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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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Chapter 2: What happened at the Tishrin Dam?
Chapter 3: How is the situation in North and East Syria evolving?
And on there we've got a wee link tree that has some suggestions for if people want to support like ways to donate, say, to the Kurdish Red Present and stuff like that. And then
specifically yeah i mean there is a lot that people can do and whatever it is it all starts with getting more i wouldn't say informed i would say getting more connected right so getting informed is a part of that but not just in the sense of information learning like it's also connecting with like the feeling of things here and why it's become so important to so many people across the world not just people from here yeah and the more we learn about that the more we'll start to see like
how we can be a friend to the movement here and where how our role can fit um and i know that there are specifically in america a couple of organizations um is it that debbie bookchin's been really prominent in organizing one of them yeah emergency committee for rojava emergency committee for rojava that's the one uh yeah and you had emergency in there somewhere that's definitely worth looking up and following a lot of um
work that they do and you also got like think tanks like the Kurdish Peace Institute that do kind of lobbying and so yeah there are some there is some stuff uh from coming from the United States as well but I think yeah the more people get a chance to kind of learn about stuff here and see the connection and be able to see and find themselves in it and I think that's got a lot to do with what you were just speaking about there you put so well I wouldn't extend it much more but
Yeah, like people here, it's really, there's always war happening and always war kind of filing on top of you, but that's never what it's about. The question is always what are you fighting for and what are you fighting to defend? And what would you be doing if there was no war? Everyone here will always say if there was no war, we'd still have enough work to do.
with all the really like, what's that word? Ambitious, like social transformation that people here are really committed to. There's enough going on and it's very big. And as you put it, it's very beautiful and very joyful.
And so that's, yeah, that's the bit that I encourage people to try and learn more about because that's the bit that makes you stay and makes people like me stick around for years, finding out more and more and making friends and getting closer and closer to the communities here.
Yeah, I think that's a very good way to put it. So yeah, I'd encourage people to do all that. Thank you so much for your time, Jenny. I know it's late there, but we really appreciate you joining us today.
Thank you so much. Cheers.
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Chapter 4: What is the role of the SDF in the current conflict?
We get into 1810, when a lot of the Latin American countries had been fighting for their independence, Buenos Aires, Argentina was among them. But while Argentina was fighting for its independence, Montevideo was a royalist stronghold, backed by the Spanish military and naval forces. On the countryside, it was a different story though.
Uruguay's greatest independence hero kind of came out of that space. His name was José Gervasio Artigas, and he originally led a Spanish cavalry unit, but eventually turned against the crown in 1811 and rallied an army of rural fighters, freed African slaves, and anti-royalist leaders from Montevideo.
So with the backing from Buenos Aires, his forces were able to score key victories and eventually oust the Spanish. But Artigas had much bigger ambitions. He wanted a confederation of provinces that resisted the dominance of Buenos Aires. In fact, he wanted Montevideo to become the center of a rival confederation.
As prior to Argentina becoming Argentina, it was sort of a loose confederation centered in Buenos Aires. Artigas' ideas also included things like redistributing the land to freed slaves and poor Uruguayans, which made him obviously very popular among the poor and very much a threat to the elite.
Eventually, he was forced into exile because he made some enemies that basically sat on their hands as the Portuguese-Brazilian forces invaded and took over the region. Despite his exile, though, the fight really wasn't over. You know, after the occupation, which was often called Brazilianization, it was resisted very heavily by locals and exiles.
And of course, Argentina, which had become somewhat of a rival power to Brazil in the region, it saw Brazil's influence in Uruguay as a threat. So eventually, one of Artigas' exiled officers, a guy named Juan Antonio Lavallea, would lead a force that would cross the river and reclaim Uruguay.
The fight would end in a stalemate, and then British diplomats would step in because, of course, the British had their own interests in the region. But eventually, in 1828, a treaty was signed, officially creating Uruguay as an independent nation, a buffer state between Argentina and Brazil.
In 1830, Uruguay's first constitution was ratified, and at the time the country had a population of just 74,000 people. While that war kind of left the country in ruins, a lot of the once wealthy colonial families were devastated, the cattle numbers had plummeted, and the threat of both Argentina and Brazil still persisted despite the treaty had been signed.
So then the nation ended up being split into two rival factions. You had the faction that was led by Uruguay's first president, and then you had the faction that was led by Uruguay's second president. And they became fierce rivals that ignited a civil war known as the Guerra Grande, or Great War. And to make a long story short, the first president's supporters became known as the Colorado Party,
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Chapter 5: Who are the key players in the Syrian conflict?
Yes, that's actually a history that I would love to cover in an episode.
I will connect you to somebody who writes books about it with pleasure.
Really? Yeah, yeah. That'd be fantastic.
My first book was about the anti-fascist Olympics and the last surviving popular Olympian, Eduardo Vivancos, died in 2022 in Canada in an old people's home. I've been trying to visit him, but because of the COVID restrictions in the old people's home, I wasn't able to. But he had served as a Esperanto translator at the popular Olympics. And like...
lived out his whole life with this dream of like, if we can break down the linguistic barriers between workers and we can get together and change things.
Wow, that is fascinating. You know what's interesting about the whole Esperanto connection to anarchism is that long before I really got into anarchism or even learned about anarchism, I actually tried to learn Esperanto.
There you go. It worked. They see that this is what they wanted. You saw the barriers fall down once you began speaking Esperanto.
I didn't get very far. I think it was around the time when Duolingo had first introduced it into their courses. And so I saw it and I did a brief reading on it. And I was like, oh, this looks interesting. And so I tried to pick it up. And I studied it for a little while, but I didn't get particularly far. Yeah.
