Last Saturday a Day of Support to the Kurdistan was held in Toulouse. There were several activities planned: discussions, music... Though I can read French to a certain extent I still can not understand a single word when they speak (French pronunciation is terribly difficult), but anyway it was a total must to show up there.
The activities were organised by a long list of collectives and left wing parties (particularly interesting to see the involvement of the Popular Front of Tunisia) The atmosphere was nice, though I would have loved to see the place more crowded and a larger representation of French young people. There were some very interesting stands of different collectives with good amounts of information, support boxes where you could give your "2 cents of support", Kurdish food, tea and coffee (delicious, but they took its toll on me, that night I couldn't fall asleep until 3 am), Kurdish music and that typical Kurdish dancing (that I had seen for the first time in Berlin on last May 1st) that reminds me a lot of Asturian "danza prima".
Obviously most of the stuff revolved around Kobane and Rojava, and claims for Kurdish autonomy and Ocalan liberation, but there was also much information about the horrible murder of 3 Kurdish female activists in January 2013. You'll be thinking now about Irak/Syria or Turkey, but not, that tragic crime occurred in the middle of Paris. It's quite easy to imagine that the 3 women were executed by some Turkish ultranationalist shitheads (maybe on the payroll of Erdogan's Turkish IslamoFascist government, or maybe acting on their own). Defying any sort of morality, many French media decided to second the delirious hypothesis promoted by the Turkish government, that was talking about an internal PKK's settling of scores... plainly ridiculous... and pretty painful to see once more how part of Europe "elites" fold to the interests of a backward, imperialist and repressive government like Turkey just because it's an "strategic partner". The oldest of the 3 murdered women (referred by some people as the Kurdish Rosa Luxembourg) was a founding member of the PKK, and it's quite hurtful to think that after surviving the battle fields and the terrible tortures in Turkish prisons she were to found her dead in central Paris...
Notice that this pic above is not Toulouse, is from a Demo in Paris at the time of the killings
France surprises me constantly in many regards, and the situation of Islam here is one of them. While it's thought to be the country that is sending a biggest number of "yihadists" to perpetrate mass killings and mass rapes... the Islamic invasion seems less visible here than in UK or Belgium. There is no "sharia police" madness, no demonstrations of IslamoFascists displaying their distaste and hate for our values, you'll rarely see women completely covered (well, the government has had the good sense of forbidding it), and almost all the posters of this act that I found in the street were intact (I only found one slightly torn up)
After the "journée de soutien" I went back home with a good bunch of pretty interesting reading material.
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