(en) France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - Evening
tribute to our comrade Ataman Baris (in support Kobanî) (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation]
Anarchism Life organization Parisian Region - Sunday, May 31, 2015 - 6:00 p.m. - 10 p.m.
---- Sunday, May 31 , we, his comrades in the UEKF, CGA and all the groups to which he
participated, honor Baris Ataman, he left a year ago. We honor his memory, the values of
solidarity and internationalism he defended. ---- We invite you to take part in the
tribute that will be paid to him as well as exchanges on fights he has worn before. We
invite you to come and listen to musician-do-s, s-eur-singer came to salute his memory.
This evening will fully support the people of Rojava and reconstruction of Kobanî. Baris
had arrived in France in March of 2012, driven by Turkey of repression by the Turkish
state against the student trade union movement. On several occasions, he had lived the
brunt of the repression of student movements, first in Mersin and Siirt, where he was
sentenced to 3 years prison. So the state violence which led to political exile. Thus he
was, aged only 19, painfully confronted with the uprooting and racism of the French state:
the language barrier, the long and difficult struggle for recognition of his political
asylum, isolation and remoteness from his family and his anarchist comrades in Turkey and
Kurdistan.
It is nevertheless a certain comrade in France to continue his fight against all dominions
we met in Paris in early spring 2012. Very soon he had recreated bonds of solidarity with
anarchists and Kurdish comrades here in France and had been partly at the initiative of
great French countryside of solidarity with the student-es-es jailed and tou-te-s the
prisoner-s-era policies in Turkey, including through the organization of the event on 26
June 2012.
Recognizing the importance of social inclusion of anarchism, he was also involved with
great acuity In other fights, especially in struggles for housing and papers in
Saint-Denis, who were responsible for the requisition of Attiéké. Social Centre was
Baris these trusted comrades, particularly determined, we knew desperate to defend and
live our common values, even in the most difficult moments. Discreet, yet he gave off the
image of a strong commitment, a fight against oppression, after what he had been through
so young, could only end with the destruction of one of the two parties. Yes, Baris was
devoted to the fight. A friend for some of us-es but above all, paradoxically, a comrade
who gave meaning to that word too despised and whose meeting will be deeply affected us
all. The machine to destroy the lives of capitalism did the rest. Material difficulties
of life in the Paris region have pushed September 2013 to leave the Isle of France to go
to Lyon find other Turkic-speaking classmates.
Baris died under the repeated assaults of the states and the capitalist system. Baris fell
no longer stand. His death is political, we will continue to denounce those responsible.
For him and other es fell before him, we will continue to build our struggle against our
common enemies and violence they impose on us: police violence, judicial or military,
social violence of income insecurity, housing, health, violence against women, national
minorities and sexual minorities, also psychological violence against everyone-e of us. We
do not forget our friend, we carry his memory in each of our actions against the system
seeking to destroy us. Solidarity is not an empty word. We will never forget, we will
never forgive. Friend, if you fall, a thousand friends out of the shadows.
His friends
Practical information:
The evening will take place on May 31 from 18h to Anako barge quay of the Seine, metro
Jaurès Riquet or Stalingrad. PAF: 10 EUR
http://www.c-g-a.org/content/soiree-dhommage-notre-camarade-baris-ataman-en-soutien-kobane
