Statement on the assassination of Berta Cáceres in Honduras
The ISE was among more than 30 organizations that signed on to a press statement expressing outrage at the early March assassination of Berta Cáceres, a leading indigenous activist in Honduras. The full text is available at the US Food Sovereignty Alliance website. Further background on Cáceres’ work to defend indigenous land rights from logging, mining […]
2016 ISE Summer Gathering: August 19-21 – Marshfield, Vermont
Join the ISE for our annual summer gathering in Vermont. This year’s theme: Social Ecology, Socialism, and the State. How can we move from protest to social transformation?
New Online Course – Ecology, Democracy, Utopia
Our first online course on the foundations of social ecology. Offered again soon!
Save the Date! 2016 Summer Intensive Program
Join us in the Hudson Valley in August for a week-long program on Democracy, Ecology & Social Movements, also featuring an advanced track on the politics and philosophy of social ecology.
New articles about politics, power and movements
ROAR Magazine, a website frequently featured here for its up-to-the-minute, incisive accounts of the global uprisings that have emerged since 2011, has posted the first edition of a print magazine, available for free download (at least for now). The magazine features exceptional interviews and articles addressing core questions about politics, power, future left strategies, and […]
Kurdish revolution hits the mainstream press
2 relatively mainstream press accounts in recent weeks highlight the contributions of Murray Bookchin‘s social ecology to the continuing revolution in the Kurdish regions of Syria and beyond. Most widely noted was a first-hand account of visits to the Kurdish militias by New York Times reporter Wes Enzinna, published in the paper’s Sunday magazine on […]
Article: How to be an anti-capitalist today
Erik Olin Wright, co-author of Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a democratic economy, has a new article in Jacobin that asks some important questions about the nature and limits of different kinds of anti-capitalist politics today. His argument that “Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative” resonates with […]
Carmelo Ruiz: Is food really becoming scarce?
To celebrate the publication of the brand new edition of Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins’ classic book, World Hunger: 10 Myths, we offer a new article by our Puerto Rico-based colleague, Carmelo Ruiz: That food is becoming scarce because demand and population growth are outstripping supply is an article of faith that is rarely […]
Is the Paris climate conference designed to fail?
… by ISE director Brian Tokar. Addressing common myths about the upcoming Paris conference, how events since the 2009 Copenhagen conference have set the stage for what could be a fatally flawed agreement, and how activists in Europe and the US are responding. available at CommonDreams, Counterpunch, ZNet, New Compass, Toward Freedom, and a terrific new website, Paris Climate Justice.
New books of interest
Several new books of interest to social ecologists are out this month: Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin by Janet Biehl, from Oxford University Press The first-ever biography of Murray Bookchin, written by his personal collaborator and copy-editor from 1987-2006. The book discusses the variety of philosophies and movements that Bookchin helped shape, […]
