Rojava's former expat volunteers call on the UK not to criminalize helping defend the Kurds.

There is a broader principle at stake, too: the state should not have the power to arbitrarily criminalize going to any particular place, no matter what the reason. If there is a justification for making it a crime to go to a place, the decision should be adjudicated, not simply announced.

When the US imprisoned people of Japanese descent, many of them US citizens, they did not all go along quietly. Many of them resisted the draft.

This paradoxically demonstrated how much they were part of American culture rather than Japanese.

One effect of climate strike protests is to win public support and approval of climate defense protests.

We need to defend, globally, the right to survive at home rather than migrating.

An important part of this is to decrease birth rates.

Women who want to have a baby and not go through pregnancy can now hire surrogates to do that for them.

As long as this process is expensive, thus limited to a few people, it is not a big burden for the world. The dangerous population growth is at present almost entirely due to non-surrogate pregnancies. But if surrogacy started making a significant contribution to population growth rates, I would suggest prohibiting it.