This week Howie is joined by Arthur Pye, from the Emergency Committee for Rojava, for a discussion of the history and current situation of the democratic revolution in the Kurdish region of northern Syria.Resources Shared During the Stream: Arthur Pye, “Hope and Contradictions: My Year in Rojava,” Strange Matters, https://strangematters.coop/arthur-pye-rojava-reporting-preface/.Arthur Pye, “Walking Zirgan: Turkish war crimes on Rojava’s front line,” Strange Matters, https://strangematters.coop/arthur-pye-rojava-reporting-turkish-war-crimes-zirgan/.Emergency Committee for Rojava, https://www.defendrojava.org/.Tony Iltis, “A look at Rojava's democratic, feminist revolution,” Green Left, Sept. 5, 2015, https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/look-rojavas-democratic-feminist-revolution.Peter Boyle, “Rojava joins historic partnership to build a new Syria,” Green Left. March 13, 2025, https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/rojava-joins-historic-partnership-build-new-syria.Sarah Glynn, “Snakes and ladders of Syrian politics,” Medya News. March 15, 2025, https://medyanews.net/snakes-and-ladders-of-syrian-politics-last-week-in-kurdish-news/

Streamed on 3/15/25

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/gN5Z2eRf5b4

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast

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Music by Gumbo le Funque

Intro: She Taught Us

Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom