#23BucukNisan / Unutulan Cocuklarin Bayrami

[Image via GEZIniyoruz network and Gezi Platform NYC] [Image via GEZIniyoruz network and Gezi Platform NYC]

#23BucukNisan / Unutulan Cocuklarin Bayrami

By : Jadaliyya Reports

#23BuçukNisan / Unutulan Çocukların Bayramı

[Bu bildiri New York City Gezi Platformu tarafından, GEZIniyoruz Amherst, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bielefeld, Chicago, Dresden, Goettingen, London, New York, Oslo, Ottawa, Penn State, Rotterdam ile beraber 23 Nisan 2014 tarihinde yayımlandı. / The following statement was published by Gezi Platform NYC, together with GEZIniyoruz Amherst, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bielefeld, Chicago, Dresden, Goettingen, London, New York, Oslo, Ottawa, Penn State, Rotterdam, on 23 April 2014.]

# April 23.5 / Forgotten Children`s Festival is a campaign initiated by the international solidarity platform GEZIniyoruz network and Gezi Platform NYC. The campaign aims to draw awareness to the tragedy of 24 April, the anniversary of the Armenian genocide, following the annual Children`s Day celebrations in Turkey in commemoration of the first parliament of the Republic. The campaign seeks to also underline the ongoing injustices children continue to face in Turkey, such as child labor, child marriages, ethic discrimination, political criminalization, and the imprisonment of children.

English

We mark #April23andahalf on our calendars

To acknowledge it as the day of "Forgotten" children
To recognize the children neglected and belittled,
To face our common past together in their own words,
To reconstitute our memory free from indoctrination.

We mark #April23andahalf on our calendars.
We dream of a Turkey where all peoples of this land recognize their past; unite as sisters and brothers, reclaiming their future. On April 23.5, we invite all to listen, understand and remember the "Forgotten" children.

The day of the "forgotten" children.

Turkish

#23BuçukNisan’ı Takvime Not Düşüyoruz!
Unutulan çocukların bayramı olsun diye
Yok sayılan, değersizleştirilen çocukları tanıyalım;
Onlarla beraber, onların diliyle ortak geçmişimizle yüzleşelim;
Hafızalarımızı dayatmalardan kurtarıp, yeniden kuralım diye!

#23BuçukNisan’ı Takvime Not Düşüyoruz!
Herkesin gözü önünde aile içi şiddete ve tacize maruz kalan, evlendirilen, doğum yapan, işçi olarak çalıştırılan; bu haksızlıklara isyan ettiği zaman devlet eliyle yaralanan ve öldürülen çocukların hesabını soralım diye!

#23BuçukNisan’ı Takvime Not Düşüyoruz!
Dili, dini, ve etnik kökeni nedeniyle dışlanan, asimile edilen, göçe zorlanan, işkence edilen, öldürülen ve soykırıma uğrayan yitirdiğimiz çocuklarımız ve çocukluklarımız için adalet talebinde bulunabilelim diye!

#23BuçukNisan’ı Takvime Not Düşüyoruz!
Toplumsal hafızamızdan silinmeye çalışılan eski güzel günleri de, kan ve ölüm dolu günleri de çocukluk anılarımızda beraberce yerlerine koyalım; acı ve sevinçleri ortak kılalım diye!

#23BuçukNisan’ı Takvime Not Düşüyoruz!
Çocuklarımız geleceklerini, yüzleşilmiş, hesabı sorulmuş, yaraları sarılmış bir geçmiş üzerine inşa edebilsin; tarihsiz çocuk kalmasın diye!

Tek bir ulusun, tek bir dinin, tek bir dilin değil, bu coğrafyada yaşayan bütün halkların kardeşçe birlikteliğinin kutlandığı bir Türkiye hayal ediyor, 23,5 Nisan’da “Unutulan” çocukları dinlemeye, anlamaya ve hatırlamaya davet ediyoruz!

Imza:
Gezi Platform NYC
GEZIniyoruz Amherst, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bielefeld, Chicago, Dresden, Goettingen, London, New York, Oslo, Ottawa, Penn State, Rotterdam

Kurdish

#em 23ûNîvê Avrêlê nîşe datînin dîrokê!
Ji bo bibe cejna zarokên hatine ji bîr kirin, zarokên tune hatine hesibandin, bê nirx hatine kirin;
bi wan re, bi zimanê wan, rû bi rû werin bi paşeroja xwe ya hevpar ve;
ji bo em bîrên xwe ji zorandina rizgar bikin, û ji nû ve ava bikin!

#em 23ûNîvê Avrêlê nîşe datînin dîrokê!
Ji bo em hesabê wan zarokên li ber çavên her kesî dûçarî şîdeta nav malê û tacîzê dimînin, tên zewicandin, zarokan tînin, weke karker tên xebitandin; dema dijî van bêmafiyan serê xwe hildidin bi destê dewletê tên kuştin û birîndar kirin bipirsin!

#em 23ûNîvê Avrêlê nîşe datînin dîrokê!
Ji bo zarokên me yên me wenda kir ji ber ziman, ol û ripinên etnîk hatin veder kirin, bişavtin, bi zorî koçkirin, îşkence kirin, kuştin û jenosîd kirin û bo em daxwaziya dadê ji bo zarokên xwe bikin!

#em 23ûNîvê Avrêlê nîşe datînin dîrokê!
Ji bo rojên berê yên xweş yên dixwazin ji bîra me ya civakî bibin jî, rojên bi xwîn û mirin tije jî, di bîranînên xwe de em bi hev re daynin cîh; êşan û şadiyan hevpar bikin!

