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Worth Fighting For: Bringing the Rojava Revolution Home
by Jenni Keasden and Natalia Szarek
This is the story of two internationalist volunteers who followed in the footsteps of our friend and comrade Anna Campbell and became part of the Rojava revolution. Anna left her home in England and travelled to northeast Syria to join the women fighters of the YPJ in the battle against the Islamic State. One year later, she was killed in the Turkish invasion of Afrin.Between us we spent another three years there, working alongside Kurdish revolutionaries and internationalists from around the world, and getting to know the movement that our dear friend decided was worth fighting for.
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Afterword, Acknowledgements
Afterword, Acknowledgements
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Chapter 17: Tomorrow - Hope
Chapter 17: Tomorrow - Hope
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Chapter 16: Returning - Coming home
Chapter 16: Returning - Coming home
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Chapter 15: Free - The road to liberation
Chapter 15: Free - The road to liberation
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What we learned
What we learned
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Chapter 14: Knowing - How we think makes us who we are
Chapter 14: Knowing - How we think makes us who we are
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Chapter 13: Seeds - Getting our hands dirty
Chapter 13: Seeds - Getting our hands dirty
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The night the caliphate fell
The night the caliphate fell
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Chapter 12: Reshaping - Unlearning the system, learning to be us
Chapter 12: Reshaping - Unlearning the system, learning to be us
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Chapter 11: Surviving - Conflict, collective care, critique
Chapter 11: Surviving - Conflict, collective care, critique
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Differences
Differences
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Chapter 10: Struggling - Sometimes the revolution feels a lot like hard work
Chapter 10: Struggling - Sometimes the revolution feels a lot like hard work
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Chapter 9: Remembering - Grief, martyrs and struggle
Chapter 9: Remembering - Grief, martyrs and struggle
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Back, where I'm from
Back, where I'm from
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Chapter 8: Finding Home - Loving where you come from
Chapter 8: Finding Home - Loving where you come from
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Holidays
Holidays
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Chapter 7: Trusting - the state within us
CHapter 7: Trusting - the state within us
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Seasons
Seasons
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Chapter 6: Fighting Back - a woman's place is in the revolution
Chapter 6: Fighting Back - a woman's place is in the revolution
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Chapter 5: Organising - a Part of Something Bigger
Chapter 5: Organising - a Part of Something Bigger
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Chapter 4: Transforming - Change starts with the Self
Chapter 4: Transforming - Change starts with the Self
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Best Laid Plans
Best Laid Plans
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Chapter 3: Belonging - the People in Resistance
Chapter 3: Belonging - the People in Resistance
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We Wanted to Plant a Garden
We Wanted to Plant a Garden
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Chapter 2: Believing - the Battle of Kobane
Chapter 2: Believing - the Battle of Kobane
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Chapter 1: Beginning - Joining the Rojava Revolution
Chapter 1: Beginning - Joining the Rojava Revolution
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Background
Kurdistan is a land that has been divided. The British and French empires chopped up the region, and put sections under the control of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria inthe early 20th century. Kurdish resistance to oppression runs back even further and continues to this day. The Kurdish region of Syria (known as Rojava) caught the attention of the world after the uprisings across the Arab world in 2011. The Kurdistan Freedom Movement, which had been organising across all four parts of Kurdistan for decades, seized its chance. Autonomous regions in northern Syria were officially established in 2012, with people’s councils driving out the Assad regime’s forces and taking control of defence and governance.
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Preface
Throughout our lives, we write to make sense of the world around us.Sometimes it’s love letters to friends in other cities. Sometimes it’s poetry in the early hours of the morning, urgent blog posts and social media updates to tell people what’s happening, journal entries of reflection and release.Sometimes writing is uncompromising as it looks you in the eye, and sometimes the truth is subtle and sits between the lines.But it’s always stories, because stories are where we find strength in times of despair. Stories move us to tears at the suffering of strangers. It’s with stories that we send children off to dream. If we want to know what’s happening around the world, we can turn on the news. But if we want to imagine a new one, we need to tell stories.In short, stories are powerful.
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Title and Dedication
Title, Information and Dedication
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is the story of two internationalist volunteers who followed in the footsteps of our friend and comrade Anna Campbell and became part of the Rojava revolution. Anna left her home in England and travelled to northeast Syria to join the women fighters of the YPJ in the battle against the Islamic State. One year later, she was killed in the Turkish invasion of Afrin.Between us we spent another three years there, working alongside Kurdish revolutionaries and internationalists from around the world, and getting to know the movement that our dear friend decided was worth fighting for.
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Jenni Keasden and Natalia Szarek
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