May 23rd, 2012 | Currency, D.I.Y., banking, Bill Still, Canada, debt, debt-peonage, libertarian, money, money system
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. She recites this from memory at the First Annual Public Banking Conference in Philadelphia, April 27-28, 2012.
May 18th, 2012
Source: Nation of Change By Ellen Brown The Social Security program ... represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute. -- President Jimmy Carter, December 20, 1977. ...
April 12th, 2012
Source: www.courthousenews.com Monsanto and Big Tobacco Blamed for Birth Defects WILMINGTON, Del. (CN) - Monsanto, Philip Morris and other U.S. tobacco giants knowingly poisoned Argentinean tobacco farmers with pesticides, causing "devastating birth defects" in their children, dozens of worker ...
November 30th, 2011
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 ...
November 1st, 2011
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 ...
October 26th, 2011
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 ...
October 19th, 2011
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 ...
October 14th, 2011
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 ...
October 3rd, 2011
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 ...
August 1st, 2011
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 ...
