Community Money
A Special Section on Printing Your Own Money
Local Currency Conference, San Francisco, Calif., February 1998. Has your community printed its own money? Are you personally curious about the worldwide movement to create local barter systems? Here are highlights of the first-ever conference on the topic.

Printing Community Money
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This documentary takes you to Ithaca, N.Y., where a successful community money system was launched in 1991. Six years later, over $60,000 dollars worth of Ithaca Hours had been put into circulation, triggering an estimated $2 million dollars worth of exchanges. Over 40 towns in the US and Canada have begun their own community money systems modeled on Ithaca Hours, initiated by Paul Glover, an urban historian and planner and long-term Ithaca resident.

Community Money vs the Global Financial Casino
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The maverick author Ivan Illich said that "money helps transform live American communities into a dead social system." Community currencies - whose worth rests on trust - can rebuild society and act as a safety net. Participants in Time Dollars can convert their personal time into earning power. The founder of this system, Edgar Kahn, explains how it works.

Local Currency Conference
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Bernard Lietaer, once on the staff of the National Bank of Belgium and a successful currency trader, now lends his vast inside expertise to a critique of the money and stock market systems. Who wins, who loses, and how long is it going to last? This is his opening address to the Local Currency Conference.

Local Currencies, Theory and Practice
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Never before had the founders of the most successful local currencies met face to face in one place. Hear from the E.F. Schumacher Society, the world-famous founder of LETS (Canada), the founder of Time Dollars, Ithaca Hours, and more. The major founders of barter systems speak from the heart. They explain how local currencies and barter can act as a social safety net and re-tie the social bonds within communities.

Is It Legal to Print Your Own Money?
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Lewis Solomon, Professor of Law at George Washington University, answers with a resounding "YES." His talk includes historic research and an excellent presentation of current law.
 

Media and Creative Communities:

Amparo Cadavid: Magdalena Medio Community Radio in Colombia
In Search of Sister Stations
(The special edition of this tape comes with the talk by Peter Dale Scott on Side B)
At a radio conference in Madison, Wisconsin, a shy, young woman from Colombia arrived with a video recorded along the Magdalena River. It showed three of the 15 radio stations that are currently on the air in that region.

Ranging from a tiny shed where an elder woman shoos away the chickens every morning to turn on the transmitter to a full-fledged studio with staff meetings, these signals stand for the huge diversity of stations that are only a few dozen miles apart. What unites all of them is the fear of Plan Colombia. Financial support to the army has always led to stepped up military actions, followed by increased militia and guerilla activity during all of which the civilian population suffers. (2001)
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Civil Disobedience
Forest and Land Action

Rainbow Warrior Action
Interview with the daring women and men from Greenpeace who boarded the freighter Thorseggen, en route to Long Beach, by night and blocked the cargo cranes for three days. They called attention to the newsprint containing old growth that had been loaded on the Fraser surrey docks in Vancouver. The Great Bear Rain forest is the largest remaining tract of temperate rain forest left on earth. 50 minutes, 1998
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Luna, Julia, and the Survival of the Forest
Julia Butterfly Hill has been living in a 1000 year old redwood tree called Luna for one year. She has protected Luna from being logged and has become an eloquent spokesperson for the movement to save the last remaining stands of old growth redwood forest in California. This is the longest tree-sit in history. Julia has not touched the ground since December 10, 1997. We recorded this program one week before Julia's one year anniversary. We climbed 100 feet up into the tree to speak with Julia.
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Dennis Martinez: Restoring a Forest - with fire and love
The forest at the Mountain Grove Center For New Education, near Glendale in SW Oregon was clear-cut in the 1930s and 40s. It has come back thick, young, and dark. When Indians cared for the land the old growth incense cedars and chinquapins were spaced widely, plants thrived on the sun-lit forest floor, and animals found shelter and food. Dennis Martinez knows about Indian forest practice and he is restoring this land.
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Who will protect the earth? Western Shoshone Land Rights
Two recent military style raids to confiscate Shoshone cattle are meant to intimidate the tribe into accepting money for their land. Elders refuse payment of 15 cents per acre for 26 million acres of stolen land.Others disagree. The US government plays hardball and tries to divide the Shoshone. For more information:
<http://www.wsdp.org >
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Memorial for Judi Bari
Judi Bari died in March 1997. She was the key organizer and most respected spokesperson at the ongoing rallies to protect the Headwaters Redwood groves. This is a remembrance of her last appearance at court. (1997)
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Civil Disobedience
Grassroots War Resistance
Kathy Kelly: STOP the war on Iraq -
Adam Shapiro, ISM : STOP the war on Palestine
an invitation to create International Teams
Kathy Kelly was part of  teams of Internationals who went to Iraq, Kosovo and Palestine to help protect civilians and refugees. She explains how this work is done and how to overcome fear of going into a war zone. Kathy Kelly is the co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness. <http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw > They are working on ending the sanctions on Iraq that cause the death of so many children.
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What Changed my Life in Vietnam
Brian Willson's appeal for peace NOW
Brian Willson lost both legs when he protested arms shipments from the Concord Weapons Depot in California to Nicaragua. What gave him the courage to risk his life was an incident that occurred almost 20 years earlier. In 1969 he had gone to Vietnam, ignorant of the history of that country and ready to fight. But in his first weeks at a Vietnamese airforce base in the Mekong Delta he rode his jeep into a village that had just been bombed. The sight of the dying women and children changed his life. He is now trying to reach young soldiers who might be called to war. You hear him tell the story that has haunted him all his life. (First aired on: Hearts and Minds on KMUD Radio in California). (45 minutes) Reach Brian at < www.brianwillson.com >
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Seniors for Peace
Every Friday way over 100 seniors rally against war. Nobody on this program is younger than 70, many are in their nineties. They come in wheelchairs and walkers, their wit, energy, critical thinking and memory of past wars is inspiring. Among them are a former nurse for combat flyers in WWII and a woman who survived five years of bombing in Holland.
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Jeremy Corbyn, MP: STOP the War Coalition, UK
Corbyn is a member of Parliament < http://www.northislington.freeserve.co.uk/corbyn/body.htm > and outspoken critic of Tony Blair. He co- founded the Stop the War Coalition <http://www.stopwar.org.uk /> and helped organize the largest demonstrations for peace ever in UK history. Recorded at a union breakfast in his honor in San Francisco in February 2003.
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Cities -
and how to make them a better place to live
Mike Davis from the City of Quartz to Gentrified San Francisco
A conversation with Tim Redmond
Los Angelenos who read his “City of Quartz” never looked at their town the same way again. Seen from the intersection between kitsch and ecological disaster, Davis reveals the hidden history of the city that points into a future shared with other towns. This conversation centers on that common pattern of development.

