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Upcomeing protests in UK

Outside BBC in London
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In South London next Thursday
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What protests are taking place throughout the world???

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Saturday 16 August

March starting 1pm outside

BBC 1 Portland Place

W1A 1AA

Nearest tube Oxford Circus

marching to Marble Arch so wear comfortable shoes

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IBT

Campaigners Protest in London Against Isis Attacks on Iraqis and Syrians
By Fiona Keating August 17, 2014

Hundreds of people gathered in central London on Saturday, calling for action to protect the people of Sinjar from attacks by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, formerly known as Isis.

The demonstrators urged the UK government to assist the Yazidi people and put diplomatic pressure on states such as Turkey and Qatar for their policy of supporting jihadism in the region.

Speaking at the protest in London, Julie Lenarz, executive director for London-based foreign policy think-tank the Human Security Centre, described the government's response to the violence as "incoherent".

She said: "Unopposed, mass atrocity crimes - ranging from crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing to forthright genocide - will continue to be committed by ISIS.

"The Iraqi government has proven unable to fulfil its responsibility to protect and the West's response has been incoherent and fragmented at best. A limited aid and surveillance mission is not an adequate response to the crime of all crimes."

Isis linked terrorists are carrying out a wholesale massacre against the Kurdish people and other ethnic and religious groups including members of the Shia, Sufi, Christian and Yezidi communities.

Maajid Nawaz, chairman of Quilliam, a London-based think tank that focuses on counter-extremism, urged people to "express the outrage we all feel towards ISIS and their barbaric actions. I also hope our government does all it can to support the victims of ISIS as well as those on the ground who are fighting against them."

Ranja Faraj, a board member for campaign group Solidarity against ISIS (SAIS), said the group believes the international community should arm the Kurdish forces. "The Kurds are fighting with Soviet-era weapons, and ISIS terrorists have been armed by the Iraqi army after they abandoned their weapons . . . they are all American funded weapons," Faraj told Asharq Al-Awsat.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/campaigners-pr ... ns-1461463

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Protest against the jihadists: Who are the Kurds France?

A protest against the atrocities of the Islamic state (EI) in Iraq took place this Saturday in Paris at the call of the Federation of Kurdish Associations France and the Association of Yezidis of France. They demonstrate their support for the Kurdish resistance there.

In France, the Kurdish community is estimated at between 150,000 and 200,000 people.

Coming from the Middle East, the first wave of immigration is economic and dates back to the 70s In the following decades, the Kurds rally as France for political reasons. Including the 1980 coup in Turkey and clashes in the east, and the Gulf Wars in Iraq.

The vast majority of Kurds in France come from Turkey. Estimated that less than 50,000 would come from Syria, Iraq and Iran, the other three countries with Kurdish minorities.

When Parisian lawyer Rusen Aytac was asked which country Kurds originated in (Turkey, Iraq? ...), she replied emphatically:

"Kurdistan of course, madam! "

The project of a Kurdish state emerged as other national ambitions with the fall of the Ottoman Empire. But the cut made ​​after World War squashed the project in the bud. The Kurdish land, along with the people, was divided among Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.

The Kurds have been sucked into the many different national political ethos, and more or less share the same stories of strong assimilation and repression.

For Hamit Bozarslan, Research Director at the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), a specialist in Kurdish question, having been separated so long induces different courses and also felt in the diaspora:

"The Kurds have multiple affiliations. A Turkish Kurd is interested in the issue of Kurdistan and it is also sensitive to what is happening in Istanbul, and an Iraqi Kurd is particularly concerned about the events in Baghdad. "

The border is less pronounced among intellectuals in the diaspora, he said. Seminars and research embodied stirring beyond national origins.

There are also several religious communities among Kurds. The majority are Sunni but there are also a large Alevi part. This progressive Shiite current has good press in France partly because it promotes equality between men and women.

http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/08/16/m ... nce-254178