Author: Cameron Hughes

Cameron Hughes is a PhD candidate in the sociology department at UC Santa Cruz. His research engages topics of sovereignty, contentious politics, and social movements through the study of American participants in the militias of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Americans are among those who have volunteered to join Myanmar’s resistance to the military junta that took power in a 2021 coup. In this interview a young volunteer from California shares an account of what drove him to take up arms.