I'm Hazal, 26 years old Web Designer from Turkey. I like art, museums, exhibitions, coffee, beige, mugs, hedgehogs, owls, curly hair, Josh Keyes, books, Haruki Murakami, robots, power napping, buying stuff that i will never use, adam apples, colorful clothes and music. I hate getting up early, mushroom, dark, nescafe, coiffeur, spoiled ego. I like mails and I don't expect sanity from internet.
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What They did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world.
They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as They ran the world. I think They thought you were too dumb to notice.
Indeed, I thought They had won.
But I watched you occupy the capital of Wisconsin. I see you today as you occupy Wall Street. And I see a spark, a glimmer of the glorious new age that is yours. A changing of the guard, a guard that has stood for entirely too long and needs your young legs to take his place.
I watch you turn away from what is easy and stand up for what is right. I see you understand we as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. I see you wise beyond your years. And I am proud. Give ‘em hell, kids. You are beautiful.
3rd October 2011
Reblogged From onatural
Notes: 64508
“violent outbursts are the only means they have to articulate their dissatisfaction. Instead of indulging ourselves in revenge fantasies, we should make the effort to understand the deeper causes of the outbursts. Can we even imagine what it means to be a young man in a poor, racially mixed area, a priori suspected and harassed by the police, not only unemployed but often unemployable, with no hope of a future? The implication is that the conditions these people find themselves in make it inevitable that they will take to the streets. The problem with this account, though, is that it lists only the objective conditions for the riots. To riot is to make a subjective statement, implicitly to declare how one relates to one’s objective conditions.”
(Source: tsparks)
Oh Good Morning. May Day is supposed to be a celebration of workers’ rights. But it’s the day they get beat for some reason.
Turkish authorities had refused to open the controversial square for May Day celebrations despite the unions’ insistence. They said “a reasonable number” of people would be allowed to enter Taksim to lay a wreath to commemorate the lives of those killed more than three decades ago.
Thousands of members of the Confederation of Revolutionary Workers’ Unions, or DISK, started to march to Taksim Square from Pangalti, a few kilometers away, where their headquarters are located.
Turkey banned all celebrations and demonstrations in Taksim Square after more than 30 people were killed during May Day celebrations in 1977 organized by DISK.
Edit: Video
Iran has sentenced a women’s rights activist to one year in jail over her involvement with a signature campaign to change laws for women, media reports said yesterday.
“Women’s movement activist Parastoo Allahyari was sentenced to one year in jail,” Sarmayeh newspaper said. Allahyari was a member of the “One Million Signature” campaign, an award-winning initiative that seeks to change Iran’s Sharia-based law deemed as unfair to women.
BAŞKA SEÇENEK YOK MU?
Milenyum bebekleri büyüyor. Yakında hepsi silah tutacak yaşa gelecek. Onlar masum birer bebek olduklarını unuttukça ülkemiz ve bölgemiz 21. yüzyılı kabus gibi yaşayacak.
Çünkü bu bölgede petrol ve su var. Çünkü bu bölgede bir zamanlar bebek oldukları unutturulan ve saatli bir bomba gibi yetiştirilen milyonlar var. Çünkü bu bölgede “unutuş”tan rant ve koltuk kazananlar da var.
Bizim görevimiz ne?
Mümkün olduğu kadar çok bebeğe “bir başka seçeneğin” olduğunu söylemek. Kardeşliğin ve yoldaşlığın methiyesini yapmak. Barış ve sevgi için çalışmak.
Birgün olarak bunu görev belledik.
Biz de büyüyoruz. Bugün 6 yaşına bastık.
Büyüdükçe sesimiz daha gür çıkıyor.
Biz tüm bebeklerin altına “KARDEŞ” yazan gezeteyiz.
Onların ne olduklarını değil, ne olacaklarını önemseyen gazeteyiz…
Biliyoruz ki bir gün, herkese Birgün gerekebilir.
Bir gün hepimize Birgün gerekebilir.
Today Vakit (an islamic(!) newspaper) wrote : “She devoted her life to fighting headscarf(as an idea) and in the last times of her life, she had to wear a headscarf.” for Turkan Saylan who has the cancer. She wears “bandana” because she takes chemotherapy treatments.
It doesn’t make any sense. Bandana and headscarf are not the same. And the most important thing is the reason of wearing headscarf. I appreciate they’re too stupid to analyze this. No problem. And I appreciate they hate her because she worked for modern life in Turkey all her life but making fun out of cancer, that makes me hate their fucking religion. If believing in God makes you that regardless, stop believing. Be an humanist.
The High Criminal Court in Istanbul ordered the detention of nearly 40 people at the request of the five prosecutors carrying out the Ergenekon investigation, broadcaster CNNTurk reported. NTV news channel put the number of people included in the list at 60.
Police earlier in the day raided Baskent University, and the headquarters Kanal B television, founded by Haberal, in Ankara, as well as the branches of the Support for Modern Life Association, or CYDD, and the Contemporary Education Foundation, or CEV, in several provinces.
Around 10 executives from the CYDD were among the detainees, Turkish TV channels said. Police had also earlier searched the home of CYDD president, Turkan Saylan.
Turkan Saylan is the leader of CYDD which gives scholarship to 36.000 kids all around Turkey. All this madness means; if you do something good for this country, stop doing it. If you keep doing, you will be in the jail getting tortured by brutal polices till you tell a story that you don’t even know. That’s what happens in here these days, what about your country? Hope all is well, because I need to know if there’s a place that i can keep myself sane in it.
the Manisa branch of the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, distributed photographs of their party’s rally as an example of a “crowded gathering” in a dispute about the number of participants in rallies with the opposition Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP. However the photographs of the AKP were retouched by Photoshop program to show that the gathering was crowded. (link to fake crowd photo)
At the bottom left of the photograph among the crowd similar people are together and people with same clothes and postures were also among the crowd at several places.
