Tonight 5 PM Chat With Filmmaker and Protesters
Gezi Park Documentary – Trailer from Gezi Doc on Vimeo.
Tonight at 5pm eastern is 12am in Turkey.
Come in & CHAT w/protestors & filmmaker @GeziDoc http://www.livestream.com/activistworldnewsnow …
The Gezi Park protests which began on May 28th, 2013 was one of the biggest uprisings against neoliberalism and a conservative Turkish government that was encroaching on secularism. The protest began when plans were announced to develop the park, one of the last remaining green spaces in Istanbul. Sparked by an aggressive police action against the revolt, subsequently protests and strikes spread across Turkey raising a wide range of concerns, at the core of which were issues of freedom of the press, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and the government’s encroachment on Turkey’s secularism.
Below are two movies on the Gezi Park revolt in Turkey.