[Sosfbay-discuss] Community Currency (was Re: Fwd: Green Party Values--at a bank???)

[JamBoi]

In terms of currency in general (not so much 'community currency' per
se) all these new gift cards can certainly qualify.

Green solidarity!

Drew

--- JamBoi <jamboi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I came up with another few that aren't necessarily local or
> necessarily
> legal to trade: food stamps, and CaLWORKs food vouchers, WIC
> vouchers,
> gas vouchers, taxi vouchers.
> 
> I'd like to come up with some more local ones.
> 
> Green solidarity!
> 
> Drew
> 
> --- Fred Duperrault <fredd at freeshell.org> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, car wash tokens in Mtn View.
> > 
> > Fred
> > 
> > I really, really like this idea of community currency!  I was
> > thinking
> > about how we could practically put this idea in effect in the short
> > run. One form of community currency I thought of that would work
> for
> > at
> > least some people are VTA day pass tokens.  Can anyone think of
> > others
> > forms that are available now in Santa Clara County?
> > 
> > Green solidarity!
> > 
> > Drew
> > 
> > --- Tian Harter <tnharter at ispwest.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 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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JamBoi
Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer

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