transitioning to ethical banks
hi amaia or sepp?, could you find out more about the following and announce/report on our blog? see http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2011/07/report-lisbon-international-meeting... Transition Day Proposition: The proposal is to start an international campaign for everybody to take their money out of the commercial banks and pass it to ethic banks and credit cooperatives, or create new ones. It consist of a big campaign to show what the traditional banks are doing with our money but also promote the credit coops and the projects they finance. People can do it without changing anything on the way they use their money (debt cards, etc) they can have a bank account that will not contribute to war and exploitation. So this action will have two fronts: take the money out from the bankers elites, and also put more money available for sustainable projects who will contribute to everybody and help to heal the world. One day of the month would be the transition day, maybe the 10th or any day because that would have the most impact on the market, every month, so the people gets used to it and we will use the same comunication. Organization: Tati (from Barcelona) made a presentation some credit cooperative and ethic banks like Triodos or the Catalan Integral Cooperative http://cooperativa.ecoxarxes.cat started one year ago by Enric Duran, and Laurent (from Namur) present the Belgium Eltys Cooperative. We created the blog transitionday.wordpress.com who is looking for collaboration to explain the problem of the banks and spread information about ethic bank possibilities. Now we can start to archive the material (video, audio, text…) and link similar projects like moveyourmoney.org or banksters.com. We also created a group Transition Day in N-1.cc to share ideas about the organization. We talked about organising conferences and make anti-banksters actions during this transition days. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
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Michel Bauwens