Monday, August 15, 2011
Too bad Mitt Romney isn't visiting Ohio soon
Mitt Romney’s declaration that “corporations are people” flies in the face of our nation’s and state’s founders who intended corporations to be creations of the state, subordinate to real human beings, and not able or capable of being involved in politics. Corporations were intended solely to provide useful goods and services.
Too bad Mr. Romney is not going to be in Northeast Ohio during the next few weeks. If he was, he would have an opportunity to attend educational meetings in Cleveland, Lakewood and Cleveland Heights where the absurd 2010 Citizens United vs FEC Supreme Court decision — anointing corporations with never-intended First Amendment rights — will be exposed and organized against.
Local supporters of Mr. Romney and every other presidential candidate, as well as the general public, are invited to these open public meetings. For details on each gathering, go to http://afsc.net/neoevents.html
Too bad Mr. Romney is not going to be in Northeast Ohio during the next few weeks. If he was, he would have an opportunity to attend educational meetings in Cleveland, Lakewood and Cleveland Heights where the absurd 2010 Citizens United vs FEC Supreme Court decision — anointing corporations with never-intended First Amendment rights — will be exposed and organized against.
Local supporters of Mr. Romney and every other presidential candidate, as well as the general public, are invited to these open public meetings. For details on each gathering, go to http://afsc.net/neoevents.html
Sunday, August 14, 2011
MONETARY HISTORY CALENDAR - August 15-21
AUGUST 15
1769 – BIRTH OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
“When a government is dependent upon banks for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
1971 – PRESIDENT NIXON CLOSES “GOLD WINDOW”
Richard Nixon issues Executive Order 11615 freezing wages and prices. Foreign-held paper dollars are no longer converted for gold, thereby nullifying the Bretton Woods Agreement.
AUGUST 20
1935 – BIRTH OF RON PAUL, US CONGRESSMAN
Referring to the Federal Reserve, he stated, "maybe there's too much power in the hands of those who control monetary policy? The power to create the financial bubbles. The power to maybe bring the bubble about. The power to change the value of the stock market within minutes. That to me is just an ominous power and challenges the whole concept of freedom and liberty and sound money."
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Why this calendar? Many people have questions about the root causes of our economic problems. Some questions involve money, banks and debt. How is money created? Why do banks control its quantity? How has the money system been used to liberate (not often) and oppress (most often) us? And how can the money system be “democratized” to rebuild our economy and society, create jobs and reduce debt?
Our goal is to inform, intrigue and inspire through bite size weekly postings listing important events and quotes from prominent individuals (both past and present) on money, banking and how the money system can help people and the planet. We hope the sharing of bits of buried history will illuminate monetary and banking issues and empower you with others to create real economic and political justice.
This calendar is a project of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. Adele Looney, Phyllis Titus, Donna Schall, Leah Davis, Alice Francini and Greg Coleridge helped in its development.
Please forward this to others and encourage them to subscribe. To subscribe/unsubscribe or to comment on any entry, contact monetarycalendar@yahoo.com For more information, visit http://www.afsc.net/economiccrisis.html
1769 – BIRTH OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
“When a government is dependent upon banks for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
1971 – PRESIDENT NIXON CLOSES “GOLD WINDOW”
Richard Nixon issues Executive Order 11615 freezing wages and prices. Foreign-held paper dollars are no longer converted for gold, thereby nullifying the Bretton Woods Agreement.
AUGUST 20
1935 – BIRTH OF RON PAUL, US CONGRESSMAN
Referring to the Federal Reserve, he stated, "maybe there's too much power in the hands of those who control monetary policy? The power to create the financial bubbles. The power to maybe bring the bubble about. The power to change the value of the stock market within minutes. That to me is just an ominous power and challenges the whole concept of freedom and liberty and sound money."
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Why this calendar? Many people have questions about the root causes of our economic problems. Some questions involve money, banks and debt. How is money created? Why do banks control its quantity? How has the money system been used to liberate (not often) and oppress (most often) us? And how can the money system be “democratized” to rebuild our economy and society, create jobs and reduce debt?
Our goal is to inform, intrigue and inspire through bite size weekly postings listing important events and quotes from prominent individuals (both past and present) on money, banking and how the money system can help people and the planet. We hope the sharing of bits of buried history will illuminate monetary and banking issues and empower you with others to create real economic and political justice.
