2021 marks 100 years since the birth of Murray Bookchin (on 14th of January), founding theorist of social ecology and one of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century. His thought, always political and directed towards radical social change, have influenced both urban and rural social movements around the world, including one of […]
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“Water is not a weapon, water is life!” is a campaign that strives to raise £100,000 to support women’s co-operatives and vital water projects in North-East Syria. In the region of North-East Syria, also known by its Kurdish name Rojava, a democratic self-administration system has been built up since 2012 – a system based on […]
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If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. – Murray Bookchin Gathered on the 15th and 16th of february 2020 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande in Gironde (France), about fifteen people coming from different backgrounds have founded the Institut d’Écologie Sociale et de Communalisme, convinced that this approach initiated by Murray Bookchin […]
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TRISE has joined the international call for participation in the Social Summit for Climate in Madrid. For the complete list of signatories please visit the official website of the summit The unilateral decisions of, on one hand, Sebastián Piñera’s Chilean government to cancel the hosting of COP 25 in Chile, ignoring the months-long work already […]
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We at TRISE are glad to announce that our book, containing the proceedings from our 2017 conference, is finally out. It is titled “Social Ecology and the Right to the City: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities” and has been edited by Federico Venturini, Emet Degirmenci, and Inés Morales. Description of the book: Cities today […]
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Originally published by Make Rojava Green Again here. We, organisations working to secure an ecological and democratic future, condemn the war declared unilaterally by the Turkish government on north-east Syria. This war has absolutely no legitimate justification. It is is a crime and is severely exacerbating the war in the region. This aggression targets the […]
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+++ International Urgent Call to Turkish Government and International Public +++ It‘s not too late to SAVE HASANKEYF and Tigris River! No filling of the Ilisu Dam Reservoir! For 12.000 years, Hasankeyf in the Southeast of Turkey has been a site of uninterrupted human settlement. With the labour of dozen of cultures this outstanding universal site has been created on […]
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Declaration of the 1st Mesopotamian Water Forum (MWF), which took place in the University of Sulaimani, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq 6-8 April 2019 Over-extraction; the draining of marshes and wetlands; deforestation; too many irrigation projects, poorly-drained land; pesticides and fertilizer run-off; contamination by poorly or often un-treated discharges from industry as well as households; […]
Read More Water is Under Assault in MesopotamiaWe are delighted to announce that we secured a grant from the Political Studies Association (https://www.psa.ac.uk), through our collaboration with the Anarchist Studies Specialist Group (http://anarchist-studies-network.org.uk). This funding will support our upcoming conference ‘Power to destroy, power to create: building a culture of resistance towards radical social change’ (Athens, 25-26 October 2019). More information about […]
Read More AnnouncementWe are happy to announce that the next TRISE conference will take place in Athens in October 25 & 26, 2019. The conference will debate the current municipalist movements and what social ecology can offer for their development beyond statecraft and capitalist modernity. More details on the theme of the conference and the call for […]
Read More Breaking News… new TRISE conference – Athens, October 2019