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Posts Tagged ‘Kurds’

Rojava at risk

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 19, 2018 | 2 Comments »

I’ve posted here before about the Kurdish experiment in social-ecological-feminist radical democracy that’s been unfolding in the unlikeliest circumstances in the northern Syrian region of Rojava. Donald Trump’s sudden announcement of a complete U.S. military withdrawal from Syria now leaves that experiment extremely vulnerable… which puts anti-war* activists into an uncomfortable position. (I add that […]

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The ecology of Syrian/Kurdish freedom

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 16, 2015 | 5 Comments »

Eco-theorists may recognize the title of this post as a variation on the title of Murray Bookchin’s audacious and deeply influential (for many, including myself) 1982 book The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (pdf here). What’s little known to anyone following recent news about the war in Syria is that an 18,300 sq. […]

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