Mike Davis is a former meat-cutter and long-distance truck-driver. He now teaches Urban Theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Tim Redmond is the editor of the weekly San Francisco Bay Guardian.
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Rebecca Solnit: Hollow City
A place for artists, activists and working folks: that's what made San Francisco the great city it was. The city we love is disappearing and turning into just another sector of corporate monoculture says poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Why are so many of our cities becoming uninhabitable? Rebecca Solnit’s “Hollow City” is a mix of personal diary and historic study on par with the modern analysis brought forth by Mike Davis and Gray Brechin’s in “Imperial San Francisco”. This interview gives thought provoking answers as to why and how this happened and what can be done. - Rebecca Solnit is the author of: "Secret Exhibition", "Savage Dreams", and "Wanderlust, A History of Walking".
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Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Gold and Water
The mystique of San Francisco as one of the most beautiful cities in the world still endures beneath the growing urban blight of cheap and greedy development. How did this city come about where not a building stood only 170 years ago? - Brechin likens all great cities of history to a vortex or maelstrom. As a city grows, so does both its reach and its power to transform the natural world. Among the cataclysmic events San Francisco set in motion or accelerated, were the gold rush and the large water control projects of the 20th century.
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Side A: The Underground History of the Gold Rush
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Side B: The Quest for Water and the Flooding of Yosemite (Hetch Hetchy)
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
When Ferlinghetti became the first Poet Laureate of the city of San Francisco, city librarian Regina Menudi introduced him as a literary legend and a voice of dissent. In this most unusual acceptance speech Ferlinghetti takes on car culture, the annual air show by the Blue Angels, and chain stores. He surprised the city dignitaries with a broadside against pro development policies that have turned the city into just another corporate town, ecologically devastated, inhospitable to the arts and hostile to the homeless.
Side B: The San Francisco Anti Gentrification Movement
Within a five-block radius of TUC's studios, a grassroots struggle is being waged to protect an area that has been home to the City's Latino community. Hear from community activists engaged in the struggle to save what had been our city from becoming the most expensive real estate on the planet.
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Satish Kumar, interview and talk
Born in India, Kumar became a Jain monk at the age of 9. Influenced by Gandhi’s writings, he left the order and became an activist in the Land Reform Movement. At 18, he walked through the length of India persuading landlords to donate land to the landless. Approximately five million acres of land were collected in gifts and donated to the poor.

Kumar then took an 8,000-mile journey for disarmament. He walked from India, through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, the former Soviet Union, Poland, Germany, Belgium, France, England and America, where he was received at the White House by the Disarmament Adviser to President Johnson. He is the author of “No Destination”, co-founder of Schumacher College, and editor and publisher of the magazine, “Resurgence”.
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Landscape of Freedom
Landscape of Freedom is about wildness, diversity, and compassion. This is a conversation between Chellis Glendinning and Carl Anthony. Chellis is the author of When Technology Wounds and My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization. Carl is Director of the Urban Habitat Program at Earth Island Institute.
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Frances Moore Lappe & Paul Martin du Bois: Doing Democracy
People do not go hungry for lack of food, but for lack of democracy - i.e., control over and access to food. This is a report of active, locally based, and empowered forms of democratic self government: elementary school children are supervising the clean-up of a toxic spill; citizens groups are founding their own radio stations or taking over manufacturing plants. (1995)
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