[GiftEconomy] Intro

Sat Oct 30 20:00:49 PDT 2010

Thanks, Ken, I have got another one that is going to be released this week.

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Kenneth Dowst <kdowst at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi, Kellia,
>
> Just wanted to say that I've enjoyed your WINGS broadcasts over the years.
> Heard here--central Connecticut--on WESU-FM, Middletown.
>
> Best, Ken
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:23:32 -0700
> From: theendofmoney at gmail.com
> To: dante.monson at gmail.com
> CC: gifteconomy at lists.gifteconomy.org; alan at shadesofgreymedia.com;
> jay.standish at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [GiftEconomy] Intro
>
>
> Hi, Dante, Alan and Jay,
>
>  I know nothing about Alan Rosenblith's video initiatives, but thanks for
> the links and I will take a look. In the last few days I have been
> introduced to quite a number of resources and I have to get into all of
> them.
>
> Have any of you heard of the website Architects of a New Dawn?
> architectsofanewdawn.ning.com I put my video on ny page there and brought
> it to the attention of the "Transformative Media" group of the site. It has
> generated some discussion there  and some information. If you are not
> alsready members, you might want to look at signing up.
>
> Dante said:
> I know Alan and Jay are currently also in a process of fundraising for a
> new series of crowdsourced video making : http://www.symbionomics.com/
>
> Perhaps some space for collaboration / partnerships ?
>
> I am certainly open to ideas. Be aware that I  worked as a journalist for
> over 11 years at a non-profit radio station and this is my first plan for a
> video project. I know nothing about fundraising, sales and marketing etc.
> "Dammit, Jim, I am a policy wonk, not a development specialist." So I am not
> sure I have anything to contribute to such an effort.
>
> Kellia
>
>  On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
> dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Kellia, ( cc: Jay, Alan - I feel like letting you know about the gift
> economy list<http://lists.gifteconomy.org/listinfo.cgi/gifteconomy-gifteconomy.org>,
> and Kellia's introduction  )
>
>  do you know about some of the video initiatives by Alan Rosenblith :
>
> http://www.themoneyfix.org/
>
> trailer :
>
> http://www.themoneyfix.org/videos/money-fix-trailer
>
> although the initial "money fix" video may have been more focused on the
> "first" category you mention ( as a transition ? ) ,
>
> I noticed Alan also seems to be considering the "second" ( non-debt based ?
> asymmetric ? ) realm - see :
>
>
> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/beyond-alternative-currencies-towards-asymmetric-account-systems-for-gift-based-markets/2010/10/13
>
> I know Alan and Jay are currently also in a process of fundraising for a
> new series of crowdsourced video making : http://www.symbionomics.com/
>
> Perhaps some space for collaboration / partnerships ?
>
> <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/beyond-alternative-currencies-towards-asymmetric-account-systems-for-gift-based-markets/2010/10/13>I
> am not sure where Alan is currently based, but I know Jay is based in
> Seattle ( perhaps Alan is too ? ).
>
> Greetings from Brussels, Belgium,
> Dante
>
> PS: perhaps this tool can also be used for fundraising :
>
> http://flattr.com/
>  <http://flattr.com/>
>
>   On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Kellia Ramares <
> theendofmoney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>
> My name is Kellia Ramares and I am a 55 year-old freelance journalist in
> Oakland, CA. I see the gift economy as the way to create a just, peaceful
> and prosperous world for all on a planet that is well taken care of because
> the financial incentive to degrade the environment, e.g. BP's shortcuts in
> the Gulf to save money, will have been removed.
>
> I have recently started a project called "The End of Money", which is
> designed to get people around the world to ask the question "why must we pay
> to live on the planet we're born on?" I have a project page on
> Kickstarter.com (URL in my sig below) to raise money for a book and
> documentary on the subject. That is not as odd as it first appears because
> the world as it exists NOW demands money for projects like these.
>
> There is an introductory video on the page, which I invite all of you to
> view and distribute freely. It tells you more about why I think we need to
> go in this direction, although I talk in terms of abolishing money rather
> than gift economy. There is also an essay on the page which gives more
> information and further explains why I am asking for money to end money and
> what the money will be used for. The fundraiser is an all or nothing
> proposition. So if you like the video and are willing to send it on, I'll
> hope you will make a donation as well.
>
> I also have a website (URL below) that is free to read, download from, and
> discuss things on.
>
> Calls for  monetary reform seem to fall into two camps: The first seeks to
> reform but not abolish the concept  of money and monetary systems through
> such things as local currencies and, in the US, state banks and abolishing
> the Fed. These are good transition steps toward what I think the second camp
> advocates -- the gift economy. I'm in that second camp. I wish most strongly
> for people to examine the values that undergird the money economy
> (capitalistic and socialistic), which is why I am asking "Why must we pay to
> live on the planet we're born on?" I think that is the question from which
> everything else proceeds.
>
> If you are are Facebook, I invite you to "like" my page The End Of Money.
> (Yes, I have heard of, but not yet read, the Thomas Greco book, my full
> working is The End Of Money: A Critique of Paying, Owing and Working "for a
> living."
>
> I know of various experiments with free stores, but I am most interested in
> hearing about how you get people to discuss the value systems behind the
> practical economics.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kellia
>
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> Oakland, CA
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> Web Site : http://endmoney.info/
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> Twitter: EndofMoney
>
>  Why must we pay to live on a planet we're born on?
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>  Why must we pay to live on a planet we're born on?
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