Popular Education for a Free Society
The 2023 “Challenging Capitalist Modernity” conference in Hamburg brought together over a thousand activists and academics from all over the world for three days of utopian discourse.
Our summer intensive, “All Power to the People!: Social Ecology and the Black Radical Tradition” in Detroit, was hosted with the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center.
Kali Akuno in conversation with Pan Africanist historian Phethani Madzivhandila on the uses and misuses of the Just Transition framework in South Africa.
We offered a brand-new course recently, entitled “Confronting Ecofascism: Environmental Politics and the Radical Right,” and taught by a group of experts on the history and thought of ecofascism. The course ran from June 7 – June 28. You can register for the self-directed version at any time.
“There have been significant links between environmentalism and Right-wing politics for more than a century,” Staudenmaier writes in his new book Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics Between Left and Right. “Knowingly or not, the perpetrators of the Christchurch and El Paso massacres continued that tradition.”
A 1971 pamphlet, popular during the early years of the ISE, sparked a statewide conversation about absentee ownership and neo-colonialism in Vermont.
After two years of pandemic delay, we’re very excited to announce that the new issue of Harbinger: a Journal of Social Ecology has now been released. The issue features nine timely contributions, all exploring social ecological perspectives on race, racism, and colonialism.
A Report Back on COP27 with Dorothy Guerrero, of Global Justice Now Register to attend here. COP27, the UN Conference of Parties 27th meeting, was held in Sharm El Sheikh, …
Chaia Heller writes, “There is an exciting complementarity between Bookchin and Latour’s approach to understanding the nature of nature—and reality itself.”
Videos from our 2022 summer gathering, Building Ecosocialism From Below, a collaboration of the ISE with folks from Cooperation Jackson and the People’s Network for Land and Liberation. The videos feature presentations by Kali Akuno, Mason Herson-Hord and many others.
