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

[Michel Bauwens]

not only hasn't it made Matthew rich, it has rather made him very poor ...
to be clear, Matthew is working his ass off for a better world, and fully
engaged through personal sacrifice.

as much as I appreciate your technical expertise, it seems to me there is an
underlying tendency to personalize the criticisms as flaws in the person
that is critiqued, for example assuming that Ellen Brown was financed by the
banking cartel, while nothing could be further from the truth ..

I think we can air our grievances and critiques without necessarily imputing
ill will to those we disagree with ... (I'll make an exception for the
banksters myself <g>, in view of overwhelming evidence ... but I haven't
seen evidence of malfeasance in people like Ellen and Matthew)

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Devin Balkind
<devin at sarapisfoundation.org>wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> Tadit
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>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:37:49 -0400, Michel Bauwens
>> <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
>>
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
>> > Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:31 AM
>> > Subject: "protest currencies" ?
>> > To:
>> >
>> >
>> > http://matslats.net/protest_currencies
>> >
>> >
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