Report by ANF As part of the Hamburg conference “We want our world back” from the event series “Challenging Capitalist Modernity”, 23 workshops took place on Saturday. The venues had to be moved due to the cancellation of the Audimax at short notice by the administration of the University of Hamburg under pressure from the […]
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As humanitarian aid fails to reach north-western Syria, where the rebel-held area of Kurdistan is located, women and men are organizing themselves to cope with the humanitarian emergency they are experiencing after a 7.8 earthquake and a war that began 12 years ago. Text: Daliri Oropeza Alvarez | Source The border between Turkey and Syria […]
Read More Women’s communes are being organized in Kurdistan, Syria and Turkey in response to the earthquake
Text in the banner: Ecocommunalismo para cambiarlo todo, Bienvenido a Lozoya (Ecocommunalism to change it all, Welcome to Lozoya) On the 28th of January 2023 was organized the first Encounter on social ecology and communalism of the Iberian Peninsula. The purpose of the encounter was to gather activists and people interested in communalism and discuss […]
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Written by Nathaniel Gregory In the Bluegrass State of Kentucky many working people have experienced worsening economic conditions, job losses, and degraded communities, threatening our very way of life & leaving us in complete ruin, despair, and debt. Our politicians do little to help us in our time of need, as they control the levers […]
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Originally published in The Imrali Post #24 Mustafa Karasu, a member of the Executive Council of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), spoke out in an interview on the Medya Haber television station about the isolation of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, the Turkish chemical weapons attacks and the current war situation. Regarding the situation of […]
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Written by Ercan Ayboga The History of Cities in North Kurdistan After the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, the cities in North (Turkish-occupied) Kurdistan became progressively poorer relative to those in the Turkish state. This led to comparatively weak municipalities ruled by so-called system parties, which were hierarchical, corrupt, and extremely alienated from the […]
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Written by Havin Guneser with Eleanor Finley What sets us apart as humans—especially those who struggle for freedom and reject injustice, inequality, oppression, and exploitation—is our imagination. We can refuse to accept that which is simply handed over to us as truth. Let us begin here in our exploration of the journey of the […]
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This interview has been sponsored and published by the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign Connor Hayes speaks with Dr Federico Venturini, associate researcher at the University of Udine, about a recently published book he has co-edited entitled “Social Ecology and the Right to the City: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities,” published by Black Rose Books. Topics […]
Read More Thinking Ecologically, Acting Globally – An Interview with Federico Venturini
ISE board and faculty member Brian Tokar reports: Dilar Dirik, a noted international voice of the Kurdish women’s movement, was a keynote speaker at the recent fifth international conference of Trise (Transnational Institute of Social Ecology), the European s cial ecology organization. Speaking via Skype from Cambridge, England to an audience of well over 100 […]
Read More Presentation by Kurdish feminist, Dilar Dirik
A group of human rights activists, among them British actress Maxine Peake and former Icelandic Minister of Justice Ögmundur Jónasson, travels to Turkey to visit the imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. He is currently being held in Imrali Prison, under conditions of complete isolation. Here is a short documentation of the 2019 Imralı Peace […]
Read More Short documentary on the 2019 Imralı Peace Delegation