For  Ahmet Altan – in a Turkish  prison

"These are the things they took away..."

https://www.globalrights.info/2019/11/for-ahmet-altan-in-a-turkish-prison/

Ahmet Hüsrev Altan, the Turkish writer and journalist, was rearrested on 12 November, 2019, just a week after his release from prison over alleged links to the failed 2016 coup. He had earlier been serving an aggravated life sentence in prison for the bizarre charges of “sending subliminal messages to coup conspirators” (via  a TV interview) on the eve of the July 2016 failed coup in Turkey.

“Wounds are so deep and painful in these countries that in order to clean those wounds you have to use your pen like a scalpel. We are forced to go outside literature and write directly political pieces. Writing becomes engulfed by politics.”   (Ahmet Altan, Times Literary Supplement)

Ahmet Altan released his memoir of his arrest and detention in March 2019: I Will Never See the World Again. In reality, his arrest at dawn, like that of his own father 45 years previously, is a result of his courageous criticism of the now-oppressive Erdoğan-AKP regime in Turkey as well his outspoken defense of the rights of Kurds, Armenians and ‘Free Speech’.

https://www.dirittiglobali.it/2019/11/for-ahmet-altan-in-a-turkish-prison/

 

Truly We Live in Dark Times

 

Global Rights - Talking Kurdistan 

"To UNICEF, to United Nations, to Trump

I am Eva from Rojava, from Kobanî, Afrin, Qamishli,

and all Kurdistan

I am a stolen child I am a forgotten child

I have never held a weapon

I just have a wide heart

(I)  send it (to) all the world

will you give me peace..?

 Will you give me my childhood?

…And this is my message:

Please, please,

stop this war!”

(Eva from Rojava (below)

to Kurdistan 24  interviewer on

Turkey’s military invasion of Rojava,

October 9^th, 2019)
https://www.dirittiglobali.it/2019/11/world-resistance-day-for-rojava-truly-we-live-in-dark-times/ 

FREEDOM POEMS FOR OCALAN

 

Freedom Poems For Ocalan Download PDF

  

The poems collected in this volume are presented to Abdullah Ocalan on his 70^th birthday on 4 April 2019.

They are each a gesture of solidarity and token of friendship for Ocalan himself and for the Kurdish people from whom he is inseparable.

Each poem is an expression of admiration for the spirit of the Kurds, inspired by their resilience, resistance and belief in the joy of life. The remarkable awakening of the consciousness and political activism of the Kurdish people in recent years has been engendered by the remarkable leadership and writings of Abdullah Ocalan. Despite enduring decades of incarceration removed entirely from the world, his people and denied all human contacts, Ocalan still communicates through his words and as a living example of the essential strength of the Kurdish spirit. He will not and cannot be silenced.

The immediate context for the publication of this book is the mass hunger strike waged by Kurds within Turkey and the diaspora for the freedom of Ocalan. There is also, at the time of going to press, the mounting political crisis within Turkey reflected in the dramatic collapse in support for Erdogan’s party, the AKP, in the recent elections. That poll result is a welcome sign that change is on its way and it is about time too.

But this volume looks forward to a time when Abdullah Ocalan himself will be able to read the poems contained in its pages at leisure and in freedom. That will be an important milestone in the liberation of the Kurds as a whole and only then will our task have been achieved.

We hope these poems will move you and inspire you into taking action in support of the Kurdish people.

Peace in Kurdistan Campaign

Campaign for a political solution of the Kurdish Question

Email: estella24@tiscali.co.uk

http://www.peaceinkurdistancampaign.com

ONLY IN ROJAVA

séamas carraher

photographs

from kobanê

by

orsola casagrande,

september, 2018

"This place is Rojava, the Federation of Northern and Eastern Syria, where Kurds, together with Armenians, Yazidi, Circassians, Christians, Turkmens, Arabs, Assyrians are dreaming boldly, and, equally boldly, are trying to make these dreams come true."   [Orsola Casagrande]

downloadable e-chapbook

“We have work to do”

 "This is what Only in Rojava is, a statement from the heart.

And from the hearts of those men and women trying to build a new world, against all odds."
(Orsola Casagrande)

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ON A WINTER'S DAY

(AT WAR)

for the people (and refugees)
of Afrin Region,
the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria - Rojava

https://www.globalrights.info/2018/06/irish-poet-seamas-carraher-published-a-poem-for-the-people-of-afrin/

downloadable e-chapbook

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/irish-poet-writes-poem-for-the-people-of-afrin-27386

Benjamin’s Grave

http://www.globalrights.info/2016/10/75384/  

downloadable e-chapbook

Theses on (the Philosophy of) History (poem) 

downloadable E-Book

http://www.globalrights.info/2016/09/theses-the-philosophy-of-history-poem-downloadable-book/

Global Rights has decided to venture into the world of e-books.

"Today, Tuesday 27th September, we publish a precious little e-book, Theses on (the Philosophy of) History (poem), a long poem by GR writer and poet Séamas Carraher, based on Walter Benjamin’s last written work, ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History –  Über den Begriff der Geschichte’, written in 1940 shortly before his death.

The idea of now publishing e-books is a consequence of what Global Rights intends to be: a platform to communicate and share texts, opinions, comments, literary reviews, poems, news…

We have called this new chapter of the Global Rights adventure “Culture of Liberation”. We will go into it and why we think there is now an urgent need for a culture of liberation, with other writings to be published this week and into the future.

Ultimately we believe that only by imagining and desiring another world, other social systems and relationships, in fact, will the much needed change become concrete.

Likewise only by “recovering forgotten and subtracted vocabularies, by rebuilding proper syntax and new grammars, subversion becomes viable…”

We hope you will join us in this new project." 

(Orsola Casagrande)

http://www.globalrights.info/2016/09/global-rights-presents-its-first-book-today/

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On the Concept of History – Walter Benjamin – download e-book