**Note: this is a segment of a [4-hr] mini-radio documentary [titled: terrains of struggle: continuities in freedom dreams] we put together, September 2022 ... full program available via link in bio]** Land is an essential component of liberation. And “The value of culture as an element of resistance to foreign domination lies in the fact that culture is the vigorous manifestation on the ideological or idealist plane of the physical and historical reality of the society that is dominated or to be dominated. Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people’s history and a determinant of history, by the positive or negative influence which it exerts on the revolution of relationships between man and his environment, among men or groups of men within a society, as well as among different societies [Cabral, 1970].” An example of these essential components of resistance is found in the Kurdish freedom movement. According to Dilar Dirik in The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory and Practice, the Kurdish Freedom Movement, is a “multifront, popular, transborder and internationalist movement [that] ideologically and organizationally unites genocide survivors, guerrillas, prisoners, workers, politicians, refugees, intellectuals, artists, and youth, who organize through local and regional bottom-up assemblies, communes, cooperatives, academies, and congresses. Since one major component of this movement is its armed struggle against NATO member Turkey, its structures are largely criminalized as ‘terrorist’ by most Western countries. The most radical aspect of this meticulously organized movement is its self-understanding as a ‘women’s paradigm’. One core tenet that permeates its anti-capitalist and anti-state ideology is that patriarchy is a 5,000-year-old system that can and must be abolished, not through reform, but in a ‘women’s revolution’, and that the liberation of all of society is impossible otherwise. In the perspective of the movement, in a patriarchal world, women’s autonomous organization in all spheres of life, from knowledge production to armed self-defense, is a paradigmatic stance and precondition for true democracy” [xviii]. Mansur Tayfuri in The Last Barricade of Revolution: The Kurdish Resistance in the Iranian Revolution of 1979 writes, “A revolution, as a political event and a truth procedure, is not itself the truth, but it opens up a space towards the possibility of another world. Any revolution forces us to encounter what we never expected to emerge. That is why a revolution always functions as a shock” [2021]. What you will hear next is our segment, titled: Poetics of Revolution: Autonomy, Land, Visions of Freedom [exploring the long genealogy of the Kurdish Freedom movement – paying specific attention to the continuities of global struggle by examining the Kurdish Resistance in the Iranian Revolution of 1979] focusing on the relationship between culture, the meaning of autonomy, and the role of land! Enjoy!