Climate Justice and Movement Building: An Interview with Brian Tokar
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A recent interview with long time ISE faculty and board member Brian Tokar, addressing the evolution of climate justice movements, the problems of markets and technology, the problematic role of the US, and social ecology’s potential contributions to the movement.
Presentation by Kurdish feminist, Dilar Dirik
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Dilar Dirik, a noted international voice of the Kurdish women’s movement, was a keynote speaker at the recent fifth international conference of Trise, the European social ecology organization. Brian Tokar reports.
Social Ecology Pamphlet by Emily McGuire
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A lovely illustrated overview of social ecology by ISE student and designer Emily McGuire – available for download!
New North American Political Network Emerges from the Grassroots
Local direct democracy groups across North America are assembling a revolutionary confederation
Grace Gershuny on the evolution of the organic food movement
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Learning from History, Going on From Here (originally published on Grace’s blog, Organic Revolutionary) The world has changed considerably in the forty years since I attended my first NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association) Conference–then also billed as a “celebration of rural life.” So too has the organization, which has gone from a marginal little group […]
New book from Matt Hern
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Long-time ISE lecturer Matt Hern has an excellent new book just out, combining an extended travelogue to the center of Canada’s tar sands with an engaging dose of social theory and free-form political commentary. Here’s what the publisher, MIT Press, says about Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale, co-written by […]
Reason, creativity and freedom: The communalist model
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On the unique relevance of communalism in this historical moment. By Eleanor Finley, originally published by ROAR Magazine.
Sur: A neighbourhood of history, hope, and resistance: An interview with former mayor Abdullah Demirbas
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From 2004 until 2012, Abdullah Demirbas served as mayor of Diyarbakir (or Amed), Kurdistan’s central Sur District, which has been largely destroyed in recent months by Turkish military assault.
Debbie Bookchin in The Nation on Turkey’s repression of the Kurdish liberation movement
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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 […]
Social Ecology, Kurdistan, & the Origins of Freedom
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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.