[Peace-discuss] A better petition on Kobane

Mon Oct 13 13:36:34 EDT 2014

I signed and forwarded. Seems like the same basic idea to me, but let 100
flowers bloom.

Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
wrote:

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> http://www.bianet.org/english/world/159039-petition-urges-a-humanitarian-corridor-to-kobane
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> On Oct 13, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
> Ordinarily, one would not necessarily think of the PFLP as having a lot of
> influence on people on the American left. But right now, when there is a
> many-sided Lord of the Flies leftist free-for-all on the meaning of Kobane
> and what, if anything, people should try to do about it, the fact that a
> bunch of Palestinian leftists are not primarily seeing Kobane through the
> lenses of "no war" and "stop the bombing" could prove very useful.
>
> I think the tide is turning towards "save Kobane." Our petition at MoveOn
> now has 7,339 signatures.
>
> Obama: Press Turkey to Stop Massacre of Syrian Kurds
>
> http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/obama-press-turkey-to?source=c.url&r_by=1135580
>
> "The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine expresses its
>> solidarity with the Kurdish resistance in Kobane struggling to defend
>> themselves and their community from the reactionary armed group, ISIS,
>> whose entry into our region has been facilitated and supported by
>> imperialist powers and their lackeys."
>>
>>
>> http://pflp.ps/english/2014/10/13/pflp-calls-for-unified-revolutionary-front-of-solidarity-with-the-struggle-of-the-people-of-kobane-against-isis
>>
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