[P2P-F] Fwd: "protest currencies" ?

[Devin Balkind]

Tadit.  I'm surprised at your response.  First, the CommunityForge people
have built a workable, free/libre/opensource tool set that makes it easy for
groups to start a gifting network and LETs exchange using the popular Drupal
CMS.  I don't think it's made them rich.  Second, the author's idea is
general and is basically saying that protesters should start printing
currencies and using them as a tool to create discussion around our monetary
system.  Sounds good to me.

I've read your posts on this list and recognize that you have a very
thoughtful opinion about these issues so I wonder if you could dig a little
deeper and explain your response to the group.

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:04 AM, <ideasinc at ee.net> wrote:

> This is to my eye a piece of massive opportunistic self promotion by the
> "Community Forge" people who operate out Geneva, Sw. They press for the
> variety of community currencies which they run their business by hosting
> one single variety of community currency, and it is as debt based as the
> federal debt based currencies that they are promoting as "protest
> currencies." If all that is available to advocate for such
> non-alternatives is that there a tenuous validation by an asserted
> association of "Protest" with the rising of resistance, this is a fraud at
> its core.
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> Tadit
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> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:37:49 -0400, Michel Bauwens
> <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
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> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:31 AM
> > Subject: "protest currencies" ?
> > To:
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> > http://matslats.net/protest_currencies
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Devin Balkind
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