This calendar is a project of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. Adele Looney, Phyllis Titus, Donna Schall, Leah Davis, Alice Francini and Greg Coleridge helped in its development.
Please forward this to others and encourage them to subscribe. To subscribe/unsubscribe or to comment on any entry, contact monetarycalendar@yahoo.com For more information, visit http://www.afsc.net/economiccrisis.html
Friday, August 12, 2011
MovetoAmendOhio - Summer Actions Everywhere!
1. New Move to Amend Local Affiliates – Columbus and Medina
2. Upcoming Community Information/Organizing Meetings – Cleveland, Lakewood, Cleveland Hts
3. Labor Day parade -- Barberton
4. Tabling -- Akron
5. Stand up for Ohio Festival – Move to Amend Ohio table - Columbus
6. Democracy Convention – Madison, WI – Transportation from Ohio
7. Next statewide conference call – Saturday, August 20
ps – Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and Corporate Personhood
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New Move to Amend Local Affiliates
Columbus: Contact Michael Greenman for list of actions
Medina: Contact Carolyn Boyce for a list of actions
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Upcoming Community Information/Organizing Meetings
Date/Time/Location/Address/Contact/Email
August 23/6:30 pm/Lakewood Public Library/15425 Detroit Rd/Susanna DeSorgo / sdesorgo@yahoo.com
September 1/7:00pm/Cleveland Heights Public Library/2345 Lee Rd/Greg Coleridge/ gcoleridge@afsc.org
September 6/5:30pm/Harvey Rice Library/11535 Shaker Blvd/Cleveland /Lois Romanoff/ loisromanoff@gmail.com
The short film, The Story of Citizens United vs FEC will be shown at each event followed by discussion of approaching groups and city councils for endorsement.
To schedule a meeting in your community, contact gcoleridge@afsc.org
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Labor Day Parade
Move to Amend Ohio will be marching in the Barberton Labor Day parade -- one of the largest Labor Day parades in Ohio. We will have our Move to Amend Ohio banner, Corporations are NOT People signs, flags of several kinds, and petitions. It’s Monday, September 5 — stepping off at 10 AM. If you’re able to march, RSVP gcoleridge@afsc.org for further details.
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Tabling
Move to Amend petitions have been at several festivals this summer. The next one is Saturday, September 3/10am –7 pm/Highland Square Arts Festival in Akron. If you can staff the table for any time, email ewatkins@afsc.org. Thank you!
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Stand up for Ohio Festival -- Move to Amend Ohio table
On Saturday, August 20th, the biggest free concert to hit Ohio this summer will take place at the Ohio Fairgrounds. The Ohio Players, Grand Funk Railroad, Nikki Giovanni, and others will be performing, while informative speakers touch on a range of issues important to our jobs and communities.
Move to Amend Ohio has a table at this concert — which runs from Noon to 8:30 PM
We need volunteers to man/woman/staff the table. Can you help for an hour or two?
If so, please indicate what shift(s) you can be there
Noon-1:30 pm – already covered
1:30- 3:00 pm – already covered
3:00-4:30 pm
4:30 – 6:00 pm
6:00-7:30 pm
7:30-8:30 pm
Please email to gcoleridge@afsc.org
Further details of the event are at http://standupforohio.org/events/?event_id=36
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Democracy Convention
August 24-8 / Madison, WI / http://democracyconvention.org
Registration is cheap. Host housing is available. Car/van pooling is available.
If interested in attending and would like a ride, contact gcoleridge@afsc.org or mgreenman@wowway.com
ABOUT THE CONVENTION
If you want to strengthen democracy where it matters most -- in our communities, our schools, our workplaces and local economies, our military, our government, our media, our constitution -- you will find something inspiring in Madison this August.
More than one conference, this first Democracy Convention will house at least nine conferences under one roof. As the great progressive reformer Fighting Bob La Follette said, "democracy is a life," and "involves constant struggle" in all sectors of society. With the 2011 Democracy Convention, we recognize the importance of each of these separate democracy struggles, as well as the need to unite them all in a common, deeply rooted, broad based, movement for democracy.
