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INTERNATIONAL CALL LEADS TO GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION FOR KOBANE AND FOR HUMANITY
Hundreds of individuals and organisations representing thousands of members from across the world have signed an urgent call for action appealing to people all over the world to show solidarity with Kobane, which is still under siege by ISIS and facing the possibility of a genocide.
Prominent signatories include Professor Noam Chomsky and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who have both been long-time supporters of the Kurdish struggle for self-determination, as well as Nobel Peace Prize Laureates like Adolfo Erez Esquivel, and Jose Ramos-Horta, former President of East Timor and Nora Cortinas, cofounder of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in Argentina and Palestinian singer Reem Kelani.[2] Academics, writers, lawyers, politicians and activists from political, social-justice and environmental movements from countries as diverse as India, Ecuador, Croatia, Norway and the Basque Country, have signed the call in an unprecedented show of international solidarity for the Kurdish resistance in Syria.
Read the full call for action and see the list of signatories here: http://peaceinkurdistancampaign.com/2014/10/21/urgent-call-for-action-global-rally-against-isis-for-kobane-for-humanity/