[GJM] The Second Annual UsuryFree Week: - Monday, November 13th - Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Fri Oct 27 01:09:24 MDT 2006

Robert,

  I respect the spirit for the weeks ..Tom is doing good..I conisder such week to be of important communication and advocacy events for making the world systems usury free..

robert searle <dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
  Dear All,

Maybe some, or all of you may have received
this communication on LETS in Canada. Personally, I
have little, or no respect for such initiatives as
they do NOT address the real problem of having the
present banking system. 

I am still of the opinion that it is vitally necessary
for us to largely work with the banks, and
corporations along the lines indicated on this
discussion group. Unfortunately, it does require rare
intelligence, and vision to understand why....AND WHY
IT IS SO URGENT....AND WHY THIS IS THE BEST WAY
FORWARD..

Robert Searle. 
http://kheper.net/essays/Transfinancial_Economics.html

PS. Apologies for any errors in my last communication.

--- "Tom J. Kennedy" wrote:

> The Second Annual UsuryFree Week: - Monday, November
> 13th - Sunday, November 19th, 2006
> 
> Founded on May 13th, 2001, the UsuryFree Network
> (UFN) has designated Monday, November 13th, 2006 as
> the second annual UsuryFree Day - which launches the
> second annual UsuryFree Week ending on Sunday,
> November 19th, 2006.
> 
> This second annual UsuryFree Week will celebrate a
> series of events will take place at various
> locations in Ontario (and elsewhere) to promote
> awareness about the design flaw of 'usury' and the
> many problems that are associated with 'usury,'
> thereby directly and/or indirectly relating it to
> violence, war, poverty, scarcity and lack while
> offering solution-oriented ideas that will lead to
> usuryfree living.
> 
> In addition and perhaps more importantly, UsuryFree
> Week aims to promote the usuryfree community
> currency movement in general and the usuryfree time
> currency movement specifically as the optimal method
> of trading products and/or services locally,
> nationally and internationally.
> 
> The first UsuryFree Day and Week was celebrated in
> Tamworth, Ontario, Canada from November 13th to
> November 19th, 2005 to mark the first anniversay of
> the launch of the usuryfree time currency known as
> Tamworth Hours. It has been decided to make this
> week from November 13th to 19th an annual
> celebration for usuryfree living.
> 
> During this second annual UsuryFree Week, the growth
> and expansion of the usuryfree community currency
> movement will be celebrated and usuryfree time
> currency will be advocated as the optimal model that
> has thepotential to serve us locally and globally,
> thereby abolishing usury and replacing it with a
> simple service charge. 
> 
> At a special event on Saturday, November 18th, 2006
> at the Holiday Inn, Glen Miller Rd., Trenton,
> Ontario, Canada, there will special presentations of
> Winged Lion Awards. The Winged Lion is the
> historical symbol of usuryfree money and it has
> re-appeared on various paper notes of usuryfree
> community currency. The Winged Lion awards will
> honour people, businesses and communities that are
> taking a leadership role in advancing the reality of
> usuryfree living. (more details below)
> 
> The Family Life Foundation, a duly registered
> charitable organiztion with its main office in
> Richmond Hill, Ontario was a co-sponsor of the first
> annual UsuryFree Week in 2005. The Family Life
> Foundation will again support this second annual
> UsuryFree Week. This foundation has been helping to
> finance the growth and expansion of the usuryfree
> community currency movement in co-operation with the
> UsuryFree Network and various local communities.
> 
> The modern dawning of the Age of UsuryFree Living
> commenced in the early 1980's when Michael Linton
> created the usuryfree LETS (Local Employment Trading
> System) software. Since then, we have accumulated an
> abundance of proof positive that we no longer need
> to be subservient to the banking power that has been
> ruling this world for centuries. We can now create
> and spend our own community currencies for FREE,
> instead of using their (the bankers') currency and
> keep paying them a FEE (usury).
> 
> The traders who use these usuryfree community
> currencies as a complement with their diminishing
> amounts of federal cash commonly refer to themselves
> as usuryfree creatives who are focused on creating a
> usuryfree lifestyle for everyone on planet earth.
> Indeed, the world of usuryfree creatives is now
