Debbie Bookchin

🔜 At this important moment for the future of Syria, the people of DAANES/Rojava are determined to preserve their multi-ethnic, grassroots-democratic governing structure as they undertake negotiations with the al-Sharaa regime in Damascus. Join us SATURDAY for this not-to-be-missed update! Sign up ⤵️

Opinion | Syrian Freedom Is Dangerously Incomplete (Gift Article) Syria’s deeply flawed interim Constitution should be replaced with one that reflects our values: freedom, equality and self-governance.

Powerful Opinion piece in today's @NYTimes.com by Ilham Ahmed calling for an inclusive and democratic constitutional process that guarantees the political and religious rights of all Syrians along the lines of the Rojava model.
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Watch Water is Love: Ripples of Regeneration | A Documentary Film "Water is Love" follows a group of young people grappling with the climate crisis while we journey around the world to share incredible stories of regenerative ecosystem design to create water retenti...

Today is #WorldWaterDay2025! Celebrate by watching this superb new film from www.waterislovefilm.org
With subtitles in many languages, it will inspire you, and give you the tools, to help heal the earth in immediate and tangible ways as we continue to pursue deep systems change.

Purple Campanula flowers.

Newroz in Kobani, Rojava, 2019.

💐 From the first flowers of spring in New York to my friends in all four parts of Kurdistan and beyond,
Newroz pîroz be! 🔥
May the new year bring peace and freedom! 

The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 03/15/2025 · 32m

If you had only 30 minutes to understand what is going on in the U.S. right now, this is the podcast episode to listen to.

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of #TheNerdReich breaks it down with
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@sbg1.bsky.social and
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Listen and share.

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💐 Happy International Women’s Day! As sectarian executions mount in western Syria, the multi-ethnic democratic confederalist model in North and East Syria, where women make up 50 percent of every government institution, serves as an important model for a truly democratic Syria! Jin, Jiyan, Azadi! ✌️

🍃Congratulations to Cihad Hammy & Jeff Miley for this important new collection on the theory and practice of democratic confederalism in Rojava, including writers Anna Rebrii & Berivan Omar, Matt Broomfield, Kamal Chomani, me & more, as well as interviews with Ilham Omar, Salih Muslim & Foza Yûsif ✌️

There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot

Thanks to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social today for providing a positive alternative to our Trumpian hell:

"From democratised neighbourhoods, we might seek to develop a new politics, along the lines proposed by Murray Bookchin, in which decisions are passed upwards, not downwards...: shorturl.at/bEMtL