A NEW DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT
A new movement -- a democracy movement -- was born in the streets of Seattle on November 30, 1999. This movement's early years were not easy. Pro-democracy organizers faced crisis after crisis: the stolen presidential elections of 2000 and 2004; the militarization of America that followed September 11th; the destruction of the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Katrina; the Supreme Court ruling that corporations wield constitutional rights to buy elections; and today, an economic crisis that is being used to impose fiscal austerity and corporatization schemes on our states and people.
Through these difficult struggles, the new democracy movement has taken form, expanded, and matured. Now it is time for a coming-of-age celebration. This is the moment to unite in one location the many different efforts to build genuine democracy in the United States. And what better place to come together, and to rejoice, than in Madison, Wisconsin, the city and state that have inspired people everywhere to declare that "We are Wisconsin!"
The Democracy Convention is a project of the Liberty Tree Foundation and co-convened by the Alliance for Democracy, Progressive Magazine, and Move to Amend. We thank our local partners on our Host Committee, as well as our national partners whose support as Major Sponsors, National Sponsor, Co-Sponsors, Endorsers, and Conference Conveners, has been vital. To find out how your organization, union, business, or community can join us, click here: http://democracyconvention.org/sponsor-convention
Democracy is coming . . . to the U.S.A.
NOTE: Part of the conference will include a “Move to Amend Affiliate Gathering.”
Goals of the Gathering are:
*To solidify the relationship between MTA coalition members and the national campaign team
*To connect our coalition partners with each other
*To bring in new coalition partners
*To provide an opportunity for training and strategic discussion in support of the Move to Amend campaign
More information of the Affiliate Gathering: http://movetoamend.org/register-affiliate-gathering-august-2011
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Next Move to Amend Ohio Conference Call
Saturday, August 20 @ 9 AM.
Phone # (new toll-free number): 1-866-256-1242 Access Code: 21676526
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Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and Corporate Personhood
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/us/politics/12romney.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB
“Corporations are people, my friend,” Mr. Romney responded, as the hecklers shouted back, “No, they’re not!” “Of course they are,” Mr. Romney said, chuckling slightly. “Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?”
Colbert's 'defense' of Romney's 'corporations are people' comment
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/12/colbert-defends-mitt-romney-corporations-are-people_n_925277.html
Website: http://movetoamendohio.org
FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ohio-Move-to-Amend/163413857048478
2. Upcoming Community Information/Organizing Meetings – Cleveland, Lakewood, Cleveland Hts
3. Labor Day parade -- Barberton
4. Tabling -- Akron
5. Stand up for Ohio Festival – Move to Amend Ohio table - Columbus
6. Democracy Convention – Madison, WI – Transportation from Ohio
7. Next statewide conference call – Saturday, August 20
ps – Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and Corporate Personhood
--------------------------------------------------------
New Move to Amend Local Affiliates
Columbus: Contact Michael Greenman for list of actions
Medina: Contact Carolyn Boyce for a list of actions
------------
Upcoming Community Information/Organizing Meetings
Date/Time/Location/Address/Contact/Email
August 23/6:30 pm/Lakewood Public Library/15425 Detroit Rd/Susanna DeSorgo / sdesorgo@yahoo.com
September 1/7:00pm/Cleveland Heights Public Library/2345 Lee Rd/Greg Coleridge/ gcoleridge@afsc.org
September 6/5:30pm/Harvey Rice Library/11535 Shaker Blvd/Cleveland /Lois Romanoff/ loisromanoff@gmail.com
The short film, The Story of Citizens United vs FEC will be shown at each event followed by discussion of approaching groups and city councils for endorsement.
To schedule a meeting in your community, contact gcoleridge@afsc.org
------------
Labor Day Parade
Move to Amend Ohio will be marching in the Barberton Labor Day parade -- one of the largest Labor Day parades in Ohio. We will have our Move to Amend Ohio banner, Corporations are NOT People signs, flags of several kinds, and petitions. It’s Monday, September 5 — stepping off at 10 AM. If you’re able to march, RSVP gcoleridge@afsc.org for further details.
------------
Tabling
Move to Amend petitions have been at several festivals this summer. The next one is Saturday, September 3/10am –7 pm/Highland Square Arts Festival in Akron. If you can staff the table for any time, email ewatkins@afsc.org. Thank you!
-----------
Stand up for Ohio Festival -- Move to Amend Ohio table
On Saturday, August 20th, the biggest free concert to hit Ohio this summer will take place at the Ohio Fairgrounds. The Ohio Players, Grand Funk Railroad, Nikki Giovanni, and others will be performing, while informative speakers touch on a range of issues important to our jobs and communities.
