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• Interview to the III. International Social Ecology Meeting 

  The Third International Meeting of Social Ecology – A reflection by Make Rojava Green Again
• Dutch ISIS member: The attack on the Kurds was our end 

  "I still have not understood why ISIS fought the Kurds. There was no force other than the Kurds that could have defeated us," tells Dutch jihadist Yago Alexandre Riedijk in SDF captivity.
• Notes from Rojava 

  "A photo frame hanging on the wall of every house you enter in this land tells you the story of anonymous heroes and how this war was actually won…"
• Sinn Féin: Irish unification to the fore of political discourse 

  Sinn Féin Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill said: "As the unification of Germany is being celebrated by its citizens, the unification of Ireland has now also entered to the fore of political discourse in Ireland and Europe."
• Abdi: Erdoğan’s concern is not about security but about invasion 

  The General Commander of the SDF spoke about the threats made by the Turkish regime leader Erdoğan against North and East Syria.
• “Turkish army in alliance with ISIS” 

  Muhammed Toqan spoke of the dirty alliance of the Turkish state with ISIS and FSA gangs, and said that there were quite a number of ISIS members in Turkey.
• Murders of Brazil indigenous and invasion of their lands increase 

  According to a recent report, made by the CIMI (Missionary Indigenous Council) linked to the Catholic Church, the murder of indigenous people in Brazil has grown from 110 in 2017, to 135 during 2018.
• Murdered lawyer Pat Finucane remembered in Belfast 

  Sinn Féin Louth TD Gerry Adams spoke in Belfast at the launch of his publication: Pat Finucane; A Community Reflects. 
• Great efforts put into Shengal to provide a good health system 

  Health problems in Shengal are been dealt with by the Autonomous Administration set up there despite all shortages and difficulties.
• Newly discovered 10,000-year-old settlement to be flooded by dam 

  A newly discovered about 10,000 years old settlement in Amed is to sink into the water of the Ambar dam.
• Mustafa Koçak: 89 days on hunger strike demanding justice 

  Political prisoner Mustafa Koçak has been on hunger strike for 89 days against the unjust life sentence he was given.
• Working at 75 to preserve tin making from disappearing 

  Muhammet Nezir, 75, has been a tin maker since his childhood. He said he would do this job until the end of his life so that tinnery would not disappear.
• Internationalist Commune presents Dêrik cultural and art center 

  "We can expand our understanding of this work, which is not only to defend art and culture, but also to fight back against the cultural genocide that imperialist forces are imposing on local cultures."
• Concert for Hasankeyf as new images from Ilisu Dam are released 

  While new images from the Ilisu Dam site which shows the growing dam reservoir, a cultural event for Hasankeyf and the Tigris River will take place in Istanbul on Saturday.
• Ayotzinapa, the bleeding wound of Mexico 

  Mexican officials have begun searching new sites for the remains of 43 student teachers,  including a dump near where they disappeared on the night between 26 and 27 September, five years ago.
• IMF suspends agreed delivery of US $ 5.4 billion to Argentina 

  The interim President of the IMF, David Lipton, declared that Argentina "would have to wait a while before resuming a financial relationship" with his agency.
• ISIS prisoner from Palestine: We were treated in Istanbul 

  SDF-detained Palestinian ISIS jihadist Muhammed Balusha claims that he was accommodated in an Istanbul ISIS house in 2016 and 2017 and, like other members of the terrorist militia, received medical treatment in a private hospital.
• The Butcher of Raqqa is awaiting trial 

  The SDF hold Anouar Haddouchi, a Belgian citizen member of ISIS, known for funding the Brussels and Paris massacres and known by the nickname 'The Butcher of Raqqa ’. Haddouchi wants to be tried in Belgium.
• YPG member and filmmaker Mehmet Aksoy remembered in London 

  Today the Kurdish community and Mehmet's many friends will remember him by paying a visit to his grave in Highgate Cemetery between 1 and 3 pm. 
• Criminalisation of Catalan independent movement continues 

  The Spanish police and justice insist on introducing the component of violence in the sovereign process of Catalonia.
• The ghost of dictator Franco still haunting Spanish society 

  The Spanish Supreme Court supported the Government's decision to transfer the remains of the dictator Francisco Franco.
• Westminster to resume today after Supreme Court ruling 

  Protesters celebrated outside the Supreme Court in London after judges ruled that Johnson’s advice to the English queen to prorogue Westminster for five weeks was unlawful.
• Rojava University opens new faculty and departments 

  The Rojava University 2019-2020 academic year will begin on 1 November.
• Yazidis in Armenia remember their dead  

  The Yazidi community in Armenia remembered their dead in the town of Armavir and Aygeshatt village. Religious scholars recited Qawl, the women sang lamentations.
• First blow to EU-Mercosur agreement comes from Austria 

  The Austrian parliament has rejected the EU-Mercosur trade agreement.