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[kurupetos]

...nice!

nice to see visitors, with shopping bags, of all ages, strollers, baby prams, etc.

cheers to our brave Patriots who are resisting the status quo, and who are representing an expression of Cypriotness, not "Greek" or "Turkish".

...thanks bill.

Yes, rembetika is not Greek music.

[bill cobbett]

Err, is it thinning out or my imagination...

Erm... you may have seen and be comparing "events" which attract a lot of people, at other times the numbers are reduced. It is a natural aspect of these occupations, it's the way they work with relatively small numbers of perm occupiers holding the "space" and calling on others to come down when threatened or to attend "events", so numbers do fluctuate but the "space" has remained in continuous 24/7 occupation since Nov 20. The indoor Activity Centre is being developed with more events planned there.

If anything and it is something you touched on a few weeks ago, with the worst of the winter weather behind them, with the promise of warmer and longer Spring days, there is debate as to what to do to overcome a shortage of outdoor space to accommodate the tents of increasing numbers of over-night occupiers.

[humanist]

It will be good for some parents of these occupiers to attend also ........ meet and greet ........ break down some social barriers. The problem I guess is language ... yet another reason for the RoC to introduce compulsory teachings of both languages at schools

[Get Real!]

If only Andreas could be there with his guitar and ganja...

[humanist]

I'll be in my vraka

[bill cobbett]

:D I'll be in my vraka

GR will be in his sovraka ...

[repulsewarrior]

...nice!

nice to see visitors, with shopping bags, of all ages, strollers, baby prams, etc.

cheers to our brave Patriots who are resisting the status quo, and who are representing an expression of Cypriotness, not "Greek" or "Turkish".

...thanks bill.

Yes, rembetika is not Greek music.

...indeed, rembetika is Greek music, point is they (the people who are singing) are not "Greeks"; something like singing along with a Bob Marley tune (if you are English speaking), although he is Jamaican.

[bill cobbett]

Very exciting news just in... for a combined and parallel marches for a Demilitarised Nicosia...

The Occupiers write...

"Once again we’re on the streets for a demilitarised Nicosia…

for a Nicosia with no barbed wires, no borders going through it
no tanks,
no guns,
for a Nicosia with no hostility...

in this divided city
to trust; to be able to trust
to say “stop!” to chauvinism

we’re on the streets for a demilitarised Nicosia...

for no more dead-end streets
where children should play…
for no more young people having to guard
behind sandbags
sometimes positioned so close that only a road separates them
looking at each other and learning to hate…

for gun-wounded houses and shops that are a memory of the war to find life again
for the buffer zone dividing Cyprus, to become a space that unites...

we’re on the streets for a demilitarised Nicosia:
- meeting at Ledra Palace traffic light at 14:30 on February 18th
- meeting ..... at 14.30 on February 18th
and marching in parallel towards the barbed wires that divide us and divide Cyprus.

our demand is demilitarisation of Nicosia, demilitarisation from all military units.

join us to make a demilitarised Nicosia and a reunified Cyprus possible..."

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Planned for Sat 18th February at 2.30pm, starting from the Ledra Palace traffic lights.

Here are a couple of posters for the event...

[bill cobbett]

The above event in Turkish...

askersiz Lefkoşa için bir kez daha sokaktayız...

içinden teller, sınırlar geçmeyen bir Lefkoşa için
içinden tanklar
içinden silah
içinden düşmanlık geçmeyen bir Lefkoşa için…

bu ikiye bölünmüş şehirde
güven için, güvenebilmek için
şovenizme dur demek için!

askersiz Lefkoşa için sokaktayız...

çıkmaz sokaklar olmasın, orda artık çocuklar oynasın
pencereleri kum torbasıyla kapatılmış evlerin arkasından
gençler nöbet tutmasın
bazen sadece bir yolun ayırdığı mevzilerden birbirlerine bakıp
düşmanlığı öğrenmesinler diye...

savaş hatırası kurşun yaralı evler, işyerleri tekrar hayat bulsun
Kıbrıs’ı ayıran ara bölge, Kıbrıs’ı birleştiren mekanlara dönüşebilsin diye…

askersiz Lefkoşa için, 18 Şubat 14:30’da,
- kuzeyde Ledra Palace ışıklarında buluşup
- güneyde ise .....'de buluşup
bizi ve Kıbrıs’ı ikiye bölen yıkılası tel örgülere doğru karşılıklı yürüyoruz.

talebimiz, Lefkoşa’nın tüm askeri birlikleri kapsayarak askersizleştirilmesi.

sen de katıl ki askersiz bir Lefkoşa’yı, birleşik bir Kıbrıs’ı mümkün kılalım...

[Get Real!]

:D I'll be in my vraka

GR will be in his sovraka ...

Bou gamni triki traka…