Latest News of General Strike in Kurdistan
revolutionary road (shooresh)
20-Aug-2009 (one comment)

People of Sanandaj are on strike in memory of Mordad 28th (August 19th). Despite the threats of security and police forces a major part of the shops and work-shops have participated in today’s strike. The workers of hard-ware industry stopped working and closed their work-shops. Majoriy of other shops and work-shops, at Islam Aabad ST, Karaamoozi, shops of Shahrdari Shahrivar 11th ST, Meidane Nabovat, Khiabane Kamarbandie Abbas Aabad, Ghafoor, Kose Hajij ST, Sharif Aabad, Industrial city and sewing work-shops joined the strike in Sanandaj. A big part of Baazar Aasef was shutdown from 2:00 to 5:00 PM. City’s atmosphere is inflamed and the security and police forces are threatening the market owners. Despite the full security and police forces people and workers of Sanandaj closed down their shops...The security and police force... attacked the citizen of Sanandaj; beat up some and arrested others. According to received news by defenders of political prisoners and human rights committees; today, police forces arrested some people in Sanandaj. During this hide and seek between the forces and the youngsters of Sanandaj, a young male name Hasan Mostafaee was arrested and beaten down with baton at the Shahrake Kurdistan. People who witnessed this savage attack got so angry and attempted to save and free him from the police forces. 

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rosie is roxy is roshan

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by rosie is roxy is roshan on Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:05 AM PDT

They do things like that a lot over there only no one seems to talk about it much. Just a month ago they had a huge one-day general strike throughout Kurdistan. You can't keep a good Kurd down for long.

(This is under the item on top on the prison rapes; there is more on the history of the strike if you scroll down to August 17, The Desire That Will Never Die." And lots of other good stuff, on the Uprising in general and Labor in particular).



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