“Fearless Cities” – a summit on the new municipalism, by Barcelona en Comú

  “Democracy was born at local level, and that’s where we can win it back.” Barcelona en Comú – the radical citizen platform currently running the city, invites to an international municipalist summit in June 9-11 called Fearless cities! The event will include debates and workshops on key policy areas and municipalist organizing. An excerpt from […]

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May 12, 2017
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Building new solidarities between movements: insurrectionary politics of food autonomy in the city of Athens

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 […]

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May 7, 2017
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Call for Papers! Closed on the 1st of July

    The Right to the City and Social Ecology – Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities     The TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY (TRISE) is glad to announce its fourth conference, taking place in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 1st to 3rd of September 2017. Follows here the description of the call for papers which closed on […]

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May 1, 2017
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The Future is a “Pluriverse”- An Interview with David Bollier on the Potential of the Commons

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 […]

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April 30, 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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Our best chance for solving the climate crisis — direct democracy and equality

Written by Yavor Tarinski The apocalyptic images that we see in contemporary fictional cinema and literature seem to be not that far from materializing and in real life. Talks about the end of life as we know it are beginning to make more sense as information about the possible consequences of the unfolding global warming […]

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February 27, 2017
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The Right to the City: Toward democratic and ecological cities

  Conference in Thessaloniki, September 1-3, 2017 TRISE is glad to announce its forthcoming conference, taking place in Thessaloniki in September 1-3, 2017! The conference will last from Friday to Sunday and consist of a broad range of seminars, workshops, paper presentations and round-table discussions. With the theme “The Right to the City: Toward democratic and ecological cities” […]

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February 27, 2017
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A critical perspective on social ecology and urban crises: learning about, with and from urban social movements in Rio de Janeiro.

Last Spring, TRISE member Federico Venturini completed his PhD in Human Geography at the University of Leeds.  Federico’s dissertation offers an in-depth study of radical urban social movements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and explores the lessons of these movements through the lens of social ecology. Here’s the abstract: We are currently facing incredible challenges […]

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December 30, 2016
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The Social Economy as a Commons of all of Society

On December 11 in Athens (Greece) an event was held, entitled “The Social Economy as a Commons of all of Society”, organized by TRISE. It took place at the cooperative coffe-shop Perimpanou in the Athenian neighborhood of Ano Patissia, where many people came to join the event and participate in the dialogue. Cooperatively owned and […]

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December 24, 2016
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Murray Bookchin’s New Life

  We here republish an article by Damian White originally published in Jacobin Magazine in July 2016. Murray Bookchin’s New Life Whatever their limits, Murray Bookchin’s ideas should be studied by today’s left. – Murray Bookchin spent fifty years articulating a new emancipatory project, one that would place ecology and the creative human subject at the […]

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December 19, 2016
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