Rojava Solidarity Collective

Musician Shahriyar Jamshidi performs at RSC’s 2015 Rojava Solidarity Night.

Find out more about Shahriyar Jamshidi’s work at http://www.shahriyarjamshidi.com

Filmmaker Nadim Fetaih speaks about his upcoming documentary film “This Is Kobane” at RSC’s 2015 Rojava Solidarity Night.

Hammam Farah speaks for Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) at RSC’s 2015 Rojava Solidarity Night.

The Rojava Solidarity Collective’s Rojda Erdemir speaks at the 2015 Rojava Solidarity Night in Toronto.

On Sunday November 8th, the Rojava Solidarity Collective hosted the Rojava Solidarity Night at Beit Zatoun in Toronto. Salih Muslim, Co-Chair of the PYD, joined RSC via Skype.

Rojava Solidarity Collective is pleased to announce our Rojava Solidarity Night this Sunday, November 8th at Beit Zatoun (612 Markham St.).

Come and enjoy a night of discussion, films, food and music bringing together the diverse people’s struggles of the Middle East!

Doors open at 6:50pm. RSC suggests a donation of $10 toward covering our costs, but none will be refused for lack of funds.

On Saturday 01 August, a vigil was held in Toronto in memory of the victims of the Suruc suicide bombing. The Rojava Solidarity Collective produced this video in support of the vigil and international solidarity for the rebuilding of Kobane.

OPEN STATEMENT OF SUPPORT WITH CUPE 3902 & 3903

We the Rojava Solidarity Collective, representing many graduate student members of CUPE, express our full public support for the striking workers of CUPE 3902 and CUPE 3903. TAs, GAs and Contract Faculty are central to the delivery of education and the conduct of research at universities, and the University increasingly relies on their lower-cost labour to deal with a growing undergraduate student body without having to pay for more expensive full-time faculty. This is a trend throughout North America and Ontario has the worst per-student funding formulas in Canada.

In addition to harming the teaching and learning environment, this expansion of academic insecurity more broadly harms the university as a public institution, with its chilling effects on faculty governance, collegiality, and academic freedom. The rise of contingent faculty is further developing in tandem with the bloating of senior administration and salaries. All of this takes place in the context of declining government funding for post-secondary education

Therefore the Rojava Solidarity Collective stands in support of the ongoing strikes by the workers of CUPE 3902 & 3903. We are a grassroots organization based in Toronto, on the stolen lands of the Anishinabek, Haudenosaunee and Wendat. Our independent collective organizes to show solidarity with peoples’ uprisings around the Middle East and North Africa against authoritarian regimes, imperialist rule, and jihadist groups. Ongoing people’s struggles around the world show us that an injury to one is an injury to all, and that any victory against exploitation and oppression is a victory for all the oppressed. Immediate and principled solidarity sustains these struggles and wins concrete gains.

In solidarity,

Rojava Solidarity Collective

The Rojava Solidarity Collective (RSC) endorses the 2015 International Women’s Day Rally and March.

https://www.facebook.com/IWDToronto

The Rojava Solidarity Committee endorses the 10th Annual Strawberry Ceremony for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (https://www.facebook.com/events/703866506400035/).

The Strawberry Ceremony will take place at Toronto Police headquarters (40 College St., Toronto) from 12:30-1:30pm on Saturday 14 February 2015.