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[caveat: i don't know anything about this guy or the Conference
other than what the email says; the graphic i added to it, after
looking up Edgar Cahn; you'll have to do your own research; but i
think it sounds intriguing...]<br>
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style="font-size: large; "><font face="Calibri">One
More Damn Conference. </font></span></b></p>
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style="font-size: large; "><font face="Calibri">But
this one is different.</font></span></b></p>
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face="Calibri"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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face="Calibri"><img alt=""
src="cid:part1.08040101.00090406@mynas.com"
align="right" height="496" hspace="10" width="360">From
August 4-7, there will be a four day gathering at
Brown University: </font></span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">Time for Transformation: Banking on
Families and Communities to Be the Change. </font></span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">TimeBank community members,
coordinators, activists, academicians, students,
intellectuals and just dedicated human beings will
gather to share knowledge about the different ways
in which TimeBanking, an hour-for-hour currency, is
being used to advance social justice. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">Come hear from the pioneers using
TimeBanking about applications to child development,
juvenile justice, special education, reentry, family
support, violence reduction, bridging diversity,
eldercare and community revitalization.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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face="Calibri"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">This conference is about sharing
knowledge and breakthroughs. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">It means actually accessing a
powerful new tool you can take home. </font></span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">TimeBank pioneers will show you what
happens when you use a medium of exchange that build
a spirit of co-operation, which you create locally,
that is not taxed as commercial barter and that can
be used to compensate and reward.</font></span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><span
style="font-family: Wingdings; "><span style="font:
normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';
">* </span></span><font face="Calibri">Labor that
the market does not value; caring labor, civic
labor, social justice labor</font></span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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style="font-family: Wingdings; "><span style="font:
normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';
">* </span></span><font face="Calibri">Workers
excluded from the work force or discarded by the
market who can help you build community: children,
teenagers, the elderly, the disabled and myriads
more</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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face="Calibri"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
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face="Calibri">In 1992, Ralph Nader wrote:</font></span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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0.5in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Citizen
action must rest on a new economic base: one that
makes it possible for people to meet their own needs
while working to rebuild community and revitalize
democracy at the grass roots level. Now along comes
the Time Dollar, an organized, inflation-proof
currency that can provide as constant, as powerful,
as reliable, a reward for decency as the market does
for selfishness. It has been tested and it works.
Government does not control it. It does not need new
laws to make it happen. It can spring up tomorrow in
a thousand places.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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0.5in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
0.5in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Resources
are always limited. In a period of budget cutbacks
and recession, social problems are multiplying at a
rate that outstrips the most creative fundraising.
The Time Dollar represents a strategy to generate
tremendous resources and to involve thousands of
people on a sustained basis.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-size: small; margin-top: 0in; margin-right:
0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span
style="font-size: large; "> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">Come learn about a movement powered
by reciprocity with a currency that harnesses
altruism in tandem with self-interest to create
social change. Learn directly about how you can put
TimeBanking to work in your work. You will meet with
people who are showing what happens when you do so.
You will become part of a network that provides
continuing support, coaching and wisdom.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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face="Calibri"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">A new social network tool will be
unveiled: Community Weaver 2.0. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">This software enables TimeBanks to
mobilize for events and projects, match people who
have needs with people who have time and talents. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">The new software is available to all
TimeBanks. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">It is being upgraded to an Open
Source Platform. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">Steps are underway to make it
available on smart phones, with multi-lingual
screens. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri">Go home with a new strategy, a new
network of allies, a new tool and a new vision of
what is possible. Go home with hope grounded in
decades of learning by pragmatic dreamers who have
succeeded, dealt with setbacks, survived and
triumphed.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri"><b><i>TimeBanks have spread to over
260 communities in the United States and over
thirty four nations. </i></b></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: small; margin-top:
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0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri"><b><i>As a nation, we are in moral,
fiscal and political gridlock. It’s time to
break out. </i></b></font></span></p>
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0in; "><span style="font-size: large; "><font
face="Calibri"><b><i>Come join us in Providence
Rhode Island, August 4-7 </i></b></font></span><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><a
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style="font-size: large; "><font color="#800080">www.tbusaconference.org</font></span></a></span></font></p>
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