Move to Amend Ohio has a table at this concert — which runs from Noon to 8:30 PM
We need volunteers to man/woman/staff the table. Can you help for an hour or two?
If so, please indicate what shift(s) you can be there
Noon-1:30 pm – already covered
1:30- 3:00 pm – already covered
3:00-4:30 pm
4:30 – 6:00 pm
6:00-7:30 pm
7:30-8:30 pm
Please email to gcoleridge@afsc.org
Further details of the event are at http://standupforohio.org/events/?event_id=36
---------------
Democracy Convention
August 24-8 / Madison, WI / http://democracyconvention.org
Registration is cheap. Host housing is available. Car/van pooling is available.
If interested in attending and would like a ride, contact gcoleridge@afsc.org or mgreenman@wowway.com
ABOUT THE CONVENTION
If you want to strengthen democracy where it matters most -- in our communities, our schools, our workplaces and local economies, our military, our government, our media, our constitution -- you will find something inspiring in Madison this August.
More than one conference, this first Democracy Convention will house at least nine conferences under one roof. As the great progressive reformer Fighting Bob La Follette said, "democracy is a life," and "involves constant struggle" in all sectors of society. With the 2011 Democracy Convention, we recognize the importance of each of these separate democracy struggles, as well as the need to unite them all in a common, deeply rooted, broad based, movement for democracy.
A NEW DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT
A new movement -- a democracy movement -- was born in the streets of Seattle on November 30, 1999. This movement's early years were not easy. Pro-democracy organizers faced crisis after crisis: the stolen presidential elections of 2000 and 2004; the militarization of America that followed September 11th; the destruction of the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Katrina; the Supreme Court ruling that corporations wield constitutional rights to buy elections; and today, an economic crisis that is being used to impose fiscal austerity and corporatization schemes on our states and people.
Through these difficult struggles, the new democracy movement has taken form, expanded, and matured. Now it is time for a coming-of-age celebration. This is the moment to unite in one location the many different efforts to build genuine democracy in the United States. And what better place to come together, and to rejoice, than in Madison, Wisconsin, the city and state that have inspired people everywhere to declare that "We are Wisconsin!"
The Democracy Convention is a project of the Liberty Tree Foundation and co-convened by the Alliance for Democracy, Progressive Magazine, and Move to Amend. We thank our local partners on our Host Committee, as well as our national partners whose support as Major Sponsors, National Sponsor, Co-Sponsors, Endorsers, and Conference Conveners, has been vital. To find out how your organization, union, business, or community can join us, click here: http://democracyconvention.org/sponsor-convention
Democracy is coming . . . to the U.S.A.
NOTE: Part of the conference will include a “Move to Amend Affiliate Gathering.”
Goals of the Gathering are:
*To solidify the relationship between MTA coalition members and the national campaign team
*To connect our coalition partners with each other
*To bring in new coalition partners
*To provide an opportunity for training and strategic discussion in support of the Move to Amend campaign
More information of the Affiliate Gathering: http://movetoamend.org/register-affiliate-gathering-august-2011
---------------
Next Move to Amend Ohio Conference Call
Saturday, August 20 @ 9 AM.
Phone # (new toll-free number): 1-866-256-1242 Access Code: 21676526
---------------
Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and Corporate Personhood
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/us/politics/12romney.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB
“Corporations are people, my friend,” Mr. Romney responded, as the hecklers shouted back, “No, they’re not!” “Of course they are,” Mr. Romney said, chuckling slightly. “Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?”
Colbert's 'defense' of Romney's 'corporations are people' comment
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/12/colbert-defends-mitt-romney-corporations-are-people_n_925277.html
Website: http://movetoamendohio.org
FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ohio-Move-to-Amend/163413857048478
Monday, August 8, 2011
The London Riots
The chickens are coming home to roost. 30 years of reactionary,criminal, anti-people policies are being effectively trashed by rioters in London, and now I just got a report that it is spreading to another city. The police state tactics of the past no longer seem to be working, for as the Guardian has reported The Met's preferred tactic in recent years has been the controversial "kettle", in which large numbers of police are drafted in to contain protesters, sometimes for hours on end. But roaming groups of youths cannot be effectively kettled. Get that kiddies? Not that I think rioting is the best way to bring about social change, but the ever-moving tactic employed by these youth ought to be applied in non-violent mass protests. Perhaps there is no need to be kettled, illegally arrested and brutalized like in Toronto?
