Hi Kellia, ( cc: Jay, Alan - I feel like letting you know about the <a href="http://lists.gifteconomy.org/listinfo.cgi/gifteconomy-gifteconomy.org">gift economy list</a>, and Kellia's introduction )<div><br></div><div>
<div>do you know about some of the video initiatives by Alan Rosenblith :</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.themoneyfix.org/">http://www.themoneyfix.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>trailer :</div><div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://www.themoneyfix.org/videos/money-fix-trailer">http://www.themoneyfix.org/videos/money-fix-trailer</a></div><div><br></div><div>although the initial "money fix" video may have been more focused on the "first" category you mention ( as a transition ? ) ,<br>
<div><br></div><div>I noticed Alan also seems to be considering the "second" ( non-debt based ? asymmetric ? ) realm - see :</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/beyond-alternative-currencies-towards-asymmetric-account-systems-for-gift-based-markets/2010/10/13">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/beyond-alternative-currencies-towards-asymmetric-account-systems-for-gift-based-markets/2010/10/13</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I know Alan and Jay are currently also in a process of fundraising for a new series of crowdsourced video making : <a href="http://www.symbionomics.com/">http://www.symbionomics.com/</a></div><div><br>
</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Perhaps some space for collaboration / partnerships ?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/beyond-alternative-currencies-towards-asymmetric-account-systems-for-gift-based-markets/2010/10/13"></a>I am not sure where Alan is currently based, but I know Jay is based in Seattle ( perhaps Alan is too ? ).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Greetings from Brussels, Belgium,</div><div>Dante</div><div><br></div><div>PS: perhaps this tool can also be used for fundraising :</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://flattr.com/">http://flattr.com/</a></div>
<div><a href="http://flattr.com/"></a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Kellia Ramares <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:theendofmoney@gmail.com">theendofmoney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello,<br><br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>I also have a website (URL below) that is free to read, download from, and discuss things on. <br><br>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. <br>
<br>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."<br>
<br>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.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Kellia<br clear="all"><br>
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