This is a video that tells the story of a group of young people in Paraguay, living in a village near Asunción, the capital of Paraguay. The village is on top of a landfill, essentially a gigantic garbage dump. The families living there in deep poverty search the trash heap for recyclable material to sustain themselves.       The youngsters the video tells about have formed a symphony orchestra, performing on instruments made out of all kinds of items found in the trash. As…

Dear friends, This is a callout for assistance and feedback.  The Left Forum is happening again in New York at Pace University June 7-9.  I want to organize a panel or a series of panels related to IOPS.  Thousands of people potentially receptive to the IOPS vision will be in attendance.  This seems like a perfect opportunity for us to reach out to a receptive audience and have a public discussion about where IOPS is headed and why more people need to get involved.  There…

Consciousness Pilots Our Evolution!   For Better Or Worse!   I was drawn in my spare time over last couple of weeks to re immersing myself in the stories of Cuba's faithful revolution (Still besieged) & Venezuela's building of democratic socialism & Bolivia's Union's President blessed by old PachaMama & all the south American peoples governments that have risen. I feel hope & conviction from this, which also makes me all the sadder at the loss of Hugo & Che & Allende,…

This is a Magnetised Artwork I created & I now dedicate it to Hugo Chavez, the people of Venezuela& all people who do not enjoy or wish to let bullies have our world & its spirit.     I will keep & try to grow how I can the conviction & example of the Venezuelan people & Chavez who together have held up the dignity & sovereignty of their countries democracy against bitter unrelenting insidious murdering attack. Chavez goverment was democracy, real rule of all…

Quotes From Thomas Paine's American Crisis/Common Sense   "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace"    "America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion."   How can we institute gender equality at the global level, including Saudi Arabia?

Source: Boston Occupier   Emily James is an award-winning documentary filmmaker working in England. She directed  Just Do It: A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws, which chronicles some of that country’s nonviolent civil disobedience activists before and after the critical 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Years ago, London’s Guardian dubbed James “a genius.” More recently, a student at Divest Harvard described…

I am just doing a quick "plug" for a TV documentary broadcast last night on BB2 (in the UK). It explores post-recession poverty in the world's richest counrty, from the perspectives of the children living through it, e.g. 11 year-old Sera: "This is not the great American dream". My "plug" is meant for IOPS members from the USA in particular, since I assume this powerful (IMO) documentary will NOT be getting broadcast over there any time soon! You can watch/download it from BBC iPlayer until 9:59PM…

HOW TO BECOME A MULTI RACIAL/GENDER/SEXUAL-ORIENTATION/NATIONALITY ORGANIZATION     If an organization is attempting to bring people together to decide together what our world should be like, then it needs to bring people together.   I agree we need to focus on making sure that all who agree with the ideals of IOPS as stated thus far, no matter what they look like or identify as, find out about IOPS and are welcomed with open arms into a community that embodies positive values…

Democracy requires a positive view of people.  If most people are bad, then democracy is not a good idea.  But if most people are good, then democracy is a good idea.  Systems lacking in the democracy dept. also have the view that people are less than decent.  This is why they are not democratic- they lack the faith that most people, most of the time, are good.  If we believe that most people, most of the time, are not good, then we cannot let them have a say in society…