#em 23ûNîvê Avrêlê nîşe datînin dîrokê!
Ji bo zarokên me pêşeroja xwe li ser paşerojeka hatiye rû bi rû bûn, hesabê wî hatiye pirsîn, birînên wî hatine pêçandin ava bikin; û zarokek bê dîrok nemîne!

Em Tirkîyeyek bi hevrebûna bi biratî ya giştî gelên li ser vê erdnıgariyé dîjin tê pîroz kirin xeyal dikin, di 23ûNivê Avrêlê de vexwendina guhdarî li zarokên "hatine ji bîr kirin" kirinê, fehm kirinê û bibîranînê dikin!

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Past is Present: Settler Colonialism Matters!

On 5-6 March 2011, the Palestine Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London will hold its seventh annual conference, "Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine." This year`s conference aims to understand Zionism as a settler colonial project which has, for more than a century, subjected Palestine and Palestinians to a structural and violent form of destruction, dispossession, land appropriation and erasure in the pursuit of a new Jewish Israeli society. By organizing this conference, we hope to reclaim and revive the settler colonial paradigm and to outline its potential to inform and guide political strategy and mobilization.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often described as unique and exceptional with little resemblance to other historical or ongoing colonial conflicts. Yet, for Zionism, like other settler colonial projects such as the British colonization of Ireland or European settlement of North America, South Africa or Australia, the imperative is to control the land and its resources -- and to displace the original inhabitants. Indeed, as conference keynote speaker Patrick Wolfe, one of the foremost scholars on settler colonialism and professor at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, argues, "the logic of this project, a sustained institutional tendency to eliminate the Indigenous population, informs a range of historical practices that might otherwise appear distinct--invasion is a structure not an event."[i]

Therefore, the classification of the Zionist movement as a settler colonial project, and the Israeli state as its manifestation, is not merely intended as a statement on the historical origins of Israel, nor as a rhetorical or polemical device. Rather, the aim is to highlight Zionism`s structural continuities and the ideology which informs Israeli policies and practices in Palestine and toward Palestinians everywhere. Thus, the Nakba -- whether viewed as a spontaneous, violent episode in war, or the implementation of a preconceived master plan -- should be understood as both the precondition for the creation of Israel and the logical outcome of Zionist settlement in Palestine.

Moreover, it is this same logic that sustains the continuation of the Nakba today. As remarked by Benny Morris, “had he [David Ben Gurion] carried out full expulsion--rather than partial--he would have stabilised the State of Israel for generations.”[ii] Yet, plagued by an “instability”--defined by the very existence of the Palestinian nation--Israel continues its daily state practices in its quest to fulfill Zionism’s logic to maximize the amount of land under its control with the minimum number of Palestinians on it. These practices take a painful array of manifestations: aerial and maritime bombardment, massacre and invasion, house demolitions, land theft, identity card confiscation, racist laws and loyalty tests, the wall, the siege on Gaza, cultural appropriation, and the dependence on willing (or unwilling) native collaboration and security arrangements, all with the continued support and backing of imperial power. 

Despite these enduring practices however, the settler colonial paradigm has largely fallen into disuse. As a paradigm, it once served as a primary ideological and political framework for all Palestinian political factions and trends, and informed the intellectual work of committed academics and revolutionary scholars, both Palestinians and Jews.

The conference thus asks where and why the settler colonial paradigm was lost, both in scholarship on Palestine and in politics; how do current analyses and theoretical trends that have arisen in its place address present and historical realities? While acknowledging the creativity of these new interpretations, we must nonetheless ask: when exactly did Palestinian natives find themselves in a "post-colonial" condition? When did the ongoing struggle over land become a "post-conflict" situation? When did Israel become a "post-Zionist" society? And when did the fortification of Palestinian ghettos and reservations become "state-building"?

In outlining settler colonialism as a central paradigm from which to understand Palestine, this conference re-invigorates it as a tool by which to analyze the present situation. In doing so, it contests solutions which accommodate Zionism, and more significantly, builds settler colonialism as a political analysis that can embolden and inform a strategy of active, mutual, and principled Palestinian alignment with the Arab struggle for self-determination, and indigenous struggles in the US, Latin America, Oceania, and elsewhere.

Such an alignment would expand the tools available to Palestinians and their solidarity movement, and reconnect the struggle to its own history of anti-colonial internationalism. At its core, this internationalism asserts that the Palestinian struggle against Zionist settler colonialism can only be won when it is embedded within, and empowered by, the broader Arab movement for emancipation and the indigenous, anti-racist and anti-colonial movement--from Arizona to Auckland.

SOAS Palestine Society invites everyone to join us at what promises to be a significant intervention in Palestine activism and scholarship.

For over 30 years, SOAS Palestine Society has heightened awareness and understanding of the Palestinian people, their rights, culture, and struggle for self-determination, amongst students, faculty, staff, and the broader public. SOAS Palestine society aims to continuously push the frontiers of discourse in an effort to make provocative arguments and to stimulate debate and organizing for justice in Palestine through relevant conferences, and events ranging from the intellectual and political impact of Edward Said`s life and work (2004), international law and the Palestine question (2005), the economy of Palestine and its occupation (2006), the one state (2007), 60 Years of Nakba, 60 Years of Resistance (2009), and most recently, the Left in Palestine (2010).

For more information on the SOAS Palestine Society 7th annual conference, Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine: www.soaspalsoc.org

SOAS Palestine Society Organizing Collective is a group of committed students that has undertaken to organize annual academic conferences on Palestine since 2003.

 


[i] Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event, Cassell, London, p. 163

[ii] Interview with Benny Morris, Survival of the Fittest, Haaretz, 9. January 2004, http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=5412