List of Figures
Series Preface
Foreword by Rebecca Solnit
Introduction by Marina Sitrin
About Colectiva Sembrar
PART I - GREATER MIDDLE EAST (ROJAVA, TURKEY AND IRAQ)
1. Communal Lifeboat: Direct Democracy in Rojava (NE Syria) - Emre
Sahin and Khabat Abbas
2. “Capitalism Kills, Solidarity Gives Life”: A Glimpse of
Solidarity Networks from Turkey - Seyma Özdemir
3. Solidarity Network in Iraq During Covid-19: This Time the Enemy
is Invisible - Midya Khudhur
PART II - SOUTH AND EAST ASIA (TAIWAN, SOUTH KOREA AND INDIA)
4. Sharing Spaces and Crossing Borders: Voices from Taiwan -
Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang
5. Standing in Solidarity with Those Who Must Refuse to Keep Social
Distance: Disability Activism in South Korea - Ji Young Shin
(translated by Han Gil Jang)
6. Rethinking Minority and Mainstream in India - Debarati Roy
PART III - SOUTHERN AFRICA (MOZAMBIQUE, SOUTH AFRICA AND
ZIMBABWE)
7. Confronting State Authoritarianism: Civil Society and
Community-Based Solidarity in Southern Africa - Boaventura
Monjane
PART IV - EUROPE (PORTUGAL, GREECE, ITALY AND THE UK)
8. On Intersectional Solidarity in Portugal - Lais Gomes Duarte and
Raquel Lima
9. Solidarity Flourishes Under Lockdown in Italy - Eleanor
Finley
10. Solidarity Networks in Greece - EP and TP
11. Viral Solidarity: Experiences from the UK - Neil Howard
PART V - TURTLE ISLAND (NORTH AMERICA)
12. Turtle Island - carla bergman and magalí rabasa with Ariella -
Patchen and Seyma Özdemir
PART VI - SOUTH AMERICA (ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL)
13. Argentina: Injustices Magnified; Memories of Resistance
Reactivated - Nancy Viviana Piñeiro and Liz Mason-Deese
14. On Grassroots Organizing: Excerpts from Brazil - Vanessa
Zettler
Concluding to Begin - Colectiva Sembrar
Notes on Contributors
Index
Marina Sitrin is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Binghamton, New York. She is the author of 'Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina' (AK Press, 2006); 'Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina' (Zed Books, 2012), the co-author of 'They Can’t Represent US! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy' (Verso, 2014).
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, and hope and disaster, including 'A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster' (Penguin, 2010) and 'Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities' (Haymarket, 2016).
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before, we have to break the deadly logic of capital. A beautiful
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*John Holloway, author of 'Change the World Without Taking
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