20220725 SSFS9 - Northern and Eastern Syria (Rojava) – Stateless Democracy in a Critical Time

Video Highlights:
02:19 John RESTAKIS introducing the speakers
04:20 Background of Rojava / North and East Syria (NES)
19:08 Muhammad HASSAN on history and current situation of NES
26:26 Turkish invasion of NES
34:38 War in Ukraine affecting NES
38:58 Importance of NES Project
43:32 Leman HESENO on Rojava Revolution
49:28 Communes and Councils
1:03:58 Direct democracy
1:11:21 Economic system and structure
1:30:30 Q&A
1:32:30 Turkey pressuring Sweden and Finland on NES
1:35:45 Relationship with US
1:36:50 Decreased number of co-ops
1:39:40 Pluralism and participation of people
1:41:56 Questions from China
1:44:43 Kurds in Turkey Iran Iraq and Syria
1:46:20 Land ownership in NES
1:49:53 Banking and financial issues
1:51:23 Production and economic challenges during war
1:53:13 Political division between Kurdish parties in the region
1:58:20 Opinion on socialism and communism
2:06:43 The Rojava model and China

THE COLLAPSE OF MODERN CIVILIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY
现代文明崩解与人类未来 (July 8 - August 12, 2022)

Organizers:
CCRD-CS, Lingnan University, China
Global University for Sustainability
CBCGD9

25 July (Monday) HK 20:00 - 22:00 (GMT 12:00 - 14:00)
Northern and Eastern Syria – Stateless Democracy in a Critical Time

Moderator: John RESTAKIS (Synergia Institute, Canada)

Speakers:
Muhammad HASSAN (Department of Foreign Affairs, the Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria)
Leman HESENO (Civil Diplomacy Center, the Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria)

Biography:
John Restakis has been active in the co-op movement for 25 years. He is the former Executive Director of the Community Evolution Foundation and the BC Co-operative Association. John is also a Co-founder of Synergia Co-operative Institute. A practitioner and a pioneering researcher into international cooperative economies, he writes and lectures on economic democracy and the role of cooperatives in humanizing economies. In 2018, John visited Rojava and highlights the case of stateless democracy in Rojava in his book, Civilizing the State – Reclaiming Politics for the Common Good. John is the author of Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capita, and lives in Vancouver, BC.

Muhammad Hassan is a member of the administrative committee of the Department of Foreign Affairs in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. He has a doctorate degree in education specialized in Syllabuses, and teaching methods from Damascus University in 2009.

Leman Heseno is a member of the civil diplomacy center in the north and east of Syria, and a former vice co-president of the economic department in Algazeera region in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. She has a degree in economics from Damascus University in 2019.
This video is produced by the Global University for Sustainability, 2022.

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