Community Currency Events/Conferences

Here are the upcoming events/conferences on community currencies, transforming the global economy, and related themes (currently 9-11 is my main focus). It is not enough to simply protest, and I want to list gatherings where people are working on positive alternatives, as well. If you know of an event that is missing from this list, please send it to me cbrouillet(at)igc.org and I'll add it on.

• Calendar of Protests All the time, Throughout the World
  I cannot keep track of all the protests against globilization, the W.T.O., the M.A.I., the F.T.A.A., I.M.F., World Bank, military interventions,... but these links are the most comprehensive that I know of-
  http://www.protest.net.

  

• Listening for a Change- On the Eleventh of Every Month 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Lytton Plaza (Lytton Plaza has been renovated and might be renamed. The plaza is at the intersection of University and Emerson in Downtown Palo Alto.)
  
  Since October 2001, every Wednesday, except when it is raining; I have set up tables, banners, chairs, food, educational material, and created a space for public dialogue on key issues. Beginning in November 2007, I am doing this on a monthly basis, on the 11th of every month. We ask the public three questions and write down their responses-

  What do you think/feel about the events of September 11th and the U.S. government's response?

  How could we defuse terrorism?"

  How could we create a safer/better world for our children and all children?

  Sponsored by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance All welcome. For more information call Carol Brouillet 650-857-0927.

• Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance Meeting
  Thursday, August 5, 2010, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
  1606 Bonita (near Cedar and Bonita) upstairs in the Fireside Room (not wheelchair accessible)
  Berkeley
  The first hour from 6 - 7 pm was going to be a potluck with Janet Kobren to share her experiences on the Gaza Flotilla, and the ever changing political situation in the struggle for human rights, peace, justice in Palestine, but we have to change the date again, this time because Janet broke her jaw and needs to heal. We plan to try again on September 2nd.

  The room is part of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist complex that has held many outstanding social justice forums at Cedar and Bonita, located past the courtyard behind the main hall, up the stairs.

  There are many buses (the 15 runs on MLKJr.) and on Shattuck. Get off near Cedar (Bonita runs parallel to Shattuck and MLKJr.) It is between the North Berkeley and Downtown Berkeley BART Stations- about a 12 to 15 minute flat easy walk from those stations.

• Friday, August 6, 2010, 65 Years After Hiroshima: It's Time to Retire the Bomb
  Friday, August 6, 2010 8:00 AM
  August Action @ Livermore Lab Gates
  August 6, 2010 marks the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, a second nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Tri-Valley CAREs and other colleague groups invite all Northern California people of peace to participate in a commemoration at the gates of the Livermore nuclear weapons laboratory.

  Location: The northwest corner of Livermore Lab, located at the intersection of Vasco Road and Patterson Pass Road, in Livermore. (Take I-580 to the Vasco Road exit and go south.)

  More Info: (925) 443-7148 See- http://www.trivalleycares.org/new/Aug6,2010action.html

  Co-Sponsors include- Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance

• On The Money- Design Tools for Creating Community Currencies
  A Vision Quest to the Heart of Local Money
  14th to 18th August, 2010, The Park, Findhorn, Moray, Scotland
  Our money system is in crisis. We can try to reform a broken system or we can design new ones to support the transition to a sustainable and resilient society. Local money gives us a proven tool to deal with the effects of financial crises, community breakdown, climate change and peak oil. It supports communities to use their own assets to solve local problems, meet local needs and achieve local goals: everything from community gardens to renewable energy and local economic regeneration.

  This course is about how to design more resilient community currency systems that will stand the test of time. Together we’ll discover the wealth that lies at the heart of our communities and learn how to mobilise that wealth for the benefit of all.

  Come and learn the essential design skills to create local money systems that last, in the company of eminent international designers who have done it.

  Details at http://www.findhorncollege.com/proftraining/moneysoul.php

• American Monetary Institute's 6th Annual Monetary Reform Conference
  September 30, 2010- October 3, 2010 University Center in downtown Chicago
  Main Themes of the Conference: Implementing Monetary Reform now!

  At the forefront of the Conference will be a description of the essential elements of monetary reform needed to "get the snake out of the house." The American Montary and Financial Security Act, a program for achieving the reforms will be discussed at length. This conference will continue to examine the problem of usury. Is it a necessary part of "free market economics," or is it a destroyer of nations, or is it both? The present false definition of usury as excessive interest, was foisted on economics by Jeremy Bentham, who also devised utilitarianism - dropping morality in favor of supposed results. But the real concept of usury is the anti-social misuse of the money mechanism for private gain. The conference continues to help revive this classical concept of usury and relate it to how our present privatized monetary system malfuntions, for example in creating the present banking crisis.

  Because the world is still in danger of sliding into an unimaginable economic disaster, and warfare in the Middle-East, the conference will also focus on how a privately controlled money system such as we presently have in the U.S. leads to warfare by providing the financial motivation for starting unnecessary wars. Everyone has heard that banking and wars are related, but only a handful of people understand how.

  The American Monetary Institue here and I plan to attend the 2010 Conference.

  Details posted at- http://www.monetary.org/2010conference.html

• The Bioneers Conference
  October 15-17, 2010
  San Rafael, California

  At this premiere environmental conference, social and scientific innovators focus on solutions inspired by nature and human ingenuity.

  Details at- www.bioneers.org

  I have been so busy organizing locally that I have not had time to update this. I even turned down a trip to speak at a big Eco-Money Conference in Japan August 2002, because I think it is such a critical time here in the U.S. to raise consciousness and expose the War on Terrorism for what it really is- A War on Democracy, Freedom, and Dissent worldwide! When I have time, I'll try to add the good, inspiring conferences and events that are coming up...
  
  
  
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  Link to Past Bay Area 9-11 Events