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IPPS Speakers Bureau

The International Project for a Participatory Society (IPPS) Speakers Bureau offers many voices sharing and advocating new vision and strategy for attaining a more Participatory and Just world. IPPS speakers aim to go beyond repeating what's wrong with the world and instead point toward positive social, economic, political, cultural and ecological visions to inspire and inform our present day social movement strategies for change. Our Speakers Bureau participants come from diverse backgrounds and experiences in activism, writing, organizing and social movement building. We offer both fresh new voices as well as long time critically acclaimed ones. IPPS speakers are from around the world and are available to speak locally, nationally and internationally – with emphasis on local speakers to build local social movements. Use our Speakers Bureau web site to review our roster of speakers or to contact us for more information.

How to invite a speaker
All inquiries about speaker's fees, travel costs, scheduling and availability are to be negotiated directly with the speaker your group is inviting. Contact information for speakers is listed with speaker biographical information, and vision/strategy presentation areas that they're available for. It's suggested that a portion of the speaker's fee be directed to the Speakers Bureau to help finance the International Project for a Participatory Society.

IPPS Speakers Bureau Participants
List of speakers coming soon....

About the International Project for a Participatory Society (IPPS) IPPS stands for a classless economy based on self management and equity, for democratic and participatory politics, for ecological sustainability, and for the elimination of patriarchy, racism, and all other oppressions.

IPPS seeks to elaborate a vision of participatory society to demonstrate that a better world is possible and to understand the implications of such vision for strategy in the present.

Becoming a member of the IPPS Speakers Bureau
We're always looking for new speakers to contribute to the promotion of vision and strategy. Any member of the International Project for a Participatory Society can become a speaker.

Mission Statement

The International Project for a Participatory Society (IPPS) is a group of people concerned with inspiring, facilitating, and supporting efforts to develop, share, and promote vision and strategy for attaining a new participatory society.

IPPS stands for a classless economy based on self-management and equality, for democratic and participatory politics, and for the elimination of patriarchy, racism, and all other hierarchies and oppressions.

IPPS seeks to elaborate a vision of a participatory society in order to demonstrate that there is an alternative to current race, gender, political, environmental, and other injustices.

Structure

Overarching policy decisions on editorial priorities, financial decisions, and new members will be made in annual meetings with all group members welcome to participate either live or online.

Voting in yearly policy meetings will be most often by majority vote with attention to a strong minority. Deviations will respect the concept of self management - decision making input in proportion as one is affected by issues at stake. Individual task forces will set up their own participatory decision-making process.

As a basic component of membership in IPPS, all members are encouraged to be involved in the creation of vision and strategy through participation in autonomous “editorial threesomes” (or other combinations, or singly) as people choose. By autonomous we mean as long as they apply the general principles and values of our mission statement.

-> by group members (where possible in aforementioned threesomes)

-> commissioned and solicited by threesomes

-> from unsolicited submissions that will be distributed somewhat equally among threesomes for approval
Other activities will be overseen by appropriate task forces constructed for the purposes at hand.

Initial Agenda

At Woods Hole Massachusetts, on June 6, 2006, we designated the June 2006 Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy gathering as the founding and first policy meeting of the International Project for a Participatory Society. At this June meeting we decided our mission statement, name, project definition, basic principles/values, a date for the next policy meeting--in Atlanta at the U.S. Social Forum from June 27-July1 (possible online hookup for those who can’t be there)--and to present a Participatory Society program (building on the Life After Capitalism experience) at the Atlanta events.

We decided to focus on the following in the next six months:

-> Creating a web site for public communications, etc.
Responsibility: Evan Henshaw Plath, Michael Albert, Justin Podur

-> Creating content for the IPPS website
Responsibility: All members organized into editorial threesomes or other combinations, as well as operating singly. Those who presented vision/strategy papers at ZSVS could improve on it; others who didn’t make presentations could do so; still others could cover new areas of concern such as law, education, environment, etc.

