Re: [PeDAGoG] The communitarian revolutionary subject, new forms of social transformation

This is about films on Rojava and might be useful to many in the group who discuss Rojava or would like to. Also if someone has more good films they can share. The link that Laurence sent . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyqG-71zOi0 ('Accidental Anarchist - What is the Rojava .20 min ) : This is more the personal experience of an British Anarchist-Rojava sympathizer. It is more about him than the Rojavas as he moves around filming. We have found the following film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqo2MX3vf6M It is 25 mins and made in 2019 to be quite comprehensive . The commentary is in German with English subtitles Lots of interviews with women (also men ) both ordinary and those elected to councils and co-presidents. It has the following scenes : Schools, use of 3 languages, Kurdish – Arabic - Syrian, a joint concert, feminist revolution , women’s home, scenes of an actual dispute around women’s equality and polygamy, university class on jeneology, references to fight with ISIS and Assad and Turkey, graveyards, refugees , YPG ( Rojava army) women’s wing, social contract, protection of Christians, , ecological revolution, cooperative organic farming, Kobane with 100 house communes , women militia training, dam on Euphrates being squeezed of water by Turkey, women’s academy. We have made a 16 min clip out of some other film ( forgotten to note the link) which we find to be quite useful to show in class . 0 – 2:45 : women leader talking about rojava and the three enemies ( ISIS, Assad, Turkey) along with many street scenes 2:45 – 3:40 : Judiciary council. Interview . cases of women—violence, marriage 3:40 – 5:00 : Reconciliation council ( with those who worked for ISIS) 5:00 – 6:00 : Street people talking about diversity and tolerance 6:00 – 8:50 : Scenes of Kobane . Battle. Loss. Rebuilding 8:50 – 10:50 : Women’s Laws. Women’s House . Local communes solving most disputes. Only some going to judiciary . Communes also preventing economic monopoly 10:50 – 12:40 : A Mural. Kobane’s burial ground. Women’s military wing 12:40 – 15:30 : School. 3 languages. Text book issues . Printing issues. Overcome propaganda to alienate Arabs. UNICEF refused to help unless Syrian state books followed !!! Sujit From: GTA-PeDAGoG [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Davis, Laurence Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 6:09 PM To: Ted Trainer <[email protected]>; Hari DK <[email protected]>; David Barkin <[email protected]>; Ariel Salleh <[email protected]>; Carlos Tornel <[email protected]>; Tom Abeles <[email protected]>; [email protected]; to: Radical Ecological Democracy list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PeDAGoG] The communitarian revolutionary subject, new forms of social transformation This is a very nice amination. Thank you for sharing it. Some of the following videos may also be useful for teaching purposes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyqG-71zOi0 ('Accidental Anarchist - What is the Rojava Revolution?') https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqlZOa7DMiU ('People Without Faces' - Documentary about the Zapatistas) ...and my personal favourite... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPl_Y3Qdb7Y ('Living Utopia: The Anarchists and the Spanish Revolution') I use all of them in my third-year Government and Politics undergraduate module, 'Contemporary Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics', which I have taught for many years here at University College Cork, Ireland. The following readings on their module syllabus, useful for those new to the subject matter as well as more advanced readers, are also generally well received by the students: John Clark, Between Earth and Empire (PM Press, 2019) and The Impossible Community (Bloomsbury, 2013) Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (AK Press, 2005) David Graeber, The Democracy Project (Allen Lane, 2013) Amadeo Bertolo, ‘Democracy and Beyond’, Democracy and Nature, Vol. 5, Issue 2, July 1999, also available at www.democracynature.org/vol5/bertolo_democracy.htm <http://www.democracynature.org/vol5/bertolo_democracy.htm> William Morris, ‘Useful Work Versus Useless Toil’, in A.L. Morton (ed.), Political Writings of William Morris (Lawrence & Wishart, 1979) William Morris, News from Nowhere (1891) Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians: Four Late 19th Century Visionaries and Their Legacy (Princeton University Press, 2018) Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Harper & Row, 1974) Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman (eds.), The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (Lexington Books, 2005) Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism (Zed Books, 2014) Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938) Martha Ackelsberg, Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women (AK Press, 2004) Sam Dolgoff (ed.), The Anarchist Collectives: Workers’ Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939 (Black Rose Books, 1974) Valérie Fournier, ‘Utopianism and the cultivation of possibilities: grassroots movements of hope’, in Martin Parker (ed.), Utopia and Organization (Blackwell, 2002), 189-216 Dylan Fitzwater, Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language (PM Press, 2019) Ashish Kothari et. al. (eds.), Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (Tulika Books, 2019) Laurence Davis, ‘Anarchism’, in Vincent Geoghegan and Rick Wilford (eds.), Political Ideologies: An Introduction (Routledge, 2014), ch. 9 Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2004) Solidarity, Laurence _____ From: GTA-PeDAGoG <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > on behalf of Mofwoofoo <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: 29 September 2021 22:15 To: Ted Trainer <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Hari DK <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; David Barkin <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Ariel Salleh <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Carlos Tornel <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Tom Abeles <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

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[EXTERNAL] This email was sent from outside of UCC. I am writing as a long time radical anarchist activist "on the ground". I am not a scholar, but I have read a lot over 55 years. While I view the article (The communitarian revolutionary subject, new forms of social transformation) worthwhile, it is nothing new at all. Anarchist literature and scholarship goes back to the 1860's when these same ideas were expressed. Anarchists have seen through the problem of hierarchies in gov't. and in general. I have submitted the 7 minute animation that I made in 2020 which explains a lot about organizing in a horizontal fashion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8&t=5s> &t=5s. And how it might be the only way to eliminate once and for all corruption in governments. Citizen participation a la transition towns initiatives, localization, collectivism, decentralization, deconsummerism, self-reliance, economies that promote the good of the whole, cooperation, respect for the environment, etc. are ideas whirling around throughout the internet and the world. And as I am sure it is clear to everyone in this group, that the current system of capitalism is the perfect recipe for suiciding the human race. Meanwhile, as capitalism is collapsing or is being collapsed, there seems to be a rush to assert authoritarianism as soon as possible. And clearly the vaccine mandate and the pcr tests are ways to do this. But since the vaccine mandates will not go away no matter how hard the pushback is, they seem to have plan b ready to go: world-wide food shortages which would result in world-wide food riots and chaos, which will justify martial law and state of emergency declarations, which at least in the USA would empower FEMA to overstep the Constitution and do whatever they want due to the executive orders that give them total power. To avoid this from happening, people need to check on where their area's food sources are coming from and if they will be available or not. And in this way, using google or duck, duck, go one can ascertain what really is happening and what is going to happen in these regards. And if food shortages are indeed imminent, alert the citizenry to prepare by storing up on rice, beans, lentils, grains, tins, and storing food in preserves and salt for perhaps 6 months and setting up programs for those who don't have a few hundred dollars to spend to be able to be prepared as well. Finally, I am the founder of a mostly latino, artist, eco-community in Ecuador (chambalabamba.org <http://chambalabamba.org> , under construction) since 2012, and believe me, this is not the solution for the world. It takes years to get it going, most communities fail for lack of funds or cohesion, it is not for everybody, and it is a false hope for those who believe that this is the way, imho.