A small key can open a large door
Subtitle: the Rojava Revolution
By: edited by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness
Edition: First revision.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781938660177
Subjects: Militia movements; Politics and government; New democracies; History
Other titles: Rojava revolution
Description: "There's a revolution going on in northern Syria, one that challenges everything we know about government and society and freedom. With centuries of ethnic oppression behind them, their backs against the embargo wall of Turkey, and the ruthless forces of the Islamic State laying siege to their cities, the people of Rojava are trying what might be the most ambitious social experiment of our times. Two-and-a-half million people are trying to live without a nationstate, using direct democracy to build a society ruled from the bottom up. As the Syrian civil war rages, the Kurds and other ethnic groups of Rojava fight for autonomy, feminism, ecological stewardship, cooperative economics, and ethnic, linguistic, and religious pluralism. ... This book, compiling the words of militia members and academics alike, lays out the Rojava Revolution in plain language."--