2023 ISE Summer Intensive Course

All Power to the People

Social Ecology and the Black Radical Tradition in Today's Revolutionary Movements

July 7-13, 2023

In July 2023, the Institute for Social Ecology is hosting its annual summer intensive course at Artist Village (17336 Lahser Rd.) in Detroit, Michigan in partnership with the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership.

Participants—local as well as from across North America—will spend six days together studying and learning the core ideas of social ecology, popular movements for direct democracy and community power, and the practice and legacy of transformative community action in Detroit.

Four half-days will be spent on site tours around Detroit, while the remaining time will be spent in group talks, presentations, and discussions covering topics ranging from communal stewardship of land to the Rojava Revolution.

Program details are available here.

    • Kali Akuno

    • Modibo Kadalie

    • Ashanti Alston

    • JoNina Abron-Ervin

    • Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

    • William Anderson

    • Chaia Heller

    • Abundia Tristán

    • Roberto Mendoza

  • You are welcome to arrange your own housing, but we have assembled for you a mix of (free) solidarity housing with gracious hosts around Detroit and (paid) housing at a hostel and a few large Airbnbs near the venue. We will organize transportation between the venue and our paid housing sites, but with solidarity housing you will be responsible for figuring out your own transportation to and from the venue. If you need us to arrange housing for you, select a ticket (for either paid housing or solidarity housing) when you register.

  • Covid-19 testing will be mandatory at check-in, and wearing N-95 masks will be required while indoors (though much of our program will take place outside, weather allowing). Thanks for helping us make this a safe and inclusive event.

Presentations included:

  • Black Anarchist Legacies

  • Black Anarchist Futures

  • Smashing Fascism, Defeating White Supremacy

  • Building Black Food Sovereignty

  • Zapatismo and Pluriversal Ontology

  • Democracy in Maroon Communities

  • Patriarchy & Women’s Liberation

  • What Is Capitalism?

  • The Solidarity Economy

  • What Is Social Ecology?

  • Thinking Dialectically

  • Art Against Capitalism

  • Dual Power

  • Rojava Roundtable & Reportback

  • Indigenous/Communalist Values

  • Detroit’s History of Struggle & Resistance

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