Update - Rioting has spread to Liverpool and Birmingham. It seems that everything in sight is a target for these youths, so there is little overt political content to this riot. It is an inchoate reaction, but one based upon years of government policies that have destroyed community and social linkages. No doubt all the usual suspects will blame the youth, but the real blame goes to the system that created the potential for this devastation.
Update - best article I have read so far -
http://www.marxist.com/riots-london-britain.htm
Update - Excellent on the spot blog report. Just this one quote alone is worth pages of coprolite press garbage - Riots are about power, and they are about catharsis. They are not about poor parenting, or youth services being cut, or any of the other snap explanations that media pundits have been trotting out: structural inequalities, as a friend of mine remarked today, are not solved by a few pool tables. People riot because it makes them feel powerful, even if only for a night. People riot because they have spent their whole lives being told that they are good for nothing, and they realise that together they can do anything – literally, anything at all. See - http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html
MONETARY HISTORY CALENDAR - August 8-14
AUGUST 9
1836 – BIRTH OF ALEXANDER DEL MAR, AMERICAN POLITICAL ECONOMIST, HISTORIAN, NUMISMATIST, AUTHOR, DIRECTOR US BUREAU OF STATISTICS
"As a rule political economists…don't take the trouble to study the history of money; it is much easier to imagine it and to deduce the principles of this imaginary knowledge."
"There is no international law of money, and there never can be one - for the law of money is an important part of domestic law."
"These tremendous powers have been wielded with such a lack of scientific or financial skill, and in so narrow and selfish a spirit, that its arbiters have repeatedly plunged the commercial world into bankruptcy, and confiscated or inequitably redistributed its accumulated earnings, either for their own benefit or else to save themselves from the effects of their own blundering."
DelMar was a supporter of fiat money, money issued by the government as legal tender.
1868 – BIRTH OF PAUL WARBURG, US BANKER
Warburg guided the operations of the National Citizens League, an organization formed in 1911 with $5 million in contributions from the big New York banks (including those owned by Rockefellor and J.P Morgan) to establish an "educational fund." The fund financed respected university professors to endorse the concept of creating a private central bank, what became the Federal Reserve Bank, created by the 1913 Federal Reserve Act.
1929 – THE FEDERAL RESERVE BEGINS TO TIGHTEN THE MONEY SUPPLY – LEADS TO GREAT DEPRESSION
The Federal Reserve sharply raises the interest rate it charges local banks to borrow money (called the “discount rate”). At the same time, it begins to sell its government securities (remember, the Fed is not part of the federal government, despite its name, but rather a largely private entity controlled by 12 reserve banks which are controlled by banks). These actions were the seeds, which led to the Great Depression – as limited money in circulation prevents business and commercial transactions from occurring.
1989 – FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS REFORM RECOVERY AND ENFORCEMENT ACT (FIRREA) ENACTED
The law passed in response to the 1980’s savings and loan crisis – in which. FIRREA created the Resolution Trust Corporation, which bailed out failed institutions primarily through taxation. It also shifted regulatory authority from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to the Office of Thrift Supervision within the Department of the Treasury.
It should be noted that more than more than a thousand felony convictions followed the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s and early 1990s. There have been virtually no investigations, let alone convictions, of those responsible for the 2007-2008 global financial meltdown triggered by US financial institutions.
AUGUST 10
1930- GEORGE GOODMAN, AUTHOR, “THE MONEY GAME”
[T]hose who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way.
AUGUST 14
1935 – SOCIAL SECURITY ACT PASSES
Social Security, providing monetary benefits to older Americans and permanently disabled, is considered the single most important poverty fighting legislation in the history of the nation.
1989 –DEATH OF ROBERT B. ANDERSON, SECRETARY OF TREASURY UNDER PRESIDENT EISENHOWER
"We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system."
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Why this calendar? Many people have questions about the root causes of our economic problems. Some questions involve money, banks and debt. How is money created? Why do banks control its quantity? How has the money system been used to liberate (not often) and oppress (most often) us? And how can the money system be “democratized” to rebuild our economy and society, create jobs and reduce debt?
