Resources and links
13 July 2022:
Sweden and Finland’s NATO Aspirations Put Kurds at Risk
Article in the Australian Institute of International Affairs’ journal ‘Australian Outlook’ by Dr Helena Grunfeld and Fionn Skiotis, NESS Co-Chairs
3 April 2022:
NESS webinar: What is Democratic Confederalism?
NESS co-founder Mitchel Fielding’s presentation on democratic confederalism.
28 March 2022:
New Australian group formed to support AANES
Interview with NESS Co-Chair Fionn Skiotis for Medya News
Formation of NESS announced on Medya Haber TV’s Kurdistan news update (at 4.45min)
27 March 2022:
A new book published by RiseUp4Rojava (follow above link or download here)
17 March 2022:
New group to provide aid and support to North and East Syria / Rojava
Media Release by NESS Co-Chair Fionn Skiotis
9 November 2021:
Al-Monitor News
6 November 2021:
A new governance and economic model in practice: Rojava’s Social and Solidarity Economy
Presentation to the 2021 Annual Conference of the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) by NESS Co-Chairs Dr Helena Grunfeld and Fionn Skiotis
30 September – 2 December 2021:
Posts from AANES: the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. A flourishing, radical experiment in direct democracy in the midst of a warzone
A series of ten 3CR interviews between Dr Joseph Toscano and Heval Tekosin and Heval Ferhat from the AANES Civil Diplomacy Centre in Qamislo:
- Welcome to AANES: the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria: Episode One
- ‘We’re protecting what was already here’: Episode Two
- ‘We’re not soldiers. We’re just people’: Episode Three
- The old and the new: Episode Four
- Attitudes toward expertise – knowledge and power: Episode Five
- ‘The revolution is a fuzzy bubble’ – work in a post-scarcity society: Episode Six
- ‘People don’t consume or produce here’ – cultural responses to climate change: Episode Seven
- Life in a revolution: Episode Eight
- The nuts and bolts of a civil society: Episode Nine
- Back from hospital: Episode Ten