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

Tue Aug 20 07:35:50 CEST 2013

IOPS is a political international association related to Z Communications
(Z Magazine, Z Net). I'm part of Z Net Italy and I translated their
manifesto in italian.

2013/8/20 Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>

> 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
>>>>
>>>> `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
>>>>  "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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