STAFF PICKS: Kurdish Freedom Movements and Alternatives to Capitalism / Dilar Dirik

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Producer Dan introduces two interviews with Kurdish activist Dilar Dirik, talking about the movement for Kurdish liberation and how that movement's politics represent an alternate vision to the neoliberal world order.

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0:00.0	The Oh, uh, uh, and uh, uh,
0:24.0	...
0:25.0	Miki back!
0:27.0	Mee! This is hell.
0:37.0	Ghe listeners. This is board operator Dan. I'm happy to be with you this morning Chuck is completely fine. He's just taking some
0:55.9	well-deserved vacation. So we're in limbo, that's all. Nothing more complicated
1:00.6	than that. Vacations are an important part of the cycle of expansion
1:05.1	and contraction that governs our material reality. Nobody understands that more
1:09.6	perfectly then. This is hell listeners. We'll return to regular live interviews on August 16th
1:15.8	so we'll be doing this next week too. I do want to mention at the top of the hour
1:20.4	this morning I'm thinking of the a public space that isn't destroyed to build a police training facility.
1:35.0	If you want to learn more about that or plug in, look up the hashtag Stop Cop City
1:41.0	on social media or visit defend the Atlanta Forest.org.
1:47.0	All right.
1:50.0	Until Chuck is back from vacation.
1:53.2	Myself and the other board operators
1:55.1	are spending some of our favorite interviews
1:57.7	from This is Hell's 26-year history.
2:00.9	I wanted to play this 2020 interview with sociologist Dilar-derick about the state of the
2:07.5	Kurdish freedom movement at that time.
2:11.7	It was a moment where the Kurdish fighting forces having played an indispensable role in
2:16.4	fighting back ISIS in battles like the Manbeige offensive were left high and dry by their American partners and had to deal with hostile
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