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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
DiEM25
Bat Chainpuller
https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/diem25_english_long.pdf https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/diem25_english_short.pdf What is DiEM25? DiEM25 is a pan-European, cross-border movement of democrats. We believe that the European…
Murray Bookchin and the Ecology of Freedom
Peter Lach-Newinsky
Tribute: Murray Bookchin and the ecology of freedom Written by Contributor, 30th July 2017, 0 Comments Here’s a thinker, who in the 1960s, declared climate change as a defining problem of the age. Who accused his fellow environmentalists…
NEXT SYSTEM PROJECT PODCAST
The Next System Podcast https://soundcloud.com/user-26002169/ep-1-gar-alperovitz-gus-speth Ep. 1: Gar Alperovitz & Gus Speth on the Next System In the debut episode of the Next System Podcast, host Adam Simpson sits down…
New Albert book: Practical Utopia
Lambert Meertens
A new book by Michael Albert is out: Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society According to the Acknowledgements section, “The material in this book comes largely from a prior collection of three short volumes called Fanfare…
Simplicity Institute -Some Simplicity Just Added
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…
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
2018 Global Forum
David Johnston
What do people think about this? Should we get involved and attend? https://2018globalforum.com
Thoughts on Reversing Global Warming
Gustavo Campina
Hiya, I relatively recently submitted this to an essay writing contest on global warming, and thought I'd share my entry here. It's short, and I tried to incorporate a bunch of ideas and tendencies I align with, like libertarian municpalism,…
what democracy looks like?
Alex of...
hey IOPS! some random ass content for ya... this is a clip of some video i took in June 2017 at an anti-Sharia rally out front Seattle City Hall. counter protests were also planned and executed in much greater numbers, waving signs and…
A year gone by, a new year ahead
Let me start by wishing everyone a happy and productive new year. It has been one year now that IOPS has been self-managing also at the international level. Looking back, how did that work out? I have to say, not well. The results…
Why we should go on with IOPS
As anyone can see, IOPS is not doing well. Although new members keep coming in, the activity level here is close to absolute zero. So a natural question is, Why bother? Why not simply admit that IOPS is a failure and give up? The essence…
Fed Up
Climate Crisis and Managed Deindustrialization: Debating Alternatives to Ecological Collapse Richard Smith, Common Dreams, Nov 21 2017 - 10:00 On Monday November 13th, climate scientists from the Tyndal center…
INTERVIEWING CYNTHIA PARKS
Interviewing Cynthia Parks In the year 2042, an oral history of the then 25 year-old ongoing Revolutionary Participatory Society organization/project in the U.S. will be published. The book’s fifteen chapters will excerpt…
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.