New North American Political Network Emerges from the Grassroots
Local direct democracy groups across North America are assembling a revolutionary confederation
Fall/Winter 2018 ISE Newsletter
Here’s a short update on some of our recent and upcoming activities, including the next sessions of our online courses, a Pacific Northwest Social Ecology retreat in January, and dates for our next Intensive in Vancouver, June 1-5.
Vancouver B.C. Social Ecology Intensive: June 1-5, 2019
Our next Social Ecology Intensive will take place June 1st through 5th at the University of British Columbia Farm in Vancouver, B.C.
The Utopian Democracy of the Alberta Farm Movement, by Steven R.D. Henderson
In the prairie town of Vulcan, Alberta, historic fact meets science fiction—past meets future—held together by a shared dream of utopia.
Online Seminar: Social Transformation Beyond Pragmatism or Utopia
Enroll today for our five-session online seminar Social Transformation Beyond Pragmatism or Utopia. Taught by ISE affiliate Robert Ogman, this five-session seminar will explore the challenges and possibilities of linking visions of emancipation to forms of practical political engagement.
Fall Social Ecology Online Seminar: Oct. 8-Nov. 26
Enroll today for the Institute for Social Ecology fall online seminar!
• Based in north-central Vermont, the Institute for Social Ecology has offered experiential radical education and support for grassroots organizing and community-building for more than 40 years.
• Social Ecology advocates a reconstructive and transformative outlook on social and environmental issues, and promotes a directly democratic, confederal politics. Social Ecology envisions a moral economy that moves beyond scarcity and hierarchy, toward a world that reharmonizes human communities with the natural world, while celebrating diversity, creativity and freedom.
• Social Ecology advocates a reconstructive and transformative outlook on social and environmental issues, and promotes a directly democratic, confederal politics. Social Ecology envisions a moral economy that moves beyond scarcity and hierarchy, toward a world that reharmonizes human communities with the natural world, while celebrating diversity, creativity and freedom.
