Dear Community members ,

This is an urgent call to participate in a demonstration in solidarity with Kobani on Sunday Oct 12 in front of Federal Building in Westwood. Please come and spread the word to encourage others to ioin to express our solidarity with the brave people and defenders of Kobani. Below see the Press Release. The PD file is also attached to be sent to the various media. Let me know if you can send it to any media sources, but you need to do so immediately.

Press Release:

In Solidarity with Kobani and Call for Support against the Islamic State in Los Angeles

When: Sunday Oct 12, 4-6 PM
Where: In front of the the Federal Building in Westwood,11000 Wilshire Blvd #1000, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Contact: Nyma Ardalan: 310-2796398 / nymaardalan@gmail.com; or Amir Sharifi: 818-6357317 / Sharifiamir5@gmail.com

A demonstration will be held 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 sizeable 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.

We join the international community to condemn Turkey for not allowing the flow of weapons, supplies, and volunteers to enter the city of Kobani to support the Kurdish fighters. As members of the Kurdish Community we call upon President Obama to protect the Syrian Kurds against ISIS otherwise we will witness another genocide like that of Shengal. It is also imperative to create a humanitarian corridor for the remaining population to be taken to safety if the city falls in its entirety. The global community and the US government, in particular as the leading force in the anti-IS coalition have a moral responsibility towards supporting the Kurds of Syria who happen to be the only decisive force fiercely fighting the monstrous enemy of humanity. Kobani’s struggle is against ethnic genocide and for safeguarding the most fundamental human rights and freedoms. They deserve our moral and material support now against their horrific enemy. We have to act promptly before it is too late.

What's the deal here? The Kurds get a lot of positive mentions from our government. Is this for real?

Are they legit leftists who happen to get support because of ISIS?

There are people saying we're really supporting ISIS, secretly. I find it very confusing.

They want.. ..airstrikes
they want.. [from the] ..US in particular.. ..weapons
they ..call upon President Obama to protect the Syrian Kurds


For those who find the latest middle east war confusing here is a summary from a comment in Moon of Alabama..

”ARE you confused about what’s going on in the Middle East? Allow me to explain.

We support the Iraqi government in the fight against the Islamic State. We don’t like IS, but IS is supported by Saudi Arabia, whom we do like.
We don’t like President Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but not IS, which is also fighting against him.
We don’t like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government against IS. So, some of our friends support our enemies and some of our enemies are our friends, and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies, whom we want to lose, but we don’t want our enemies who are fighting our other enemies to win.
If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they might be replaced by people we like even less. And all this was started by us invading a country to drive out terrorists who surely actually they’re to begin with until we went in to drive them out”. Do you understand now?



"The whole world is a worse place because of Israels policies, their need for support from the US drives the political caste into a race to the bottom in a bid for AIPAC money and support, the hawks get the seat. Most of Washington pushed to the right means more colonialism, more hegemony, more wars, and of course their European vassals tag along, no way are they gonna miss out on the spoils. Whole regions become endless battlefields, four consecutive US Presidents have bombed Iraq, a country that’s not so much as fired a pea shooter at America. Presidents don’t even go through the pretence of asking Congress any more"


Said war criminal wesley clark in 2007:

“We’re going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran” it sounded far fetched. Not any more, only optimistic with the time frame.


"The hypocrisy of the American position here is just getting harder and hard to maintain. Again, when folks follow the Watergate-era advice to “follow the money,” it will make it all the clearer whose influence is being bought and at what price.

Personally, I’m sick of my $3 billion in tax money wasted on this rotten enterprise."

U.S. & Israel: genocidaires mutual admiration society.

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peace piece

a little piece of Iraq

a little piece of Syria

a little piece of Iran

"The “why do you hate us?” meme is nothing more than the American “left” swallowing the official 9/11 myth wholesale, without even water to wash it down with, believing that “foreign terrorists” carried out 9/11."

- another brilliant observation by not the brightest bulb on the string I'm afraid