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Kurds vs. CAIR: Turkish Cash Prompts Protests at Islamist Group’s LA Banquet
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VOKRadio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Kurds vs. CAIR: Turkish Cash Prompts Protests at Islamist Group’s LA Banquet
BY DAVID SWINDLE
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
pjmedia.com
Halloween ended two days prior, but on the evening of November 2, 2019, plenty of monsters and heroes walked about the Anaheim Hilton, just across the street from Disneyland. Two big events bumped up against each other, each constructed on fantasy worlds and drawing distinctly-attired attendees. But the real world intruded upon their fantasy in the form of pro-freedom protesters.
The Anaheim convention center was hosting "BlizzCon," celebrating computer game company Blizzard Entertainment, responsible for such titles as World of Warcraft and Starcraft. Thus, numerous individuals were fully decked out in "cosplay" attire, from ogres and elves to sorceresses and space soldiers.
In clothes of a different sort were the event's protesters: pro-Hong Kong demonstrators, some sporting Winnie the Pooh outfits, a satisfying jab at China's authoritarian leader Xi Jinping, who has been savagely mocked for resembling the lovable bear with a very little brain. (Blizzard has chosen the predictably corporate and wrong side in the Hong Kong vs. China question.)
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What kinds of opportunities are we Kurds losing
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VOKRadio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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What kinds of opportunities are we Kurds losing?
If we
do not learn from our history then we are bound to repeat them.
A short note by Azad Moradian
02/24/2018
We have been one of the biggest losers in history!
Yes, we have been betrayed by world powers in the past and continue to struggle with challenges to be recognized.
Yes, we have been under oppression and have faced genocide, war, and ethnic cleansing.
Yes, we lack adequate resources to educate our youth and keep them from being executed.
However, we cannot ignore the very fact that we have also often lacked strong compassionate leadership.
We have often lacked the right strategy and tactic.
We have done too little too late.
We have often been silent when we should have shouted, or not acted when we should have been up in arms.
Many times when we should have been at the negotiating tables we were too busy fighting amongst ourselves for power and position.
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Kurdish American 2016 Presidential Preference Survey: Clinton vs. Trump
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Kurdish American 2016 Presidential Preference Survey: Clinton vs. Trump
راپه رسى له كورده كانى نيشته جى ولاته يكگرتووه كانى ئه مريكا، سه باره ت به هه لبژاردنه كانى سه روك كومارى ئه مريكا
Dear Fellow Kurdish American Community Members!
Hope you're all well.
As election season is in full swing, there is a lot at stake for us.
There is an information gathering survey titled "Kurdish American 2016 Presidential Preference Survey" that only takes a couple minutes to fill out.
The survey is confidential and purely for information gathering purposes. It can help us gauge the community's level of engagement with the U.S. Presidential elections.
The survey is sponsored by Kurdish American Committee for Democracy and Human Rights and VOKRadio (Voice of Kurdish American Radio for Democracy, Peace and Freedom).
The results will be publicized in mid August and will be made available for anyone to use in their analysis.
So far more than 2000 people have viewed the survey and a couple hundred have responded. Not all those responses can be counted but it's a good start.
Please take a few moments to fill this out:
Much due respect,
Azad Moradian
Chair of Kurdish American committee for Democracy and Human Rights.
Los Angeles
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Open Letter to President Barak Obama about the November 1 Elections in Turkey
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Open Letter to President Barak Obama about the November 1 Elections

in Turkey
The President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20501
Dear President Obama:
We members of the Kurdish American Education Society and the greater Kurdish communities in Southern California are hereby urging you and the international community to ensure that the upcoming November 1 elections 1 in Turkey are held freely and fairly.
As you are aware in the June nation wide elections, the opposition parties emerged triumphant by ending the AKP 's majority of parliamentary seats for the first time. The Pro-Kurdish HDP passed the 10% threshold in the hope of bringing about genuine democratic changes; however, the AKP has done everything possible to contest and reverse the results of these elections by tightening its grip on power, silencing all voices of opposition with its authoritarianism and so called anti-terrorism laws.
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Press Release Rally in Los Angeles: International Solidarity day with Kobani
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VOKRadio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Press Release
Rally
in Los Angeles: International Solidarity day with Kobani
November 1st, 2014
We members of
the Kurdish American Education Society, Human Rights Advocacy Group, and
Kurdish Community of Southern California, in Los Angeles join hundreds of thousands of people, United
Nations agencies and prominent intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky and
Archbishop Desmond Tutu in observing
the International Day of Solidarity with the defenders of the besieged city of
Kobani. From Los Angeles and Washington to London and Kurdistan, we come
together to support the heroic defenders of Kobani. The legendary city has
indeed become the emblem of unprecedented resistance against one of the darkest
and tyrannical forces in human history. The city has been the constant target
of ISIS offensives for six weeks. Although the defenders of the city are
both outnumbered and outgunned, women and men old and young have stood
steadfast against the ferocious terrorism of ISIS. They are incessantly being
bombarded with heavy artillery; many parts of the city have been demolished and
destroyed as evidenced by the rising plumes of smoke, which darken the horizon of the city.
Over 200000
people from Kobani and surrounding villages have been displaced and live in
deplorable conditions in various camps in Turkey. The US coalition led strikes
have not been enough to effectively halt the Islamic state’s advances. Turkey in showing its ideological
affinity with and support for ISIS continues to block the flow of help and
volunteers to the city. Under
mounting international pressure the Turkish government is now hypocritically
allowing a limited number of Peshmerge into the area as it continues to
threaten the fragile peace process.
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Demonstration in Los Angeles In Solidarity with Kobane and Call for Support against the ISIS
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vokradio, Losangeles, California, USA
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Demonstration in Los Angeles In Solidarity with Kobane and Call for Support against the ISIS.
October 12, 2014
Kurdish and non-Kurdish protestors gather in front of the federal building on Wilshire Boulevard today to rally against the Turkish government's refusal to intervene in the seizure of Kobani, a primarily Kurdish city on the Turkish-Syrian border, by Daʿesh (داعش) jihadists.
Press Release
A demonstration was held in Los Angeles on Sunday Oct 12 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM in front of the Federal Building in Westwood against the Islamic State’s ongoing vicious assault on the Kurdish city of Kobani and to urge the US to support for the defenders of the city.
We members of the Kurdish community in Los Angeles stand in solidarity with the people of the besieged Kobani and call for prompt action to save the residents and defenders of the city from a massacre. The IS terrorists have captured sizable portions of the city despite the fierce and heroic resistance of Kurdish freedom fighters. Hundreds of people have died and over 17000 people have been driven away from their homes, stranded in border areas, their fields ravaged, their belongings plundered, and their children traumatized. Many are mourning the loss of their loved ones, their homes, and their land. As the UN special envoy Mr. Staffan de Mistura has warned hundreds of people are still trapped in Kobani; they are under the siege of the IS and threatened with an imminent massacre.
As the people of the town and its defenders have shown with admirable courage, they do not want to give up and let the city fall; they are fighting valiantly to the last breath, but they are ill equipped against the heavily armed terrorists of the IS. The defenders of the city have repeatedly and desperately appealed to the international community, US in particular, for weapons and supplies to enable them to continue their fight. They want more effective and focused airstrikes to fend off the barbaric invaders.
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