Much thanks, Great stuff - will listen to & share ;-)
marc On 11 April 2016 at 14:07, helen varley jamieson < he...@creative-catalyst.com> wrote: > congratulations, antye! :) > > On 7/04/16 4:28 17PM, AGF poemproducer wrote: > > dear list, rmember the call for Rojava … here the results…. > > fyi > agee > > > IN 2015 the International network female:pressure (1700 members, 65 > countries) launched an online music, awareness & solidarity campaign with > the women fighters & the Rojava revolution via multiple media outlets. > > Please visit these pages to see the wide spread impact: > > female:pressure project page > http://www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html > > Soundcloud - 30 000 listens (April 2016) > https://soundcloud.com/femalepressure/sets/rojava-female-pressure > > Bandcamp / Donations - approx 600 € (April 2016) > > https://femalepressure.bandcamp.com/album/music-awareness-solidarity-w-rojava-revolution > > List of press results > https://femalepressure.wordpress.com/press-review/ > > CTM Festival Berlin Panel 150 participants, streaming 200€ donation to > Rojava women > http://www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html > > Best album FACT MAG 2016 > http://www.factmag.com/2016/03/25/best-albums-first-quarter-report-2016/ > > Remarkable review in one of the biggest music magazines > http://www.factmag.com/2016/03/10/best-bandcamp-releases/2/ > > Extensive social media out reach through facebook, twitter, tumblr and > other. > > The concrete impact has been in raising awareness in the Western world - > where talk, work has activated intercultural interest, communication, > support and solidarity, responsibility and understanding. For example: > - 10000s of women artists were reached worldwide via social media and > email lists > - 40 music compositions and artworks were created and contributed which > have been listened to min. 30 000 times on > <https://soundcloud.com/femalepressure/sets/rojava-female-pressure> > https://soundcloud.com/femalepressure/sets/rojava-female-pressure > - CTM Festival Berlin hosted a panel with female:pressure on Rojava, where > we invited Kurdish women activists and artists, with over 150 attendees and > online streaming of the event, entrance donations (of over 200 Euro) were > donated directly to Rojava's women support groups. > - 10+ radio shows were produced on the subject matter, with music and > interviews > - 20+ articles were published (e.g. The Quietus, FACT) still ongoing > - Bandcamp compilation was installed which guarantees an ongoing direct > donation system to support women in Rojava and the war zone for a safe > village, revenue so far over 600 Euro / ongoing > The project has shown that solidarity can be achived through art and music > and that a real connection can be established for intercultural exchange > and understanding and common solution projects. > > The campaign primarily aims at raising awareness around the resistance > movement currently taking place in the cantons of #Rojava (located in > northern Syria), where women participate on all levels of decision making > and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and > ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender > equality. Despite vast cultural and historical differences between Europe > and Kurdistan, the campaign uses art & music to bridge these and build > long-lasting real-life connections based on dialogue and respect, involving > as many Kurdish musicians and activists as possible (still ongoing). > > female:pressure raise awareness for the women of Rojava, their struggle, > ideas and implementations on the ground including famously defeating areas > captured by the Islamic State. Mass media have been silent and struggle to > report on the Kurdish region and the complex issues, due to the danger it > holds through IS, war, airstrikes by Russia, USA and allies and the Turkish > war on Kurds. As the PKK is officially named as a terrorist organisation > (e.g. by USA & the EU), many global and European news platforms do not > report at all or if so, with a large bias in favour of Turkey's current > government. The campaign aims to activate a dialog, solidarity with women > in war, investigate further into these complex issues and not to stay > stagnant with inaction to the detriment of huge number of human rights > violations in the area. The challenges addressed are huge: extremely > complex global politics and economics, post-colonial challenges of war, > systematic prejudice & inequality, corruption, terrorism, fundamentalism, > the role of the women in society. Quote from "Women & The Gun": "Rojava is > a chance for the whole world...