Our goal is to inform, intrigue and inspire through bite size weekly postings listing important events and quotes from prominent individuals (both past and present) on money, banking and how the money system can help people and the planet. We hope the sharing of bits of buried history will illuminate monetary and banking issues and empower you with others to create real economic and political justice.
This calendar is a project of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. Adele Looney, Phyllis Titus, Donna Schall, Leah Davis, Alice Francini and Greg Coleridge helped in its development.
Please forward this to others and encourage them to subscribe. To subscribe/unsubscribe or to comment on any entry, contact monetarycalendar@yahoo.com For more information, visit http://www.afsc.net/economiccrisis.html
1836 – BIRTH OF ALEXANDER DEL MAR, AMERICAN POLITICAL ECONOMIST, HISTORIAN, NUMISMATIST, AUTHOR, DIRECTOR US BUREAU OF STATISTICS
"As a rule political economists…don't take the trouble to study the history of money; it is much easier to imagine it and to deduce the principles of this imaginary knowledge."
"There is no international law of money, and there never can be one - for the law of money is an important part of domestic law."
"These tremendous powers have been wielded with such a lack of scientific or financial skill, and in so narrow and selfish a spirit, that its arbiters have repeatedly plunged the commercial world into bankruptcy, and confiscated or inequitably redistributed its accumulated earnings, either for their own benefit or else to save themselves from the effects of their own blundering."
DelMar was a supporter of fiat money, money issued by the government as legal tender.
1868 – BIRTH OF PAUL WARBURG, US BANKER
Warburg guided the operations of the National Citizens League, an organization formed in 1911 with $5 million in contributions from the big New York banks (including those owned by Rockefellor and J.P Morgan) to establish an "educational fund." The fund financed respected university professors to endorse the concept of creating a private central bank, what became the Federal Reserve Bank, created by the 1913 Federal Reserve Act.
1929 – THE FEDERAL RESERVE BEGINS TO TIGHTEN THE MONEY SUPPLY – LEADS TO GREAT DEPRESSION
The Federal Reserve sharply raises the interest rate it charges local banks to borrow money (called the “discount rate”). At the same time, it begins to sell its government securities (remember, the Fed is not part of the federal government, despite its name, but rather a largely private entity controlled by 12 reserve banks which are controlled by banks). These actions were the seeds, which led to the Great Depression – as limited money in circulation prevents business and commercial transactions from occurring.
1989 – FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS REFORM RECOVERY AND ENFORCEMENT ACT (FIRREA) ENACTED
The law passed in response to the 1980’s savings and loan crisis – in which. FIRREA created the Resolution Trust Corporation, which bailed out failed institutions primarily through taxation. It also shifted regulatory authority from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to the Office of Thrift Supervision within the Department of the Treasury.
It should be noted that more than more than a thousand felony convictions followed the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s and early 1990s. There have been virtually no investigations, let alone convictions, of those responsible for the 2007-2008 global financial meltdown triggered by US financial institutions.
AUGUST 10
1930- GEORGE GOODMAN, AUTHOR, “THE MONEY GAME”
[T]hose who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way.
AUGUST 14
1935 – SOCIAL SECURITY ACT PASSES
Social Security, providing monetary benefits to older Americans and permanently disabled, is considered the single most important poverty fighting legislation in the history of the nation.
1989 –DEATH OF ROBERT B. ANDERSON, SECRETARY OF TREASURY UNDER PRESIDENT EISENHOWER
"We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system."
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Why this calendar? Many people have questions about the root causes of our economic problems. Some questions involve money, banks and debt. How is money created? Why do banks control its quantity? How has the money system been used to liberate (not often) and oppress (most often) us? And how can the money system be “democratized” to rebuild our economy and society, create jobs and reduce debt?
Our goal is to inform, intrigue and inspire through bite size weekly postings listing important events and quotes from prominent individuals (both past and present) on money, banking and how the money system can help people and the planet. We hope the sharing of bits of buried history will illuminate monetary and banking issues and empower you with others to create real economic and political justice.
This calendar is a project of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. Adele Looney, Phyllis Titus, Donna Schall, Leah Davis, Alice Francini and Greg Coleridge helped in its development.
