Category Archives: Protests
Vancouver, CANADA

In Vancouver, people gathered twice on the 31st of May and the 3rd of June in order to support the resistance in Turkey. Around 70 people participated at first and around 500 to the second demonstration. In the second demonstration, petitions were prepared to urge the Canadian government to officially denounce the Turkish Republic’s current government and the police violence [...] → Read the full article…
A resistance song from the METU Socialist Thinking Community
habersoL: Support from Germany to the Resistance

The support from Germany to the resistance is still going on. The initiative of “Everywhere is Taksim, Everywhere is Resistance” consisting of about 25 groups organized a solidarity meeting and a rally to show their support to Gezi park protests in Berlin yesterday. In addition to the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), Communist party of Germany (DKP) and the Communist [...] → Read the full article…
Renan Bilek: Stand up! (Turkish)
San Francisco & Bay Area, USA

To support the Gezi Park protests in Taksim, demonstrations in the Bay Area of California started on Saturday, June 1st, in San Francisco. The call for demonstration addressed “all nature-loving people and the media,” and aimed to bring the police brutality to public’s attention. Several hundreds of people gathered in front of the San Francisco’s City Hall to show their [...] → Read the full article…
Support from Southern California
Around 1000 protesters from Southern Californian cities as Los Angeles, San Diego and Long Beach held a demonstration in Long beach on June 9th, 2012. The demonstration was broadcasted on air in national news channel Halk TV in Turkey.
Greetings from Taksim Gezi Park to Via La Campesina
San Diego, USA

On the 1st of June around 200 people gathered in Balboa Park in order to support the resistance in Turkey. During the demonstrations “Everywhere Taksim, everywhere resistance”, “Tayyip resign!” slogans were shouted again and again. The NBA player Mehmet Okur supported the demonstrators as well. Around 100 people came together again on the 4th of June in Mission Bay Park. [...] → Read the full article…