INFORMATION PACK Project Description The DEEP-T project aims to explore in a collective way the roots of the ecological and climate crisis, and how to deal with them for a just and sustainable future. You will have the opportunity to discover relevant topics such as the EU Green Deal, degrowth and zero waste. Moreover, you […]
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Written by Faik Özgür Erol The Political Thought of the Imrali Prison Complex and the Öcalan Laws The attempt to understand the prison isolation of İmralı as a negative expression of a prohibition order does not do justice to the issue at hand. The weakness of this attempt lies in the desire to explain power […]
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Written by Murray Bookchin. Originally published as a chapter of the book “The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies & the Promise of Direct Democracy” (2015) Libertarian municipalism constitutes the politics of social ecology, a revolutionary effort in which freedom is given institutional form in public assemblies that become decision-making bodies. It depends upon libertarian leftists running […]
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The so called Prosfygika, located at the heart of the city of Athens, is a complex of buildings that was built in the mid-1930s to house refugees from Asia Minor. Since 2011 the area has been functioning as a self-organized urban community with the creation of Assembly of the Occupied Prosfygika, from which many grassroots […]
Read More Communıty of Squatted Prosfygıka – an autonomous neighborhood at the heart of Athens
A book review, written by Bob Spivey, of Climate Justice and Community Renewal (edited by Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson, New York, Routledge, 2020). The COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland must be added to a long series of failures of UN-convened international meetings to meet the urgent social and ecological needs of a world threatened […]
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In the summer of 2021, a group of Catalan activists and politicians visited the autonomous region of Northeastern Syria, also known as Rojava, with the aim of getting to understand better the democratic experiment in self-management that is currently taking place there. During their visit they visited many places, institutions and made important meetings. The […]
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Report by Netzwerk für Kommunalismus on TRISE’s conference “100 years Murray Bookchin”. 15 years after his death, Murray Bookchin’s ideas are more relevant than ever. The TRISE conference covered very diverse areas in eight panels with 24 speakers, from Rojava to the COP26 climate summit. According to legal specialist Marlene Payva, there is a misunderstanding […]
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In 2021 we at TRISE commemorated the 100th anniversary from the birth of Murray Bookchin (1921 – 2006), founding theorist of social ecology and one of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century, with an online transnational conference. The two-day event was well attended and provided a space for dialogue between activists and scholars, […]
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by Nikos Vrantsis According to the European Institute for Gender Equality, femicide is recognized as ”the murder of women and girls because of their gender.” Gender based violence and murders are not new, but they remain undisclosed. Greece is no exception to that. According to Greek Police data, 69 women were murdered in the years […]
Read More A Big Part of the Human Whole is Still Treated as Property: Femicides in Greece
By Yavor Tarinski We have become a civilization based on work – not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself. ~David Graeber (Bullshit Jobs, 2018, pXXIV) Free time has been, for some time now, undergoing a steady reduction. With the increasing “uberisation” of economies worldwide, people find less and less […]
Read More Time, Leisure, Work: De-bureaucratizing Everyday Life