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Divan Hotel gets ?Hospitality Innovation Award? for sheltering Gezi Park protesters… A Social fabric roundup..

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Divan Hotel which sheltered Gezi Park protesters awarded PKF hotelexperts, based in Germany?s Munich, has awarded Turkey?s Divan Hotel with its ?Hospitality Innovation Award? ***************** Witness protection shields 273 in Turkey Close to 300 people are now living under Turkey?s witness protection program following procedures such as facial surgery Turkish government moves for shortening compulsory … Read more

An ominous day in #OccupyTurkey More than 400 arrests, Appearance of Thugs in Istanbul….

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I am glad that most of Occupiers decided to go back home in order to prevent provocations with these appearing thugs…. via @mkozturk Thugs With Clubs These were men who skipped AKPs peaceful celebration of its power. They were running through Asmalimescit with clubs in hand, shouting ?God is Greatest?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BSIwRoQbyw Here’s pro-AKP thugs: Here is … Read more

Erkan on Gezi Park Resistance at BBC World #OccupyTurkey

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I was quiet exhausted, sorry for slow talking….

İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi öğretim elemanlarının Taksim Gezi Parkı Olaylarına İlişkin Açıklaması #direngeziparki

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İSTANBUL BİLGİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ ÖĞRETİM ELEMANLARININ TAKSİM GEZİ PARKI OLAYLARINA İLİŞKİN AÇIKLAMASI Taksim Gezi Parkı?nda günlerdir uygulanan şiddet, ?şeffaf bir karar alma sürecinin yokluğu?, ?yerel katılımı küçümseyen bir karar alma tavrı?, ?bu politikaya barışçıl bir biçimde karşı olanlarınsa güçle ezilmesi? gibi bir resim çiziyor. Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi, 2006 yılında Türkiye aleyhine verdiği bir kararda ki … Read more

Deputy Önder injured, Roads to Taksim being closed , Occupy organizations in other cities #DirenGeziParkı

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Deputy Önder injured after being hit by canister in Gezi Park protests Istanbul deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder has been shot by police in the shoulder with. Protesters #OccupyGezi to save Istanbul park Activists defy bulldozers to block demolition of city’s ‘last public green space’. Occupy İzmir Occupy Eskişehir Occupy Ankara by Onur Erdinç The Police is … Read more

Despite police violence citizens continue to amass… #direngeziparkı #occupygezi

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  DAKİKA DAKİKA BİLGİ: https://www.facebook.com/taksimgeziparkidernegi https://twitter.com/ayagakalktaksim https://twitter.com/taksimdayanisma Taksim Gezi Parkı Direnişi 2. Gün / Resistance Against Destruction of Taksim Park:   by Nar Photos Police staged an early morning raid on protesters who resist against the demolition of Gezi Park in the heart of Istanbul for a shopping mall to be built. The police used … Read more

Posters of Occupy Wall Street and a roundup…

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  Striking Posters From Occupy Wall Street: Download Them for Free from Open Culture by Mike Springer Blazing de-bullshitification of the arguments for militarized campus police forces from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow UC Davis music professor Bob Ostertag has written a savagely brilliant editorial in the Huffington Post, denouncing the use of military-style force … Read more