of-july-19-revolution-h37146.html

RELATED UPDATE: WATCH From liberation of Sinjar to global impact: Eleven years of Rojava Revolution

https://medyanews.net/from-liberation-of-sinjar-to-global-impact-eleven-years-of-rojava-revolution/

RELATED UPDATE: WATCH International voices echo for recognition as Rojava Revolution celebrates 11 years

https://medyanews.net/international-voices-echo-for-recognition-as-rojava-revolution-celebrates-11-years/

RELATED UPDATE: YPG: Rojava Revolution became the revolution of peoples

https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/ypg-rojava-revolution-became-the-revolution-of-peoples-68382

RELATED UPDATE: KCK: All patriotic forces should unite around the Rojava Revolution and ensure national unity

https://anfenglish.com/features/kck-all-patriotic-forces-should-unite-around-the-rojava-revolution-and-ensure-national-unity-68384

Watch: Fran Drescher delivers fiery speech on SAG-AFTRA strike

 #CorpMedia #Idiocracy #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #DemExit #FeelTheBern

#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Afrin invasion: Turkey attacks northern Syria’s democratic revolution — with Russian and US approval [UPDATES]

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/afrin-invasion-turkey-northern-syria-democratic-revolution-russia-united-states

Three years after Kurdish-led forces liberated the northern Syrian city of Kobane from ISIS — after a months-long siege that captured the world’s imagination — the democratic, multi-ethnic and feminist revolution in Syria’s north is facing a new assault...

RELATED UPDATE: Thousands trapped in Syria’s Afrin district need protection and aid

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/thousands-trapped-syrias-afrin-district-need-protection-and-aid

RELATED UPDATE: Syria: Afrin, the starting point of Turkish forces' strategy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8GMC0a_MHE

RELATED UPDATE: A New Face of Genocide: Settlements in Afrin, Syria

https://www.syriandemocratictimes.com/2021/06/26/a-new-face-of-genocide-settlements-in-afrin-syria/

RELATED UPDATE: Afrin’s Syrian Kurds Continue to Pay Price of Turkey’s Occupation

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/09/15/syrian-kurds-afrin/

RELATED UPDATE: HTS reaches Syria’s Afrin amid displacement

https://npasyria.com/en/85547/

RELATED UPDATE: Afrin Liberation Forces announce the death of a fighter

https://anfenglish.com/ecology/afrin-liberation-forces-announce-death-of-fighter-67986

RELATED UPDATE: Four more civilians kidnapped in occupied Afrin

https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/four-more-civilians-kidnapped-in-occupied-afrin-68003

RELATED UPDATE: Women in Afrin - al-Shahba: We will continue the struggle of Yusra, Lyman

https://hawarnews.com/en/haber/women-in-afrin-al-shahba-we-will-continue-the-struggle-of-yusra-lyman-h36877.html

RELATED UPDATE: Schlier Committee deplores crime of raping child in Afrin

https://hawarnews.com/en/haber/schlier-committee-deplores-crime-of-raping-child-in-afrin-h36933.html

RELATED UPDATE: Turkey constructs residential complexes in Afrin countryside amidst forced deportations

https://medyanews.net/turkey-constructs-residential-complexes-in-afrin-countryside-amidst-forced-deportations/

RELATED UPDATE: 12 killed, 173 abducted in Turkish-occupied Afrin in 6 months

https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/12-killed-173-abducted-in-turkish-occupied-afrin-in-6-months-68113

RELATED UPDATE: SARA,Schlier slam raping child by Turkey's mercenaries in Afrin

https://hawarnews.com/en/haber/saraschlier-slam-raping-child-by-turkeys-mercenaries-in-afrin-h36946.html

RELATED UPDATE: Defend Kurdistan launches international days of action from 17 to 23 July

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/defend-kurdistan-launches-international-days-of-action-from-17-to-23-july-68176

RELATED UPDATE: HRE martyr Tekoşer Afrin laid to rest

https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/hre-martyr-tekoser-afrin-laid-to-rest-68190

RELATED UPDATE: TJK-E Congress calls for enhanced organisation for women's revolution

https://anfenglishmobile.com/women/tjk-e-congress-calls-for-enhanced-organisation-for-women-s-revolution-68220

RELATED UPDATE: Turkey bombs a village in Afrin’s Sherawa district

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/turkey-bombs-a-village-in-afrin-s-sherawa-district-68237