But now we're looking in, the connection between Esperanto and ethnicism, it's like, wow, you know, the seeds were already there in a sense.
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Chapter 6: What historical context is important for understanding anarchism in Uruguay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's beautiful. Yeah. Everyone listening, start learning Esperanto.
I think that's a great hobby. Although I do question, I think it was like a really cool project in its time. I don't know how well it can pick up today.
He had like Esperanto in the age of AI is an interesting, uh, I'd love to hear from Esperantis. Honestly, like if we have Esperantis who listen, I still have a great deal of admiration for the project and like for the people who participate in it. And, uh, I've had a lot of communications with them because of their relations to Spanish anarchism.
And they've always been the nicest, most interesting, welcoming people. So like, yeah, if you want to be our Esperanto guest, please hit me up.
Yeah. Yeah. Maybe eventually I will get back into Esperanto and pick it up again. I'm still, still working on my Spanish as listeners can probably tell, but we'll get there.
Yeah.
So we'll leave it here for today. But next time, we're going to venture into how anarchists stayed active throughout the 20th century and also contributed to the development of anarchist strategy internationally. Until then, I've been Andrew Sage. I've been here with James Stout. And you can find me on youtube.com slash andrewism on patreon.com slash stdrew. This is It Could Happen Here.
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Chapter 7: How did Uruguay's anarchist movement develop?
I mean, look, to the extent that that matters because they're just deporting people in open violation of court orders right now, we don't know. But it's still bad either way, right? Taking away the very few protections that migrants have. Yeah. It's bad.
Yeah. So speaking of bad things, we're going to go to ads and then we're going to come back. We are back. So having said all of this about this bill, fully 10 Democratic senators voted to avoid shutting down the government and fucking pass this unbelievably hideous resolution, which again, like defunds the nuke police again. They are risking global annihilation by doing this.
And I'm just going to read out the names of everyone who did this, because there's been a lot of focus on Chuck Schumer, and Chuck Schumer is probably the primary person responsible for this, but fuck every single one of these people individually.
He's a Quisling in this scenario. Like the capital Q Quisling.
Yes, yes. Okay, so Chuck Schumer, Catherine Cortez Masto, Dick Durbin, which is actually a surprising one because Durbin... So Durbin's about to retire. He was my old senator in Illinois. Actually, no, he wasn't. Well, complicated. I actually fucking don't remember which one of them I had. But Durbin is, you know, he's like senior party leadership guy. He's usually been...
in the kind of left, I guess, of the old Democratic leadership, which is not very far left, but he fucking voted for this. John Fetterman, to the surprise of absolutely no one. Kirsten Gillibrand, to the surprise of absolutely no one. Maggie Hassan, Agnes King, Gary Peters, Brian Schatz, and Janine Shaheen. Now, notably missing from that list, Tim fucking Cain voted against this.
Do you know how bad a Republican budget thing has to be for Tim fucking Cain to vote against it and be like, hey, guys, what the fuck are you doing? Yeah.
And the thing is, like, As a Democrat, the move, just if you want to get re-elected, is to vote against it and then blame them for everything bad that happens this year because of the budget thing, right? If you have no moral backbone whatsoever, and I'm sure there are things in this continuing resolution which will really screw over rural areas, right? Like some of the funding that was allocated.
Oh, yeah. And like... Kane is at least, I guess, astute enough to see that when things get harder for his constituents, he can go, yes, they did this and I voted against it and you need to return me to office so I can continue opposing this shit, which is a very cynical approach. But then, yeah, we've just got Chuck Schumer who just kind of bowed down and kissed the ring.
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of the Comunidad del Sur?
Yeah. Yeah. And this is the sort of fundamental thing that's going on is that there's now an entire class of people who are running the Democratic Party, right? This is fucking Chuck Schumer. He is like, I mean, quite possibly the most powerful Democrat in the country. And he is just straight up a collaborationist.
Yeah, it might legit become that like AOC is more powerful than Chuck Schumer in the next few weeks. You know, he is... The reaction against Chuck Schumer from establishment Democrats is stronger than anything I've ever seen from them.
He lost Seth Bolton, which I didn't even think was possible. Yeah. But I think there's one more important note to sort of say here, which is that, like, you know, the response to this that I've largely been seeing is everyone going, OK, we need a primary of these people. Okay, are you looking at the rate at which stuff is happening in this country?
Like, do you think that we are going to be able to wait until the fucking primaries? Yeah, six years in some cases, right? Yeah, until we can, like, attempt to fucking do shit here? Like, absolutely not. No, like, there literally is, regardless of what you think about electoralism as a strategy, there is literally not time to wait until the next election cycle.
Like, again, they have defunded the nuke police for the third time. So, the opposition to this isn't going to come from inside of the electoral system because, again, the Democrats are being run by collaborators and there's not enough time to fucking oust them. So, if you want this to not continue, you're going to have to find ways to do organizing outside of that system.
We have approximately one million episodes about this. You can also go back to my You Already Know How to Organize episode. Yeah. But...
yeah look call your senator if you want to but if that's the net total of your political activity then like right now it's probably not going to make a difference in time and really consider if it's the most useful use of your time yeah and maybe make some beans or sew something nice for someone instead or as well you could listen to it while you sew something nice you could call them while you're cooking your beans
Hell yeah. Well, this has been It Could Happen Here. Yeah, down with the collaborationists. Fuck them.
Yeah, absolutely fuck them. Fuck Chuck Schumer in particular.
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