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Interfaith Work in Rojava
By Jo and Nora In October 2022, Jo travelled to Rojava, as part of the Water for Rojava committee, visiting co-operatives and representatives of the women’s movement and other economic, water and education structures in the region. Water for Rojava is a campaign initiated by the Solidarity Economy Association that has so far raised over £150,000 for vital water projects and women’s co-operatives in North and East Syria, a region currently facing a catastrophic water crisis as a result of Turkish state policies and damming of rivers upstream. Turkey is also currently waging a new large-scale military war against the…
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To all the gods I loved before
Towards a theory of anarchotheism An I used to talk to plants. I have a distinct memory of when I was about seven, holding the leaves of a flowering bush at school, talking to them. I would imagine that the plants would have emotions or even sentience, would hurt when they were plucked or harmed. This might sound a little silly, the sensitivity of a child that didn’t know better, but that is also the point: what lives and moves and has its being beyond our empirical world, beyond the grasp of cold rationality and naturalism, is also often what…
Interfaith Blasphemy Activist Spirituality
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