> expanding as more and more common people see the
> possibility of experiencing the reality of usuryfree
> living. They are learning to acquire products and/or
> services for their personal, family and business
> needs by negotiating trades locally by using a
> usuryfree community currency.
> 
> Usuryfree creatives know that the design flaw of
> usury controls orthodox economics and profits the
> creditors (bankers) obscenely, while the common
> debtors (people) endure severe financial stress
> because they signed impossible loan and/or mortgage
> and credit card contracts for lack of knowledge
> about how modern banking really works.
> 
> For more details about events happening during
> UsuryFree Week contact: 
> The UsuryFree Network, 6687 Wheeler St., Unit 372,
> Tamworth, Ontario, Canada K0K 3G0 
> Tel: 1.888.NOUSURY Email: usuryfree at kos.net
> 
> **************************************
> 
> The Winged Lion Awards 
> 
> The Winged Lion Awards are in honour of the 'Winged
> Lion' - which is the historical 
> symbol of usuryfree money. The Winged Lion Awards
> will be presented to the winners 
> from the nominated usuryfree creatives on behalf of
> the UsuryFree Network during the 
> Second Annual UsuryFree Week scheduled from Monday,
> November 13th, until 
> Sunday, November 19th, 2006. Nominations will be
> accepted from local, national and 
> international usuryfree creatives. 
> 
> The winners of the Winged Lion Awards will be
> honoured at the special event at the 
> Holiday Inn in Trenton, Ontario on Saturday,
> November 18th, 2006. 
> 
> Nominations are currently open for the following 13
> categories: 
> 
> 1. A community that has launched new paper notes of
> usuryfree community currency 
> during 2006. This community must have done something
> unique for their launch of paper 
> notes of usuryfree community currency. Samples of
> the paper notes and details of this 
> unique activity must be submitted with the
> nomination. 
> 
> 2. An individual usuryfree creative who is involved
> in municipal politics and is committed to
> adapting a usuryfree community currency so that it
> can be woven into the infrastructure of
> municipal government during the next four-year term
> 2006 - 2010. A copy of this municipal
> politician's commitment must be submitted with the
> nomination.
> 
> 3. An individual usuryfree creative who has authored
> a unique article about (a) the design 
> flaw of usury or (b) the usuryfree community
> currency movement during 2006. A copy of the 
> article must be submitted with the nomination. 
> 
> 4. A newspaper or magazine that has published more
> than one article about the usuryfree 
> community currency movement during 2006. A copy of
> the newspapers or magazines containing 
> the articles must be submitted with the nomination.
> 
> 5. An individual usuryfree creative who has traded
> for more than $500.00 worth of any usuryfree 
> community currency or any combination of two or more
> usuryfree community currencies during 
> 2006. Proof of amount of trading must be submitted
> with the nomination. 
> 
> 6. An individual usuryfree creative who is dedicated
> to the political application of 
> usuryfree living at any level of politics -
> municipal, provincial/state or federal. Details of 
> the political activity must be submitted with the
> nomination. 
> 
> 7. An individual usuryfree creative who has produced
> a DVD or video during 2006 wherein the 
> problems of usury and/or the solutions as offered by
> the usuryfree community currency movement 
> are presented. A copy of the DVD must be submitted
> with the nomination. 
> 
> 8. An individual musician or a musical group that
> has written a song about usury-based economics 
> or usuryfree economics during 2006. A copy of the
> song must be submitted with the nomination. 
> 
> 9. A duly registered political party that officially
> endorses the usuryfree community 
> currency movement. Proof in writing from the duly
> registered political party must be 
> submitted with the nomination. This duly registered
> political party may be provincial/state 
> or federal. 
> 
> 10. An individual or group of usuryfree creatives
> who has/have planned and hosted a 
> usuryfree community currency conference during 2006.
> A copy of the schedule of events 
> for the conference complete with the location and
> date must be submitted with the 
> nomination. 
> 
> 11. A charitable foundation/organization that openly
> supports the usuryfree community 
> currency movement. Details of how this particular
> foundation/organization supports the usuryfree 
> 
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