Turkish Army burning Kurdish forests: Call for a delegation
From the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement, August 18, 2015 With the restart of the war in North-Kurdistan by Turkish state in end of July 2015 the Turkish Army has started to burn down forests. After 2,5 years of negotiations about the start of a peace process between the Turkish government and the Kurdish Freedom Movement, the […]
On Bookchin & the Kurds + New solidarity project
An excellent overview of the Kurdish movement and its influences from social ecology has just been posted on ROARMagazine. Also the New Compass, based in Norway, has just posted a link to a new Kurdish solidarity project, based in Greece. Here’s an excerpt from the ROAR article: In his 2005 pamphlet, Declaration of Democratic Confederalism, […]
On Europe’s anti-fracking movements
From an article posted to ROAR Magazine by ISE board member Eleanor Finley and UK climate activist Claire Fauset: … The threat of fracking and its nakedly undemocratic geopolitical context lays bare the bankruptcy of capitalism and the state as its attaché. For this reason, we are beginning to see that the global anti-fracking movement […]
VT/NY Day of Action vs. extreme energy transport
From our good friends at Rising Tide VT and Green Mountain Earth First! Photos are courtesy of Popular Resistance and the Earth First! Newswire. More details on the Williston action vs. pipeline construction and the trans & women’s action on the Champlain Bridge can be found here: Nine arrested while hundreds rally in day of […]
Assemblies and Elections: Questions for the Left
Author and acclaimed scholar of horizontalist movements, Marina Sitrin, reflects on discussions at the recent Left Forum in New York City. She encourages those who’ve participated in movements such as Occupy Wall Street, 15-M in Spain, and Gezi Park in Istanbul to familiarize themselves with municipalist ideas to better address the huge organizational challenges faced […]
Social Ecology, Kurdistan, & the Origins of Freedom
Reflections on a recent visit to Turkey and North Kurdistan. Many Kurdish revolutionaries describe their struggle as one of organic society against authoritarian society and have forged a unique role in the continuing evolution of human freedom.
On David Harvey’s engagement with Bookchin’s ideas
From an early 2000s ISE alum, writing from Berlin: I don’t know if others are aware of this text, so I am forwarding it along. It is from David Harvey, who, has begun to engage with Murray’s ideas about libertarian municipalism in a serious and constructive way. He began the dialogue in his book Rebel […]
On the Necessity of Dialectical Naturalism
A recent article in the journal Antipode situates Murray Bookchin’s theory of dialectical naturalism within the broader dialectical tradition, and contrasts his approach with Herbert Marcuse’s technological pessimism.
Toward a new municipal agenda in Spain
From ROAR Magazine, an article by Carlos Delclós, a sociology researcher in Barcelona. Here’s an excerpt: Radical municipal politics is not an altogether new concept, especially not in Spain. In Catalonia, the Popular Unity Candidacies of the left-wing independence movement have had a notable presence in smaller towns for several years (they also quadrupled their […]
Social ecologists at Left Forum 2015 in NYC
Once again social ecology will be on the agenda at the Left Forum in New York, May 29-31st at John Jay College (524 West 59th St.), with ISE faculty and colleagues featured on 2 panels: The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy Sunday 3:40 – 5:40 pm in room L.76 With […]
