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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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Ready for a Change
by Leif Lønne
Latest News
Four candidates for the financial team
Lambert Meertens
Till a late moment it was uncertain if we were going to have enough volunteers for the financial team when the selection process was to start, on Saturday 5th November. But in the last three days before voting opened, four new candidates volunteered:…
Good article (extract) on Trump and fascism
Peter Lach-Newinsky
Here's a link to an extract from an interesting article by Australian commentator Don Watson on the possible connections between Trump, Trump followers and fascism (sorry, can't figure out how to get that link to hyper-link since that option…
Something From Basic Income Earth Network
Bat Chainpuller
A couple of articles from the Basic Income Earth Network news letter - http://basicincome.org. http://basicincome.org/news/2016/10/us-president-obama-calls-ubi-debate-well-coming-decades/ http://basicincome.org/news/2016/10/germany-single-issue-political-party-founded-promote-ubi/
Peace activist Tom Hayden dies
Peace activist Tom Hayden died 23 October 2016 at the age of 76. Hayden will mainly be remembered for his enduring opposition to the Vietnam war, which helped to mobilize for the anti-Vietnam War protests and make them grow into a mass movement…
Little Appetite for Iraq Inquiry ‘Down Under’
Cameron Coventry
Debate over the Iraq War regained significant interest around the world with the release of the Chilcot report in the United Kingdom. In Australia, the reading of the core findings was broadcast live on the government-funded ABC. But this news…
Cholera in Haiti and the UN Link
In September Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Professor Philip Alston advised the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN’s role in introducing cholera to one of the world’s…
Dion Falange
Latest Polls
Selection of the first Financial Team
Open end: 19 November 2016
The purpose of this poll is to select the members of the financial team, in accordance with the decisions of the September 2016 poll on…
Latest Blogs
fred curran
The secure and the dipossessed
Bernard Meijfroidt
This is an audio from last years book launch in London about how the military and corporations are shaping a climate-changed world . I recommend the book and it is still an instructive talk .https://soundcloud.com/free-word/the-secure-and-the-dispossessed…
Financial Team — Call for Candidates
The task of the financial team is to ensure a regular stream of revenues that is large enough to cover our running operational expenses. The team should remind members regularly, in a friendly way, not to forget to pay their membership dues.…
Fighting free-trade agreements
As members of an organisation striving for a participatory society shouldn't we fight against these free-trade (TTP-TTIP-CETA-TISA) agreements that are undermining democracy and giving all power to multinational organisations ? Real action…
Activisten in Afrika protesteren tegen Europese migratiebeheersing
[Dit stuk is overgenomen van de website van Doorbraak. —LM] De Europese beleidsmakers op het gebied van migratiebeheersing proberen niet alleen Turkije voor hun karretje te spannen. Ook met Afrikaanse landen wil de EU “deals”…
Upcoming Events
Events not foundNewest Projects
Reimagining IOPS – The Project (completed)
The aim of this project is to prepare one or more proposals for changes to IOPS that can be voted on by the membership against the alternative, default proposal to disband. When these proposals are sufficiently…
Lets work together to do something about climate change lets save the world
We need to do something About all this too much coal mining, even people in the villages knows what happens when we sleep with that coal heater in the house it kills everyone they go to deep sleep so…
Recycling bycicle for the people across the world
Yesterday after i met this young man who was collecting cans and bottles i didn't sleep because i was touched by how he was carrying the bags with his hands full of bottles and cans he had to walk a long…
Blogs
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
No more bosses
News
by Claire Bruhn
Class War
Newest Members
Newest Chapters
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.
Social Media
Please bear in mind that, although we realize the utility of social media, we are critical of the corporations behind those websites.