Liberation Conversation

26/09/2022

Currently in Iran, every major city and town across the nation is outraged. With protest on the streets and in the home.

It has come from the anger of the Iranian peoples after a hard 43 years under a draconian theocratic dictatorship.

The protests started after the murder of Masha Amini, who was a 22 year old Kurdish-Iranian woman.

She was arrested for not meeting the proper standard for the Hijab. However, her Kurdish identity is another reason the ‘morality’ police would of specifically targeted her. With The Iranian government seeing the Kurds and any other ethnic group as lesser then and has a track record of persecution against these groups.

Mahsa passed away three days after her arrest while in a coma, she passed from injuries sustained by multiple beatings by morality police to the head and torso.

Mahsa has become the Martyr of the protest, an innocent traveling with her family murdered by a dictatorship, which persecutes its own citizens and break the tenants of their faith.

With the protest still going and genral internet and cellular service being cut-off on Friday the 23rd, the people of Iran need us to speak up and fight.

Protest in Iran are not uncommon, but now the whole nation from the Caspian, to the Persian Gulf, and Kurdistan, to Baluchistan are all protesting together united. One can only imagine what this could mean.

The burning of headscarves and the cutting of hair (ancient Persian mourning tradition) are being used as major protest strategies.

We have collated a list of diaspora Iranian voices and those of informed allies. Who shall be posted into the stories with posts on many aspects of the protest.

Free Iran, Azaadi Iran

20/09/2022

Thanks to everyone who came and chatted with us and learnt about our society at the Welcome Fair today! We’re excited for the year ahead 😀

18/09/2022

We’ve put together some information about Amazigh history and preservation. Learn more about all of our current topics of interest on Tuesday, at the Welcome Fair.



Text reads: AMAZIGH HISTORY
AND PRESERVATION

One of the native groups of North Africa, laying a historical claim over the Isle of Tenerife to the Siwa oasis in modern
day Egypt (Misr). A historically nomadic group, Amazigh villages have existed since agriculture was introduced to the region in pre-history. With many cities across the Maghreb being of Amazigh,
Roman or Phoenician foundations. With a 2000 year old language, with over 20 spoken dialects and the Tifinagh alphabet. Tamazight is an ancient and well preserved African language. With an estimated '40% of the population of Morocco speaks ‘Amazigh' and all her dialects. With neighbouring North Afri-
can nations having over 6 million speakers in collective.

Scan the QR code for more
information on the Amazigh,
from allthatsinteresting.com

17/09/2022

We’ve put together some information about Kashmir, one of our topics of interest.



Text reads: KASHMIR
(JAMMU & KASHMIR)

The modern region of Jammu and Kashmir is currently controlled by three nuclear powers. By order of 'control', India (Central, southern and eastern portions), Pakistan (Northern and western border portions) and China (Far-east and mountain passes). With a history going beyond the times of the ancient Greco-Bactrian kingdoms of Alexander, the great (Iskandar) and many a myth beyond it.

Scan the QR code for more information on Kashmir, from yoursageinfo.com

13/09/2022

We’ve put together some information about a few of our topics of interest. The first of these focuses on the Yezidi people.



The text reads:

YEZIDI HISTORY AND
MODERN PERSECUTION
& RESISTANCE

Ezidi, The Yezidis (Yazidis) live principally in northern Iraq. There are approximately one million Ezidi worldwide. Historically, the Yezid-
is lived primarily in communities in locales that are in present-day Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, and also had significant numbers in Armenia and
Georgia. Surviving over 72 genocides and expulsions since the late 300's, the Yezidis, are one of the oldest ethno-religions, they can trace their re-
ligious calendar back 6764 as of 2008 CE.

Scan the QR code for more
information on the Yezidis,
from yezidisinternational.org

12/09/2022

🌏 Hey, everyone 🌍

Join us at this year’s Welcome Fair (on the 20th) to meet members of our committee and learn about our future events and overall ethos. We will have information about our topics of interest, and treats for you to enjoy!

This is our first year as a society, so we’re really looking forward to our first chance to get to know everyone!

08/09/2022

🌎 Our aims:

* Run public & University only educational events on liberation movements globally (linguistic, cultural, national). (On a 1/3 to 2/3 ratio)
* Run social community events. (Workshop/informal styles)
* Run ticketed/fundraiser events. (With one half going to a relative charity and the other half going to society upkeep.)

🌏 Our Goals:

* To educate on issues of historical, modern, and ongoing liberation movements.
* Raise awareness on the issues these movements stemmed from and 'how to help'.
* To raise £1k in charitable donations.

if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us 🕊

06/08/2022

🌏 Hi, everyone! 🌍

We are pleased to welcome you all to become members of our society via this link: https://www.huddersfieldsu.co.uk/groups/the-liberation-conversation-society

04/07/2022

Happy disability pride month!

July is Disability Pride Month.

The Disability Pride Flag was a collaborative design effort by Ann Magill, a disabled woman, and the disabled community to refine its visual elements:

The Black Field: A color of mourning and rage; for those who are victims of Ableist violence, and also rebellion and protest

The Five Colors: The variety of needs and experiences (Invisible and undiagnosed disabilities, physical disabilities, neurodivergence, psychiatric disabilities, sensory disabilities)

The Parallel Stripes: Solidarity within the Disability Community and all its differences

The Diagonal Band: “Cutting across” barriers that separate disabled people; creativity and light cutting through the darkness



Image description: A charcoal grey flag with a diagonal band from the top left to bottom right corner, made up of five parallel stripes in red, gold, pale grey, blue, and green Description ends.

24/06/2022

🌍 Welcome to our 22/23 committee! 🌎

President - Saeed Hussain. Topic of interest: Yezidi history & liberation.

Vice-President - Khizar Hussain. Topic of interest: Kashmiri Liberation.

Community Liaison - Noah Kolinsky. Topics of interest: Jewish liberation.

Social Secretary - Sadie CK. Topics of interest: Disability liberation.

16/06/2022

Hello and welcome to the newly founded Liberation Conversation society at the University of Huddersfield! 🎉

Our mission is to hold a place on campus for students to learn about different communities/movements and how they have 'liberated' themselves, ranging from national aspirations to linguistic revitalisation.

The topics will range through the ages and across the globe.

🌏 Our aims are to:

1. Run public & Uni only educational events on liberation movements globally (linguistic, cultural, national).

2. Run social community events.

3.Run fundraiser events.

🌍 Our goals are to:

1. Educate on issues of historical, modern and ongoing liberation movements.

2. Raise awareness surrounding the issues these movements stemmed from and 'how to help'.

3. Raise £1k in charitable donations.

🌎 And some of our events will be quizzes, guest speakers, lectures and Q&A's, bake sales, in-person/virtual workshops
and coffee socials, to name just a few!

Have any topics you’d like us to focus on? Let us know via DM or email us at [email protected] 😀