Andrew Sage

We could sit around on our armchairs and speculate what moves Rojava could have done differently, whether it be affiliates advance further, whether it be insufficient integration and buy-in of other groups into the project, whether it be alliances or agreements or affiliations that they engaged in.

We can also sit around and look at all the limitations they face.

Some they managed to overcome and others not so much.

But the blame does not lie in their failures to play this game of geopolitical chess as ruthlessly as other powers in the region.

I think the blame lies in this game of geopolitical chess, in this ability of imperial powers to treat the people of the region as a whole, as tools to be used and discarded.

In the end, I continue to hold to the position that only a shared uprising from below, one that refuses compromise, one that cuts across nationalist lines, has the potential to create a new world.

And that fight must happen both within Syria and beyond.

around the entire earth.

The fight is not over in Rojava.

I find it hard to believe that a people engaged in such a project would let go of that instinct and that drive toward greater and greater freedom.

It remains to be seen what happens with them, but it also remains to be seen what happens with us, what we decide to do to push our autonomy forward.

And that's all from me for today.

All power to all the people.

Peace.

You know, if you're not going to pay us enough to live or afford to live, at least pay us enough not to do this.

The show was ahead of its time to represent a Black family in ways the television hadn't shown before.

Exactly.

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