Eyewitnesses to the Rojava revolution: women empowerment.

Feminist call: Solidarity with the women of Rojava. Originally published by Afrin Not Alone. Note: Enough is Enough is not organizing any of these events, we are publishing this text for people across the US and Europe to be able to see what is going on and for documentation only. Feminist Call: Solidarity with the Women of Rojava. The Turkish state is bombing and threatening to destroy Afrin.

Dark Victory in Raqqa.. in public affairs,” the charter established three autonomous cantons in Rojava, as the Kurdish region in northern Syria is known.. above all, an unprecedented.

But in Rojava the signs of progress are encouraging. Writer Janet Biehl visited the region in 2014 and explained in an article for Toward Freedom that: Women’s liberation in Rojava is a work in progress, where patriarchal traditions are deeply embedded and bound up with religion.

The women’s army of Rojava gets involved in the act of active unlearning of patriarchy through the regular camps and workshops held by the army to teach young men the ways and functioning of feminism in everyday life, as the abovementioned documentary reveals.

During the latest MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Annual Meeting that took place in New Orleans, far from the Middle East, a group of feminist scholars organized a meeting called “Feminist Conversation on Current Uprisings in the Middle East.”This session was organized by a group of academics and sponsored by the Arab Studies Institute, the Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese.

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Rojava is an alternative model to live in peaceful coexistence of different nations, and ethnic and religious groups in the middle east. Western imperialists and colonialists see this model as a threat to their own interests in the Middle East. In addition, Rojava is a real democratic and pluralistic model.

As long-time anti-war and anti-imperialist activists, we were deeply disheartened to see the recent open letter “A Call to Defend Rojava,” signed by a number of people with records of anti-war activism. We empathize with the suffering faced by Syria’s Kurds at the hands of ISIS, the Turkish military and foreign-backed paramilitary forces, but the “Call to Defend Rojava” makes a.

A useful challenge to stagnation is found in Italian autonomist feminist Silvia Federici’s short essay “Feminism and the Politics of the Commons,” wherein she points to the feminist and Indigenous roots of commoning. In this piece she makes the important, and contentious, claim that a revaluation of traditionally feminized reproductive labour is crucial to any understanding of commoning.

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This article was written by two friends of Plan C who recently returned from Rojava. The Rojava Solidarity Cluster is interested the issue of support in Rojava and hope this text contributes to that understanding in the broader left.It is also worth noting that there is currently a member of the cluster in Rojava who will be providing further updates and contributions, you can find out more.