#bakur

unresolved things still in my brain post fhjy finale

In Bakur (the north part of Kurdistan that is within the Turkish border) this process started in 2009 through the establishment of councils at the neighborhood, district and city levels and with communes founded in the villages. In them, people took decisions on how life should be organised and worked together with representatives of political and civil society organizations to make these decisions. They divided their work in different committees, which took care of social, political and ideological issues, as well as others dealing with justice and diplomacy. In addition to it, many projects and organizations were created to satisfy the needs of society: workers cooperatives, artistic and educational initiatives and independent women and youth organizations among many others. Since the liberation of women is a fundamental principle of the movement, the movement pushed and organised for women to have equal participation and decision-making power and as men, and this effort was one of the greatest successes. As part of this the system of co-presidency was implemented across every institution; this meant that every leadership position was held by a man and a woman together. Alongside this, the women’s autonomous structures gave women the space to find their own perspectives and build their own power, outside of the influence of men. This gave women great strength when participating in the mixed structures to articulate themselves and their positions collectively. Although the heavy repression by the state made this process difficult, the results can clearly be felt as a big part of the population became politically and socially active in each other’s lives and in their communities. Whenever the police came into the neighborhood, the message spread quickly and the people mobilized to deal with them. Every time an institution is raided by the police and those responsible were arrested, the next day more people will go to re-open the institution and carry on their work. The people expected that sooner or later they would end up in prison so they organized inside to turn the prisons into into political education academies. One of the main sources of the dynamism and energy of this process was the youth movement. They are mostly known for their role in protests and actions, but they also took the lead in the organization of activities to revive the repressed Kurdish culture, to organize themselves against the activities of drug dealers and criminal gangs in their neighborhoods and to educate themselves politically. The youth had their own autonomous councils but also participated in the general ones to push for radical change and the expansion of the revolution.

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