[for] energy to continue our fight for a > better life." Awareness is necessary to activate critical reflection and > action, the female:pressure network can help activate this. > > The target group is the largly uninformed global public. All women and > feminists are the target group to acknowledge the inspirational, > revolutionary work undertaken by the women of Rojava and re-think their > stance on feminism, equality and justice. By putting art and music in the > centre-point of this campaign, we believe we can have a wide reach to a > range of different people. We have already been successful with wide press > coverage from online music publications, as well as a large audience > including many young people who attended a panel event organised by > female:pressure around this campaign at CTM Festival Berlin, in February > 2016. female:pressure stands for an inclusive feminism which promotes > dialogue and visibility for women. Since female:pressure is a large > international network, the networking can achieve a world wide spreading of > information. > > Challenges we encountered were that many women and men were concerned > about the militarized content. female:pressure artists are against violence > and war. However, discussions evolved through listening to the women in the > war zones towards an understanding that pacifism is a choice for the > privileged. Although peace and equality are ultimately desired, the women > fighters are forced to fight as a matter of survival. Many women were > impressed by the bravery of these women fighters. Overwhelmingly, women > have come out in support of the inspiring vision to build a gender equal, > multi-ethnic society from the bottom-up. > White western academic feminism has been criticised in favour of building > an equal world on the ground, and resisting a universalisation of white > feminism's values particularly where complex historical, politico-economic, > ethnic and religious issues are at stake. > The recent attacks on civilians in Turkey claimed by the militant Kurdish > organization TAK, and their alleged links to the PKK have added to this > complex situation. We have continued to discuss with some members > continuing their show of solidarity to the Rojava revolution (limited to > their use of warfare for self-defense), and others sceptical of this > potential connection. > > female: pressure works on a voluntary basis and no money was involved, > except the income we generated through the CTM panel and the Bandcamp > compilation which was completely donated to Rojava support funds. > > CTM Festival, Berlin, supported the project and helped creating a broad > public. > Many newspapers and radio stations have published the actions. > > Norient, a network for global sounds and media culture, invited us to > contribute to their exhibition. > > The project holds a vision that we can build bridges out of privileged > Western societies and work together on common goals, such as equality. It > shows how people who live under very different conditions can co-exist and > listen to each other. It is important that we collaborate and build real > life connections. These events are unfolding by the day and demonstrate the > fragility in the region which is war-torn and under severe threat. Women in > the Syrian war face death, sexual abuse, extreme violence and sexual > slavery. It has been said that these women build a new vision for the > region but also for the whole world. female:pressure has contributed to > make this struggle audible in the west. The project is extraordinary for > the awareness it has raised so far, as well as the new connections between > activists and artists in the Middle East and all over the world which have > resulted. > > > > > > > sound & curation > > AGF: @poemproducer > www.poemproducer.com > www.antyegreie.com > > https://soundcloud.com/agf-antye-greie > https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/ > https://vimeo.com/channels/poemproducer/ > > NEW ALBUM: Kon:3p>UTION to: e[VOL]ution: AGF solo album May 2016 > https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/album/kon-3p-ution-to-e-vol-ution > > MASHmix > > <https://www.mixcloud.com/poemproducer/greim-kon-king-and-queen-warriors-from-the-worldwide/> > https://www.mixcloud.com/poemproducer/greim-kon-king-and-queen-warriors-from-the-worldwide/ > > Music, Awareness & Solidarity with #Rojava powered by female:pressure > http://www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html > > FIELD WORK (sonic wild{er}ness) > http://fieldnotes.hybridmatters.net/posts/sonic-wild-code > https://vimeo.com/channels/poemproducer/139911900 > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > listNetBehaviour@netbehaviour.orghttp://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > -- > helen varley jamieson > he...@creative-catalyst.com > http://www.creative-catalyst.com > http://www.upstage.org.nz > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- -- Marc Garrett Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield. 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