The Revolution in Rojava
TCDS and Dissent present The Revolution in Rojava
You’d think it would be big news that there’s a liberated area in the Middle East led by socialist-feminists, where people make decisions through local councils and women hold 40% of leadership positions. You’d think it would be even bigger news that their militias are winning territory from ISIS. But many on the U.S. left have yet to hear the story of the Rojava cantons—Afrin, Cizîre, and Kobani—in northern Syria, or western Kurdistan.
Join Dissent, the Center for Secular Space, and the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies for a special discussion with two Kurdish activists Dilar Dirik and Zozan Alush in conversation with Meredith Tax
Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 7 p.m.
The New School, University Center
Hoerle Lecture Hall (UL105)
63 Fifth Avenue (at 13th Street), New York, NY 10003
RSVP at bit.ly/rojavadissent or to rsvp@dissentmagazine.org
Dilar Dirik is a Kurdish activist and a PhD student at the University of Cambridge.
Her writings can be found at http://dilar91.blogspot.com/
Zozan Alush is a Kurdish women’s rights activist from Rojava and a newscaster at Ronahi TV.
Meredith Tax is a writer and activist in New York and a founder of the Centre for Secular Space. Read her April 2015 article on Rojava for Dissent here: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-revolution-in-rojava
