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

[Dante-Gabryell Monson]

Meaning ... we better do not count on a "political economy" of grants ... ?
Governmental or Private ?

... nor on monetized capitalist social entrepreneurship dependent on
priorities of ( big ) investors ? ...

Instead focusing our efforts on a social economy aimed at reducing
dependency on corporate tokens ,  as only resort to create less
hierarchical non artificially scarce interdependency systems and further
opportunities to empower emergent collective intelligence ?

further excerpts from

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

" As Buffett suggests, this growth in elite largesse, totaling $316
billion<http://www.cnbc.com/id/100831257> in
2012, has done little to combat economic inequality. But the problem isn’t
just one of ineffectiveness. A recent
paper<http://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/jecinq/v9y2011i1p1-21.html>
published
in the Journal of Economic Inequality shows philanthropy hasn’t simply
failed to meet its goals; it’s made the situation worse. "
...

" While pretending to fix inequality, contemporary philanthropy’s actual
role has been to strengthen the arrangements that make gross inequality
possible in the first place. "


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
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>>>  "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
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>>>
>>>
>>> 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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