Download article as PDF El Errante Democracy—”a system of government in which all the people of a state or polity … are involved in making decisions about its affairs, typically by voting to elect representatives to a parliament or similar […]
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Report Back from the Rojava Revolution Bay Area Tour
Download article as PDF Sunday, December 6th, 7pm, Santa Cruz SubRosa Infoshop, 703 Pacific Ave Monday, December 7th, 7pm, Monterey Old Capitol Books, 559 Tyler St Tuesday, December 8th, 7pm, Cupertino De Anza College, Campus Center, Conference Room A&B, […]
Continue reading »Rojava Dispatch Final: Journey Home
Download article as PDF El Errante “Mr. Errante … did you visit Syria?” The US Border Patrol officer stares at me through the bulletproof plastic that separates us. He shifts in his seat. The man wants an answer. “Me? […]
Continue reading »Rojava Dispatch Six: Innovations, the Formation of the Hêza Parastina Cewherî (HPC)
Download article as PDF El Errante There is a small cemetery on the side of the 712 highway as it crawls its way westward out of Kobane. There are roughly 100 graves there, they are well-kept, some sprout plastic […]
Continue reading »Rojava Dispatch Five: The YPG/YPJ; Militias That Grow Hope
Download article as PDF YPG dimeşe, erd û ezman diheje (YPG marches, earth and heavens tremble) —YPG motto El Errante “Wait….what….we’re lost?” Mohammed the translator nods and I turn to the driver. He shrugs. I had headed […]
Continue reading »Rojava Dispatch Four: The Return; 18 Heroes Go Home For The Last Time
Download article as PDF “The blood of martyrs never touches the ground.” –Kurdish Proverb El Errante So I had been kicking around Kobane for a day or two and had made some good contacts in the […]
Continue reading »Rojava Dispatch Two: The Road to Kobane / The Skeletal City
Download article as PDF El Errante It is dark in Kobane, far darker than what you’d expect for a city of 150,000 souls. A few lights wink and crackle out of the encroaching dust and night, and the […]
Continue reading »Rojava Dispatch One: Greetings from the Revolution
Download article as PDF El Errante The young Kurdish woman, a border worker, walks me down to the launch on the Tigris River, I look out over the water and shallow canyon that 10,000 years ago gave birth to animal […]
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