There’s still time to sign up for the @social-ecology.bsky.social’s newest course! Dive into the literary worlds of Ursula Le Guin and Kim Stanely Robison in the ISE’s new class Utopian Literature starting Monday 9/15 at 8pm Eastern. bit.ly/ISE-UL

Starting in two weeks!

Join us on Wednesday (8/20) for our next reading group, on Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, by @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @genderhorizon.com! Wednesdays at 7pm eastern for six weeks

Join us this fall for our online course Our Being Is Becoming: An Introduction to Thinking Dialectically. It is an accessible beginner's guide to dialectics, from the ancients Heraclitus and Lao Tzu on through Hegel, Marx, Bookchin, Mao, and beyond. No philosophy background required, open to all!

We're proud to be co-sponsoring this year's summer intensive hosted by our friends @social-ecology.bsky.social. Register today to reserve yourself a spot!

Now more than ever, exploring new forms of organizing and living is of great importance. The @social-ecology.bsky.social is doing great work in paving the way towards a more democratic and ecological society. Please donate if you can. givebutter.com/ISE-Summer-D...

This summer, we are running a brand new course offering: Home/lessness, taught by Kurdish philosopher and longtime associate of the ISE Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde. Start date July 9! Register today to join.

You can now register to attend this year's social ecology summer intensive course, hosted in Lexington, KY! Our program theme revolves around the role of the arts and cultural organizing in our movement work. Open to all!

Ready for the next Reading Group with @social-ecology.bsky.social !

One of many important concepts I learned during my studies at @social-ecology.bsky.social is "recallable delegates." Instead of electing representatives for multi-year terms, elect delegates who (a) don't usurp the people's decision-making authority & (b) can be recalled at any time by the people.

Mark your calendars! This year's social ecology summer intensive course will be in Lexington, Kentucky from August 2-8, at the new community space artfarm. The theme of this year's intensive is The Art of Organizing.

Join ISE and Kali Akuno of @coopjax.bsky.social this Thursday 3/27 at 1pm Eastern for Part 4 of our ongoing series "The Winds of Change on the African Continent" givebutter.com/Jl4dk3

Last chance to register!

Join us for this exciting class taught by @eleanorfinley.bsky.social starting next Monday 3/17. Students will gain a foundation in the central concepts of radical anthropology and how it can inform radical visions for a wold beyond capitalism. Register + more info: bit.ly/iseanthro

Join us for this exciting class taught by @eleanorfinley.bsky.social starting next Monday 3/17. Students will gain a foundation in the central concepts of radical anthropology and how it can inform radical visions for a wold beyond capitalism. Register + more info: bit.ly/iseanthro

TL;DR Read #MurrayBookchin and learn from Kurdish prefigurative politics in Rojava. @social-ecology.bsky.social

Come take my online class! Open to the public. Weekly on Monday evenings. Via the @social-ecology.bsky.social Register today! social-ecology.org/wp/courses/t...

Some have been so numbed to the creep of power that they keep asking what if this turns violent. Friends, it is violent.

Peter Staudenmaier, JoNina Abron-Ervin, and Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin discuss the nature and threat of fascism and what must be done to fight it from an anti-authoritarian position. youtu.be/FAh-R30uYgQ?... via @social-ecology.bsky.social

Murray Bookchin: "[Anarchism's] central focus has always been the only meaningful goal social revolution can have—the remaking of the world so that human beings will be ends in themselves and human life a revered, indeed a marvelous, experience."

The far right lies. All the time. Not as a contingent or accident matter, not as some quirk of history -- lying is *intrinsic to far-right politics*. Where there is one, there is the other; they are one & the same.

Bertolt Brecht: "Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon."

As Trump returns to the White House, what can we do to prepare our communities to be liberated and safe? When: Wednesday, January 8th at 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern Where: Zoom How: RSVP at municipalism.org/community-de...

This is not funny, world-systems only act like this when they are in extreme distress

In the 20th century, Murray Bookchin similarly had to get by by living and working in his ex-wife’s living room.

The last TRISE conference gathered the social ecology movement through engaging discussions on urban planning, democratic confederalism, municipalism, decolonial resistance, commons, indigenous self-management and food sovereignty. Check the report! trise.org/2024/11/07/s... #bookchin #socialecology

one of our bangers

today seems like a good day to take a look at my organizing guide "40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists," share copies with your friends, and print out PDF's and stuff them in little libraries (Spanish & German versions too) spencersunshine.com/fortyways/

Who else should we be following?

thanks Joe Biden for staging one of those historic photos which will be passed around in about 30 years in history classes as an emblematically depressing example of normalizing fascism

Starts tomorrow! Sign up here: givebutter.com/CommuneForm

revolution in our lifetime

You can also take a self-directed course with one of the authors of this important book social-ecology.org/wp/courses/c...

“For both Marx and Kropotkin, revolution is indistinguishable from the direct democracy of the commune form, and that democracy is an uprising in excess of the political forms currently in place.” Join us for our new reading group on Kristin Ross’s new book, The Commune Form.

you may resurrect one dead artist who would be an amazing shitposter. Who is it? Murray Bookchin, hands down.

DuckDuckGo Murray Bookchin

Join us next week for a new course on resistance to fascism and revolutionary history! Unusually for our classes, there will be no assigned reading. Instead, each class someone will read aloud a short passage from Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History, followed by discussion.

i think it's really unfortunate that so much of the time, older activists are ignored by the youth. if you ever reach 94, i'm sure you'll want some support: here's a good opportunity to provide some!

We're reaching out today to ask for help for a struggling comrade and movement elder. Bea Bookchin, aged 94, is facing new medical costs and in need of support to receive her care at home. She has been a lifelong revolutionary activist and ISE educator. www.gofundme.com/f/support-be...

that’s right

free palestine btw

Join us for some of our upcoming online courses! - Walter Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History (social-ecology.org/wp/courses/w...), begins October 30 - Our Being Is Becoming: An Introduction to Thinking Dialectically (social-ecology.org/wp/courses/o...), begins December 5