Recent Posts
Beyond the Limitations of the Green New Deal: A Discussion with Monica Atkins of the CJA
oin us for a discussion with Monica Atkins, Co-Executive Director of the Climate Justice Alliance, on the limitations of the Green New Deal and alternative community-based solutions.
Ozawa Bineshi Albert on Climate Justice post-COP26: Dec. 17, 12 pm EST
Join us for a talk by Ozawa Bineshi Albert, Co-Executive Director of the Climate Justice Alliance and founding member of the Indigenous Environmental Newwork. Bineshi and ISE racial/environmental justice coordinator Kali Akuno will discuss the recent COP26 conference, the false solutions it advanced, and what the peoples movements must do to counter the false solutions, stop the advance of climate change and regenerate our communities and ecosystems.
New report on North American municipalism
The authors argue that real democracy and communalism require deep reckoning with Eurocentric assumptions about land, citizenship, and participation.
Commune, Council, Party: Marxism and Direct Democracy - New Class Starting Dec. 14
This 10-week course on Marxism and direct democracy will put Marxist political thought into conversation with social ecology, to wrestle with the challenging problem of the political form the class struggle should take.![The sign says, "It is forbidden to cross [the road], people have died here," but it is such a ubiquitous threat that its credibility is doubtful.](https://social-ecology.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Signages_waifu.png)
A Jaywalking Manifesto
A manifesto of urban theory drawing on Bookchin, Lefebvre, and Harvey that examines jaywalking as a form of urban class warfare.
A People’s Green New Deal: Critical Interrogation of a Radical Proposal
Join us for a 3-part lecture series critically examining the Green New Deal with Max Ajl, author of A People’s Green New Deal. The series will critically interrogate the capitalist-oriented Green New Deal currently being proposed by liberal and progressive forces throughout North America and Europe.
Fall 2021 Institute for Social Ecology Newsletter
Fall 2021 newsletter of the Institute for Social Ecology. Info on our fall social ecology seminar, new courses on urban studies and the Marxist tradition, and our fall racial and environmental justice lecture series.
• Based in north-central Vermont, the Institute for Social Ecology has offered experiential radical education and support for grassroots organizing and community-building for more than 40 years.
• Social Ecology advocates a reconstructive and transformative outlook on social and environmental issues, and promotes a directly democratic, confederal politics. Social Ecology envisions a moral economy that moves beyond scarcity and hierarchy, toward a world that reharmonizes human communities with the natural world, while celebrating diversity, creativity and freedom.
• Social Ecology advocates a reconstructive and transformative outlook on social and environmental issues, and promotes a directly democratic, confederal politics. Social Ecology envisions a moral economy that moves beyond scarcity and hierarchy, toward a world that reharmonizes human communities with the natural world, while celebrating diversity, creativity and freedom.
