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Jineloji Statement – Turkish War Planes are Bombing Archeological Sites In Efrin

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Thousands of Years Old Remains of Women’s Culture Destroyed On the 20th January 2018, the Turkish state waged a total war over the autonomous region of Efrin, part of the democratic confederation of Northern Syria. More than one week later, the attacks on the population continue. Turkish airstrikes have killed over 80 civilians – many […]

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JINEOLOJÎ: Conference dedicated to the science of women in Northern Syria (Day 2)

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The first-ever conference of Jineology in Northern Syria, held in the city of Derek, ended on Saturday 13th January. In attendance were hundreds of women of all ethnicities and religions from across Northern Syria, as well as women from all four parts of Kurdistan and across the world. On this second day of the conference,

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JINEOLOJÎ: Conference dedicated to the science of women in Northern Syria (Day 1)

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On Friday 12th January, women gathered in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria in the city of Derek for the first ever conference on Jineology in Northern Syria; the science of women aimed at developing a sociology, and practice behind it, based on truth and equality. Women from every ethnicity and religion of Northern Syria,

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From capitalist modernity to democratic modernity

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It’s common to hear internationalist groups and collectives talk about ‘democratic confederalism’ referred to as the ideological paradigm of the Kurdish Liberation Movement. Despite the fact that this concept has been useful to understand the ideological evolution of the movement, it remains somewhat incomplete, and it may be more appropriate to talk about Democratic Modernity.

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Social Ecology: Communalism against Climate Chaos

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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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A Kurdish response to climate change

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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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The resistance goddess Sehid Sara

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Today 09.01.2018, it is the fifth anniversary of the deaths of Sehid Sara (Sakine Cansiz), Sehid Ronahi (Leyla Saylemez) and Sehid Rojbin (Fidan Dogan). Sehid Sara is one of the first women and founding member of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). At a time when it was even harder for women to organize themselves politically

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