Activity Report of the Citizens’ Committee of Milton Parc (2019-20)

Below we reproduce the annual report for 2019-2020 of the Citizens’ Committee of Milton Parc (CCMP). The CCMP is a municipalist initiative that strives to encourage and help create grassroots democracy and collective autonomy. It was born in the fight of Milton Parc‘s inhabitants to save their neighborhood from capitalist speculation. The result of this […]

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November 29, 2020
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Presentation by Kurdish feminist, Dilar Dirik

ISE board and faculty member Brian Tokar reports: Dilar Dirik, a noted international voice of the Kurdish women’s movement, was a keynote speaker at the recent fifth international conference of Trise (Transnational Institute of Social Ecology), the European s cial ecology organization. Speaking via Skype from Cambridge, England to an audience of well over 100 […]

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December 10, 2019
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Report from TRISE’s 2019 conference

  On October 25-27, in the municipal cultural center of the city of Athens, the fifth TRISE conference took place under the motto “Power to destroy, power to create: building a culture of resistance – towards radical social change”. The three-day event offered a rich programme, which explored in depth contemporary democratic and ecological theories […]

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October 30, 2019
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Report from the event “Climate change and the strategies from below”

  Yesterday (23/10/19) an event entitled “Climate change and the strategies from below” took place in Athens (Greece), at the self-managed theater Empros. It was intended as promotional for the upcoming TRISE conference, which will take place at the end of this week (25-27 October) in the city of Athens. It also raised important questions, […]

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October 24, 2019
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Report of the Ecosocialist Education Convergence (ECOEC), 2018 – Rostock, Germany

Written by the 3E Collective  1. Introduction “If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.” – Murray Bookchin The 3E Collective held the first Ecosocialist Education Convergence (ECOEC) in May 2018 outside the Baltic city of Rostock, Germany. Events included structured lectures, discussions, infrastructure projects, excursions to local activist projects, […]

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January 10, 2019
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Report from TRISE’s Conference “The Right to the City and Social Ecology”

From the 1st to the 3rd of September 2017 was organised the 4th TRISE conference: ‘The Right to the City and Social Ecology – Towards ecological and democratic cities’. It was held in Thessaloniki, Greece, and gathered a number of locals, activists and academics to discuss and exchange on the necessity to transform our urban […]

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January 16, 2018
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Report from the Conference “Cornelius Castoriadis 20 Years Later”

  In the beginning of December (1, 2 and 3) was held the transnational conference ” Cornelius Castoriadis 20 Years Later”. The three-day session took place in the Panteion University of Athens. The attendance was very high and spread beyond academic circles, attracting activists from social movements, as well as concerned citizens. This huge interest […]

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December 7, 2017
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Report from the 2nd International Meeting on Social Ecology in Bilbao

This report was provided by the organizers of the 2nd International Meeting on Social Ecology On the weekend of the 28th of October 2017, the 2nd International Meeting on Social Ecology was held in the occupied school of La Karmela, Bilbao, Euskal Herria (Basque Country). They were an opportunity to pay tribute to the struggles […]

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November 22, 2017
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State terror, human rights violations, and authoritarianism in Turkey

Report of the Third Imrali Peace Delegation, based on its Visit to Turkey, Feb. 13-19, 2017, in which TRISE members Dimitri Roussopoulos and Federico Venturini took part.   INTRODUCTION The events of the past year-and-a-half demonstrate very clearly that there can be no democracy in Turkey without a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish question. The political situation in […]

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April 3, 2017
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The fallacy of ‘Fair Growth’ and the alternative of Social Ecology

  On September 14 in Athens (Greece) it was held an event entitled “The Fallacy of ‘Fair Growth’ and the alternative of Social Ecology”, co-organized by TRISE and the Greek political journal Babylonia. The event took place at the free social space Nosotros, located at the historic neighborhood Exarcheia, famous for its politically active inhabitants, […]

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October 16, 2016
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