Besides the bad news of Afrin, in March we continued working on our ecological project to Make Rojava Green Again. With the rains of winter everything become green, and the firsts days of march have the perfect weather for continue planting shoots and open new gardens. We are planting different kind of trees and starting […]
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After launch our campaign, we continued our works for make Rojava green again, with all the energy and ideas that people from all around the world start to share with us. After the discussions with the ecology committee, the visits to the Hayaka natural reserve and the tree nursery [check the galleries from before], we
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The campaign ‘Make Rojava Green Again’ was officially launched on February 2018, but we were working in different things before. It was mostly work of research, meetings, discussions, etc, but also some practical work. Here we share a gallery of the works of the ecology committee of the internationalist commune before to launch the campaign.
Make Rojava Green Again! Pictures gallery – December 2017, January 2018. Read More »
This interview was originally published in the New Statesman. Turkey’s recent, bloody invasion of Rojava is codenamed “Operation Olive Branch”. It’s a cruel misnomer, and not only because scores of civilians have died in Turkey’s relentless and indiscriminate shelling of the progressive, Kurdish-led autonomous region. Afrin is the isolated western enclave of Rojava that’s currently
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We, the Internationalist Commune of Rojava, call on our supporters around the world to help us with our next step in the work of building an ecological society. Most of the grid electricity in Rojava comes from the hydroelectric dams in the west, with about a quarter from the natural gas flared during oil production.
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In the last months, we are building the Internationalist Academy of Rojava and we are organizing a tree cooperative. We had been organizing a campaign for share this works and ask for your support, and we are glad to announce the start of our first official campaign: We just created a page for upload all
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The next article was published in ROARmagazine, and is a great inspiration for the ecological works we are working on. Since the 1960s, the theory and praxis of social ecology have helped guide efforts to articulate a radical, counter-systemic ecological outlook with a goal of transforming society’s relationship to non-human nature. For many decades, social
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Conversations with the Kurdish Liberation Movement on ecological society and democratic confederalism. For 4000 years since the breakdown of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, almost every major societal collapse has featured five trends: spiralling migration, state collapse, food shortages, epidemic disease and climate change.[1] What makes the present era distinct is that whilst previous collapses
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