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2023 SSDS Rojava - Resistance, Resilience, and Renewal - Lecture-5 (English)

Lecture-5: The women revolution in Rojava and the role of women’s organizations like Kongra Star. In this lecture, Reyhan Loqo, the spokeswoman of the Women’s Movement Kongra Star in North and East Syria, provided a historical review of the women revolution in Rojava and highlights the role of women’s organizations like Kongra Star. Loqo is an activist for defending women's rights. She is coordinating member and spokesperson for the Kongra Star women's movement. She is also one of the founders of the Kongra Star Education Committee. Loqo explained that the women’s revolution came from the heart of the Rojava revolution. Its aim is to establish the Democratic Confederalism. As Abdullah Ocalan remarks, “Just as women's slavery is the most extreme form of slavery, the women's revolution must also become the most radical and liberating revolution.” Moreover, Loqo articulated the concept of Jineolojî, which specifically focuses on women's revolution and lays the foundations of a scientific approach for the emancipation of women. Jineolojî conducts research based on the needs of the women's revolution and presents its own subjects of study. In addition, Loqo elaborated the theory and practice of the Kongra Star. According to the principles of democratic confederalism, they engage in struggle and conduct activities. They make collective decisions and implement them together in various fields such as self-defense, organization, politics, protecting the environment, and strategic issues. Communes, councils, academies, and cooperatives are the fundamental pillars of the social organization in Kongra Star. The village named UMOJÎ which signifies the unity of women in creating their own village in Africa is an example of global networking of women’s movement. There were two respondents: Jennifer Keasden and Fernaz Attia. Keasden highlighted that it was necessary to take a de-colonized approach to recognize women’s liberation in Rojava. Attia further explained about the philosophical dimension of Ocalan’s thought and its significance in the liberation movement in Egypt and also Africa. Jennifer Keasden is an internationalist who was organizing in leftist and revolutionary social movements for about a decade before she went to Rojava. She spent nearly two years with the women's movement there, working with Kongra Star and Jineoloji, deepening her understanding of women's struggle and connection with international struggles. Back in Scotland, she now does care work, writes and organizes with or in the paradigm of the Kurdish Women's Movement. Fernaz Attia obtains her Ph.D. in Political Science. She is a member of the Noon Initiative for the Freedom of Ocalan. She is Deputy Chairman of the Aton Center for Strategic Studies, and she is also coordinator of the Arab Initiative for the Freedom of Abdullah Ocalan. Date: 20 July 2023 Organizers: Global University for Sustainability, https://our-global-u.org/ The Civil Diplomacy Center in North East Syria, https://nescivildiplomacy.com/ Synergia Co-operative Institute, https://synergiainstitute.org/ Moderator: Sit Tsui Jade Margaret (Southwest University, China) Lecturer: Reyhan Loqo, the spokeswoman of the Women’s Movement Kongra Star in North and East Syria Respondents: (1) Jennifer Keasden, an internationalist feminist who works for Kurdish Women's Movement. (2) Fernaz Attia, PhD, Political Science. Egypt.