Hard times!

Life is full of scenes that scorch human thought and heart; death and massacres, life and resistance.

The world is witnessing great migrations. Human chains on the roads, escaping war and poverty. They set on a journey leaving their memories, identities behind. They take on a new identity; they are all “migrant” now. The journey is now a matter of life and death, people bought and sold. Their corpses tangled up in fishermen’s nets. Children’s corpses wash up on the beaches and baby Aylan is now the headline.

Hard times!

Times are hardest for the Kurds. Kurdish towns, neighbourhoods are besieged. Their homes, streets, lives bombarded by cannon fire. Rulers are forbidding: Kurdish child is forbidden to play in the streets; Kurdish woman is forbidden to chat with her neighbours; In fact, the Kurd is forbidden to live. All that is left for the Kurd is to fight; defend their homes, neighbourhoods, streets.

Hard times!

Peoples of Turkey are besieged by vultures, the sinister, the thieves; tormenting the country. All the gains of workers are undone with oppression; enslaving all workers with the “rented labour” law. Agreements are signed and exploitation is made official, when it comes to blood suckers at the centre of capital and corruption; it doesn’t matter if you are a Turkish or a Kurdish worker. Chauvinist propaganda on the one side, poverty and oppression of workers on the other; both are deemed proper.

Thinking is forbidden until further notice; those who write, draw, tell the truth are imprisoned. They try to make everyone a party to their crime. “We will not be a party to this crime” shout our scholars, artists, journalists; bravely, knowing the consequences.

In Suruç, Ankara, Diyarbakır, İstanbul... those massacred are OUR PEOPLE.

There are those who resist!

Location Day-Mer: youth are in the streets to let peoples of England know about injustices in Turkey. Feeling all wars of injustice within, no matter where on earth they are waged. Calling out for “Peace”. Supporting the scholars that refuse to be a party to this war crime, telling them “you are not alone”; collecting stories from all over the world as “we all need PEACE”.

Location Day-Mer: taking its place in all movements against attacks and social cuts targeting workers in England, shouting “we’ll win in unison”.

Location Day-Mer: preparations for the culture and arts festival of 26 years have started. Initially tentative in staging a festival in the city of festivals London; now proud and confident of its successful and anticipated festival. Day-Mer Culture and Arts festival is growing every year, a platform of struggle for migrants in London to express themselves and contribute to the universal culture. We know that Art is Libertarian. We know that art is the most important action that makes a human. For this reason, the 27th Day-Mer culture and Arts Festival will be a festival of hope, peace and freedom.

The invitation is Day-Mer’s and the Festival is yours!...