Please forward this to others and encourage them to subscribe. To subscribe/unsubscribe or to comment on any entry, contact monetarycalendar@yahoo.com For more information, visit http://www.afsc.net/economiccrisis.html
Monday, August 1, 2011
MOVE to AMEND Ohio Update
5 ITEMS
1. Minutes from July statewide conference call
2. Website update
3. National Move to Amend webinars
4. Stand up for Ohio Festival – Move to Amend Ohio table
5. Democracy Convention
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Minutes from July statewide conference call
See attached. Thanks to Karen Hansen for facilitating and Michael Greenman for taking note.
Please read and participate where you can!
Our next call is Saturday, August 20 @ 9 AM.
Phone # (new toll-free number): 1-866-256-1242
Access Code: 21676526
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Website update
Please visit our updated website -- www.movetoamendohio.org
Thanks to Jeff Klein for making the changes.
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National Move to Amend webinars
Want to find out more about Move to Amend? Participate in a live webinar.
Orientation webinar: http://anymeeting.com/movetoamend/ED56D88086
Next Take Action Monthly webinar — August 2. More information at http://movetoamend.org/webinars
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Stand up for Ohio Festival -- Move to Amend Ohio table
On Saturday, August 20th, the biggest free concert to hit Ohio this summer will take place at the Ohio Fairgrounds. The Ohio Players, Grand Funk Railroad, Nikki Giovanni, and others will be performing, while informative speakers touch on a range of issues important to our jobs and communities.
Move to Amend Ohio has a table at this concert — which runs from Noon to 8:30 PM
We need volunteers to man/woman/staff the table. Can you help for an hour or two?
If so, please indicate what shift(s) you can be there
Noon-1:30 pm
1:30- 3:00 pm
3:00-4:30 pm
4:30 – 6:00 pm
6:00-7:30 pm
7:30-8:30 pm
Please email to gcoleridge@afsc.org
Further details of the event are at http://standupforohio.org/events/?event_id=36
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Democracy Convention
August 24-8 / Madison, WI / http://democracyconvention.org
Registration is cheap. Host housing is available. Car/van pooling is available.
If interested in attending and would like a ride, contact gcoleridge@afsc.org or mgreenman@wowway.com
ABOUT THE CONVENTION
If you want to strengthen democracy where it matters most -- in our communities, our schools, our workplaces and local economies, our military, our government, our media, our constitution -- you will find something inspiring in Madison this August.
More than one conference, this first Democracy Convention will house at least nine conferences under one roof. As the great progressive reformer Fighting Bob La Follette said, "democracy is a life," and "involves constant struggle" in all sectors of society. With the 2011 Democracy Convention, we recognize the importance of each of these separate democracy struggles, as well as the need to unite them all in a common, deeply rooted, broad based, movement for democracy.
A NEW DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT
A new movement -- a democracy movement -- was born in the streets of Seattle on November 30, 1999. This movement's early years were not easy. Pro-democracy organizers faced crisis after crisis: the stolen presidential elections of 2000 and 2004; the militarization of America that followed September 11th; the destruction of the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Katrina; the Supreme Court ruling that corporations wield constitutional rights to buy elections; and today, an economic crisis that is being used to impose fiscal austerity and corporatization schemes on our states and people.
Through these difficult struggles, the new democracy movement has taken form, expanded, and matured. Now it is time for a coming-of-age celebration. This is the moment to unite in one location the many different efforts to build genuine democracy in the United States. And what better place to come together, and to rejoice, than in Madison, Wisconsin, the city and state that have inspired people everywhere to declare that "We are Wisconsin!"
The Democracy Convention is a project of the Liberty Tree Foundation and co-convened by the Alliance for Democracy, Progressive Magazine, and Move to Amend. We thank our local partners on our Host Committee, as well as our national partners whose support as Major Sponsors, National Sponsor, Co-Sponsors, Endorsers, and Conference Conveners, has been vital. To find out how your organization, union, business, or community can join us, click here: http://democracyconvention.org/sponsor-convention
Democracy is coming . . . to the U.S.A.
NOTE: Part of the conference will include a “Move to Amend Affiliate Gathering.”
