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Mission We seek to win a new participatory society based on solidarity, equity/justice, diversity, self-management, and ecological stewardship, through:
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Vision IOPS flexibly explores and organizes around a long-term vision of the broad features of a participatory society that centrally addresses:
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Structure To give every member a proportional say in decisions affecting them (self-management), we are organizing in a bottom-up structure, aiming to become a federation of local, regional and national branches. Local chapters are self-managing and have proportional say in regional, national and international issues. Read our structure and program statement. |
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Membership Currently, we are in a building-up stage. In due time we will take IOPS is open to anyone wishing to join who shares the commitments in the organizational description and wants to actively participate in the life of the organization. If you have any questions before joining, please see: To become a member, Join IOPS. |
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Latest News
Simplicity Institute -Some Simplicity Just Added
Bat Chainpuller
Something from the Simplicity Institute, not me! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the last few months I have been working with my co-director…
BIEN AGAIN.
Here's the latest BIEN newsletter, http://mailchi.mp/basicincome/bien-newsflash-may-1389873?e=6d96ada97e Below is from the Zuckerberg, everyone's Faecesbook friend. Just click like if you like! Always good to have the ruling classes on board…
Newsletter From Your Friendly Neighbourhood BIEN
A BIEN newsflash people. Every month, it's awesome. Scored the book and reading it. Awesome. I hate that word and the book isn't awesome it's just a book, leaning toward the boring side as all this stuff is becoming! But let's not be negative…
Six, No, TEN, More For Your Tired Little Eyes!
Six, no, TEN, more visions from the NSP competition, if, to echo Peter's sentiments, anyone can be bothered. And sureley they can be, or you can be or someone...I haven't been bothered to read the little buggers...I mean who IS reading all…
Why the only future worth building includes everyone
Lambert Meertens
Everything has a first, and this is the first TED talk by a Pope. The talk is in Italian, but you can use Subtitles/closed captions (the CC button in the lower black bar that appears when the video starts running) to see the text in English.…
Some more from the NSP (there was something just before but I kind of let it go)
http://www.thenextsystem.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/RebuildingAmericasInfrastructureWeb.pdf The above is something, isn't it? Probably makes sense for Americans and those with good economic knowledge...who like to read the business section…
Selection of the Adjudication Committee
Closed end: 21 January 2017
The purpose of this poll is to select the adjudication committee, in accordance with the decisions of the September 2016 poll on the makeover proposals.The…
Candidate Sarah Owens:
Candidate Ann Ferguson:
Candidate Perr Mille:
Candidate Howard Goldson:
Candidate Verena Stresing:
Candidate Kathryn Kang:
Candidate Claire Bruhn:
Candidate Matic Primc:
Candidate Joe McKay:
Total Number of Voters: 10
Ready for a Change
by Leif Lønne
No more bosses
News
by Claire Bruhn
Class War
Members
Here are some interviews with members about IOPS including Cynthia Peters, David Marty, Elizabeth Meade, Florian Zollmann, Jermaine Chambers, Justin Podur, Michael Albert (2012, 2014), Noam Chomsky, Paul Street and Verena Stresing.
You can find further testimonials of members here.
There is also an open letter from our consultative committee including Eva Golinger, John Pilger, Vandana Shiva and others which can be found here.
Latest Blogs
this is not a post, or was a post and no longer is
Peter Lach-Newinsky
[For some reason the previous attempt to post my blog on Trump ended with that ridiculous bloody smiley thingo. So bugger it, I'm not trying again. Anyone interested can check out my blog memengineering. Ciao, Peter]
Dialogue on Trump
[Another blog for the great roaring void that is IOPS and its four or five readers. This is a response to an email I got the other day about Trump from a friend of mine who is, or was, a progressive, now retired academic specializing in public…
It’s “Deep State” Time Again
By Fred Nagel, April 21, 2017 Whenever there are obvious conflicts within the ruling class, the concept of a Deep State is brought out to explain why our government seems to be coming apart at the seams. When the tired rhetoric of our…
Some Thoughts on Freedom and Music.
"By itself, free playing does not directly require practice and study, which when self-constructed provides the seedbed for exploration and change. Practice is associated with what most of us remember from study: repetition aimed at perfection,…
Checking in
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hey friends, just a hope that you and your peoples are doing alright.
Steps to the Global Revolution
fred curran
Talking while marching, the global revolution. Humanities opportunity in the face of fascism, authoritarianism, terror, and the inescapable path toward a better world
Proposed tactics for a participatory economy
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
I have now posted an e-book that I published five years ago which discusses using participatory economics as a lynchpin for activism organizing. One of the chapters of that book discusses possible tactics for winning such an economy. …
Nya Projekt
IOPS wiki
The goal of this project is to create a wiki that can serve as an alternative resource for knowledge and ideas relevant for activists/IOPS-ers, next to the existing website. Ideally it should become a…
Content Curator Team
This project was created to discuss activities surrounding the team of content curators. Any interested member is welcome to join the project and participate in discussions and other activities carried…
Financial Administrator Tasks
This project has been created to discuss the the implentation and processes of the initial IOPS Financial Administrator role. Many ideas have been posted already, but we also have a looming March/April…
Latest IOPS proposals
No proposals have yet been submitted using the newly introduced process. Go here to get instructions on how to create a proposal.
Proposed projects
Below are links to project proposals that are awaiting enough support. If you support the idea, please leave a comment under the proposal.
Kommande Events
Events kunde inte hittasBlogs
What happened November 2014
Non-member Survey July 2014
Thoughts on Poll and Interim Phase July 2014
What now? June 2014
Community Rights as Organizing Strategy March 2014
Unconditional Basic Income January 2014
Ethics of IOPS February 2013
IOPS Development November 2012
A Shared Vision August 2012
Odd Shared Experience and Confusion June 2012
Man-Made Climate Change I and II June 2012
Towards a Credible International May 2012
Media and IOPS (ICC) April 2012
A Priority, a Problem, and a Solution (ICC) April 2012
Chapters
Organizing and bookfairs in Dublin
Bookfairs in Kent
Organizing, talks and other events in London
Banners, marches and cultural events in New York
Organizing in Montana
Organizing and tabling in Oregon
Petititions in Seattle
Protests and logos in Melbourne
Protests, talks and workshops in Vienna
Nyaste Medlemmar
Nyaste Avdelningar
Social Media
Please bear in mind that, although we realize the utility of social media, we are critical of the corporations behind those websites.