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

[Dante-Gabryell Monson]

or possibly simply my own misunderstanding, the author possibly giving
examples of organizations who are bottom up and not financed through
philanthropy.

in that case, we could add a whole long endless list, including many of the
individuals on this p2pfoundation list ;)


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>> Jenny
>> http://jennyryan.net
>> http://thepyre.org
>> http://thevirtualcampfire.org
>> http://technomadic.tumblr.com
>>
>> `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
>>  "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
>> -Laurie Anderson
>>
>> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining
>> it."
>>  -Hannah Arendt
>>
>> "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
>> -Stéphane Mallarmé
>> ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
>> dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> *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
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4buR4J3WPA
>>>
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