<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><font class="" color="#444444">[sorry for cross posting]</font></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><a href="http://femalepressure.tumblr.com/rojava" class=""><font class="" color="#444444">http://femalepressure.tumblr.com/rojava</font></a></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">female:pressure is launching an awareness and solidarity campaign for the canton 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. </font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">With a series of music, media and sound art to listen, dance and fight to, we would like to send our love and strength to these women and spread a positive message in support of their efforts.</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">We are calling for participation and submission of works. The work must be related and critically deal with the topic of #Rojava; otherwise there are no restrictions. Everybody is welcome!</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">Please submit your works via Internet Archive <a href="https://archive.org/" class="">https://archive.org</a> or any other way which can be embedded and distributed online such as Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Tumblr, Vimeo, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter or others.</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">IMPORTANT: please tag everything with #femalepressure for #rojava #revolution #solidarity</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">Spread and share the cause.</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">Send an informal email with the link to your submission to: <a href="mailto:rojava@femalepressure.net" class="">rojava@femalepressure.net</a></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">This is how the submissions will be collected by a working team.</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">The final publication is planned for International Women’s Day on 8 March 2016. </font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">Deadline is 15th of January 2016.</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">female:pressure is looking for Kurdish musicians, sound curators and cultural organisers to collaborate.</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">Founded in 1998, female:pressure is an international network of over 1,600 female artists from 66 countries in the broader fields of electronic music and arts. <a href="http://www.femalepressure.net/" class="">http://www.femalepressure.net/</a> </font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">Background links:</font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><strong class=""><font class="" color="#444444">Kurdish grassroots women’s rights organisation established in 2004 and based in London</font></strong></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><a href="http://rojwomen.org/solidarity/" class="">http://rojwomen.org/solidarity/</a></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">Donate - we recommend this website: <a href="http://rojwomen.org/donate/" class="">http://rojwomen.org/donate/</a> </font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><b class=""><font class="" color="#444444">Rojava Revolution</font></b></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/evangelos-aretaios/rojava-revolution" class=""><font class="" color="#444444">https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/evangelos-aretaios/rojava-revolution</font></a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><b class=""><font class="" color="#444444">Power, Gender & Rojava by Brick_Lane_Debates (Zeynep Kurban, Kurdish activist [18min-in])</font></b></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444">‘a communal system to govern themselves, built a social contract on principles of gender equality, ecological society and a commune economy’ @RojWomen </font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/Brick_Lane_Debates/power-gender-and-rojava/?its_url_id=3536" class="">https://www.mixcloud.com/Brick_Lane_Debates/power-gender-and-rojava/?its_url_id=3536</a></span> </font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><b class=""><font class="" color="#444444">'Equality' between women and men, and a part of why they joined was to develop and advance the perceptions about women in their culture—they can be strong and be leaders.</font></b></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a6643/these-are-the-women-battling-isis/" class="">http://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a6643/these-are-the-women-battling-isis/</a></span> </font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><font class="" color="#444444"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><b class=""><font class="" color="#444444">'The society that doesn’t elevate itself will decay.'</font></b></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><font class="" color="#444444"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/a-dream-of-utopia-in-hell.html" class="">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/a-dream-of-utopia-in-hell.html</a></font></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><font class="" color="#444444"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/a-dream-of-utopia-in-hell.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/magazine&action=click&contentCollection=magazine&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront&_&_r=2" class="">rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&action=click&contentCollection=magazine&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront&_&_r=2</a></font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br class=""></span></div></body></html>