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Anonymous wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2013, Lord Valve <detritus@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> 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."
>>
> Nothing changes.  So no matter what they do, no matter what they say,
> no matter what they think, evil shall always prevail over this world.
> Criminals shall always rule in this world.  Corruption shall always
> defeat and kill incorruption, and lies shall always overwhelm truth.
>
> Turns out it's due to the nature of the human race.  Individually
> or in small numbers, humans can, on most occassions, do some good or
> even a lot of good.  But as their numbers get larger in any common
> pursuit, be it government, religion, money, or anything related to
> the material world, evil quickly takes possession of it, chasing away
> and outlawing whatever good might've instigated it.
>
> Like OWS and other powerless protest groups, these "social forum"
> people have no chance in hell of ever changing anything.  Evil lives
> forever, and good is always punished for the evil that evildoers do,
> and thus the good eventually dies never knowing any victory over the
> evil which destroyed it.  It is only the naive and inexperienced, the
> young and hopeful, that don't know that about this world -- yet.
>
Human nature, no safe haven in the collective.