Debbie Bookchin and Sheelan Qader will host a special online meeting today titled "Radical Ecology and the Rojava Revolution". The meeting is part of the new Emergency Committee for Rojava Study Group Series.

Register here to attend.

As the organizers wrote, "the global ecological crisis is arguably the defining theme of our time. As the earth’s living systems and human communities face existential threats from climate change and environmental destruction, the question of ecology has never been more urgent. What are the roots of this crisis? What are the ecological implications of social systems based on capitalism, state power, oppression and domination? How can we liberate society while healing humanity’s relationship with the rest of the natural world?"

In this series the ECR will "explore these questions through a series of thematic and participatory discussions over the next six months. After grounding the series in the philosophy of social ecology and its application in Rojava, we will expand from there over subsequent monthly sessions, bringing the experience of the Kurdish freedom movement into dialogue with a variety of approaches to radical ecology, including ecosocialism, degrowth, decolonization and climate justice."

To start the series off (and to mark the 12th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution) the first session will take place today, Saturday, at 1pm EST, on the topic of Social Ecology, co-moderated by Debbie Bookchin and Sheelan Qader.

In this discussion the speakers will explore Murray Bookchin’s philosophy of Social Ecology, its interpretation by the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, and lessons drawn from the ongoing attempts to apply these ideas in practice in North-East Syria and throughout Kurdistan.