[Sosfbay-discuss] Stephen Zarlenga Monetary Seminars

[Carol Brouillet]

Dear activists,

   I want to alert you of Stephen Zarlenga's upcoming events, 
including one in Palo Alto this Saturday, as well as a new film on 
Money that friends of mine made entitled Life on the Edge of a Bubble 
(http://www.lifeontheedgeofabubble.com/).  World Centric has been 
hosting a series of films on Money and the financial crisis.  Tonight 
(at 7:30 pm) they will be showing another one, and Zarlenga's 
colleague, Steven Walsh, who is writing a book on colonial scrips at 
the time of the American Revolution will be leading the discussion 
that follows.  Dennis Kucinich, who met his wife, Elizabeth, when she 
was lobbying for monetary reform for AMI, has introduced the best 
legislature, so far to address the financial problem at the root 
level, he has been attending the annual Monetary Reform Conferences 
that Zarlenga has been organizing annually.  My major issue in the 
90's was Money/Global Economics, and I finally read Zarlenga's book 
last Christmas (having been sidetracked by the 9/11 issue for many 
years) and it covers vital history that I was unaware of.  I have 
great respect for him and his work.  I hope you can attend one of 
these events, as I think this issue is incredibly timely.  I'm sorry 
the local event conflicts with the Spaghetti dinner...

All the best!
Carol Brouillet
http://www.communitycurrency.org


Stephen Zarlenga will be arriving Saturday and giving three monetary seminars-

Meet Stephen Zarlenga,
author of The Lost Science of Money, & founder of the American 
Monetary Institute.

Saturday, May 2, 2009, 7:30 pm
World Centric Community Space
    2121 Staunton Court, Palo Alto

Sunday, May 3, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
The Red Victorian
1665 Haight Street, San Francisco [(415) 864-1978]

Monday, May 4, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Fairfax Regional Marin Library
2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax [(415) 453-8151]
How did the Banks Break our Money System Again?
Why doesn't it work for America?
Learn more about money in 3 hours than most economists learn (or will 
tell) in a lifetime!
The Seminar will Discuss: * America's Monetary Power has been usurped 
and privatized, leading to collapse and ultimately unemployment and 
warfare! * How and why the money power must be restored to society 
where it can be used to promote the general welfare, instead of 
corrupt private agendas.
  * How the money power became privatized, and is kept in place by 
false theory.
* A three step program that restores it to society.
* Why we should nationalize the Money System (the Federal reserve) 
NOT the banking system. (banking isn't a proper function of 
government, but the money supply is a government prerogative)
* Why inflation need not be a problem.
* How the facts demonstrate that counter to prevailing prejudice, 
governmental control of money has a far superior record than private control.
  * Why it is crucial that the power to create any part of our money 
supply be completely removed from banks, for any reform to work. This 
is a hands on do-able reality based program, not a theory, with many 
U.S. historical precedents, and more going as far back as Classical 
Greece and Rome. The Money system acts like a fourth branch of 
government, generally affecting our daily lives more than the 
Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches combined. Yet it has 
been privatized and is largely outside the control of our democratic 
system of checks and balances where it has unfairly concentrated 
wealth to obscene levels among other injustices.
The American Monetary Institute is America's leading think tank 
focusing on monetary history, theory and reform. Each September we 
hold a 3 day monetary reform conference at Roosevelt University, 
where cutting edge experts speak on those subjects. Each quarter the 
Institute offers this free introductory seminar. This seminar is 
designed for people who'd like a good background on how our money 
system works, why its not working well, how to fix it, and what 
benefits would follow in terms of infrastructure and health care and 
education; and how our society has the power to begin creating a 
superior future world, instead of getting mired in stupidity and warfare.
About Stephen Zarlenga-

Stephen Zarlenga draws on 35 years of experience in the world of 
finance, securities, insurance, mutual funds, real estate, and 
futures trading. He has published 20 books on money, banking, 
politics and philosophy (including The Anglo American Establishment, 
by Prof. Carrol Quigley). While in his mid 20s he incorporated the 
Athenian branch of an English life insurance company, earlier opening 
several European markets for the parent firm, IOS.
A few years later he built the U.S. distribution network of the then 
leading American mutual fund concentrating in gold shares. As a 
member of the New York Futures Exchange (a subsidiary of the New York 
Stock Exchange) he specialized in trading the complex CRB futures 
index for several years. Thus the author is more than familiar with 
both the practical and theoretical sides of our market economy. Yet 
he calls into question and challenges the basis, and Achilles' heel, 
of American Capitalism: the private control and resulting 
misdirection of the nation's monetary system.

Stephen Zarlenga holds a degree in Psychology from the University of 
Chicago (and has done postgraduate work at NYU), where he was in the 
final graduating class under the revered Hutchins' curriculum which 
focused on critical reading and thought. This training, combined with 
his work experience, and years of research, enabled him to 
re-formulate the Lost Science of Money.
The author began focused research on the money problem in 1991, 
eventually drawing on over 800 monetary source books and materials to 
formulate this thesis. In 1996, he helped establish the American 
Monetary Institute to further the research. In 1999, Conzett Verlag 
of Zurich, Switzerland translated and published the work in German. 
This expanded English version released in 2002, establishes the 
author as a leading voice in the field of monetary history, theory and reform.
Tonight's film at World Centric in Palo Alto-

May 1st: I.O.U.S.A.

I.O.U.S.A. the movie boldly examines the rapidly growing national 
debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. 
With surgical precision, Creadon interweaves archival footage and 
economic data to paint a vivid and alarming profile of America's 
current economic situation. The ultimate power of I.O.U.S.A. is that 
the film moves beyond doomsday rhetoric to proffer potential 
financial scenarios and propose solutions about how we can recreate a 
fiscally sound nation for future generations. (85 mins, 2009)




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