From theendofmoney at gmail.com Sat Nov 5 12:57:37 2011 From: theendofmoney at gmail.com (Kellia Ramares-Watson) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 12:57:37 -0700 Subject: [GiftEconomy] After Occupation: Creating prosperity & sustainability for all Message-ID: is the new name of the book I have been working on that was formerly called The End of Money: A critique of paying, owing and working "for a living". After Occupation still takes the demonetarist view that the root of just about all our problems is the need or greed for money and the abolition of monetary systems is the root of just about all our solutions. It is just that in the current money-based world most people are unwilling to buy a book that advocates abolishing money, and too many people were thinking that I was advocating some utopia in which we are not working at all and letting robots do it all while we drank beer on the sofa. (Sort of like the movie Wall-E). Nothing could be further from the truth, so I needed to make a little PR change. Please visit http://www.indiegogo.com/After_Occupation ASAP. It is the link to a fundraising campaign I have just this morning started to raise an "advance" for the book. David and I welcome and thank you in advance for any financial contribution you are able to make yourselves, BUT everyone on this particular email was contacted primarily because you have a lot of connections. It is critical that this project (which includes a 12.5 minute video you'll want to see) go viral. Unlike it's more well known cousin, Kickstarter, which is an all-or-nothing model that pays out only at the end of the campaign, IndieGoGo has a flexible funding option where we are sent PayPal contributions immediately. And although there are higher administrative fees if we do not make our goal--we are rebated part of the fees if we do--we get to keep whatever we raise. David and I are broke and without an income stream to make December's rent (and most of our bills in Novemeber). He thought he was getting a holiday job but the business is owned by a husband and wife and while the wife wanted David to be hired, the husband picked three other people. We have some evidence to indicate it was an issue of David being overqualified and the husband being afraid that he would leave early for something better. He has a second interview for a restaurant job tomorrow but the restaurant is not yet open, so even if he gets the job, he won't get paid in time to make the rent. Funds from the two radio programs I am preparing this month will also not cover the rent and we have other bills to pay in the meantime. We don't expect the landlord to be very patient despite my 23 years of residence here. When I had my heart attack in 2007, he had a representative call me four days after I was released from the hospital to make sure I had means to pay the rent during my recouperation. He charges a $25 per day late fee and as our lease is up at the end of the year, he may choose no to renew if he sees we are in financial trouble. Our backs are really up against the wall. We have already been to a food bank once and will probably have to go again this month. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help you make this project viral. I can write an article for your website or give you and interview if you are a journalist. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks again. -- Kellia Ramares-Watson Oakland, CA Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/TheEndOfMoney Twitter: EndofMoney Why must we pay to live on a planet we're born on? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: