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. <br>
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Please visit <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/After_Occupation">http://www.indiegogo.com/After_Occupation</a> 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.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
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Thanks again.<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kellia Ramares-Watson<br>Oakland, CA<br>Facebook:<a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheEndOfMoney" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/TheEndOfMoney</a><br>Twitter: EndofMoney<br>
<br><div style="display: inline;"></div><div style="display: inline;"></div>Why must we pay to live on a planet we're born on?<br>