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Lord Valve 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."

Woops, forgot to add the attribution:

- Nazi Party policy statement, Munich, February 1920.

Sounds a whole lot like the nonsense the Sidewalk Shitters
spew, doesn't it?  ;-)

Lord Valve
unHippie