Speaker 1: Hey, you know, the world's kind of in a real
Speaker 1: scary place right now, with a creeping authoritarianism and liked
Speaker 1: HEAs and all of the horrible stories we hear about
Speaker 1: every week. I'm Robert Evans. I'm a journalist and I
Speaker 1: cover the international fascist movement, And in two thousand, nineteen
Speaker 1: July of that year, I decided to do something a
Speaker 1: little bit different. Instead of covering horror, I wanted to
Speaker 1: go look for hope, and I found it in a
Speaker 1: place you might find kind of unlikely, northeastern Syria. The
Speaker 1: region I visited is known as Rojava, and when the
Speaker 1: Western media covers it, they mostly just refer to these
Speaker 1: people as the Kurds. Since two thousand and thirteen, a
Speaker 1: loose alliance of revolutionaries over there have been fighting to
Speaker 1: not just drive back Isis, but to establish something of
Speaker 1: a utopia, an egalitarian, feminist, eco conscious community in a
Speaker 1: place that previously had known mostly war and terror. In
Speaker 1: the Women's War. I'll take you to this place, and
Speaker 1: I'll introduce you to the revolutionaries ating to build it,
Speaker 1: brave women who battle for equality with an a K
Speaker 1: forty seven, with a spade and with a pen. Follow
Speaker 1: me as I travel to a land of war and hope,
Speaker 1: a place trapped on the edge of utopia and oblivion.
Speaker 1: I'm Robert Evans. Listen to the Women's War on the
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