Michael Israel from #Sacramento, #California was a member of the #DSA and the @iww. He was killed by the Turkish State in an air strike north of Raqqa. He was on his second tour with the #YPG.pic.twitter.com/h47gIMwEfg
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Anna Campbell, an anarchist from the UK, became the first British woman to be killed in the conflict, dying alongside other YPJ volunteers during the Turkish attack on Afrin. Her death began an international campaign to have her body returned home. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jul/03/anna-the-woman-who-went-to-fight-isis-review-a-daughters-bravery-a-familys-guilt …pic.twitter.com/mVFPptUoQL
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Robert Grodt was an anarchist from the US and a street medic during
@OccupyWallStNYC. He was killed during the final battle against ISIS to retake the city of Raqqa.pic.twitter.com/W7R8jpSJrSShow this thread -
Şehîd Şahîn Qereçox, known as Waka to his many friends, was an anarchist killed in the fight against ISIS in Hajin on 6th October. At the time of his death he had just been made the co-commander of the YPG International Tabur.pic.twitter.com/hbPoTY9Vu9
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Lorenzo Orsetti, was an Italian anarchist who fought with a variety of armed anarchist and antifascist groups in defense of Rojava. He was killed in March of 2019 by one of the last battalions of ISIS fighters, who celebrated his death over their media channels.pic.twitter.com/TUWwltg9Od
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A member of the IRPGF (International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces), Şehîd Kawa Amed, or Paolo Todd, was a Native warrior who was involved in the struggle at Standing Rock before traveling to Rojava. He was killed in early 2019 while fighting against ISIS.pic.twitter.com/Vgj8MsRD4Z
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Haukur Hilmarsson was an anarchist from Iceland who was killed in a Turkish airstrike in Afrin in early 2018 while fighting alongside the
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Ivana Hoffman, a 19 year old socialist from Germany, was killed during clashes with ISIS in 2015, becoming the third person from outside the region to die along side YPG and YPJ forces.pic.twitter.com/P7mnHgcQqH
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Jordan MacTaggart, an anarchist from
#Colorado was killed in 2016 during "operations inside Manbij city [which] helped to liberate many civilians from the areas occupied by ISIS."pic.twitter.com/mGBpcPUpuHShow this thread -
Should be pointed out that this short list doesn't do justice in representing all those who have given their lives in an effort to defend the autonomous cantons of
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Like those American volunteers, many from the ranks of working class anti-capitalist movements, who traveled from the US to fight in the Spanish Civil War against fascism, if we don't remember these people, then their memory will be lost forever.pic.twitter.com/Bn9DNDzhCz
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You are missing Alina Sanchez (Ş. Lêgerîn Azadî), the first Latin American martyr/Shehid.pic.twitter.com/COYVTSYYuf
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Heroes. Solidarity in their struggle against the oncoming escalation.
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This is extremely moving.
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They are everything.
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Hero’s and Martyrs all
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these guys seem to have a better physical fitness regimen than your typical nazis that keep talking about a "new civil war".
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