RELATED UPDATE: KCDK-E protests forced evacuation of Lavrio Camp

https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/kcdk-e-protests-forced-evacuation-of-lavrio-camp-68242

RELATED UPDATE: Thousands march in Shehba to protest the isolation imposed on 4bdullah 0calan

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/thousands-march-in-shehba-to-protest-isolation-imposed-on-abdullah-Ocalan-68245

RELATED UPDATE: From The Hague to Toronto: Stop the isolation in Imrali

https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/from-den-haag-to-toronto-stop-isolation-in-imrali-68247

RELATED UPDATE: Turkish occupation releases murderer of citizen Awfa in occupied Afrin

https://www.hawarnews.com/en/haber/turkish-occupation-releases-murderer-of-citizen-awfa-in-occupied-afrin-h37061.html

WHY UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ARE JUST AS UNLIKELY AS EVER, UNFORTUNATELY

I'm a leftist (Libertarian-Socialist), who votes progressive, because I live under an "elected" government, and I had thought I had purged the MSNBC/CNN Nation from my friends list, but apparently not, as my timeline is just chock-full of media-driven hysteria over current events, so here's a primer:

"Liberals" who think their arguments are clever or relevant to the Second Amendment are exhausting.

They are not the left; they are just one half of the good cop/bad cop act of the corporate owned fire-hose of bullshit that is the corporate media, and corporate America's governing criminal cartel/duopoly.

Both cults "I like simple and ineffectual 'solutions', because they make me feel like I'm doing something, and I'm just stinky with fear."

There are over a hundred million legal gun owners, who some want to punish for somebody else's crime.

Well, there are some things to consider.

We've been a heavily armed country since 1621, and yet the epidemic of daily mass-shootings didn't begin until 20 April 1999 (Columbine), at a time when gun ownership was at an all-time low, and five years after Clinton's assault-weapons ban, so maybe guns aren't the variable.

Maybe, just maybe, dead school-children are the price of the neoliberalism practiced under the "Washington Consensus" of BOTH right-wing authoritarian parties since the 1980's?
When your country offers you no prospects, and you become terrified of the future, what then?
Fear can make unstable people do desperate things.
Add to that a culture of celebrity, and what could possibly go wrong?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/18/neoliberalism-the-idea-that-changed-the-world

Another factor that goes completely unexamined, is the way Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill emptied our state hospitals onto our streets, and onto families ill-equipped to deal with the sometimes violent mentally ill.

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/the-desperate-and-the-dead/series/community-care/

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2023-04-24/opinion-impact-of-deinstitutionalization-on-homelessness-reagan-mental-health-hospitals-san-diego

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/03/hard-truths-about-deinstitutionalization-then-and-now/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/opinion/us-mental-health-community-centers.html

Thank God, the "solution" is so simple...

Also, 84% of NRA members support universal background checks. The problem is, every time a bill comes up for a vote, Democrats add poison pill amendments guaranteeing defeat in the legislature (and the courts), and then they proceed to tell the TV cameras that "once again the GOP and the gun lobby have voted down background checks and defied the will of the people", or some such nonsense.  

If you want to watch Dems sabotage universal background checks (while Republicans roll their eyes and face-palm) in real time, go here:

https://www.c-span.org/networks/

P.S. You can probably guess which one of these three groups I belong to (Hint: It's the one that's growing and actually decides elections):

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#LaborPartyNow!!!

P S The line, "You don't need 30 rounds to shoot a deer!" is not clever.

The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting tools, toys for hobbyists (target shooting), or even weapons for self-defense.

It's about ARMS!!!

It's about the individual citizen's right to arms, so they'll be prepared to join a militia, not the other way around. ‘Well regulated’ at that time, simply meant, ‘efficient.’ In other words, in order for a muster to be efficient, civilians needed to be already armed.

So the "collective rights" argument has a couple of problems that make it quite unhinged from history and reality.

1) As I've mentioned above, Americans have always been relatively heavily armed. How did that happen in a collective rights paradigm?

2) Contrary to what you were probably taught in school, by the time of the Confederate artillery barrage on Fort Sumter, the war over slavery had already been going on for over six years, and was fought entirely by independent volunteer militia's. Fort Sumter was just the beginning of official involvement by government troops. How did that happen in a collective rights paradigm?

3) In what universe do government forces need to have their right to arms protected?

4) Since when do National Guard members keep National Guard arms (Hint: they're kept at the armory, and have been since colonial times)?

5) Obviously, "Liberals" are stupid.

