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limpyhobbler

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1. k/r. A few more links. A couple pics.
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 10:46 PM
Jun 2013

You might have seen these if your following this on twitter

Here are a couple articles with some analysis and background about what's happening. These are kind of opinion/analysis pieces.

The Right to the City Movement and the Turkish Summer
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11978/the-right-to-the-city-movement-and-the-turkish-sum


This IS about a park
http://memesonmemes.blogspot.com/2013/06/this-is-about-park.html

Apparently these people found a bulldozer or excavator


And maybe chased the police a bit with it



There's some stuff over here too->
http://www.whatishappeninginistanbul.com/?page_id=77



Everybody probably knows these news sites:
RT & AJ both seem to have quite a bit of coverage
http://rt.com/news/taksim-protest-erdogan-marauders-133/

http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/turkey-protests-20176

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