Network
Membership is free and open to anyone interested in helping to promote our Mission Statement. In joining the Network you will be laying the Foundations for a Participatory Society.
In line with our vision, the Network is self-managed. There is also a display of current members as well as some other projects for a participatory society.
We also have a Real Utopia contact us.
Discord where members can communicate and organise together. If you have any questions about the Participatory Society Network then please
Before joining however, please first read the following statements; We Have a Dream! and Is Real Utopia for You?
Network Members
Shar
Akron
United States of America
I am a graduate of the Evergreen State College where I studied economics and how it's tendrils affect every aspect of our human life.
Hugh Barnard
London
United States of America
Philosophy mainly political and logic, open source, anarchism (Bookchinism!),ecology, music, and miscellaneous mischief. I'm still on X (ugh!) as @hughbarnard for the moment.
Book: https://hughbarnard.org/the-algorithmic-anarchist-2nd-edition/
Christy Dena
St Kilda East
Australia
Narrative Design Activist :)
Michael Ennis
Montreal
Canada
Born in Montreal. Educated in Montreal and France. Have travelled extensively. Have worked with the New Democratic Party in Federal elections.
Gar W Lipow
Tumwater
United States of America
Long term author and activist. Have been published on Znet many times, occasionally in Z magazine. Currently able to spend only limited time on politics due to health problems
Natalia
Jakarta
Indonesia
Very excited to participate in the creation a new world and also to bring down the current cancerous system.
David Baldwin
Cranston
United States of America
Writer, editor, programmer/developer interested in working out what will replace capitalism and power hierarchy in human governance.
Nicholas Hefling
Olympia
United States of America
My good longtime friend Peter, also of Olympia, told me about real utopia. I have been a long time labor activist/organizer and have recently been very much into thinking more from a universalist position to escape liberalism.
Bryan Smigielski
Detroit
United States of America
I’m an aspiring writer working in the intersections of philosophy, science, politics, and ecospirituality.
Mark Mixon
No where
United States of America
I'm looking for a place void from; religion, drugs, obesity, porn, ect. A place where I can focus on sharpening my mind and strengthening my body. A peaceful place to continue my meditations, and studies.
Peter Gringinger
Perchtoldsdorf
Austria
Educator, Trainer and Facilitator, Whole Systems, Transition & Regenerative Designer
Elizabeth Meade
Dublin
Ireland
I am a philosophy lecturer from Ireland committed to social justice.
Javier G. Madrigal Jr.
San Francisco
United States of America
guy. musician. parttime worker. flaneur.
KEN BANK
Barnegat - NJ
United States of America
I am a semi-retired business executive, part-time playwright, and freelance writer with masters degrees in business and history. I live in New Jersey and I am active in the local Democratic Party organization in support of progressive policies.
Corrado Poli
Padua
Italy
Retired professor of urban geography
Allan Ainsworth
Park City
United States of America
Retired medical anthropologist and professor. Built a community health center for homeless people that is now 35 years old. Activist for social justice issues in my community.
Phillip Ablett
PEREGIAN BEACH
Australia
I am an activist, sociologist and social work scholar, at the Queensland University of Technology, who is deeply interested to embedding the theme of Real Utopias in the curricula for social work and human services students.
Anon
Sarasota
United States of America
Interested in Writing, Philosophy, Software Development, and creating spaces where people have freedom from domination, exploitation and abuse.
Julian Manley
Jedburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
Involved in establishing a post-capitalist socio-economic network along the lines of community wealth building and the Preston Model. Interested in different modes of communication, such as social dreaming to accompany system change.
Mike Hembury
Berlin
Germany
Writer
Lia Nogueira
Maud
United Kingdom
a Portuguese anarchist that5 has moved to Scotland 8 years ago, and has been looking for like minded people/groups to go back to political activism, unsuccessfully
Kenneth McLeod
Sydney
Australia
Program curator, Anthropocene Transition Network - www.ageoftransition.org / www.at-hub.org
Samuel Jorge Moyses
Curitiba
Brazil
Full Research Professor
Lonnie Ray Atkinson
North Carolina
United States of America
A writer who grew up in East Nashville (back when that shit still meant something). A nonbeliever still holding onto the promise of redemption.
Joseph glynn
Brooklyn, NY
United States of America
A college student interested in learning more about participatory society
Doug Hamilton
Boulder
United States of America
Hi. My name is Doug. I am a lawyer and US military veteran living in Boulder Colorado.