Again: #LaborPartyNow!!!

P P S That was ENTIRELY the point of the first fruits of dissent, the 10 Amendments we've come to call the BILL OF RIGHTS (which have become a beacon to aspiring democrats all over the world), to protect INDIVIDUALS from the government they had just created. #TrueStory
 

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#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava YPJ calls for action for a fighter captured alive by the invaders [UPDATES]

https://anfenglishmobile.com/women/ypj-calls-for-action-for-a-fighter-captured-alive-by-the-invaders-38744

Silence is to be complicit in acts against all of humanity, said the YPJ and called on all women and human rights organisations to raise their voices against these brutal mercenaries employed by the Turkish state...

RELATED UPDATE: WATCH SUBTITLES: Turkish backed militias captured Kurdish YPJ fighter, Çîçek Kobanê 21st October, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtyrsIkKOjQ

RELATED UPDATE: YPJ member kidnapped by Turkish-backed jihadists in Syria

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ypj-member-kidnapped-turkish-backed-jihadists-syria

RELATED UPDATE: WATCH Syria conflict: The 'war crimes' caught in brutal phone footage

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50250330

RELATED UPDATE: Unbowed - Turkey is bent on extinguishing a beacon of women’s liberation in northern Syria. But the women of Rojava are not giving up

https://newint.org/features/2020/06/11/unbowed

RELATED UPDATE: Turkey sentences YPG militant captured in Syria to life in prison

https://ahvalnews.com/ypg/turkey-sentences-ypg-militant-captured-syria-life-prison

RELATED UPDATE: World must act to free Kurdish political prisoner Cicek Kobane from Turkish jail

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/world-must-act-free-kurdish-political-prisoner-cicek-kobane-turkish-jail

RELATED UPDATE: YPJ calls for action against Turkey's war crimes in North-East Syria

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/ypj-calls-for-action-against-turkey-s-war-crimes-in-north-east-syria-56773

RELATED UPDATE: Kongra Star: life sentence on Cicek Kobane against international law

https://hawarnews.com/en/haber/kongra-star-life-sentence-on-cicek-kobane-against-international-law-h31098.html

RELATED UPDATE: YPG/YPJ International calls for action against Turkish attacks on North-East Syria

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/ypg-ypj-international-calls-for-action-against-turkish-attacks-on-north-east-syria-63793

RELATED UPDATE: Can America Stop Turkey’s Assault on Northern Syria?

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-america-stop-turkey%E2%80%99s-assault-northern-syria-205975

RELATED UPDATE: New War Looming on Rojava

https://internationalsocialist.net/en/2022/12/struggle-for-kurdistan

RELATED UPDATE: AANES calls for international action on the fifth anniversary of the occupation of Afrin

https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/aanes-calls-for-international-action-on-the-fifth-anniversary-of-the-occupation-of-afrin-66117

RELATED UPDATE: East Kurdistan Women's Defense Units announces death of guerrilla Rojînda Xwebûn

https://anfenglish.com/women/east-kurdish-women-s-defense-units-announces-death-of-guerrilla-rojinda-xwebun-66843

RELATED UPDATE: YPJ commander: ‘Women create life, and we can make it free’

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/ypj-commander-women-create-life-and-we-can-make-it-free

RELATED UPDATE: Iran: Jin Jiyan Azadî uprising victims honoured amid threats from security forces on Eid al-Adha

https://medyanews.net/iran-jin-jiyan-azadi-uprising-victims-honoured-amid-threats-from-security-forces-on-eid-al-adha/

RELATED UPDATE: YPJ pays tribute to Avrîn Mahsum: She was the voice of women's liberation struggle

https://anfenglish.com/women/ypj-pays-tribute-to-avrin-mahsum-she-was-the-voice-of-women-s-liberation-struggle-67838

RELATED UPDATE: Three journalists in Iran charged with "making propaganda against national security"

https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/three-journalists-in-iran-charged-with-making-propaganda-against-national-security-68141

RELATED UPDATE: Journalist Ebrahimi Iraee sentenced to five years in prison in Tehran

https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/journalist-ebrahimi-iraee-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-in-tehran-68123

RELATED UPDATE: Third lecture of Rojava series on YouTube

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/third-lecture-of-rojava-series-on-youtube-68142

RELATED UPDATE: Kurdish and Baluch communities bear brunt of Iran’s execution spree

https://medyanews.net/kurdish-and-baluch-communities-bear-brunt-of-irans-execution-spree/

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