About IOPSThe International Organization for a Participatory Society (IOPS) is a revolutionary organization that aims to win a better world, through: * flexibly exploring and advocating long term vision * building the seeds of the future in the present * empowering the lives of its members * organizing in an internally classless and self-managing way * winning changes in society that better the situations of suffering constituencies while also laying the ground work for more changes and construction to comeKey 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.International Organization for a Participatory SocietyIOPS_bccdeb00-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8cWe are a committed group of people engaged in the struggle for a better world. Together, we are building an organization dedicated to global revolution, called the International Organization for a Participatory Society (IOPS). Since the launch of our website in 2012, some 3600 people from over 100 countries have become members. IOPS AdministratorsRoderick(admin) Den HaagPreeti Kaur(admin) RedbridgeJohannes(admin) Pozuelo De AlarconMichael Albert(admin) FalmouthIliya Ribin(admin) Moscow_bccdec0e-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8cTo win a better world_bccdecb8-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8cSelf-ManagementDecision making influence in proportion to the degree you are affected by a decision.EquityEquity/Justice -- Distribution of circumstances and benefits in accord with duration, intensity, and onerousness of socially valued labor, or comparable factors in other aspects of life.JusticeSolidarityCreation of conditions that foster mutual aid and empathy.DiversityRespect for dissent and difference, including making room for minority and dissident positions to develop and revisit earlier commitments.Ecological StewardshipCare for natural habitats and environment in accord with sustainability and the thriving of diversity for species and humans.InternationalismApplying the above mentioned values not merely to a society, but to the community of all societies.Politics & GovernmentEstablish new political/governmental relations_bccdee20-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c1IOPS seeks new political/governmental relations that:Decision-Makingfacilitate all citizens deliberating sufficiently to effectively participate in decision-making._bccdeeca-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c1.1Transparencyutilize transparent mechanisms to carry out and evaluate decisions._bccdef6a-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c1.2Legislationconvey to all citizens a self managing say in legislative decisions proportionate to effects on them._bccdf014-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c1.3Self Managementutilize grassroots assemblies, councils or communes, and direct participation or representation and delegation, and/or voting options such as majority rule, some other voting algorithm, or consensus, all as needed to attain self management._bccdf0b4-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c1.4Civil Libertiesoffer maximum civil liberties to all, including freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and organizing political parties and facilitates and protects dissent. promote diversity so individuals and groups can pursue their own goals consistent with not interfering with the same rights for others._bccdf154-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c1.5Solidarity & Adjudicationbuild solidarity and fairly, peacefully, and constructively adjudicates disputes and violations of norms and laws, seeking both justice and rehabilitation._bccdf208-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c1.6Problems & Possibilitiessupport all community members contributing to solving problems and exploring possibilities to ensure that there are no political hierarchies that privilege some citizens over others._bccdf2b2-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c1.7EconomicCreate new economic relations_bccdf35c-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c2IOPS seeks new economic relations such that:Ownershipno individuals or groups own productive assets such as natural resources, factories, etc., so ownership doesn’t affect anyone’s decision making influence or share of income._bccdf410-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c2.1Personal Outputthere is no payment according to property, bargaining power, or the value of personal output._bccdf4c4-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c2.2Incomeworkers who work longer or harder or at more onerous conditions doing socially valued labor (including training) earn proportionately more for doing so. those unable to work receive income nonetheless._bccdf56e-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c2.3Voiceworkers have a say in decisions to the extent possible, proportionate to effects on them, sometimes best attained by majority rule, sometimes by consensus or other arrangements._bccdf636-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c2.4Laborthere is no corporate division of labor giving about a fifth of workers predominatly empowering tasks and four fifths mainly rote, repetitive, and obedient tasks._bccdf6ea-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c2.5Decision Makingeach worker enjoys conditions suitable to be sufficiently confident and informed to participate effectively in decision making, including having a socially average share of empowering tasks via suitable new designs of work._bccdf79e-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c2.6Inputs & Outputsthere is neither market competition nor top-down planning, but instead decentralized cooperative negotiation of inputs and outputs, whether accomplished by workers and consumers councils or some other suitable method._bccdf88e-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c2.7Gender & KinEstablish new gender and