Screening of ‘Sara’

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When:
March 10, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
2019-03-10T19:00:00-07:00
2019-03-10T22:00:00-07:00
Where:
Tamarack Oakland
1501 Harrison Street
Oakland
California 94612

“They cut my breasts in torture, I didn’t even say “ah”,
The prevalent mindset is that if a woman knows justice, to cut her breasts
I am embarrassed to even say “ah” as a militant of a justified cause. ”

Sakine Cansız (Sara)

Sara was born in Dersim in 1958 as the daughter of an Alevi family. She was one of the founding members of the PKK, a political activist and feminist known by the codename “Sara” in the organization. She was among the founders of the PKK and was one of the five people who lived and worked in the organization until 2013, and she was the only woman among the founders of the PKK who continued her activities in the organization. She was imprisoned for twenty years in Diyarbakır No 5 Prison. She was one of the PKK’s representatives for Europe. On January 9, 2013, while with Fidan Dogan (code name Rojbin) and Leyla Şaylemez (codenamed Ronahi), the representatives of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), she was shot in the head by a silenced weapon at the Kurdistan Information Bureau near the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, France.

Cansız, who described her life in her book “My Life Was Always A Struggle”, did not stop at the prisons where she stayed. All her life she has resisted and struggled.

The stories of these women did not end with the massacre of the revolutionary women’s resistance leaders in Paris. Today in Rojava, in Kurdistan and in many parts of the world there are thousands of Saras, Rojbins and Ronahis.

We are not over the fight and will not end; until women and life are free …

Jin Jiyan Azadi

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