Indian street youth develop their own banking system
Interesting to see how these kids set up their own support system and are so responsible! Very impressive example :)
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July 14, 2012
Seedstock – Currency for a more connected, sustainable and happier future
Seedstock is a community currency initiative for Vancouver and the Lower Mainland that is designed to help catalyse a more vibrant, connected and resilient local economy with greater opportunities for the talented people of this region to earn a livelihood by sharing their gifts.
June 7, 2012
Muffin Exchange – Changing the World One Muffin at a Time
The bicycling Muffin Man's pay-it-forward muffin exchange. We need a few of these in every city!
June 2, 2012
SeedStock – Vancouver’s Community Currency
Community currencies improve the connectedness of communities and encourage a more vibrant and diverse local economy.
May 31, 2012
Rethink the Concept of Banks and Currencies
What will banks of the 21st century look like? Well not like you think! Public banking and community currencies are the future of our world.
May 29, 2012
A lesson in banking practices from young Victoria Grant
Victoria Grant is a 12-year-old Canadian. Her father and she discovered that the debt money system was what was wrong with the Canadian economy and decided to do something about it.
May 23, 2012
Indentured Servitude for Seniors: Social Security Garnished for Student Debts
Predatory lenders are keeping us in debt peonage through misguided economics and bank-captured legislators. We just need to recognize our oppressors and throw off their yoke...
May 18, 2012
Canada Debt by http://occupyourbank.ca/Money-The_Canadian_Experience.php
Oh Canada! Time to Bring Back Your Public Banking System.
Even the world's most resource-rich country has now been caught in the debt trap. Its once-proud government programs are being subjected to radical budget cuts--cuts that could have been avoided if the government had not quit borrowing from its own central bank in the 1970s.
April 27, 2012
Sacred Economics
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism. The money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth.
April 21, 2012
Occupy Student Debt – Refuse to Pay
Democracy Now interviews Pamala Brown and Andrew Ross on the movement to refuse to pay student debt until we get certain demands met, including free public education. Sign up now.
November 30, 2011