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The Capital-Nation-State Complex and the Environment

Written by Antonis Broumas The Patriarchal Relation with Nature The root causes of the environmental crisis are social and that they lie in social relations of domination and exploitation. Social hierarchies and social stratification have parallel histories with man’s domination over nature. Ecological degradation from human causes precedes capitalism. It is a phenomenon dating back […]

November 11, 2017
Posted in Analysis, Articles
Tags: Capitalism, commons, nation-state, political ecology

The Perils and Promise of Self-Determination

Article by Thomas Jeffrey Miley. First published at ROAR Magazine in October 2017. Could Öcalan’s democratic confederalism offer a revolutionary alternative to the stalemated outcomes of the Catalan and Kurdish independence referendums? Police violence against peaceful demonstrators in Barcelona. Military occupation by Iraqi army forces in Kirkuk. Institutions of autonomy and self-rule severely […]

November 2, 2017
Posted in Analysis, Articles
Tags: Catalonia, Democratic Confederalism, Öcalan, Rojava 3 Comments

Our best chance for solving the climate crisis — direct democracy and equality

Written by Yavor Tarinski The apocalyptic images that we see in contemporary fictional cinema and literature seem to be not that far from materializing and in real life. Talks about the end of life as we know it are beginning to make more sense as information about the possible consequences of the unfolding global warming […]

February 27, 2017
Posted in Analysis
Tags: climate change, direct democracy, equality

“The People of Rojava are Staging a Social Revolution”

The following interview with Dimitri Roussopoulos was conducted by Sophia Reuss for Alternatives International. Dimitri Roussopoulos, TRISE chair member, is a Montreal-based political activist, writer, editor, publisher, and community organizer and he was a member of an International Peace Delegation that visited Istanbul, Turkey from 14 – 17 February, 2016. The delegation, which was organized by the […]

March 2, 2016
Posted in Analysis, Report
Tags: delegation, Dimitri Roussopoulos, Kurdish quest, Öcalan, Rojava

Urban Land: Private, Public or Community Ownership?

A panel discussion titled Urban Land: Private, Public or Community Ownership? was held in Montreal on November 12, 2015. Presented by Planners Network – Montreal chapter, Geography Undergraduate Student Society (GUSS), Urban Planning Association (UPA) and the Geography Graduates (Geograds). The discussion offers a very valuable record of an ongoing discussion on the present and future of […]

February 2, 2016
Posted in Analysis
Tags: Benny Farm, Milton Park, Montreal, panel discussion, urban land

Mission statement

This mission statement of TRISE was adopted at the first conference in 2013 and then slightly modified after the second one in 2014. TRISE mission statement – Toward Democratic and Ecological Cities At the United Nations Rio + 20 world summit that took place on the environmental crisis, its failure forced both the official and unofficial […]

February 11, 2015
Posted in Analysis, Organisational
Tags: mission, organisation One Comment