kin relations_bccdf96a-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c3IOPS seeks new gender and kin relations that:Familydo not privilege certain types of family formation over others but instead actively support all types of families consistent with society's other broad norms and practices._bccdf9f6-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c3.1FamiliesChildrenpromote children's well-being and affirm society's responsibility for all its children, including affirming the right of diverse types of families to have children and to provide them with love and a sense of rootedness and belonging._bccdfabe-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c3.2ChildrenFamiliesAgeismminimize or eliminate age-based permissions, preferring non-arbitrary means for determining when an individual is old or young enough, to participate in economic, political or other activities, or to receive benefits/privileges._bccdfb7c-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c3.3Mariagerespect marriage and other lasting relations among adults as religious, cultural, or social practices, but reject marriage as a way to gain financial benefits or social status._bccdfc3a-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c3.4SpousesCare Givingrespect care giving as a valuable function including making care giving a part of every citizen's social responsibilities, or other worthy means to ensure equitable burdens and benefits._bccdfd0c-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c3.5Care GiversCitizensIntimacy, Identity & Sexualityaffirm diverse expressions of sexual pleasure, personal identity, and mutual intimacy while ensuring that each person honors the autonomy, humanity, and rights of others._bccdfdca-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c3.6Sex Educationprovide diverse, empowering sex education about sex, including legal prohibition against all non-consensual sex._bccdfe92-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c3.7Culture & CommunityEstablish a new cultural and community system_bccdff64-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c4IOPS seeks a new cultural and community system that:Identitiesensures that people can have multiple cultural and social identities, including providing the space and resources necessary for people to positively express their identities, while recognizing as well that which identity is most important to any particular person at any particular time will depend on that person’s situation and assessments._bcce002c-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c4.1Rights & Valuesexplicitly recognizes that rights and values exist regardless of cultural identity, so that all people deserve self management, equity, solidarity, and liberty, and so that while society protects all people’s right to affiliate freely and fosters diversity, its core values are universal._bcce00f4-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c4.2Entry & Exitguarantees free entry and exit to and from all cultural communities in society including affirming that communities that do have free entry and exit can be under the complete self determination of their members, so long as their policies and actions don't conflict with society's laws._bcce01da-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c4.3International RelationsEstablish new international relations_bcce02a2-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c5The organization seeks new international relations such that:Institutionsinternational institutions put an end to imperialism in all its forms including colonialism, neo colonialism, neo liberalism, etc._bcce0374-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c5.1Internationalisminternational institutions are internationalist in that they diminish economic disparities in countries' relative wealth._bcce045a-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c5.2Cultural & Social Patternsinternational institutions protect cultural and social patterns interior to each country from external violation._bcce052c-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c5.3Entwinement & Tiesinternational relations facilitate international entwinement and ties as people desire, and thus internationalist globalization in place of corporate globalization._bcce05fe-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c5.4EcologyCreate new ecological relations_bcce06e4-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c6The organization seeks new ecological relations that:Trendsrecognize the urgency of dealing with diverse ecological trends such as resource depletion, environmental degradation, and global warming, not only for liberation, but for survival, and that therefore facilitate ecologically sound reconstruction of society._bcce07c0-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c6.1Choicesaccount for the full ecological (and social/personal) costs and benefits of both short and long term economic and social choices, so that future populations can make informed reconstructive and then day to day choices about levels of production and consumption, duration of work, self reliance, energy use and harvesting, stewardship, pollution, climate policies, conservation, consumption, and other aims and activities as part of their freely made decisions about future policy._bcce089c-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c6.2Connection & Responsibilityfoster a consciousness of ecological connection and responsibility so that future citizens understand and respect the ecological precautionary principle and are also well prepared to decide policies regarding animal rights, vegetarianism, or other matters that transcend sustainability, consistently with their ecological preferences and with their broader agendas for other social and economic functions._bcce0996-1596-11e6-a718-040bf9713b8c6.32016-05-08http://www.iopsociety.org/aboutOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net