[P2P-F] New Philanthropic Organization ? : International Organization for a Participatory Society

[Dante-Gabryell Monson]

Thanks Jenny.
before answering,
just want to say I'm glad to read you here on this list.
I've noticed some of your initiatives and want to state there is overlap in
some of our approaches.

//

Yes, I kept the question mark, having the same question.

via the following reference I am lead to see a connection with Philanthropy
 :

http://truth-out.org/news/item/18279-how-billionaire-philanthropy-is-fueling-inequality-and-helping-to-destroy-the-country

*" Of course, there are occasional flickers of light that emerge from the
nonprofit world. Foundations like Marian Wright Edelman’s Children’s
Defense Fund <http://www.childrensdefense.org/>, growing out of Martin
Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign to advocate for working-class
families, and the new International Organization for a Participatory
Society<http://www.iopsociety.org/about>,
seeking to build a bottom-up, classless global society, work for the poor
and powerless in important ways. "*


A mistake from the article to connect it to Philanthropy ? ...
Or perhaps some info not publicly released the author knows about ?

The wikipedia page says

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_a_Participatory_Society

" Conceived in the circles of left-wing media group Z
Communications<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Communications>
[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_a_Participatory_Society#cite_note-aljazeera_IOPS_aims-2>
and
founded in January 2012 "


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Jenny Ryan <jenny at thepyre.org> wrote:

> It's great language and all, but I'm unable to see how this is a
> philanthropic organization. Perhaps you can clarify why you introduce it as
> such?
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> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
> dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> *MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
>> "www.iopsociety.org" claiming to be* http://vimeo.com/57851102<http://www.iopsociety.org/about>
>>
>>
>> http://www.iopsociety.org/about
>>
>> http://www.iopsociety.org/vision
>>
>> http://www.iopsociety.org/structure-and-program
>>
>> http://www.iopsociety.org/mission
>>
>>
>> Key Goals & Priorities
>>
>>    - IOPS is anti capitalist, anti racist, anti sexist, and anti
>>    authoritarian. It centrally addresses economics/class, politics,
>>    culture/race, kinship/gender, ecology, and international relations without
>>    privileging any one focus above the rest.
>>    - IOPS seeks to transcend 20th Century market and centrally planned
>>    socialism with a new participatory society - or participatory socialism -
>>    that combines classless economy, feminist kinship, intercommunalist
>>    culture, and self managing polity.
>>    - IOPS flexibly explores and advocates long term vision sufficiently
>>    to inspire and orient current activity but does not advocate or seek to
>>    implement detailed blueprints that transcend movement needs and knowledge.
>>    - IOPS sees social strategy and especially tactics as largely
>>    contingent on place and time and therefore continually revises shared views
>>    in light of new evidence including regularly updating analysis, vision, and
>>    strategy.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/user/iopsociety
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4buR4J3WPA
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