Welcome
Welcome to the IOPS Victoria home page. IOPS Melbourne generally holds fornightly, open meetings on Sunday afternoons (see the events page for details). If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email us at the address below.
From founding to future: at the 2014 general meeting the active members of IOPS Victoria decided to reform as IOPS Melbourne. The website doesn’t yet cater to metroplitan-level chapters so, until it does, the IOPS Victoria page will be used by IOPS Melbourne and any other metro or regional chapters that form henceforth.
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Latest Blogs
Fed Up
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Climate Crisis and Managed Deindustrialization: Debating Alternatives to Ecological Collapse Richard Smith, Common Dreams, Nov 21 2017 - 10:00 On Monday November 13th, climate scientists from the Tyndal center…
INTERVIEWING CYNTHIA PARKS
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Interviewing Cynthia Parks In the year 2042, an oral history of the then 25 year-old ongoing Revolutionary Participatory Society organization/project in the U.S. will be published. The book’s fifteen chapters will excerpt…
INTERVIEWING MAYOR BILL HAMPTON
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Interviewing Mayor Bill Hampton In the year 2042, an oral history of the then 25 year-old ongoing Revolutionary Participatory Society organization/project in the U.S. will be published. The book’s fifteen chapters will excerpt and arrange…
INTERVIEWING ANDREJ GOLDMAN
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Interviewing Andrej Goldman In the year 2042, an oral history of the then 25 year-old ongoing Revolutionary Participatory Society organization/project in the U.S. will be published. The book’s fifteen chapters will excerpt and arrange…
INTERVIEWING SENATOR MALCOLM KING
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Interviewing Senator Malcolm King In the year 2042, an oral history of the then 25 year-old ongoing Revolutionary Participatory Society organization/project in the U.S. will be published. The book’s fifteen chapters will…
INTERVIEWING JULIET BERKMAN
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RPS / 2044 An Oral History ofThe Next American Revolution Introduction From 2030 to 2036 I wrote over 500 topical essays for a Latin American media project. They required news cycle immediacy, preferred…
COMMONS TRANSITION (SOME PEER2PEER SHIT)
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WHAT IS COMMONS TRANSITION? A special introduction by Michel Bauwens and John Restakis When the administration of Rafael Correa was swept into power in 2006, it appeared as though a new political page had been turned in Ecuador.…
Upcoming Events
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Critical Theory Collective
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Derived from the Greek words kritikos, “discern, reflect, judge” and theōria, “contemplation, speculation” critical theory represents the creative human drives to question and…
Particigogy Project
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This is a project with the aim of setting up free and regular English lessons for migrants and migrant workers.
IOPS Logo Project
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[ Question about IOPS LOGO ] (1) Implication: International + Organization + Participatory +…
Newest Members
Visions
IOPS loves vision. Here are some visions.
Latest News
DiEM25
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https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/diem25_english_long.pdf https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/diem25_english_short.pdf What is DiEM25? DiEM25 is a pan-European, cross-border movement of democrats. We believe that the European…
NEXT SYSTEM PROJECT PODCAST
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The Next System Podcast https://soundcloud.com/user-26002169/ep-1-gar-alperovitz-gus-speth Ep. 1: Gar Alperovitz & Gus Speth on the Next System In the debut episode of the Next System Podcast, host Adam Simpson sits down…
Simplicity Institute -Some Simplicity Just Added
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Something from the Simplicity Institute, not me! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the last few months I have been working with my co-director…
BIEN AGAIN.
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Here's the latest BIEN newsletter, http://mailchi.mp/basicincome/bien-newsflash-may-1389873?e=6d96ada97e Below is from the Zuckerberg, everyone's Faecesbook friend. Just click like if you like! Always good to have the ruling classes on board…
Newsletter From Your Friendly Neighbourhood BIEN
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A BIEN newsflash people. Every month, it's awesome. Scored the book and reading it. Awesome. I hate that word and the book isn't awesome it's just a book, leaning toward the boring side as all this stuff is becoming! But let's not be negative…
Six, No, TEN, More For Your Tired Little Eyes!
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Six, no, TEN, more visions from the NSP competition, if, to echo Peter's sentiments, anyone can be bothered. And sureley they can be, or you can be or someone...I haven't been bothered to read the little buggers...I mean who IS reading all…