Ian Pfingsten
Gainesville
United States of America
From Florida, US and trained in appreciation for all life and the environment that sustains it.
Alex
Russia
A Russian guy interested in Parecon
Gordon Asher
Glasgow
United Kingdom
Gordon Asher is an educator/learner, researcher/writer, editor/proofreader, ‘activist’ and cultural worker based in Glasgow. He is an Independent Scholar and Developer, now primarily self-employed, who also works part time in Higher Education. He previously worked, for over a decade, as a Learning and Educational Developer, as well as having held various academic and academic-related employment roles across adult, community and higher education. Much of his work and engagements involve the linking of critical educational theories and practices within the university, with radical education across struggles, movements and society, with out the academy.
Fintan Bradshaw
Dublin
Ireland
I'm interested in advocating for a Participatory Economy and Participatory Society.
Emily Jones
San Francisco
United States of America
Fundraiser for progressive leaders in US electoral politics
Claude Lauzon
Ottawa
Canada
I have a particular interest in Participatory Economics. I’m presently trying raise awareness of this model through outreach with various communities. I’m taking a grassroots organizing approach using a video I produced and targeting influencers. My goal is to eventually initiate a political movement and get greater engagement from these influencers.
Tom Mullinar
Melbourne
Australia
Social services. Teaching. Tour guide. Farming. Parenting. Disability services
Cynthia Peters
Boston
United States of America
Cynthia is a longtime organizer, writer, and editor.
Michael Albert
Norwood
United States of America
I currently work on ZNet, Collective 20, RevolutionZ, and School for Social and Cultural Change
Mark Evans
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Healthcare worker, Trade Unionist, Z Media Institute Graduate (2007).
Alexis Carta
Seattle, WA
United States of America
Gardener, Aerialist
David Cooper
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Self employed tradesmen.
Founder member of housing coop.
Participant in successful Collective building project.
Dustin Mitcham
Madison
United States of America
Undergrad student working on a degree in economics and international relations. Specializing in green economics.
Richard Linsenberg
Asheville NC
United States of America
Interested in sharing love and peace
Joel Rogers
Madison, WI
United States of America
Rick Galli
Scottsdale
United States of America
Historian.
Johnny Akzam
KASSON
United States of America
I'm a socialist operations specialist and worker-owned cooperative founding member. My aim is to develop an alternative means of resource management to capitalism.
Nick Coccoma
Boston
United States of America
I’m a 38-year old man in Boston, originally from upstate New York. I am a freelance writer and chaplain. I am also an activist in the global and American movement for democracy-by-lottery, i.e., sortition. Looking to network.
Andy Lucker
Alton
United States of America
I’m a nurse.
Miles Rafael Bairley-Ujueta
San Francisco
United States of America
Writer, poet, urban anthropologist.
Dante
San Francisco
United States of America
Dante is a trainer-practitioner with the Center for Story-based Strategy, and launching Community Gearbox, a start up aimed at disrupting individual consumption. He lives between Seattle and San Francisco.
Mikko Karjalainen
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Coming soon...
Aer !
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Anational participist interested in the ways in which we can move beyond current society and build a brighter and better future.
Eva Putzova
Flagstaff
United States of America
2014-2018 Flagstaff City Councilmember, 2020 congressional candidate, and a leader who can't be bought fighting for a just, generous, healthy, border-less and inclusive world.
John O'Brien
Dublin
Ireland
I'm an independent consultant specialising in culture policy and strategy. A lot of my work is facilitating discussion between local stakeholders about how they can make their place a better more creative place. Community wealth building is key
yohaan
Portland
United States of America
https://poeticphonetics.com
my bio is on the site, and hey, generating clicks is the only way to fight farcebook!
Josie Jarvis
Tacoma
United States of America
Occupational Therapist/Scientist in US looking at building functional alternatives to human institutionalization and community based lifespan social care with participatory economic principles in the US
Matthew Drake-Brockman
New York
United States of America
Interested in anarchist ideas.
Anonymous
Charlotte, NC
United States of America
High School Science Teacher
Marcia Z Bookstein
La Jolla
United States of America
cellist with the San Diego Symphony since 1977, before that principal cellist with the Jerusalem Symphony (Kol Yisrael). Mother of two children, dog owner, politically active since 2006.
