BERLIN – In the past few days, internationalist and Kurdish youth and young women in many different European cities have shown their attitude towards the attacks on the Kurdistan freedom movement, as well as the attacks on women by the prevailing patriarchal power mentality reinforced by capitalism.
AGAINST VIOLENCE TO WOMEN – ACTION AT THE BERLIN BORDELL
On November 25th, the day of violence against women, the young Kurdish women from TekoJIN together with internationalist young women from Berlin left messages at a brothel and declared:
“We condemn the system that makes women sell their bodies, but especially the men who claim this service and actively contribute to the enslavement of women. We say: Prostitution is not self-determination or free choice. The system that every cell of nature and our bodies can be sold and even managed to commodify work in which bodies are normalized and gain feminist acceptance. Of course we are not attacking the working women, but rather the system mentality that created such a relationship and pushes women into it. There can never be any talk of individual free will as long as society is not free, as long as we live under the yoke of the state. As women, we must learn together to recognize what real freedom is, that when we become ourselves and unite as one voice and become unstoppable. A free life can only be if we are all free! Every 5th woman who works as a prostitute is murdered! Ni una menos! Defend yourselves!
That’s why we spray-painted the statement: ‘Customers are rapists’ on the wall of the brothel to show that the system in which bodies are sexualized, beaten and sold for money is based on a rape mentality!! Eggs and paint bombs were also thrown at the walls.
Long live the young fighting women!
JIN JIYAN AZADΔ
AGAINST PKK CRIMINALIZATION – ACTIONS AT FASCIST SHOPS
After a nationwide mobilization to Berlin on November 26 in order to achieve a large participation in the demonstration against the ban of the PKK in Berlin, the police in Berlin once again used methods of criminalizing the demonstrators in order to hinder the legitimate protest and to denigrate in public. The young people who are particularly concerned that in Germany attempts are being made everywhere to criminalize their protests and their actions for the freedom struggle in Kurdistan, which is currently being subjected to massive attacks by fascist Turkey, did not feel comfortable with the demonstration in Berlin satisfied and subsequently organized further actions.
Following the nationwide demonstration against the PKK ban that took place on Saturday in Berlin. During the action, Kurdish and internationalist youth left various messages in the streets of Berlin, on house walls and in fascist shops.
Regarding this action, the young people said that as soon as the police banned slogans about their leader Rêber APO at the demonstration, they responded with exactly that slogan and made it clear that this is their slogan and they will keep it. They explained:
“Our answer remains clear even after the demonstration: once, five times, forty times we write, shout and show:
Bijî PKK!
Bê Serok jiyan nabe!
Bijî berxwedana Gerîla”