Goals of the Gathering are:
*To solidify the relationship between MTA coalition members and the national campaign team
*To connect our coalition partners with each other
*To bring in new coalition partners
*To provide an opportunity for training and strategic discussion in support of the Move to Amend campaign
More information of the Affiliate Gathering: http://movetoamend.org/register-affiliate-gathering-august-2011
1. Minutes from July statewide conference call
2. Website update
3. National Move to Amend webinars
4. Stand up for Ohio Festival – Move to Amend Ohio table
5. Democracy Convention
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Minutes from July statewide conference call
See attached. Thanks to Karen Hansen for facilitating and Michael Greenman for taking note.
Please read and participate where you can!
Our next call is Saturday, August 20 @ 9 AM.
Phone # (new toll-free number): 1-866-256-1242
Access Code: 21676526
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Website update
Please visit our updated website -- www.movetoamendohio.org
Thanks to Jeff Klein for making the changes.
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National Move to Amend webinars
Want to find out more about Move to Amend? Participate in a live webinar.
Orientation webinar: http://anymeeting.com/movetoamend/ED56D88086
Next Take Action Monthly webinar — August 2. More information at http://movetoamend.org/webinars
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Stand up for Ohio Festival -- Move to Amend Ohio table
On Saturday, August 20th, the biggest free concert to hit Ohio this summer will take place at the Ohio Fairgrounds. The Ohio Players, Grand Funk Railroad, Nikki Giovanni, and others will be performing, while informative speakers touch on a range of issues important to our jobs and communities.
Move to Amend Ohio has a table at this concert — which runs from Noon to 8:30 PM
We need volunteers to man/woman/staff the table. Can you help for an hour or two?
If so, please indicate what shift(s) you can be there
Noon-1:30 pm
1:30- 3:00 pm
3:00-4:30 pm
4:30 – 6:00 pm
6:00-7:30 pm
7:30-8:30 pm
Please email to gcoleridge@afsc.org
Further details of the event are at http://standupforohio.org/events/?event_id=36
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Democracy Convention
August 24-8 / Madison, WI / http://democracyconvention.org
Registration is cheap. Host housing is available. Car/van pooling is available.
If interested in attending and would like a ride, contact gcoleridge@afsc.org or mgreenman@wowway.com
ABOUT THE CONVENTION
If you want to strengthen democracy where it matters most -- in our communities, our schools, our workplaces and local economies, our military, our government, our media, our constitution -- you will find something inspiring in Madison this August.
More than one conference, this first Democracy Convention will house at least nine conferences under one roof. As the great progressive reformer Fighting Bob La Follette said, "democracy is a life," and "involves constant struggle" in all sectors of society. With the 2011 Democracy Convention, we recognize the importance of each of these separate democracy struggles, as well as the need to unite them all in a common, deeply rooted, broad based, movement for democracy.
A NEW DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT
A new movement -- a democracy movement -- was born in the streets of Seattle on November 30, 1999. This movement's early years were not easy. Pro-democracy organizers faced crisis after crisis: the stolen presidential elections of 2000 and 2004; the militarization of America that followed September 11th; the destruction of the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Katrina; the Supreme Court ruling that corporations wield constitutional rights to buy elections; and today, an economic crisis that is being used to impose fiscal austerity and corporatization schemes on our states and people.
Through these difficult struggles, the new democracy movement has taken form, expanded, and matured. Now it is time for a coming-of-age celebration. This is the moment to unite in one location the many different efforts to build genuine democracy in the United States. And what better place to come together, and to rejoice, than in Madison, Wisconsin, the city and state that have inspired people everywhere to declare that "We are Wisconsin!"
The Democracy Convention is a project of the Liberty Tree Foundation and co-convened by the Alliance for Democracy, Progressive Magazine, and Move to Amend. We thank our local partners on our Host Committee, as well as our national partners whose support as Major Sponsors, National Sponsor, Co-Sponsors, Endorsers, and Conference Conveners, has been vital. To find out how your organization, union, business, or community can join us, click here: http://democracyconvention.org/sponsor-convention
Democracy is coming . . . to the U.S.A.
NOTE: Part of the conference will include a “Move to Amend Affiliate Gathering.”
Goals of the Gathering are:
*To solidify the relationship between MTA coalition members and the national campaign team
*To connect our coalition partners with each other
*To bring in new coalition partners
*To provide an opportunity for training and strategic discussion in support of the Move to Amend campaign
More information of the Affiliate Gathering: http://movetoamend.org/register-affiliate-gathering-august-2011
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