Travis Froberg
Livonia
United States of America
I live near Detroit, Michigan USA. I heard about this organization on RevolutionZ. I believe parecon is a great, concrete alternative to capitalism. I am very interested to hear what strategies others are using to bring the vision into reality.
Zhongjin Li
Kansas City
United States of America
I'm a political economist interested in a participatory society.
Urška Breznik
Maribor
Slovenia
Active in a municipalist assemblist movement struggling for direct democracy. Active in a collective that organizes workers using co-research method in the field of retail and care. Employed at NGO that works in educating through critical literacy.
Paula de Angelis
Adelaide
Australia
I am a historian and and a liberationist, with a lifelong interest in co-operative community principles and learning from self-organised social movements.
tom charles osher
vilcabamba
Ecuador
Hola, I am a long time radical anarchist activist, founder of a mostly latino, artist, eco-community in Vilcabamba, Ecuador since 2012 (chambalabamba.org). We have some strategies in progress. utopiacornucopia.org
Gary Quayle
Preston
United Kingdom
middle aged British bloke that works in mental health
Charlotte Walters
Albuquerque
United States of America
Participatory Economics with Michael Albert
Nicolai Pulley
Dunn, NC
United States of America
I'm Nicolai, a participist that enjoys rambling about things. I take interest mainly in the economic side of things, and am always open to hear other points of view.
Gregory Wilpert
Alexandria, VA
United States of America
Gregory Wilpert is a German-American sociologist and journalist who has covered Venezuela extensively for a wide variety of publications. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology (Brandeis University, 1994) and is author of the book, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chávez Government (Verso Books, 2007). He is co-founder of the website Venezuelanalysis.com, was director of the teleSUR English website, and host and managing editor for The Real News Network. Currently he works as deputy editor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
Andrej Grubačić
Berkeley
United States of America
Andrej Grubačić is the Founding Chair of the Anthropology and Social
Change department at CIIS-San Francisco, an academic program with an exclusive focus on anarchist anthropology. He is the editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research and is an affiliated faculty member at the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, UC Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid (coauthored with Denis O’Hearn), Don’t Mourn, Balkanize: Essays After Yugoslavia, and Wobblies and Zapatistas (with Staughton Lynd). He is the editor of the PM Press Kairos imprint.
Stephen R Shalom
Montclair
United States of America
Stephen R. Shalom is professor emeritus of political science at William Paterson University in NJ, USA. Among his books are Which Side Are You On? An Introduction to Politics (2003) and an edited collection Socialist Visions (1983). He has proposed a model for a participatory political system (parpolity), elaborated in various articles, including in an essay in Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, ed. Chris Spannos (2008).
Bridget Meehan
Derry
Ireland
I'm co-founder of the Northern Mutual, the campaign for a mutual bank in the north of Ireland, a member of Collaboration for Change and a writer with Collective 20
Sean Michael Wilson
Kumamoto
Japan
An award-winning writer from Scotland.
http://seanmichaelwilson.weebly.com
Marc Ngui
Windsor
Canada
I’m an artist -designer working on radically optimistic speculative world building projects. I am based in Windsor, Ontario,Canada.
Doris Atkinson
Tumwater
United States of America
TCD PCO and ex 2nd vice chair
Michael Albert
EDINBURGH
United Kingdom
I am a Lecturer in Global Environmental Politics at the University of Edinburgh. My research explores the global politics of climate, energy, and food system transformations.
Daniel Mathews
Melbourne
Australia
I've been involved in various activities over the years, including IOPS (International Organisation for a Participatory Society).
David Johnston
Paia
United States of America
Born and raised in Maui, David is a festival, retreat, and event director and curator bringing you the experiences you enjoy. Currently, I am working on starting a vegan platform cooperative, and I'm looking for co-founders.
Ken Burch
Olympia
United States of America
62 year-old human, grandparent(soon to be great-grandparent) poet, sometimes songwriter, retired ferry boat crewmember, 2019 graduate of The Evergreen State College, seeking the world we need.
Miguel Serrano
Albany
United States of America
Former Director for Wellness & Programs at the Capital District YMCA. Currently active as a U-CAN Mentor in collaboration with the Big Brothers Big Sisters Program.
Tom Smith
Munich
Germany
From Ireland originally, I am a geographer and member of the Community Economies Research Network. My current research interests relate to postcapitalist geography and economic localisation, amongst others.
