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

[Andrea Dorey]

One way to help a work-hours exchange actually function would be to  
publish a Green Party member skills directory for those who would be  
interested in participating.  It could list the skills of the  
enlisting new member and include the skills that the person would be  
interested in exchanging with.
I would take part.
Andrea
PS - would gift cards qualify?  discount coupons? (in response to  
Drew's vouchers)

On Dec 16, 2006, at 7:15 PM, JamBoi 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
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>
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