2026-06-14 –, Volksbühne (Saal 4)
Living and organizing in Rojava, including helping found the Medical Self-Defense Network amid improvised emergency care, taught a clear lesson: simple, reliable tools and strong social fabric matter most when things break down.
This talk focuses on one answer to staying connected when infrastructure is severed: a local mesh network paired with self-hosted SimpleX, a messaging protocol with no central servers or persistent identifiers, run on community-owned hardware. No telecoms, no centralized platforms, just people communicating directly, built and maintained by the communities who depend on it.
Learn more here: https://rojava-intra.net/
Aspiring revolutionary, privacy practitioner, and liberatory technologist exploring tools and systems to foster autonomy — focusing on what the next battle is, not the last one.
I learned most while living and organizing in Rojava: hosting a radio program and helping found the Medical Self‑Defense Network (MSDN) when emergency care was highly improvised. Those experiences taught me that antifragile practice depends on simple, reliable tools and, above all, on well knitted social fabric.
After three years driving the decentralized network at Nym, I joined a team returning to Rojava with a narrower question: how to keep people connected when infrastructure is severed?
Our project aims to answer that question and to show that decentralization, anti‑censorship, and the practical ethos behind unix and the internet are closer to Rojava people’s everyday revolutionary practice, not empty phrases co‑opted by systems of concentrated power.
I build tools and systems communities can sustain and improve on their own terms. Our next mission is to apply the same do‑it‑together approach to keeping people connected under hostility.