Article by Brian Morris, written in 2009 and included in “Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism: A Brian Morris Reader” (2015, PM Press). Brian Morris is one of of the keynote speakers at our upcoming conference in Thessaloniki. In this article from 2009 he gives his own perspective on the political legacy of Murray Bookchin and its stance […]
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– Havin Guneser is one of the keynote speakers at our upcoming conference in Thessaloniki. Here is a speech she gave in Rome in 2014. Dear Friends; I first of all would like to say that I am indeed very happy to be here amongst you all in discussing the freedom struggle of women in […]
Read More Feminicide: the endless war of the patriarchal system
Article by Emet Degirmenci, first published in the Social Ecology Broadcast, Volume 1, Spring Issue 2012. We here present an article of Emet Degirmenci who is one of the keynote speakers at our upcoming conference in Thessaloniki. Food and culture are my long-term passions. Since food is one of our most basic needs, this helps me create a strong […]
Read More The resiliency of interdependent neighborhoods
Article by Theodoros Karyotis. First published at roarmag.org July 2016 Today, exactly one year ago, refugee families and supporters who were sleeping at Thessaloniki’s three occupied refugee shelters — Nikis, Orfanotrofeio and Hurriya — were woken up by police in riot gear. We here present an article from last summer by Theodoros Karyotis who is one of […]
Read More Criminalizing solidarity: The Greek state’s war on the movementsArticle by Dan Chodorkoff, originally published at the Institute for Social Ecology Blog. Dan Chodorkoff is one of of the keynote speakers at our upcoming conference in Thessaloniki. We here present an article of him from 2012 where he discusses the potentials coming out of the Occupy movement. Summer fades to Fall and more […]
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Article by Eleanor Finley, originally published in ROAR magazine in February 2017 Humanity stands at a crossroads. Now, more than ever, history calls for a grassroots democracy at a global scale. If we look carefully, all the tools are at hand. “Whether the twenty-first century will be the most radical of times or the most […]
Read More Reason, creativity and freedom: the communalist model
Article by Olli Tammilehto, originally published in the book Sustainable Futures: Replacing Growth Imperative and Hierarchies with Sustainable Ways in 2009 (written in October 2008). Our ecological situation on the Earth is very precarious. We are on the verge of global climate catastrophe. Humanity has only a short period of time to change its metabolism with […]
Read More Rapid Social Change as a Pre-Requisite For Preventing Global Climate CatastropheArticle by Enric Bárcena, Xavi Ferrer, Laura Roth and TRISE member Kate Shea Baird, originally published in Spanish in Público.es on 21/12/16. The municipalist movements of the Spanish state can’t ignore the global crisis of neoliberalism. It’s up to us to stand up and defend our idea of bottom up, feminist and radically democratic change. […]
Read More Why the municipal movement must be internationalist
Article by Ines Morales Bernardos. Originaly published in the openMovements series on Open Democracy. Republished here with the authors permission. Their insurrectionary politics of autonomy, such as food autonomy in Athens, is crucial for building new solidarities and emancipatory imaginaries within cities. —- “Every town should have its agora, where all who are […]
Read More Building new solidarities between movements: insurrectionary politics of food autonomy in the city of Athens
Interview by Antonis Broumas and Yavor Tarinski Some believe that the commons are incompatible with commodity markets. Others claim that markets and commons may form mutually beneficial relations with each other. What are your own views on this issue? I think it is entirely possible for markets and commons to “play nicely together,” but only […]
Read More The Future is a “Pluriverse”- An Interview with David Bollier on the Potential of the Commons