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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Report on the Lyons Social Ecology Gathering 2016

  The French « Rencontres internationales d’écologie sociale » recently discussed ways to overcome capitalism. At the center of the discussions: libertarian municipalism as an alternative to the nation-state and the need to renew militancy.   By Les Incontrôlé-e-s On May 27-29, 2016, radical ecologists, supporters of degrowth, and anarchists gathered in Lyons for the first Rencontres […]

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July 22, 2016
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Report from Social Ecology Seminar in Istanbul and International Peace Delegation

  On February 15-16, four TRISE members traveled to Istanbul to participate in a ten-member peace delegation. Our purpose was to attempt to restart the peace talks concerning the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which had been suspended since the spring of 2015, by meeting with members of the Turkish state and with Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned on Imrali Island […]

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March 4, 2016
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“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 […]

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March 2, 2016
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3rd annual European Social Ecology conference

  Dan Chodorkoff, from the Institute of Social Ecology (ISE) in Vermont, reports from the last conference of TRISE: I recently returned from Patras, Greece where I represented the ISE at the third annual conference of TRISE, the Transnational Institute for Social Ecology. The conference drew participants from 13 countries and four continents for four […]

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September 28, 2015
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Joint statement of the academic delegation to Rojava

Report from a recent delegation in Rojava, with the participation of Trise members Janet Biehl and Eirik Eiglad. Originally published at ROAR magazine.   Last December, an international delegation of scholars visited Rojava to learn about the revolution, gender liberation and democratic self-government. The battle over Kobani, which began in the summer of 2014, has […]

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February 10, 2015
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