Category Archives: Protests
Manic Pixie, Chapuller’s anthem
When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the
System’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick
Your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then
They know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle
Is non-violence and humor. And that’s how we roll.
Gimme more gas gimme more gas gimme more
Gimme more gas gimme more gas gimme more
Gimme more gas gimme more gas gimme more
Gimme more gas gimme more gas gimme more
Gimme more gas gimme more gas gimme more
Gimme more gas gimme more gas gimme more
All you bad cops drown in gas
We chapuls are wearing masks
Gimme more gas gimme more gas gimme more
Plastic bullets
Chemicals
Against our sense of humor
Intelligence
A leader
Fighting his people
It don’t make sense
None of this
Turn the tv off turn the tv off turn it off
Turn the tv off turn the tv off turn it off
Turn the tv off turn the tv off turn it off
Turn the tv off turn the tv off turn it off
Turn the tv off turn the tv off turn it off
Turn the tv off turn the tv off turn it off
All you bad cops drown in gas
We chapuls are wearing masks
Gimme more gas gimme more gas gimme more
Plastic bullets
Chemicals
Against our sense of humor
Intelligence
A leader
Fighting his people
It don’t make sense
None of this
We are millions of chapuls, chapulling for our rights
And nobody can stop us
Nerdesin aşkım / Where are you darling
Wax Poetic, Taksim
Song about Taksim Square and the uprising in Istanbul
The Daily Beast: Turkey’s Violent Homophobia
by John Beck Jul 1, 2013 3:48 PM EDT Thousands in Istanbul peacefully celebrated a gay-pride march yesterday, but LGBT individuals in Turkey often face terrible physical danger. John Beck reports on their struggle. For a brief moment, Istanbul’s Taksim Square was transformed yesterday. The riot police, clouds of tear gas, and barricade-building protesters that characterized the past month’s unprecedented unrest were gone. Instead, [...] → Read the full article…
The New York Times: Protests Squelched, Gay Rights March Brings Many in Turkey Back to the Streets
At least 20,000 demonstrators marched in support of better treatment and equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. When the first gay rights parade was organized here in 2003, only a few dozen people dared to take part. But on Sunday, at least 20,000 people joined the march, many of them holding rainbow flags and chanting slogans denouncing [...] → Read the full article…
Gezi Resistence film trailer (Turkish)
Call from Urban Planning Alumni and Students
Technosociology.org: “Come, Come, Whoever You Are.” As a Pluralist Movement Emerges from Gezi Park in Turkey
After the Gezi Park occupation was dispersed, dozens of neighborhood forums popped up around Istanbul where people get together to discuss a variety of issues. I’ve been attending these neighborhood forums, which are are organized in an “agora” format where speakers line up and take turns to speak. While media attention remains on the frequent Taksim Square demonstrations, the forums [...] → Read the full article…