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![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.
Jews Don’t Count and Count Too Often: Reflections on Left Antisemitism (Oct. 20, 12 PM EST)
This online panel will address antisemitism on the left, examining how antisemitic myths continue to connect Jews to capitalism, the slave trade, media, and war.
Conspiracy Theory as a Substitute for Social Critique: Peter Staudenmaier, NOV 17 2 PM (EST)
On Wednesday, November 17 at 2 pm EST historian and ISE faculty member Peter Staudenmaier will give a presentation that explains why conspiracy theories offer false analyses of the social problems we face, and typically suggest problematic rather than emancipatory political solutions.Towards a People’s Green New Deal: Max Ajl in Conversation with Kali Akuno
Join us for a conversation between Max Ajl, author of A People's Green New Deal, and Kali Akuno, ISE racial & environmental justice coordinator.
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.
