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!

This extraordinary book is a fictional account of a future revolution in New York City, told through oral history interviews with its participants looking back upon their experiences. A must-read for visionaries and radicals. Sign up here to join:

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 and @deadlettergirl!. Wednesdays at 7pm eastern for six weeks

@SolarpunkClub @mhersonhorvath @KYTenants On Tuesday, we will be joined by @FightXPrisons for a workshop on abolition campaign strategy, where they will detail their past successful efforts to block prison projects and pass on essential organizing know-how for these campaigns to be replicated. Tues, August 4, at 10am ET!

@SolarpunkClub @mhersonhorvath @KYTenants Then in the afternoon, we'll run part 2 of Building Power in Place, this time led by Survival Bloc & the ISE. It'll focus on community outreach methods and building an organizing strategy rooted in the particular conditions of our neighborhoods. Monday, August 4, at 1pm Eastern!

@SolarpunkClub @mhersonhorvath @KYTenants ARP will share the story of Rematriation and abolition being linked in their work. Participants are invited to collectively imagine restorative futures throughout. Monday, August 4, at 10am Eastern!.

@SolarpunkClub @mhersonhorvath @KYTenants On Monday, the Appalachian Rekindling Project is hosting an interactive workshop focusing on decolonization and Indigenization; on what needs to be dismantled and what must grow in the aftermath of dismantling.

@SolarpunkClub @mhersonhorvath We'll close out the day with an organizing workshop led by @KYTenants and the ISE. The focus will be learning and practicing concrete relationship-building tools to connect with neighbors and build community power. Sunday, August 3, at 3:30pm!

@SolarpunkClub Then in the afternoon, we'll hear again from @mhersonhorvath for a theoreetical overview of the state and why social ecology seeks to abolish it. We will discuss its political alternative in federated direct democracy, and the pathway for its revolutionary overthrow: dual power.

@SolarpunkClub On Sunday morning, we'll be hosting a panel conversation among three Indigenous activists about their resistance struggles against fossil fuel infrastructure and the police state in Appalachia. Sunday, August 3, at 10am Eastern!

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Next, we'll hear from @SolarpunkClub about the relationship between the arts and social transformation, with a particular focus on the solarpunk arts movement and the creation of a liberated ecological society. Saturday, August 2, at 3:30pm Eastern!

ISE program director @mhersonhorvath will give an opening introduction on the ideas of social ecology: as an ecological philosophy, as a critique of hierarchical society, and as a revolutionary political theory. The first session will take place on Saturday, August 2, at 1pm.

In this thread, we'll detail all the sessions that will be made available virtually. To participate, register here:

Even if you can't join us in person next week in Lexington, KY for our weeklong summer program, you are welcome to participate virtually! We will be streaming the sessions below live, with opportunities for remote participants to offer ?'s to speakers & have their own breakouts.

RT @emanabdelhadi: It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are….

Week 4: Dialectics applied to understand history (Marx & historical materialism) .Week 5: Dialectics applied to understand nature (Bookchin & social ecology) .Week 6: Dialectics as a social practice, for those w/ different views to approach truth through dialogue with each other.

The syllabus is structured around the following themes: Week 1: Introduction to dialectical thinking, in contrast to category thinking .Week 2: Ancient and premodern roots of dialectics, in Heraclitus, Taoism, Buddhism, and Aztec philosophy .Week 3: Beginner's guide to Hegel.

Register here!.

Join us this fall for our online course Our Being Is Becoming: An Introduction to Thinking Dialectically - a 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!

RT @defendrojava: We're proud to be co-sponsoring this year's summer intensive hosted by our friends @InstSocEco. Register today to reserve….