GalleryEnroll now for fall online seminar – Mondays Oct. 30-Dec. 18
Also stay tuned for several new courses in the works for the 2017-18 academic year.
Gallery2nd International Meeting on Social Ecology: Bilbao, Spain – October 27-29
Second International Meeting on Social Ecology: Bilbao, Spain - October 27-29.
GalleryTeaming with Black activists and microbes for the soul of organic
by Grace Gershuny,
[Originally posted at http://www.organic-revolutionary.com/single-post/2017/05/29/Teaming-with-Black-activists-and-microbes-for-the-soul-of-organic]
I tend to be a big picture thinker, and have always just assumed that the connections between organic agriculture and social justice were self-evident. Yet clearly many others don’t see this connection, and believe that with the advent of a federally mandated organic certification and marketing program, organic has lost its soul.
However, there was plenty of soul in evidence at last spring’s Farm to Plate Conference in Ithaca, NY. For the first time in my long history of attending such conferences, the [...]
GallerySystem Change or Extinction? Thoughts on “The Uninhabitable Earth”
“There are thus two critiques of “The Uninhabitable Earth.” First, Wallace-Wells fails to account for all the positive environmental actions we’re going to take. But he also ignores the negative political actions that are bound to occur. But something is missing here. These two critiques don’t go well together. It just doesn’t make sense that we could make major reductions in emissions with the same old “vicious right-wing minority” in power. If they’re still in charge and pushing wars, we’re screwed. It seems obvious, but apparently bears repeating: environmental change requires political change. Capitalism fuels environmental devastation. We will only halt environmental devastation if we dismantle capitalism.”
GalleryFrom our recent intensive in San Francisco
We had a truly exceptional time at our recent social ecology seminar in San Francisco. Thanks to Michelle Glowa and everyone at the California Institute for Integral Studies who made it possible, and to our incredible class of participants from all across North America and around the world! You can view the full schedule, and see that we had a packed 6 days of lectures, discussions, field trips and some fun outings. We had an unprecedented number of participants actively engaged in organizing popular assemblies, from the Pacific Northwest [...]
GalleryISE 2017 Annual Gathering: August 18-20 – Marshfield, VT
It was our best-attended and most wide-ranging gathering to date. More accounts of the past summer's gathering coming soon.
GalleryKurds and supporters gather in Hamburg
Internationalizing Democratic Modernity : A report from Challenging Capitalist Modernity III
by Eleanor Finley
From April 15 – 17, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany the Kurdish freedom movement held its third instantiation of Challenging Capitalist Modernity, the biennial conference dedicated to ‘democratic modernity’ and the ideas developed by imprisoned Kurdish political leader Abdullah Ocalan.
On the first day, over 1,200 activists, scholars, and students packed into a vast lecture hall, the University of Hamburg’s Audimax, with seven interpreter booths and two balconies. Outside, blossoming trees and vivid new grass lined the walkways, [...]
Spring Social Ecology online seminar May 8-June 26!
Stay tuned for future versions of our online social ecology course, plus several new courses in the works for the 2017-18 academic year!
GalleryFrom Richard Greeman: The Coming Struggle
Richard Greeman is a lifelong Marxist-Humanist-Anarcho-Utopian scholar and activist, best known for his studies and translations of the Franco-Russian novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge. This essay was submitted in late January for the ISE blog and has been lightly edited for timeliness:
The Coming Struggle: Popular Resistance versus the Trump Regime
by Richard Greeman
The massive, spontaneous, popular resistance to Trump that poured into the streets in the giant post-Inauguration Women’s March had been welling up since election night. Trump and his ruthless, racist, reactionary White House gang now in [...]
GalleryReason, creativity and freedom: The communalist model
On the unique relevance of communalism in this historical moment. By Eleanor Finley, originally published by ROAR Magazine.
