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Rojava Again Under Threat of Turkish Invasion

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Related Show: The Final Straw Radio

Small girl holding a sign featuring world leaders around a Kurdish boy with checmical burns, in front f a banner calling for protection for Rojava at a march

Rojava Again Under Threat of Turkish Invasion

Mostly women carrying "Stand Up For Rojava" banner with a small girl and a sign picturing world leaders leaning in on a small Kurdish child

Emre, Rimac, Xero and Anya, members of the Emergency Committee for Rojava join us on the show this week to talk about the escalation of violence and threats of invasion by Turkey into northeast Syria, updates from the region and their thoughts on how people in the West can help folks living under the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria. You can learn more about their work at DefendRojava.Org and find related interviews covering some of the subject matter discussed and past events on our website by searching for Rojava.

  • Transcript
  • PDF (Unimposed) – pending
  • Zine (Imposed PDF) – pending

You can keep find Xero’s upcoming podcast, a member of the Channel Zero Network, at ManyWorldsPod.Github.io and you can find the latest of Anya’s co-authored pieces at The Nation (though it’s paywalled).

There is a longer version of this episode available at our website, TheFinalStrawRadio.NoBlogs.Org

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Featured Tracks:

  • Beritan from Jîyan Beats (dedicated to fallen PKK fighter, Gülnaz Karataş aka Beritan, who threw herself from a cliff after a fierce battle in Xakurke rather than surrender to Turkey on October 25, 1992)
  • Instant Hit (instrumental) by The Slits from Cut
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