Cosmic Anarchy and the Law of Increasing Complexity
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If the entire universe follows laws of natural selection, what could this mean for social ecological views of nature?
ISE’s 50th anniversary this August! Register now!
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The ISE is approaching its 50th anniversary and we invite you to celebrate with us the August 23-25, at North Calais Memorial Hall on Number 10 Pond in Central Vermont.
Elements of Liberatory Social Movement Organizations
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Foundational elements for social movement organizations seeking to develop free and egalitarian social relations.
Authoritarianism, Anti-Jewish racism, and The Israel-Hamas War: An Open letter to the Left
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By Chaia Heller: “The aim here is to address two problems emerging amidst the current war, challenging the left to present a principled response to both the dynamics of authoritarianism and rising anti-Jewish racism.”
A Second Nakba: Paving the Way to Genocide
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Mason Herson-Hord explains the unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza through the history of Israel’s radical right’s ascension to power.
“Over the course of these decades, there was a resulting shift in Israeli political consciousness where the historical necessity of the Nakba for the creation of the Jewish state transitioned from a truth to be masked or denied to one to be embraced and carried forward into Israel’s expansionist future.”
“Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV”: A Collective Stance to Demand Our World Back
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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.
Book Review – Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics Between Left and Right
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“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.”
History Feature: How is Vermont like a ‘Third World’ country?
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A 1971 pamphlet, popular during the early years of the ISE, sparked a statewide conversation about absentee ownership and neo-colonialism in Vermont.
Harbinger Issue #2: Race, Racism, and White Supremacy
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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.
Video: Confronting Climate Crisis Public Forum
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A public forum held in Marshfield, Vermont, concluding an 8-day national gathering organized by the ISE and members of Mississippi-based Cooperation Jackson.