Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:10
One of the aims of the PPS-UK is to "start as we mean to go on" -- that is, to structure our own organisation using the same principles that we promote for society at large. As the name suggests, one aim is to ensure that the PPS-UK allows full participation for all its members. We want to avoid the common division into a leadership group, who make all important decisions, and a passive group of supporters, whose only role is to do the day-today tasks in the organisation, raise funds, and so on. There are two big advantages to this. First, we can serve as an example, providing evidence that an alternative form of organising is possible. Second, while we are fighting against various oppressions, we also need to ensure that we do not reproduce them ourselves. This should make the PPS-UK much more attractive to people fed up of being marginalised and ignored by traditional political processes.



If you would like someone from PPS-UK to give a talk or presentation on participatory vision contact us with subject: '
"As an ardent supporter of participatory economics and participatory society I am inspired and elated by the pps-uk project - its intentions, methods, and progress. Ideas are one thing. Actual organizing is another thing. And creating organization, sustaining it, and employing it, all consistently with exemplary guiding values and planting the seeds of the future in the present, is much much more. Congratulations on the efforts to date, and as both an exemplary international model and an effective organization in the UK, very best success for the coming months and years."
"Creating a better world requires direct challenges to the powerful and selfish interests that are driving us towards oblivion. But we also need to build and strengthen radical social networks and grassroot institutions that embody wisdom, compassion and justice. PPS-UK can play a valuable role here and we wish it every success.."
"PPS-UK is addressing topics of enormous importance, in a way that challenges all British social movements and left/alternative institutions. I'm very happy to support PPS-UK in its activities, and to be encouraged to deal with the challenges that it raises." -