Some threesomes created at the June meeting:

Law: Brecher, Sitrin, Ceric
South Asian: Kolhatkar, Podur, Mahajan
Education: Grubacic, LeJeune, Baillargeon
Kinship/ParSociety: Sargent, Ponniah, Peters

-> Creating a blog system for members (public) dialog and debate
Responsibility: Justin Podur, Brian Dominick

-> Researching experiments in visionary institutional building
Responsibility: Sonali Kolhatkar, Jamie LeJeune, Tamara Vukov, Tom Wetzel, Marie Trigona, Milan Rai, Marina Sitrin,
Irina Ceric, Andrej Grubaci, Chris Spannos, Normand Baillargeon

-> Creating an internal newsletter
Responsibility: Marie Trigona, Andy Dunn, Lydia Sargent

-> Develop tools to aid experiments in creating participatory society institutions
Responsibility: Andrej Grubacic, Chris Spannos, Sean Gonzalves, Evan Henshaw Plath, Jamie LeJeune, Chantal Santerre

-> Develop program for the Atlanta Social Forum
Responsibility: Kendra Fehrer, Jamie LeJeune, Thomas Ponniah, Lydia Sargent, Michael Albert

-> Creating a speakers bureau for members
Responsibility: Cynthia Peters, Steve Shalom, Chris Spannos, Sean Gonzalves

-> Assisting members with publishing their work
Responsibility: Ezequiel Adamovsky, Sonali Kolhatkar, Jeremy Brecher

-> Establish means for dealing with internal disputes, conflicts, errors, etc.
Responsibility: Irina Ceric, Justin Podur, Milan Rai, Mark Evans, Kendra Fehrer

Who We Are

Ezequiel
Adamovsky
 - Argentina

Michael Albert - U.S.

Bridgit
Anderson
- Great Britain

Jessica
Azulay
  - U.S.

Normand Baillargeon -
Canada

Elaine
Bernard
- U.S.

Peter Bohmer - U.S.
Patrick Bond - South
Africa

Jeremy Brecher  -
U.S.

Dennis Brutus - South Africa

Irina Ceric - Serbia/Canada

Daniel Chavez - Netherlands

Noam Chomsky -
U.S.

Carol Delgado - Venezuela

Brian
Dominick
  - U.S.

Mark Evans - England

Kendra Fehrer - U.S.

Susan George - France
Jonah Gindin - Canada
Sean Gonsalves -
U.S.

Andrej Grubacic -
Serbia/U.S.

Serge Halimi - France
Elizabeth Hartman- U.S.

John Hepburn - Australia

Pervez Hoodhboy -
Pakistan

Robert Jensen - U.S.Ria Julien - Trinidad/U.S.

Naomi Klein - Canada

Sonali Kolhatkar - India/U.S.

Jamie LeJeune - U.S.

Rahul Mahajan  - U.S.

Mandisi Majavu -
South Africa

Felipe Pérez Martí - Venezuela

Pablo Ortellado - Brazil

Ilan Pappe - Israel

Cynthia Peters  -
U.S.

John Pilger - Great Britain

Evan Henshaw Plath - U.S.
Justin
Podur
 - India/Canada

Thomas Ponniah - U.S.
Vijay Prashad - U.S.

Milan Rai - Britain

Carola Reintjes - Spain

Manuel Rozental - Colombia

Chantel Santerre - Canada
Lydia
Sargent - U.S.

Steve Shalom  -
U.S.

Devinder Sharma -
India
Vandana Shiva - India

Marina Sitrin  - U.S.

Chris Spannos - Canada

Marie Trigona -
Argentina

Tamara Vukov - Canada

Harsha Walia - India/Canada

Hilary Wainwright - Great
Britain

Tom Wetzel - U.S.

Greg Wilpert - Venezuela

Tim Wise - U.S.

America Vera Zavala - Sweden

Howard Zinn - U.S.

 




Info, Networking, Research

Key aspects of IPPS activities are generating and disseminating
information that bears on vision and strategy - whether it is new ideas, criitical
accounts, historical reviews, surveys of projects, etc. - and creating contacts and
lasting ties among people around the world concerned with such matters.

All members participate in such work in diverse ways including writing, speaking,
hosting events and other members, working with organizations, etc. Reports, analyses,
vision, strategy, etc. appear in essay form on this site. Discussions occur via our
blog system. Outreach occurs via speaking engagements, publishing, this web site,
face to face organizing, etc.

As we are first forming, there isn't much to report at the moment...more later...

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