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SF Bay Area Community Exchange Meeting (alternative currencies, barterning networks, etc)

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Date:
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Time:
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Type:
Meeting
Organizer/Author:
Heather
Email:
Location Details:
Spud's Pizza (parlor meeting room)
3290 Adeline St (~3 blocks north of Ashby BART)
Berkeley, CA

SF Bay Area Community Exchange Meeting
Sunday, March 1, 2009
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Spud's Pizza (parlor meeting room)
3290 Adeline St (~3 blocks north of Ashby BART)
Berkeley, CA

This is the second meeting of a group of enthusiastic and talented community activists (40 strong so far) who are starting a local currency and/or bartering network in order to facilitate a more just and sustainable local economy. Give a holler if you need help with getting to the meeting. The meetings will likely alternate between SF and East Bay biweekly. If you are interested, subscribe to sfbacommunityexchange-subscribe [at] yahoogroups.com or jump on our "ning" discussion group at http://bayareacommunityexchange.ning.com/ . Contact Heather at madredecleo [at] yahoo.com for more info.

Reasons for developing a local means of exchange:
-the collapsing economy and the associated rise of poverty
-better pay equity and fuller employment
-development of stronger community relations
-more environmentally sound production of goods and reduced energy use for distribution
-less money going to the government's wars
-supports local workers and withdraws support for exploitation of workers abroad
-to enjoy life more, less time working at a desk job and more time gardening, taking care of family, etc.
-reflection of community values in and community control over economic system
-greater self and community sufficiency as peak oil becomes a challenge...
Added to the calendar on Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:26PM

Comments (Hide Comments)
by KingofthePaupers
Jct: When I visited Europe in 1999, I paid for 39/40 nights of accommodations with an IOU for a night back in Canada worth 5 Hours.
It's only a matter of time until all systems based on the Time Standard of Money will use the internet to intertrade globally. I did.
We need the United Nations Millennium Declaration UNILETS Resolution C6 to governments for a time-based currency to restructure the global financial architecture. Barter Timebanks are economic lifeboats.
See my banking systems engineering analysis at http://youtube.com/kingofthepaupers with an index of articles at http://johnturmel.com/kotp.htm
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