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chatnoir wrote:

> http://occupydenver.org/119-explore-the-alternative-economy/
>
> When: Saturday, January 19th @ 9am
> Where: Kirk of Bonnie Brae, 1201 S. Steele Street, Denver, CO 80210
>
> The purpose of Social Forum is to organize, educate and empower people
> on critical issues; sharing knowledge; and teaching skills to build
> alternative and sustainable systems that better meet our human needs.
> Through the Social Forum model, individuals reflect on their own
> purpose and how to make a difference, and hopefully we can create the
> consciousness that we have the knowledge and skills and the power to
> create the change we desire.
>
> Workshops: 9am to 12:30pm
> Worker Cooperatives � This workshop will discuss the Worker
> Cooperatives (employee-ownership model) which are business entities
> that are owned and operated by their employees. It creates a
> sustainable economy, stable, and non-competitive jobs that can�t be
> sold out, and that build community. Bill Kirton & Dick Peterson
> http://www.rmeoc.org/
>
> Alternative Currency � In this workshop, we will explore Denver�s
> brand new local currency.  This becomes a self-financing revolution to
> create a bottom-up economy with self-sufficiency, and self-government.
> No waiting, voting, or asking permission from the corrupt.  You can
> learn how you can benefit from Hours as an individual, or business. We
> have set up 5 local, currency systems in 8 months. Each can trade with
> one another, and none support big-box stores. �The People are the
> gold, and can create a more abundant future immediately!� Wayne
> Walton  http://www.milehighhours.com/
>
> Money, Public Banking, and Global Transformation �
> In this workshop, we will examine the following: Money is ubiquitous,
> but few people understand what it really is and how control over its
> creation and availability affects global, local, and individual
> conditions. Clarity, regarding what money is, enables us to transform
> the monetary system so that it serves people, rather than the other
> way around, which is currently the case. The transformation process
> requires, at a minimum, three initiatives: public banking; verifiable
> voting and public-only campaign financing; and decentralized media
> ownership. Robert Bows  http://publicbankinginstitute.org/
>
> Open Forum: 12:30pm
> Time to brainstorm and choose the next step for our community.
>
> Please bring a healthy dish to share, if unable, please come anyway

"We ask that the government undertake the obligation
above all of providing citizens with adequate
opportunity for employment and earning a living.
The activities of the individual must not be allowed
to clash with the interests of the community, but must
take place within its confines and be for the good of
all. Therefore, we demand: an end to the power of the
financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big
business. We demand a broad extension of care for the
aged. We demand... the greatest possible consideration
of small business in the purchases of national, state,
and municipal governments. In order to make possible
to every capable and industrious citizen the attainment
of higher education and thus the achievement of a post
of leadership, the government must provide an all-
around enlargement of our entire system of public
education... We demand the education at government
expense of gifted children of poor parents... The
government must undertake the improvement of public
health by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting
child labor... by the greatest possible support for
all clubs concerned with the physical education of
youth. We combat the... materialistic spirit within
and without us, and are convinced that a permanent
recovery of our people can only proceed from within
on the foundation of the common good before the
individual good."