Let's Stimulate Youngstown's Economy

[tony]

Wednesday January 20, 2010

Taking charge of our Community with Local Currency
Cleveland/University Heights Local Currency Exploratory Meeting

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Brody/Nelson Meeting Room
Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library
2345 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights

Sponsored by Future Heights and the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee

Learn about and share your views on whether Cleveland Heights and/or University Heights should establish a community currency program to better meet the needs of residents and local businesses.

Background article from November Heights Observer
http://www.heightsobserver.org/read/2/11/taking-charge-of-our-community-with-local-currency

A discussion forum on the Heights Observer website has been set up to ask/answer questions and share comments prior to the January 20 meeting.
http://www.heightsobserver.org/deck/viewforum.php?f=10&sid=2b09745f15048affd32035abc4be4f5c

<http://www.heightsobserver.org/deck/viewforum.php?f=10&amp;sid=2b09745f15048affd32035abc4be4f5c>

The initial posting contains links of community currency/exchange models across the country. Check it out.

Please mark Wednesday, January 20 down on your calendar. Plan to attend. Spread the word.

For more information, please contact Future Heights, 216-320-1423 or AFSC, 330-928-2301 / gcoleridge@afsc.org
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[AllanY2525]

Tony,

You are right, I did not read or research any of your earlier posts.  I was simply
stating my feelings regarding the topic being discussed - this requires
neither reading nor research.

[tony]

The ideas you mention in your comment tell me that you have not read or researched any of the earlier posts.

Complimentary and or community currencies do not replace Federal dollars. As for the barter approach it is an individual process and has no multiplier effect and does not work to improve the system failings of Federal Dollars, one being leakage and trickle away from where currency is really needed.

A regional and or local economic currency transfer system parallel to the Feds currency either on new paper or digital would be quantifiable and qualitative a entirely different exchange method designed to achieve objectives that the Feds system can not achieve.

[AllanY2525]

I don't like the idea of using "scrip" to replace real currency.....

I DO, however, like the barter system - it can work and work well if
done the right way - and it's a way for people who are struggling to
supplement their standard of living without using currency in the
process.

[tony]

I can't come up with a better response than John Rogers' remark;
http://artigos.immagazine.sapo.pt/en/article/newcurrencies/#/6

Birthing a Community Currency is an act of social and economic justice. We are so conditioned by the availability of money in both our personal lives and our community economies, that our thinking about potential realities is often maimed by it. As Edgar Cahn, developer of time banking, puts it: ,,The real price we pay for money is the hold that money has on our sense of what is possible - the prison it builds for our imagination."

[Rick Rowlands]

How long until the IRS starts wanting a piece of the action?

[tony]

Build community and have a discussion off line, face to face, while earning time credit rewards to spend in the core economy of home, family, and neighborhood?

Join our TimeBank "Common Security Club" http://commonsecurityclub.org/ to explore the feasibility of establishing a complimentary local currency.

Click here http://tbmw.org/contact and post your contact information under the subject title of "Local Currency".

[tony]

Cleveland Heights and University Heights learning about complimentary currencies, read the article at

http://www.heightsobserver.org/read/2/11/taking-charge-of-our-community-with-local-currency

Also take a look at the right side bar "Most recent question" survey 

[tony]

Do you want to know how to stimulate the local economy?

Check out this web site data base of local efforts at local currencies, http://www.mainstreetcash.org/

Do you wish to have a discussion off line, face to face, while earning time credit rewards to spend in the core economy of home, family, and neighborhood?

Then join a TimeBank "Earn and Learn" group to explore the feasibility of establishing a local currency. Click here, http://tbmw.org/contact  and post your contact information under the subject title of "Local Currency".

[tony]

The Financial Times says...

Noted for trust; Towns around the world are fostering community spirit with alternative currencies, reports Fiona Leney

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ecdee98a-03a0-11de-b405-000077b07658.html

In the US there are now at least 12 local currency schemes, created not to overcome financial hardship – though that might prove a side benefit in the current economic climate – but to emphasise traditional small-town American values and those linked with the contemporary transition town movement, with neighbours supporting one another against a hostile outside world.

FT WEEKEND SUPPLEMENT - HOUSE & HOME

Leney, Fiona
1632 words
28 February 2009
Financial Times

Surveys RES1
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[tony]

Some communities are printing their own currency ...
See this recent CNN video at
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/22/printing.own.currency/#cnnSTCVideo

[tony]

A global movement.

Main Street Cash

http://www.mainstreetcash.org/

[tony]

For those of you still following this thread, I strongly encourage
you to download this report from CHIEMGAUER REGIOMONEY:
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF A LOCAL CURRENCY, by Christian Gelleri

After you pull in the site at the link below, download the pdf
link at the top right with the name, CHIEMGAUER REGIOMONEY:

Cheers,
Tony
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[tony]

Hello,

If you are thinking about how to get by, "When money is scarce or stops flowing, alternative currencies can keep a local economy afloat. They convert time, skills, and other resources into wealth, and keep resources circulating among community members so there is greater demand for local businesses' goods and services."

http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/13072

Now if you are ready to take the first step, lets ORGANIZE around the issue, by joining the TimeBank. It's the place to start at www.TBMW.org

Cheers,
Tony

[tony]

Hi Dennis,

Ok, I understand.

Would you put the call out to your Green network and ask those interested if they would be willing to join with their neighbors to form a committee to look into a complimentary local currency project.?

I would think that by going to various groups, there are a more then a couple of folks that would come together to check this out.

Cheers,
Tony