Six years on, Make Rojava Green Again, together with the campaigns RiseUp4Rojava and Women defend Rojava called on every ecologist and progressive force for a week of action from 1 to 8 November.
1 November is World Kobanê Day, but this year the solidarity events will stretch for a whole week.
From 2 to 5 November, Make Rojava Green Again invites activists to "highlight the struggles and goals that unite us and move us globally, and that strengthen the common alliance in our diversity. From 6 to 8 November disturb – blockade – occupy in a decentralised way the places of international cooperation and support of the Turkish state."
Make Rojava Green Again calls "for a week of solidarity, a week of strengthening the ecologist struggle globally, a week of civil disobedience against fascist rule, capitalist exploitation and imperialist devastation of our livelihoods and nature itself! With its war against the people and nature of North and Eastern Syria, ISIS continued the tradition of the Syrian regime that was exploiting the areas’ resources and severly damaging the ecosystem. The fight against those dark forces was not only one for freedom and for survival, but aimed to build an ecological system where the people will take care of their environment by the means of reforestation, sustainable agriculture, and ecological energy infrastructre."
The statement reminded that "while supporting the fighters of the Women’s and People’s Protection Forces of Rojava – YPJ and YPG – progressive people from diverse backgrounds of age, gender, and political orientation found unity and hope for a better future, and victory of light over darkness.
As the YPJ and YPG freed Kobanê from ISIS and the people started to rebuild the city after the principles of women’s freedom, radical democracy and ecology, they planted a sapling that soon spread over the whole region of North and Eastern Syria."
Today, said activists "this sapling has grown into a social revolution and has started to provide the people of the region with the fruits of freedom and hope. With its paradigm of finding a new way to live in harmony with nature and peaceful coexistence between the peoples it inspired ecologists all over the world in a time when the capitalist mentality of the nation states causes chaos, destruction and war amongst humans and nature alike."
Activists reminided that "after the occupation of the region of Afrin, the green lung of Rojava, in 2018 as well as Girê Spî and Serekaniyê one year ago, the Turkish state is again preparing for war, supported by the global actors of Europe, the US, and Russia. In the same way that the capitalist nation states are united against the values of women’s freedom, radical democracy and ecology we too have to, once again, unite and rise up for these values."