EXCLUSIVE interview with RedHack on Halk TV regarding #occupygezi #occupyturkey and in general “Before we begin, I’d like to ask you when your penguin documentary will be on. Hello friends, comrades, the ones who defend the indivisible unity of the trees, how are you? When we hear “Gezi Park,” it represents to us how the media is censored, how auto censoring has been developed, very clearly. The fact that we are speaking out to our friends at Halk TV (channel), who have witnessed the events the entire time, is also a reaction, a response to the media who thinks, “don’t touch me and I won’t touch you”. We would like to thank the media workers who have put an end to this censoring, who have heard the voice of the resistance. There has been an attempt to display the truth of the resistance on several channels. We had not yet paid the money for the penguin costumes that we ordered to display and announce both our own actions and the truth of the resistance, so they started reporting the news right on time. They have fancy slogans (the news channels), which we know are not enough for news reporting, because they all say, “Be the first to know, with us” or “Always be informed with us”. They all have huge slogans and mottos but we saw what happened. The news reporters who were sent to report news live from Tahrir Square, from Libya, with the people’s money, were for some reason lost during our own events. The same reporter, who was a marvelous man when reporting from Tahrir, was cursed when trying to report events from his own country. These people faced the heaviest pressure. We as Redhack are actually used to finding out news about the Semdinli clashes and battles from the French press, so Semdinli feels like the suburbs of Paris to us. Yes, we are using humor, because this resistance will be remembered by not only its painful events and government violence, but also about its humor. The people have put out such creative, such nice, alternative responses, and these will be remembered too, because until the people realize the power that comes from consumption, it seems that the reign of the media and the pressure on the media will continue. But, life is a master of creating its own alternatives, so we are honestly not so worried. We witnessed a lot of things during these events. For instance, the Minister of National Education said, “We did what the opposition party could not do for years: we united all the unrelated groups, all the groups who never interact. This success belongs to our party.” This is a serious example, I mean, he doesn’t say this to be humorous, but it ends up being extremely humorous, because this is just another way of saying “we drove everyone crazy”. This should actually be taken as a confession, because we also saw that there was absolutely nothing left unreversed during these events. Ambulances, for example, are usually for saving lives, but in this country, we saw ambulances carrying and throwing gas bombs at people. People started asking each other: “Is that road safe?” - “No, don’t come, there’s cops there.” The police should be standing for the people’s security, for the community, but we met a completely different side of the police, a much bigger portion of the population met this side. I mean, the ones who have a past in revolutionary acts and have experience with such events already know the other side of the cops, but the cops, through the resistance, was able to show their other face to a larger percentage of the population. But we all see together a government which, even when learning from its mistakes, looks back on only a summary of what has happened. So I guess this is all that we can see from such a government. There is something that we always say, and we will insist on this always because there is nothing to prove otherwise: “there is a government that has organized AGAINST its people”. See, the pressure on the unions, pressure on the students, pressure on the artists, pressure on the press, the media, the workers…We don’t need to look back too far. If we look back on May 1st, we can see extremely clearly the government working against its people. One of the things that we always ask for and inevitably want, is “a limitless world”. We cannot say the same thing that Bulent Arinc said: that there are “weddings of distinguished people”. We don’t want to hear this sentence from anyone. We don’t want certain people to be “distinguished” and others to be common folk…which, by the way, the revolutionary struggle has always said. There were groups put to trial from 141 and 142. There were teachers and academicians laid off because of 1402 during September 12th (1980). We see this discrimination clearly and openly. redhack.tumblr/post/52597166692/exclusive-interview-with-redhack-on-halk
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:48:22 +0000
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