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Today's march is a challenge to the rule of money</h1></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; ">How do we escape a system that's tearing up the world? We say 'no', and do things differently</span><p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; "></span>These are days of rage. Rage�<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/arab-and-middle-east-protests" title="Guardian: Arab and Middle East unrest" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">in the Arab world</a>, of course, but also on the streets of�<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/greece" title="Guardian: Greece" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Athens</a>,�<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/ireland" title="Guardian: Ireland" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Dublin</a>,�<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/italy" title="Guardian: Italy" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Rome</a>,�<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/france" title="Guardian: France" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Paris</a>,�<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/spain" title="Guardian: Spain" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Madrid</a>, and now a�<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/14/anti-cuts-campaigners-26-march" title="Guardian: Anti-cuts campaigners plan 'carnival of civil disobedience'" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">loud clamourous rage on the streets of London</a>.</p>
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An age of crisis is an age of frustrated hopes, frustrated life. We want to go to university but it is too expensive. We need good healthcare, but we cannot pay for it. We need homes, and we can see homes standing empty, but they are not for us. Or, for the millions of people who are starving: we want to eat, we can see that there is plenty of food for everyone, but something stands between us and the food � money, or the lack of it.</p>
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And so we rage. We rage all the more because we do not know what to do with our rage, and how to use our rage to make the world a different place.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">
We rage against the government. But�we know there is no answer there. Representative democracy holds our rage entrapped: like a rat in a�maze, we run from one party to another but there is no exit. Things do not and cannot get better because behind political power stands another, greater power � the power of capital; the power of money.</p>
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And so we rage against the rule of money. Not against money itself, necessarily, because in the present society we need money to live. We rage rather against the rule of money, against a society in which money dominates. Money is a great bulldozer tearing up the world. It is an insidious force penetrating ever more aspects of our lives. Money holds society together, but it does so in a way that tears it apart.</p>
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At one stage it seemed we had pushed the rule of money back, at least in areas like health and education. It was never really so, and for a long time we have seen the progressive re-imposition of the rule of money as the prime criterion for every decision. Now money has emerged in all its arrogance. That is what makes us so angry � the government has proclaimed openly "Money is king, bow low to the king!"</p>
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Rage, then, rage against the rule of money! As long as money rules, injustice and violence prevail � money is the breach between the starving and the food, the gap between the homeless and the houses. As long as money rules we are trapped in a dynamic that nobody controls and that is visibly destroying the possibility of human existence.</p>
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Money seems all powerful, yet it is not. It is merely a form of social cohesion, and depends on our compliance. Say no, then. Do something else, do things in a different way. Refuse and create.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">
In fact we spend a lot of our lives creating spaces we protect from the assault of money. We create no-go areas, we put up signs that say: "Here the people rule! Here, in our relation with our children and our friends, in our schools, in our hospitals there is a different dynamic at work. Money stay out!" We have many different names for these moments or spaces: love or friendship or trust.</p>
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Cracks in the rule of money are everywhere. They can be seen not just in the love of children or friends but in the revolts and experiments where people are saying, "No, we shall not accept the rule of money, we shall do things in a different way". So many refusals and creations, so many dignities � sometimes big, sometimes small, always contradictory. Occupations, social centres, community gardens, alternative radio stations, free software, rebellions, and seminars that concentrate on the only scientific question remaining to us, namely how we can stop our headlong rush towards self-destruction.</p>
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The only hope of creating a radically different world is through the creation, expansion, multiplication and confluence of these cracks. Refuse and create. Push back the rule of money.</p></div><div><br></div><div>---------- Forwarded message ----------</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">frank�</b><br>Date: Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:34 PM<br>Subject: [GiftEconomy] Great powerful little article<br>To: <a href="mailto:gifteconomy@gifteconomy.org">gifteconomy@gifteconomy.org</a>,�<br>
<br><br>Gets to the heart of it. The issue. And the why and how to act. Link<br>
from demonetize:<br>
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/26/protest-rule-of-money" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/26/protest-rule-of-money</a><br>
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:)frank<br>
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--<br>
�It's a revolution. But it's the sort of revolution that no one will<br>
notice. It might get a little shadier, or brighter. Buildings might<br>
function better. You might have less money to earn because your food<br>
is all around you and you don't have any energy costs. �and more<br>
people will be fed, as more land and resources, kept scarce for the<br>
dollar, for the �abundance called glut, �will be shared.<br>
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