The Kurdish campaign for a new democratic feminist environmentalist civilization. The experiment in local democratic governance in a swath of Syria is currently being destroyed by Erdogan, Putin, and Trump. But they are still people to learn from. The Kurds, that is. Especially the women.
Turn up your speakers
Hear the call of the people of Rojava
Fighting for justice
Fighting for women
And democracy for all
They were subjected
And unprotected
40 million suppressed by dictators
But they united
And so ignited
The hopes of all who lived in chains
Their social contract
Says women are backed
With full rights to determine their destinies
They teach the courses
Lead the armed forces
To patriarchy they say no
And in a war zone
With stiffened backbone
Against all odds
And with enemies all around
Within this crisis
Defeating Isis
Earning cheers all round the world
Help the Yazidis
Help Syrian Christians
Help the Turkmen and Arabs
and neighbors all
And with persistence
Build the resistance
And build grass roots democracy
Capitalism
Is despotism
A regime that has plundered the planet
We must displace it
We must replace it
Or there will be no world to save
Militarism
And centralism
And hierarchies enslaved us for centuries
Where justice flowers
Women empowered
The people finally will be free