I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such.

I see anarchism as something you do not an identity...

...so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist

Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Thu 23 Aug 2018 14:03

so tell me twitter: who in your opinion has done the best job of integrating feminist Care Ethics with Marxist approaches? I don’t mean just feminist Marxists who talk about caring labor in general but ones who directly acknowledge Gilligan/Held/Noddings etc, even if critically.

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Wed 22 Aug 2018 11:54

Theresa May considers Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey a close ally, supplying him w advanced weapons. Erdogan is an ally of Al Qaeda who openly threatens Europeans with terrorism. https://t.co/SOKaVLm79Y Imagine Corbyn did something like that?

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Tue 21 Aug 2018 17:35

I still believe Trump’s Presidency is best interpreted as a vast practical joke played by the American electorate on the political class. Basically they were saying “this is how we see politicians.”

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Tue 21 Aug 2018 12:43

it is also worth pointing out that Corbyn does condemn these terror attacks and opposes UK government supplying the terrorists with support and weapons. Might this be one reason there’s such ardent hatred of him in ruling class circles?

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Tue 21 Aug 2018 12:27

always remember this when the media drones on about Corbyn laying a wreath for someone perhaps connected to something 40 years ago, or sitting in a room with someone else… These terror attacks are happening RIGHT NOW with full British support. Why are they not front-page news? https://t.co/VTNo3oNADl

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Tue 21 Aug 2018 12:25

The Saudi Arabia gov’t, whose ruling ideology is very close to that of ISIS, is responsible for 50+ terror attacks on civilians in Yemen, including a recent attack on a bus that killed 26 schoolchildren. The UK fully supports this terror campaign. https://t.co/stRvORsjq4

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Tue 21 Aug 2018 12:09

I’ve never understood how demanding permits for a protest in the US is constitutional. 1st Amendment says “no restrictions on freedom of speech, press, or assembly.” If you have to ask police permission to say or print something, isn’t that NOT having freedom of speech or press?

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Tue 21 Aug 2018 12:06

apparently the US Federal Gov’t is planning to pass a bill to charge anyone holding a protest money in order to be allowed to do so. Um, last I checked, isn’t there something in the constitution about that? “Congress shall pass no law….”? https://t.co/q2LViKzO8u

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:47

39/ and here is MZS with our delegation, along with some members of YBS & YBJ https://t.co/7H5dOfGyFf

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:35

37/ “… and that freedom is our common humanity. This is our fate, the destiny we have, despite all our agonies and suffering, we feel we have no choice but to fight for humanity, for a fraternity of peoples, whether for Shengal, the Middle East, or for humanity as a whole.”

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:32

36/ ” … that the position of women, militarily, socially, culturally, was much higher in the past.” YBJ soldier adds: “Yezidis have our unique religion; but we’re all human; it’s our differences that make the world beautiful, because they are the expression of human freedom.”

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:30

35/ [male elder adds] “for centuries we’ve lived alongside Islamic Arab patriarchal cultures & so our present culture is not the true one; layer after layer of oppression has been added on top of it; from our myths it’s easy for see …

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:27

34/ “still, more than 3000 women remain in ISIS hands, & most we don’t know where they are; just this month 16 Yezidi women were kidnapped and enslaved in Afrin, by Jihadis working with the Turkish army. We will not stop until all of them are freed.”

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:26

33/ “and we did, we fought our way ultimately to Raqqa, the very capital of their empire, & ultimately we managed to free several hundred women who had been taken there, and in some cases members of their families as well.”

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:24

32/ “slowly we become autonomous creatures ourselves as well; YBJ is not just physical self-defense but a bottom-up organization of women. As you know, women were enslaved and taken to cities like Mosul and Raqqa. We came to Raqqa for vengeance, but a vengeance to free women”

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:22

31/ At first we were very small groups, isolated; after the genocide, our demands could no longer be ignored. We pointed out if more women had known how to use a gun, to team up, not so many would have fallen into the hands of ISIS & been enslaved.

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:21

30/ “in the genocide, women were the main targets. This was true in past genocides as well: they target women as the major conveyors of culture and tradition. The violence was not only physical but cultural, & women’s self-defense forces were created to resist both”

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:20

29/ [added by a member of YBJ – women’s forces] you can see what happened to women at the time of the genocide; no forces would protect us. All political parties were entirely male dominated. This is why we were attracted to Apo’s ideology that stressed women’s empowerment

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:18

28/ they’ve been trying to use Yezidi internal structures to enslave us; throwing money & privileges to buy off traditional chiefs & leaders, draw them into KRG patronage network. TevDa formed in 2014, but KDP hasn’t allowed us to work, afraid we’d free people from their control

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:16

27/ We have fought & died to preserve the integrity of Iraq & if they took their own nationalism seriously they’d see that, but they don’t; they’ve imposed a sham democracy, there are elections, but they’re meaningless, the real ruling forces share out power amongst themselves

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:13

26/ Autonomy is possible; Yezidis are very linked to the land, we can live off farming & animal husbandry here as long as the women’s and mixed self-defense forces are allowed to remain here to protect us, we are perfectly capable of self-sufficiency

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:12

25/ Then the Haadz-al-Shaadi militia arrived, then only a month ago the Iraqi army appeared, too, all in an effort to break the will of the people and our ability to decide things for ourselves.

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:10

24/ In the past, some of us wanted to become Peshmerga but Yezidis not allowed. Once we were liberated from Daesh, the KRG tried to create a new Peshmerga force for Yezidis, which would of course be paid, to lure young people away from us.

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:09

23/ 16-18 March 2015, we organized a conference that officially created the YBS (Resistance Units of Shengal), YJS (Women’s Units of Shengal). Aside from the PKK, there were no other forces at all, no Iraqi army, no Peshmerga to help us. Many were martyred in battle against Deash

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:08

22/ We with the popular organizations here told people not to leave, because we feared they would not be allowed to return. About 1000 families remained, & all their young people joined self defense forces, & young people in Bashur [Iraqi Kurdistan] also returned to join.

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:06

21/ Within two days, HPG guerrillas from the PKK & YPG forces (including some of our own trainees) opened a corridor to protect people on the mountain side, and opened way for the 150k to pass to Rojava. Truly it can be said they were saved from death.

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:05

20/ on the day of the festival, when the attack began they took all their weapons, including heavy weapons, & they withdraw to North, leaving people terrified. 150,000 fled to the mountains, where they were besieged. There was no water, conditions were terrible.

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 19:03

19/ It appears to have been planned for the day of a major Yezidi religious festival, when people would be unprepared; the Peshmerga forces [loyal to the KRG] who had insisted we not form our own defence forces then left without firing a shot when Daesh advanced

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Sat 18 Aug 2018 18:59

18/ 6 August 2014 was the day we were were going to declare the formation of our self defense forces; both Daesh and the KDP (ruling party of Iraqi Kurdistan) were aware of that; the first attack seems to have been to head this off a few days before

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