Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria

it may be to create a democratic, but also secular Syria.

Because in Rojava, well, they created a secular environment and it's been for years the case, right? And also in terms of women's rights, it's vitally important not to lose the games, which were not made so easily, by the way.

The women in Rojava, they have their own revolution.

You know, I mean, like YPJ has changed the...

the way Syrian men also consider women also occurs, I would say.

He is going to have an office in Damascus and he couldn't tell me more because there isn't more yet.

But he's going to have an office in Damascus.

And he told me that he's planning to spend half his time in Damascus, half his time in the region, in Rojava,

And like you said, it can embody subsidiarity at the smallest level where people have greater power at the local level.

And you give a great example in that of the Rojava in Syria, four and a half million people in Syria, not just Kurds, as you said, it is multi-ethnic, but at the very local neighborhood level, they have the neighborhood commune that decides things that can be handled at the neighborhood level or done at that level.

One man, one woman, they have great gender equality.

They seem to be a lot of cooperatives economically, you mentioned, and also they...

And that is in really a lot of the examples I share in this book.

There are groups right now all around the world that are literally prefiguring this ecological civilization.

In places like Rojava, like we just described, but there's all kinds of commons-based organizations, cooperatives, indigenous groups and networks, what have been called like islands of coherence in a sea of chaos.

This is the famous quote from systems thinker Ilya Prigogine, who was actually studying how basically caterpillars went into this mush before they became a butterfly to come up with this concept.

Al-Tanf is already counting inventory and is poised to move to the Iraqi side of the border.

Rojava has already started to concede Manbij, and the Kurds are left with the choice of reconciling with Syria or facing a Turkish attack.

So Israel has been forced to show its hand, which is what the 2018 Christmas bombing illuminated for the world.

As Israel's invisible hand becomes visible and the world sees the Zionist push for this war, and the world continues to learn the Zionist neoconservative role behind the war in Iraq as well, Israel's covert war on the Levant is no longer covert, and Americans need to be putting American interests first, second, and third, not Israel.

And then Earth is the second chapter, and it follows up by exploring the infrastructure of mutual aid, how we build deep roots that have long-term sort of visions and theories of change.

So we start off at the macro level by talking about Rojava and the Zapatistas and the Black Panther Party and their programs, and then bring it back down to Earth and to our context here, and then finish that chapter with showcasing how people are maintaining squatted or otherwise like repossessed social infrastructure in Puerto Rico.

in the wake of Hurricane Maria and the anti-austerity organizing happening in the mid-2010s.

Water is a really fantastic chapter that gets into healing as a form of collective resistance and capacity building.