[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: Green Party Values--at a bank???

[Tian Harter]

It is interesting. There was a Berkeley hours program around the
turn of the millenium. I took about two Berkeley hours for some consulting
work in the summer of '99 and had a hard time spending the money.
(Mexican money is MUCH easier to spend than that stuff was.)
Not only that, but nobody ever offered me any again. I would have
taken it, because I'm always up for an interesting spending experience,
but they seem to have gone away at this point in time.

Tian

Larry Cafiero Liaison wrote:

> There's nothing like gravity taking its course, Tian (after all, it's 
> not just a good idea, it's the law . . .), but I seem to recall the 
> Ithaca Hours program, which I believe was formed by a Green in Ithaca, 
> N.Y., in the '90s and seems to be thriving in that upstate N.Y. town.
>
> Here's their site: http://www.lightlink.com/hours/ithacahours/
>
> It's a very interesting concept, to say the least.
>
> Larry Cafiero
> Liaison to the Secretary of State
> Green Party of California
>
> Tian Harter wrote:
>
>> What's a "community currency"? I had a Mexican 20 pesos
>> note in my wallet for a couple of weeks. Spending it had many
>> of the same challenges in it that spending some other community
>> currency had. I ended up getting a dozen eggs from it at a
>> Farmers Market.
>>
>> I've met people that think a greenback working to aquire
>> something is proof the world works. I'm not so sure. I like to
>> ground my sense of reality by dropping a coin in a piggy bank
>> every now and then. One reason is that most of the communities
>> I consider myself to be part of have some respect for the laws of 
>> physics.
>> The sound of a coin landing is evidence that the laws of physics
>> work for me.
>>
>> I'm going to use A California quarter to push the send button
>> for this post, and then drop it in my pink piggy bank. Please
>> notice that no laws were broken in the making of this post.
>>
>> JamBoi wrote:
>>
>>> I note that at the bottom of the page it lists Carol Brouillet as a
>>> contributer.  I'm not very up on it but I understand that Carol has
>>> worked for years on the concept of 'Community Currency'.  Before Carol
>>> got involved in exposing the truth of 9/11 she was into 'Community
>>> Currencies', hence the name of her web site:
>>> http://www.communitycurrency.org
>>>
>>> Here's a clearer description of what community currencies are about:
>>> http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/CC.html
>>>
>>> Green solidarity!
>>>
>>> Drew
>>> --- Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> FYI, folks!
>>>> Andrea
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>> From: "John Pozzi" <john.pozzi at worldnet.att.net>
>>>>> Date: December 8, 2006 4:42:18 PM PST
>>>>> To: <andid at cagreens.org>
>>>>> Subject: Green Party Values
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Ms. Dorey,
>>>>>
>>>>> The Green Party Values of Ecological Wisdom, Grassroots Democracy, 
>>>>>     
>>>>> Social Justice, Nonviolence. Decentralization, ,Community-Based  
>>>>> Economics. Feminism, Respect for Diversity, Global Responsibility  
>>>>> andSustainability are enacted by the Global Reserve Bank charter at
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>> www.grb.net.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> John Pozzi
>>>>> 126 SE 3 Street
>>>>> Hallandale Beach Fl 33009 USA
>>>>> 954 260 4861
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>
>>
>


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