"Here, co-ops are more than economic enterprises; they represent a vision of an alternative society built on mutual aid, gender equality and ecological sustainability.". Coop News piece about #coops in North-East Syria as part of the #Rojava Revolution 👇.

🌊💙 The 2nd Mesopotamian Water Forum will be held in October 2025 in Amed (Diyarbakır), North Kurdistan (SE Turkey). The forum will address water and water-related issues in the basins of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

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☀️💧 Hajin Educational Complex launch environmental and developmental project in 2 schools in Hajin, NE Syria, installing a solar energy system and a water purification station in each school to provide safe drinking water for students and staff. #Rojava.

☀️ The Peyam Association for Orphan Care in Amuda, NE Syria provides health, psychological and educational support to orphans and women. It also aims to promote women’s economic empowerment through vocational courses for women, especially widows. #Rojava.

🤝The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria has prepared an urgent aid convoy in response to the humanitarian crisis in Suweida. The aid, consisting of medical supplies and necessities, will be dispatched once a safe passage corridor is opened.

🚫💧 Co-chair of the Agriculture and Irrigation Council of the DAANES: The dropping water level of the Euphrates River has affected agriculture and social life in North and East Syria. The level of the Euphrates Dam has dropped from 304 to 297,38m. #Rojava.

13 years ago, a revolution began in North and East Syria that fundamentally changed life and society in the region. As the uprisings in Syria began, Kurdish people seized a historic opportunity to organise themselves into communes and councils in #Rojava.

🌱 Despite all the challenges, the women of Mount Kizwan in the Jazira Canton of NE Syria have managed to make their village green. But this year, the low rainfall really affected women farmers in the region and agriculture in the village. #Rojava.

✌️ Kurdish women protest planned copper mining operations in a village of Amed (Diyarbakır), North #Kurdistan (SE Turkey). "Our village was burned down or destroyed 7 times, and 7 times we rebuilt it. What do you want from our nature? We won't allow it.".

Water politics in the Tigris basin remain deeply contested. Turkey and Iran’s infrastructure projects have had tangible negative effects downstream in South Kurdistan. Whether water can become a tool for cooperation—unlike oil—remains a critical question.

Women's organisations across NE Syria and Aleppo are running a series of conferences and forums on the co-chair system, where a woman and man share responsibility for all structures. This system has been applied in North and East Syria since 2014. #Rojava.

✨ The Young Women’s Union opens Women’s Support Center in Raqqa, NE Syria, with departments of education, communication, culture and arts, and sports. The center teaches young women professions such as sewing, health, and computer skills. #Rojava.

Municipalities in NE Syria sent a convoy of fire trucks, ambulances, firefighters, drivers and paramedics to help battle huge wildfires that raged for 7 days across Latakia countryside, NW Syria. The convoy returned after the fires were contained. #Rojava.

The wheat collection centres of NE Syria's Jazira Canton closed after receiving 128,000 tons of the crop from farmers in this year’s harvest. Over 282,000 tons were received across 20 collection centers in the region. DAANES paid farmers $0.42 cents/kilo.

Hundreds of Kurdish people living in Britain attended the 139th Durham Miners' Gala, one of the UK’s oldest labor events. Kurds joined the parade, dancing in their traditional clothes, and a Kurdish music group also performed.

After a decision by the Peoples’ Assembly of North and East Syria to re-evaluate and restructure the commune and council system at the base of Rojava's stateless democratic system, work has begun on reinvigorating 2,069 communes in the vast Cizirê Canton.

🔨 Meet Fatima, a female blacksmith who has worked in North and East Syria for over 30 years alongside her husband, despite gender stereotypes in society. “ My husband and I overcame the stereotypes that marginalize women.”.#Rojava.

🌳🔥 Organiser from the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement and Ecology Union in North Kurdistan (SE Turkey) speaks about ecological destruction in #Kurdistan, speciesism, and why they oppose solar plants as much as dams.

✌️ Kurdish villagers have successfully organised to halt an environmentally damaging Solar Power Plant (GES) project planned by Turkish company Büyükdere Electricity Generation and Storage over 22 hectares in a village of Dersim in North #Kurdistan.

🌿🎶 A 2-day Women, Nature and Culture Festival was held in the Gimgim (Varto) district of Muş in North Kurdistan (SE Turkey). The festival included hikes in the local nature, sports activities, workshops on topics related to Jineolojî, and music.

🌊 The Euphrates, one of Syria’s most important rivers, was once full of fish. But in recent years, industrial and agricultural pollution, climate change, wars, and weaponisation of water have caused a significant drop in water levels. #Rojava.