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Panel: The Kurdish Struggle
Just before giving up its empire in the Middle East, the British carved out the borders of the new nations. Kurdistan was split among four different nations. Those nations are all ethnically, culturally, and religiously different from the Kurds, and they have been oppressed minorities in all of them ever since.
Yet in the nation of Syria, the Kurds have formed an autonomous zone, run along Democratic Socialist and Feminist lines, called Kobani. The government of Syria has never been friendly to Kobani, but recently they have had to contend with something even worse: the authoritarian extremists of ISIS. And they have been fighting them without help from the USA or any of the other nations in the region.
One of the main entry points for ISIS fighters is via Turkey. Turkey has quietly let them slip across its borders, yet has refused to let the many Kurds in Turkey enter Syria to help ISIS. Pro-Kobani demonstrations have been endorsed by the Occupy Action Council. Come hear from Kurdish speakers about their struggle for freedom.
New Yorker article: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/fight-lives