16 Year Anniversary of A16 IMF/World Bank Protest – Bringing Democracy Home
ISE faculty and students were key organizers and active participants in the alterglobalization movement. To commemorate the 16th anniversary of the “A16” action in Washington D.C. and the important role played by Social Ecologists in this movement, we’re posting the widely-read Bringing Democracy Home pamphlet that helped give the movement its political flavor. Although written 16 years ago, its insights remain as relevant as ever.
Online debate on “degrowth”
The websites Commons Transition and Resilience.org have both highlighted a very interesting online debate on the future of the term “degrowth.” Pioneered by French economist Serge Latouche, degrowth has become a rallying point for an impressive array of critics and visionaries, especially in Europe. Some have critiqued the degrowth paradigm for being too eclectic, and […]
New book: Organic Revolutionary by Grace Gershuny
ISE faculty member Grace Gershuny’s long-awaited memoir has just been released, under the imprint of Joe’s Brook Press in Barnet, Vermont. The book, Organic Revolutionary: A Memoir of the Movement for Real Food, Planetary Healing, and Human Liberation, illuminates Grace’s roots in the early 1970s back-to-the-land movement, her early engagement with soil science and the […]
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?
French Translation of Post-Scarcity Anarchism now available
A complete French translation of Murray Bookchin’s classic Post-Scarcity Anarchism is finally available thanks to Vincent Gerber and Écosociété press. Bravo et merci! You can order copies of Au-delà de la rareté: L’anarchisme dans une société d’abondance here.
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.
The New World Summit on Stateless Democracy – Video Online
The New World Summit on Stateless Democracy took place at Utrecht University in the Netherlands recently, bringing together activists and intellectuals from around the globe to explore the possibilities for uncoupling democracy from the nation-state. Speakers from a variety of movements across the globe converged to discuss radical democracy, nationalism, and especially the Kurdish liberation struggle […]
Debbie Bookchin in The Nation on Turkey’s repression of the Kurdish liberation movement
Debbie Bookchin has penned a powerful new article for The Nation on Erdogan’s current war against the Kurdish movement in Southeastern Turkey, and why the US and EU must act now to stop the bloodshed. “Why would Erdogan resume the peace process when his NATO allies give him tacit permission to brutalize his own people […]
