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My first graphic memoir, or book-length comic, is Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War Against ISIS, published by PM Press in 2022.

My translations (German to English) of two volumes of the memoirs of Sakine Cansiz were published in 2018 and 2020 by Pluto Press.

My translation (German to English) of Revolution Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation, in Northern Syria by Knapp, Flach, and Ayboga, was published by Pluto Press in October 2016.

My book Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin, was published by Oxford University Press in October 2015.
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Limits of Municipalism in the Age of Trump

As a result of the November 8 election, the Republican Party has amassed more power in the federal government than at any time since the 1920s. It controls the entire U.S. executive branch, and in the Senate and House, Democrats have only minority roles. At the level of the states, 68 of the 99 legislative chambers and 34 of the 50 governorships are in the hands of Republicans. That includes 25 Re

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	Politics Of Social Ecology by Janet Biehl (Goodreads Author), Murray Bookchin 3.77 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience by Janet Biehl (Goodreads Author), Peter Staudenmaier 3.78 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS 4.20 avg rating — 87 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin 4.33 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ΜΑΘΑΙΝΟΥΜΕ ΑΚΟΥΓΟΝΤΑΣ ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΙΑ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΤΑΡΤΙΚΟ ΣΕ ΤΣΙΑΠΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΥΡΔΙΣΤΑΝ by Janet Biehl (Goodreads Author), Jérôme Baschet, Petar Stanchev 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mumford Gutkind Bookchin: The Emergence of Eco-Decentralism 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Reise nach Rojava by Janet Biehl (Goodreads Author), Hêlîn Dirik (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Russell Blackwell lent Bookchin a sympathetic ear. But one evening he took his young compañero aside and gave him an unexpected warning: Don’t use the word anarchist for your political label, he said; if you do, you’ll attract every nut for miles around.”
― Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin

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“Where radical politics once stood for full citizen empowerment, it now stood for the empowerment of professional politicians in state and national government; where it once endorsed democratic assemblies, it now recommended “the numbing quietude of the polling booth, the deadening platitudes of petition campaigns”; instead of complex social theory, its new métier was bumper-sticker slogans; and instead of stirring demands for revolution, it meekly begged for paltry reforms. People no longer wanted to dedicate themselves to a revolutionary project that might “require the labors and dedication of a lifetime.” Instead, they craved instant gratification and were willing to surrender their long-term ideals to get it. Indeed,”
― Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin

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“Cities, as the venues for this historic transmutation, became dehumanized—and by the 1950s, their pathology had become extreme. They were too big, gigantic, megalopoleis. Housing was scarce and shoddy. Traffic congestion had reached the point of dysfunction. The subways were overcrowded and unreliable. Office work was monotonous and sedentary; stifled by tedium, urban workers had come to resemble machines, “enslaved, insecure, and one-sided.” City dwellers encountered one another in passing, with mutual indifference or mistrust. The giant city was “a mere aggregate of dispirited [people] scattered among cold, featureless structures.”
― Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin

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