Julián Rodríguez
Buenos Aires
Argentina
I'm 27 years old and a student of Political Science at Universidad de General Sarmiento here in Argentina. I'm also an aspiring journalist. I came to know about RealUtopia when I interviewed Professor Peter Bohmer, who encouraged me to join.
Marcia Bookstein
LA JOLLA
United States of America
professional tutti cellist
Ferdia O'Brien
Dublin
Ireland
Ferdia H. O'Brien is a futurist and host of After The Oligarchy (aftertheoligarchy.com). He is writing a book (with Anders Sandström) revising and expanding a detailed model of a Participatory Economy.
Ira Allen
Flagstaff, AZ
United States of America
Rhetorical and political theorist; pragmatic utopian; catastrophic originalist
Rahat Ulain
Lahore
Pakistan
Retired Government Servant, and currently Founding Director and Professor of Practice of the School of Governance and Society, University of Management and Society, Lahore, Pakistan.
David West
Westport
United States of America
60s activist- anti-war, community organizing, tenant rights, etc. Union steward, affordable housing city "official". Retired.
Luke Martell
United Kingdom
UK academic
William Potgieter
Pretoria
South Africa
I draw construction drawings for bridges, reservoirs and other larger infrastructure projects.
Harry Kershner
Portland
United States of America
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Florian
Durham
United Kingdom
I am interested in working around participatory economics.
Alex Kilcran
Rugby
United Kingdom
I've been in recovery from liberalism since 2007, and a proponent of participatory ideas since around 2010.
Ty Saxon
Seattle
United States of America
I live in Seattle and teach economics in Bellevue, WA.
Joe Barnwell
Crescent City
United States of America
Think of me as a red-green Judi Barian revolutionary ecologist. I apply life's pattern of organization to the creation of community and revolutioinary movements
Maximilian Niedermayr
Traun
Austria
I‘m 26 years old and live in Traun (close to Linz), Austria. I study social economics and sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. For 10 years I’m practicing left political activism. I‘m a member of the social democrats party in Austria.
Deck Hazen
Kerikeri
New Zealand
Hi folks,
I learned about you from Michael Albert - I'm currently in his class "No Bosses ..."
I'm 70 years old and I've been a socialist since my early years at the University of California, Santa Cruz where I read a bit of Marx and Hegel. I joined the Social Workers Party and drove to the east coast one summer to attend the conference. Since those years I've worked in the computer industry and when I moved to New Zealand I worked with a number of progressive groups and made a few video (some of which may still be on line).
A recent stroke has cut in to my ability to work, but I'd still like to keep learning.
William Campagna
Cotati
United States of America
Longtime civil rights activist. Disability rights OG, Draft Counselor, founder/Chief Negotiator AFSCME 2620, Disability Chair Jackson '88, Project Interdependence Youth leadership Director, NCIPA member, CA ADA Implementation Leader, etc.
Richard Schuitema
Aberdeen
United Kingdom
Web developer. Always on the look-out for the chance to be part of an organized mass movement with the spirit of Occupy, but with functional, mass decision-making processes and a clear vision
Antonio F.
Olympia
United States of America
Interested in Migration Studies, Latin America
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Chicago
United States of America
Mitchell Szczepanczyk is a software engineer and longtime political activist. He has contributed to two books on participatory economy.
Richard Hull
Frome
United Kingdom
I have a life-long interest and involvement in co-operatives. I am currently Programme Director for the Masters Programme in Social Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, University of London
Alexandria Shaner
Carriacou
Grenada
Sailor, writer, & organizer from Sint Maarten and the USA - currently living aboard a sailboat based in Carriacou.
Environmental and animal rights activist, Parecon enthusiast.
David Somekh
Ventnor
United Kingdom
I and others set up the European Health Futures Forum (www.ehff.eu) in 2013. It is now a Charity registered in Ireland. We promote a holistic transformation of health and healthcare in which participatory engagement is a key element
Peter Bohmer
Olympia, WA
United States of America
Activist for racial, economic and global justice since the 1960’s. Advocate for participatory socialism. I teach economics and political economy at The Evergreen Stare College, member of Economics for Everyone.
David Rovics
Portland
United States of America
Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster, member of Portland Emergency Eviction Response
Matic Primc
Maribor
Slovenia
I currently work in promoting participatory processes in local self-governance, focusing on participatory budgeting. I also work as a consultant for cooperatives in the area of improving in group organization.
Paulo Rodriguez
Tienen
Belgium
Born and raised in Panama, moved to Belgium after Operation Just Cause.