TRISE is co-organizing an event on Social Ecology and the Right to the City in Sofia, Bulgaria, together with the local free social space Fabrika Avtonomia. Keynote speaker will be Dimitrios Roussopoulos – long-time political activist, writer, editor, publisher, community organizer and public speaker. Some of the subjects he will be introducing are the […]
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Written by Vincent Gerber (Geneva, September 2010, revised in 2017) “The ‘population problem’ has a Phoenix-like existence: it rises from the ashes at least every generation and sometimes every decade or so. The prophecies are usually the same – namely, that human beings are populating the earth in ‘unprecedented numbers’ and ‘devouring’ its resources […]
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Written by Yavor Tarinski Introduction With the rise of cities, a major power shift is occurring this century across the planet in both economic and political terms. Dimitrios Roussopoulos[1] Nowadays the importance of the city is increasing, not only because of the fact that the majority of the human population is currently living […]
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Written by Eliana Kanaveli This article was presented at the conversation with title: “Changing Lives: Experiential Approaches to the Lives of Trans Subjects” which had taken place at B-Fest (International, anti-authoritarian festival of Babylonia magazine in Athens, School of Fine Arts, at 22-28 of May). As the lives of all or most of us […]
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Over 100 academics, politicians, and human rights activists call for immediate halt to Turkish aggression toward Afrin in Syria. We, the undersigned academics and human rights activists, insist that the leaders of Russia, Iran, and the U.S. ensure that the sovereignty of Syrian borders is not breached by Turkey and that the people of […]
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Written by Michalis Theodoropoulos “If we do not dare the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable” Murray Bookchin in The Ecology of Freedom Degrowth is the backbone of political ecology and political ecology is at the core of degrowth. Political Ecology was born, as a movement and at academic level, already by the 1960s […]
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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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Written by Mike Davis. Excerpts from Davis’ article The Coming Desert: Kropotkin, Mars and the Pulse of Asia (originally published in New Left Review 97, January-February 2016) Anthropogenic climate change is usually portrayed as a recent discovery, with a genealogy that extends no further backwards than Charles Keeling sampling atmospheric gases from his station near […]
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An interview with Dimitri Roussopoulos, co-founder of TRISE and Black Rose Books, by Thodoris Antonopoulos from the Greek journal Lifo. Translated from Greek for TRISE’s website. I had prepared another question for the beginning, but the latest developments changed my mind… after the recent “superstorms” Harvey and Irma, combined with the accelerating melting of […]
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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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