{"id":1095,"date":"2022-02-26T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T11:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2022-02-26T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T11:57:55","slug":"women-defend-rojava-event-on-10-march-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"Women Defend Rojava (Event on 10 March 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, the women fighters of the Kurdish-led forces in\u00a0Northeast Syria have inspired our admiration and our hope for a better world,<em> says the Women Defend Rojava UK campaign<\/em>. Against all odds, these courageous women took up arms and defeated the Islamic State caliphate, while simultaneously fighting for a radical re-imagining of women\u2019s liberation rooted in the Middle East and the Kurdistan Freedom Movement.<\/p>\n<p>To mark International Women\u2019s Day, we are joined by the Commander of the YPJ Women\u2019s Defence Forces, Arzi Hesen, to discuss the challenges and victories of the women\u2019s movement in Northeast Syria and how revolutionary understandings of self defence have shaped one of the most inspirational and successful social movements of our times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Woman\u2019s Place is Rojava<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The frontline of feminist anti-fascism in Northeast Syria in Conversation with YPJ Commander Arzi Hesen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thursday 10 March, 6pm UK Time\/18.00 UTC<\/p>\n<p>Register for the event here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZYkcOmurjopHNFaO2DkhzoIutuXCFnh0XhX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZYkcOmurjopHNFaO2DkhzoIutuXCFnh0XhX<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1095&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1095&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, the women fighters of the Kurdish-led forces in\u00a0Northeast Syria have inspired&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[54,81,70],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-news","category-international-news","tag-international-politics","tag-kurdistan","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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