Sur: A neighbourhood of history, hope, and resistance: An interview with former mayor Abdullah Demirbas
Epistemologies of Freedom: Interview with a young Kurdish revolutionary
On Europe’s anti-fracking movements
From an article posted to ROAR Magazine by ISE board member Eleanor Finley and UK climate activist Claire Fauset:
… The threat of fracking and its nakedly undemocratic geopolitical context lays bare the bankruptcy of capitalism and the state as its attaché. For this reason, we are beginning to see that the global anti-fracking movement is more than just a “not in my backyard” movement. Ordinary people around the world are beginning to question a political-economic system which, even in the face of global climate collapse, [...]
Social Ecology, Kurdistan, & the Origins of Freedom
Hamburg conference features scholars & Kurdish activists
Reflections on Challenging Captialist Modernity, Hamburg, Germany
Report by Eleanor Finley
In Kurdish, “roj” means sun. Rojava is the land to the west, where the setting sun of freedom and possibility lays to rest and renew itself. Last week, I spent three days at Hamburg University as part of Challenging Capitalist Modernity, a conference hosted by a network of organizations within the Kurdish Freedom Movement. Each evening, the sun shone down brightly through a tall glass wall into the conference lobby. There hundreds [...]
Social ecologists in Colombia
El Collectivo Ambiente de Tabanoy (CAT): Social Ecologists in Columbia link indigenous medicine, permaculture, and the call for communal politics.
The Collectivo Ambiente de Tabanoy is a popular education project dedicated to sharing social ecological principles in Cristobol, Columbia.
Cristobol is a suburb of the capital city of Bogota with many indigenous, peasant and worker communities. For over six years, these edukadores de kalle [street educators] have been organizing education and cultural programs which link social and ecological issues. Through these programs, the CAT serves as a watershed for activism throughout the region.
One of the CAT’s main issues is local [...]
2015 ISE Summer Intensive
“To Revisit Spain,” by Eleanor Finley
Don’t Mourn, Organize! A Social Ecology Panel at the 2014 Left Forum
This year, the annual Left Forum was held on May 30st through June 1st at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. The conference and its theme, Reform and/or Revolution: Imagining a World with Transformative Justice, attracted scholars and activists from across many social, environmental and labor movements including Occupy Wall Street, Idle No More, and Turkey’s Gezi Park. Social ecologists collaborated to produce a panel discussion on the legacy and contributions of [...]