Integrative as an
adjective means: necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental.
Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede,
or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change, or stasis. The
term connotes a peaceful form of conflict.
What is Integral Activism? It’s a unique form of
activism designed to support, coordinate, integrate, and alter more traditional
forms of advocacy and activism. Integral Activism is in the business of helping
to make the world a better place for as many as possible. After all, the best
way to do that is to support the people already doing the work. A business
model is being considered for the legal structure as it has far fewer
restrictions than various non-profit structures. Final decisions are dependent
on legal counsel.
Integral
Activism (hereafter referred to as IA)
has several functions including the following.
Fundraising
and Promotion of Existing Organizations:
IA operates
on the premise that one of the best ways to make the world a better place is to
support those doing good and noble work. With more than 1.5 million charitable
organizations in the U.S. alone, choosing whom to support can be an overwhelming
prospect. The intention of IA is to
simplify this process for you. One donation to IA and you can support a wide
variety of worthwhile causes and organizations. To make this easy IA will offer nonprofit packages analogous to diversified funds typical offered by investment firms. This may help donors gain exposure to organizations that have remained unexamined. In the future IA may also develop a pick with a click option so donors can choose their preferences. Development of this function, Integrative Charity, presently awaits legal council to properly create an appropriate account so donors may receive full tax deducible status for donating. Visit the “Who We Support” page to view a list charitable organizations with helpful links that need your help.
Integrating
Organizations, Issues, and Efforts:
There are
currently multiple organizations working for the same ends and many
interrelated issues that need to be better coordinated. IA is dedicated to integrating a variety of issues, individuals,
and organizations for more effective outcomes. Deep Demonstration Dates has been developed to provide more common and recurring dates for organizations to utilize.
New
Campaigns and Initiatives:
IA is
dedicated to researching the best information and insights to create new groups
for and methods of disseminating important and factual unbiased information,
organizing events, re-framing pertinent issues to positively affect our society.
Some of these initiatives include:
The Enemies Projects - a collaborative effort to identify the greatest enemies (individuals and organizations) of justice, truth, democracy and life on Earth.
True(d) Patriots - because one cannot be a true patriot unless one knows the truth of our history
Contempt of Constituency - a person can be convicted of contempt of the court and contempt of congress so our elected representatives should be required by law to be honest with their constituents. Let's introduce legislation to make it a crime for an elected representative to knowingly lie to the public. We may not be able to pass such a law because congress controls the legislative process, but we could use this to vet our candidates in the same way that Grover Norquist uses the no new tax pledge.
SbNnR = Spiritual but Not necessarily Religious - The number of people who consider themselves to spiritual but not religious has been steadily growing for at least fifty years. It is time for these people to organize because the world is in a spiritual crisis.
The Society of Global Democrats - People from almost every country dedicated to the promotion of democratic principles and ideals need to unite and coordinate efforts to protect democracy from our common enemies. The ISDS is perhaps the most insidious institution undermining democratic functions in a global context. The banksters also pose a common threat.
