9. Hold My Beer

Radical People

English - February 23, 2018 22:58 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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In this episode, Eamon speaks with Marcus, an American man who travelled to Syria to fight as an international member of the Kurdish YPG. Marcus explains his motivation for going, and what the several month experience was like, from the boredom to the intensity of combat.

Show Notes:

This is a link to the YPG site about Rojava:
http://ypg-international.org/rojava/

This is a link to the North American Kurdish Alliance, which Marcus mentions in the episode everyone should support:
https://thenaka.org/

This is a story about Michael Israel, a young international volunteer killed in Syria that Marcus mentions in the show:
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-california-man-20161201-story.html

This is some current reporting on the Turkish invasion of Afrin in Rojava:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42765697
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/afrin-turkey-invasion-syria-enclave-kurds-ypg-airstrike-war-civil-a8182266.html