Anarsistanbul writes:

"Imagination to Action Cortege Was on the Streets"
Anarsistanbul

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On June 27th, a rally was organized in Kadikoy, Istanbul, against the global murderers of NATO. (Kadikoy Square is important in the history of social movements as after the riots in Mayday 1996 it was banned for rallies. Since 1996 this rally has been the first rally with intense participation.) Despite the police measures and barriers, more than 500 activists were in ANARSISTANBUL Imagination to Action cortege. Media manipulations (the news about the bomb explosion in a public bus), closure of the streets, delay of the ferry time and detentions affected not only ANARSISTANBUL but the general participation in the rally. There were about 30 thousand people in the rally.Despite the rain, Kadikoy streets were active in the early hours of the day, preparations of different groups were intense in the streets. ANARSISTANBUL Imagination to Action cortege began the rally with ANARSISTANBUL marching band playing Anarsist Genclik Federasyonu (Anarchist Youth Federation) Istanbul March. ANARSISTANBUL activists carried “NATO is Murderers’, Istanbul is Ours” and in eight different languages (Arabic, Zaza language, Kurdish, Laz language, Greek, Spanish, English, Turkish) “Imagination to Action” and a huge “Imagination to Action against the Power of the Cruel” banners and extraordinary vertical ANARSISTANBUL banners.

Anarchists from Antiauthoritarian Movement (Greece) distributed their pamphlets. Besides Antiauthoritarian Movement, anarchists from Macedonia and France and anarchists from different cities of Turkey were in ANARSISTANBUL cortege.

While rallying to the Kadikoy Square, anarchists in ANARSISTANBUL cortege shouted the slogans: “Against NATO, Anarchy in Istanbul”, “NATO is Murderers’, Istanbul is Ours”, “Against NATO, Action, Revolution, Anarchy”, “Bread, Justice, Freedom”, “Global Murderers will Pay for It”, “Against NATO Imagination to Action”, “No to NATO’s corporations, No to NATO’s armies, No to Global Capitalism, No to Domination’, “Don’t kill, Don’t let kill, Do not Corrupt your Conscience’

Comrades from Thesseloniki shouted the slogans: “I alli legyi to oplo ton laon, polemos ston polemo ton afentikon” (Solidarity is the weapon of peoples, war to the war of bosses), “Oute Evropi, oute Ameriki, polemos sta afentika s’olokliri ti gi” (Neither Europe nor USA, war against the bosses all over the world), “batsoi gourounia dolofonoi” (Cops, pigs, killers), “50 hronia NATO, i idia istoria, hountes, polemoi, tromokratia” (50 years of NATO, the same story, juntas, war, terrorism)

At the street leading to the square many people participated the slogans and the enthusiasm of anarchists. In the square more than 500 activists were shouting “Against NATO, Anarchy in Istanbul”. With slogans and the march, anarchists burned US flags. The huge banners filling the square attracted the attention of many people against NATO in other corteges and they shouted ANARSISTANBUL slogans.

ANARSISTANBUL cortege began rallying through Kadikoy Arcade. ANARSISTANBUL activists shouted slogans and sang Anarchist Youth Federation Istanbul March through the arcade and many tradespeople and workers supported them cheering and joining the march. Shouting “NATO is Murderers’, Kadýkoy is Ours” slogan, anarchists rallied through the streets. When the anarchists came in front of ANARSISTANBUL Contact Office, black and black-red flags were waved from the office and greeted them. ANARSISTANBUL activists ended their rally after declaring the struggle against usurper murderers of NATO and actions during the NATO Summit will continue.