In the evening, carlos went to the airport to pick up Tiziana and Giulia, who where coming from Rome in their first trip to Istanbul. THey arrived fine, and after a short visit to the Salita, they had acoomodation in the hostel.
In other hand, Nacho and Sole went to see Jonturk and Lukas. Jonturk was sick, with samll fever, and they spent the evening at his house, having çay, talking about the message, the parks,...
On Wednesday we had no plan, as we had an appoinment with Çanan but she wrote the day before canceling it off. We went to Kadikoy port, where there a 1st May demostration was taking place. Later, with Tiziana and Guilia, we went fir lunch and to visit Jonturk and Lukas, to check how Jonturk was, and he was feeling better.
In the evening Nacho, Carlos, Sole, Tiziana y Guilia had a touristic ferry that travel 2 hours all over the bosforo. We was watching new parts of the city, and we was talking about the message, the parks, the salita, next 4th May, etc..
IN the evening, Carlos, Tiziana and Guilia went to pich up Rachele who was coming from Rome.
Thursday morning Rachele, Tiziana y Guilia came to the Salita, they planed their touristic itinerary, and Nacho y Sole went with them to take the ship.
Calm day in the Salita, working at distance, sending invitations to 4th May, etc..
At 8pm Sibel arrived, and with Sole, Carlos y Nacho went to the Spanish table in Kadikoy. It was a very interesting ambient. 3 Turkish people, 4 Spanish, 2 North Americans, 1 Polish, 2 French, all with quite good vibes, in a wide diversity ambient. In facts, a Spanish girl, from Mallorca, has her father Turkish(Armenian) and mother German, but she was born and grew up in Mallorca. We was having this diversity that let old borders and flags, items of a world that has left inside many people.
In a very good ambient, with laughter after laughter, someones speaking better spanish than others, and in the background a Fenerbache football game that taked the atention of all the bar, we was knowing people and situations.
On Friday again Rachele, Tiziana y Guilia came to the Salita to plan their visitis. Sole went with them. Calm day again of works and studies. We where also preparing texts and videos for 4th May. In the evening, Carlos went to a meeting point with Rachele, Tiziana y Guilia to show them Galatas Tower and a coffe shop in the roof of a building where you can see bosofos sea and golden horn. By night, Cristophe arrived from Ankara, and toghether with Nacho and Carlos wen to dinner and talk about the message, the parks, Turkey,...
1st May
From Thursday 25th April when we arrived, we saw every day in the main many volunteers from asociactions, politics parties, etc.. spreading the 1st May demostrations. There where people giving leaflets,informative tables, form the most sofisticated stand to the more poor table, fomr the more informal to the more militant... we saw in one square life traditinal music, in other we saw music with drums and speakers, almost of lamppost and closed office where full of posters and stickers..all the wide variety of street spreading.
It was surprising, apart of the freedom of movements, the youthfulness of almost of the volunteers / militants, and also almost women, some cases even 100% women.
Obviously ideologies here dont look like failured.
They didnt reach this moment yet.and in some way, the islamic policy of the goverment is pushing these espresions.
One day talking with some people that said they was on the left, they dais they support Stalin, Lenin, ... making no difference between them, and we thougth that it was a teeenager way to place oneself, where the center is in one person identification with symbols and signs, but without studing or knowing if Stalin and Lenin are differents, and obviously no way to talk about failures.
On 1st May there was a big demostration, tens of thousands of people, many young people, many women, many flags, and something that surprised to us, a deep martial and aesthetic tone.
Tens of thousands of people with red flags, almost youths, almost women, nothing to be with what we are used as a comunist expression, a hundred of pople with a compositional alike a Rolling Stone concert.
Well, we saw the comunist party demostration, there was popular demostration of the other left parties and asociations, it was in the other side of Istanbul, in the Galatas Bridge. This other demostration was apparently more open, we thing less martial and more inclusive.
we had news that from this second demostrations there was wounded, water hoses down, pepper gas,..
The goverment banned the popular demostration in Taksim (emblematic place) becasue they was working to reapre the street. But the demostration tried to reach anyway the square, and this point there was a confrontation.
This 1st May the goverment forbiddem the ferry to surf the bosfor, and they open all the bridges, trying to cut the conection between neigborhouds and make very dificult to attend the demostrations.
Well, all these things has showed to us the moment in which the poepple are here and their relationship with ideologies.
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