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Occupy Student Debt – Refuse to Pay

I am very excited to see this movement. There is so much student debt in the US at the moment that even if a fraction of the students came together to stop paying their student debt it would have a huge effect on the economy. Those in debt actually have a huge power here and they are finally wising up to how they can throw their weight around and get some of their demands met. We can grab the economy by the tail and give it a good shake and make the politicians sit up and listen. I fully agree that education should be free and of good quality. I have been waiting for this idea to catch on. As we have seen, certain people will only listen to money, or the threat of the removal of a source of money. The excessive crack down by educational institutions of the Occupy Movement was the last straw. Their true character has been fully revealed.

I am very glad to see this debt peonage issue finally getting more attention, but we still need to spread the word. The sooner we get to 1 million signatures the sooner we can get the ball in our court. Please sign to show your support and share this with everyone you know, also, check out this excellent interview:

Guerrilla Money

Guerrilla Money

This guest blog is from Vancouver's own open-money champion, Jordan Bober, who just recently did a detailed and thoughtful presentation: Community Money For Community Food last week, which I sadly missed, fortunately we have the internet so this presentation is available. For anyone who is intereste ...

How You Can Support Village #Occupy

How You Can Support Village #Occupy

I've been spending all the time I can lately down Village #Occupy Vancouver. It is so lovely to have a new-old village in the middle of the downtown! I have mostly been listening to people, I have heard complaints about the system from all kinds and I have heard complements about the movement from a ...

Vancouver’s Open Money Community

Vancouver’s Open Money Community

This article is reposted with permission from Jordan Bober who is spearheading getting Vancouver's own community currency going! The Dunbar Dollar is the first step in this project. Another fun idea for a way to show your support for the #Occupy Vancouver movement is to posted here. The Dunbar Do ...

Art as Money – Spend Your Art

Art as Money – Spend Your Art

I was recently informed of this very cool project that is sweeping the globe! Art as money. Buy your money, spend your art. We do indeed need a whole different way of looking at money, it is a tool that we can use as we please, not something to be controlled by. I find this a very liberating project ...

Battered by Economic Crisis, Greeks Turn to Barter Networks

Battered by Economic Crisis, Greeks Turn to Barter Networks

This is a very exciting movement, people coming together in Greece creating ways to network, exchange goods and services and support each other. The movement for alternative currencies is growing in North America and other western countries as well. There is a group here in Vancouver BC called Vanco ...

Slow Money? How About No Money?

Slow Money? How About No Money?

This is a very interesting talk given by Dmitry Orlov at the Green Life Eco Fest March 2, 2011. Dmitry grew up in Russia and has witnessed the Soviet collapse and now the US collapse. He thinks we should be talking about a No money economy and gives some helpful tips at the end on how we can move ba ...

Why Real Food Bloggers Should Use Flattr

Why Real Food Bloggers Should Use Flattr

I have been using Flattr for a little while now, but since my last site update, many of you may have been wondering what the extra little flattr button is on the top of all of my posts. Flattr is a brilliant way for creative bloggers to share money with blogs they appreciate. If you really love a r ...

Money As Relationship

Money As Relationship

I have been following Ellen Brown's articles ever since reading her book Web of Debt about a year ago. I highly recommend it as it is enjoyable--following the story of the Wizard of Oz--as well as a very eye-opening read. In the meantime, she has just posted this revolutionary article about money as ...

All Hail the Legume

All Hail the Legume

Respect to the Bean I recently had a request for information about beans. I think actually it was more a request about how to cook dried beans than these sorts of facts! For details on soaking beans check out this recipe for refried beans. In the meantime let your mind be titillated with these bi ...