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- Next Systems Studies Convergence - April 3rd
One of the organizers may be you. Each Teach-In is organized locally by local people. Most Teach-Ins take place on university, college, or school campuses; others will take place in community centers or other public spaces. All it takes is one person to begin the process. We provide resources on how to get organizations involved and building coalitions on our website.
Another way you can build the Teach-Ins is to get your association, union, cooperative, network, section, journal, media site, or other organization to cosponsor the process. Read more about what that involves here.
The international coordination of the Teach-Ins is being performed by the Next System Teach-Ins Taskforce, a project of the Next System Studies Association Initiative, supported by staff from Next System Studies at George Mason University and the University of Vermont together with academic and community partners at The Democracy Collaborative, encuentro5, Leadership for the Ecozoic, Presente.org, U.S. Solidarity Economy Network, Move to Amend, and World Beyond War. If your organization would like to do more to participate in the coordination of the Teach-Ins, contact us: contact (at) nextsystem.org.
Our work has its deepest roots with The Next System Project: https://thenextsystem.org
- MTA co-directors present at George Mason University as part of Ben Manski’s Next Systems course.
Ben Manski is Assistant Professor of Public Sociology at George Mason University where he serves as director of Next System Studies and of the Democratizing NOVA project at Mason's Center for Social Science Research. He studies the participation of ordinary people in the deliberate constitution of their societies. His work takes in social movements, law, politics, climate and ecology, political economy and the corporation, focusing on democracy, democratization, and constitutionalism, and he has published widely on these themes. In the past, Manski practiced public interest law for eight years and managed national non-profit organizations, direct action campaigns, and political campaigns and parties for 25 years. He is an Institute for Policy Studies Associate Fellow, Next System Project Research Fellow, Liberty Tree Foundation Fellow, and a Critical Realism Network Associated Fellow. Manski is a University of Wisconsin JD (2005) and University of California Santa Barbara PhD (2000).
fired
May 4, 2014
Rossiter published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change,” in which he criticized Western climate policies for limiting economic expansion on the continent, referring to anthropogenic climate change as “unproven science”:
“The left wants to stop industrialization—even if the hypothesis of catastrophic, man-made global warming is false. … Western policies seem more interested in carbon-dioxide levels than in life expectancy.” [11], [12]
In response to Rossiter's op-ed, the Institute for Policy Studies terminated his Associate Fellowship, telling him in an email:
“Unfortunately, we now feel that your views on key issues, including climate science, climate justice, and many aspects of U.S. policy to Africa, diverge so significantly from ours that a productive working relationship is untenable. The other project directors of IPS feel the same.” [11]