TURMEL: Why no Local Currency panel at TOES99? #3
John Turmel
>Date: Mon Jun 7 01:48:08 1999
>From: charl...@hotmail.com (Charles Michael)
>Subject: [lets] "Bomb" them with emails!
>Hi All, Regarding the problems John and others are having with
>gaining admission to this Alternative Summit event, I suggest John
>post the email address of the officials in question on all the
>groups he subscribes to.
JCT: It's easily done. You send an email with a blank subject
line to list...@gn.apc.org with the following request in the body of
the message:
Subscribe J18DISCUSSION your email address
That way, everybody gets your message, not just Peter Waldow
( we...@weedbonn.org ).
But don't bomb them with messages. Just let them know how you
feel about finding out that self-less TOES activists like Trent
Shroyer and other willing US participants were denied the chance to
speak constituting a major loss for the event. It's not supposed to be
a private show, after all.
>Then we can collectively raise a ruckus about alternative currencies
>and a more open agenda in general.
JCT: That's the ticket. If everyone who finds these exclusions
objectionable writes in, it will raise such a ruckus that maybe it
will be the last time they shut people out ever again.
>I emailed them on my own several weeks ago asking that alternative
>currencies be given a place on the agenda and, if they did not
>prefer John, then choose Greco, Lietaer or others to present.
JCT: I remember and I really appreciated it. But what right do
they have to not prefer anyone, including me?
>I got back a response in thick bureaucratise advising me that all
>would be well, not to worry my little head and please eat my milk
>and cookies and go to bed. Lets see if all these subscribers can act
>on their convictions and take 5 minutes to bomb them with a couple
>hundred emails. It can't hurt.
>Thanks, Charlie In Denver
JCT: Bombing them with repeated messages will just make them feel
they were right in excluding us. But a lot of people expressing
concern over the exclusions is the way to go.
>Date: Mon Jun 7 08:16:02 1999
>From: t...@cyberclass.net ("Tom J. Kennedy")
>Subject: Why no local currencies panel at TOES99 ??
>To: TOE...@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Cc: econ...@mailbase.ac.uk ("Econ-Lets")
>Greetings:
>I have been reading about the exclusion of renowned speakers on
>topics relevant to "local currencies", "community currencies", and
>"LETS" (Local Employment Trading Systems) at the upcomig 1999 TOES
>Conference in Cologne, Germany.
>Without a doubt the topic of LETS as an alternative, "usury-free"
>currency system to the world economic "disorder" warrants a priority
>presentation at the upcomig TOES (The Other Economic Summit)
>Conference in Cologne, Germany and in every future TOES Conference -
>until such time as the current usury-bearing economic system is
>replaced with the usury-free alternative economic system modelled
>after "local currency" systems that are successfully operating in
>various locations throughout the world.
JCT: Actually, TOES has been the major opportunity to spread the
word of LETS local timecurrencies so far. Too bad this most important
topic has been censored from the agenda this year.
>I have always said that "one is a keeper" or "one is an
>abolitionist". Those who are "keepers" work openly and/or covertly to
>keep the orthodox "usury-bearing" economic system in place while the
>"abolitionists" work openly to expose the current, design-flawed,
>usury-bearing money system as the immoral and giant fraud that
>creates and sustains global chaos and scarcity and to replace it with
>a usury-free economic system which will create abundance for
>everyone worldwide.
JCT: They probably want to focus on issues related to the problem
and don't want to be distracted by discussions of the solution.
>Certainly, any topics relevant to "local currencies", "community
>currencies", "community way" and "LETS" (Local Employment Trading
>Systems) demand a priority listing at any TOES Conference.
>My conclusions can only be that the organizers of the 1999 TOES
>Conference at Cologne, Germany are either naive and misguided
>individuals who do not know their actions reveal them as "keepers" or
>they are covertly working for the global financial elite who are
>intent on creating a one-world, "usury-bearing" currency to enslave
>us all. There is no evidence that they are "abolitionists" who are
>openly working a faster implementation of "usury-free" local
>currencies everywhere so that we can usher in a new age of abundance
>for all. Rather, their actions of excluding topics relevant to
>"usury-free", local currencies reveal them as "keepers".
JCT: We can't really say that they're knowingly "keepers of
usury," though the loansharking banking system will owe them a debt of
gratitude for keeping LETS off the agenda.
>My message to the core supporters of "usury-free", local currencies
>is to ignore the "keepers" and work with the those who truly
>understand the immediate necessity to get on with the job of
>implementing "usury-free" local currencies. At this time, the
>Community Way project deserves attention as it effectively promotes
>the implementation of "usury-free" local currencies. The Community
>Way project is making progress in various locations in the UK,
>Canada and the USA. (see below) Thanks to Michael Linton and Ernie
>Yacub for working so very hard for so many months to get the
>Community Way project launched. I expect it to explode very fast -
>everywhere. So who needs to bicker with TOES organizers who are
>caught up in "ego" stuff??????
JCT: I put out two grand for airline tickets before finding out
there'd be no local currencies panel. I want to bicker with the TOES
organizers caught up in their ego stuff.
>LETS just get on with the job of eliminating scarcity and creating
>abundance for everyone.....
JCT: It's just that the TOES97 in Denver proved so worthwhile in
establishing connections. I met Tom Greco for the first time, other
LETS organizers, and dozens of interested activists. To think that the
American contingent who were prepared to go have now bowed out is
really upsetting.
>Working with "abolitionists" for "peace and plenty" by 2020, I AM
>Tom J. Kennedy, www.cyberclass.net
>PS: Because of their actions I view the organizers of the TOES 1999
>Conference in the same way that I see The Bilderbergers - who are
>definitely "keepers" are just finishing their 1999 meeting in
>Portugal today and you can be sure that they only discussed the
>implementation of their "usury-bearing" one world economic system.
>Read details of their agenda at this URL:
>http://www.inforamp.net/~jwhitley/HERALD.HTM
JCT: I'd point out that I picketed the Bilderbergers the last two
times they were in Canada, in 1996 and in 1983 when most people didn't
even know who this awesome collection of world rulers were.
>PSS: Later this week readers are invited to visit this URL and learn
>about The Community Way concept which is designed to accelerate the
>local, national and worldwide growth, understanding and acceptance of
>"usury-free" local currencies: www.communityway.org In the meantime,
>readers can read about the Community Way proposal which is in the
>developing stages for the region of Ottawa-Carleton in the province
>of Ontario in the country of Canada at this URL: http://cw.inode.org
JCT: Glad to hear it. More good news for me to relay to the
activists in Cologne during my LETS presentation once I find an empty
room at the conference site and do my own advertising.
--
John C. "The Engineer" Turmel, Founder, Abolitionist Party of Canada
915-2045 Carling Ave., Ottawa, K2A 1G5, Tel/Fax: 613-728-2196
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