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Aslı Erdogan, WRITER TO BE TRIED AS “TERRORIST”

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Aslı Erdoğan… as of November 25th held for 98 days (along with 70 year old linguist, Necmiye Alpay, held now for 86 days) in Istanbul’s Bakırköy women’s prison in Istanbul

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Abdellatif Laabi an Introduction

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Abdellatif Laâbi, poet, writer, and translator was born in Fez, (a French Protectorate since 1912), in 1942

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For Asl? Erdo?an

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On November 15th, Margaret Atwood writes to Asl? Erdo?an in a Turkish prison: “you are not alone”

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CHINA: Communist Party Legislates on Film Industry

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Just recently, Monday November 7th, the 150 member Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress approved the new legislation regulating the growing film industry in China

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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN NOVEMBER, 1990

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On a day this week, the 11th November, 1990, the Greek poet, communist and political prisoner, Yannis Ritsos died in Athens

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TURKEY: DEALING DEATH BLOW TO DEMOCRACY

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“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass – a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience – by experience.”

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November in Northern Kurdistan

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The Co-chairs and Deputies of the HDP who were detained in a large-scale operation last night

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“In  the first 9 months…” TERROR IN ‘TURKISH’ KURDISTAN

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There isn’t a poem or a text or a piece of music that can adequately describe the terror and the outrage and the pain inflicted on humans in the course of our long history

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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN OCTOBER, 1961

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On a day this week, the 21st October, 1961, the German Marxist “heretic” and theoretician Karl Korsch died in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA

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Benjamin’s Grave

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Seamas Carraher returns on Walter Benjamin with what he himself calls an “experimental poem”.

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