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. <br>
<br>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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:04 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ideasinc@ee.net">ideasinc@ee.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
This is to my eye a piece of massive opportunistic self promotion by the<br>
"Community Forge" people who operate out Geneva, Sw. They press for the<br>
variety of community currencies which they run their business by hosting<br>
one single variety of community currency, and it is as debt based as the<br>
federal debt based currencies that they are promoting as "protest<br>
currencies." If all that is available to advocate for such<br>
non-alternatives is that there a tenuous validation by an asserted<br>
association of "Protest" with the rising of resistance, this is a fraud at<br>
its core.<br>
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Tadit<br>
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:37:49 -0400, Michel Bauwens<br>
<<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
> From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:31 AM<br>
> Subject: "protest currencies" ?<br>
> To:<br>
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> <a href="http://matslats.net/protest_currencies" target="_blank">http://matslats.net/protest_currencies</a><br>
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