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		<title>How to Barter, Give, and Get Stuff</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-barter-give-and-get-stuff.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Shareable.netBy Janelle Orsi08.31.10There are things we do for money and things we do for free. And then there is everything in between. In that between-space, there is a growing and exciting world of barter, work exchange, gift circles, mutual ai...]]></description>
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		<title>Main Street Cash Continues</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/08/main-street-cash-continues.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi friends of the alternative currency world,As Mark Herpel, dedicated editor of Main Street Cash (the only major new source for currencies), focuses on healing, Bay Area Community Exchange has decided to take the reins for a while. There may be a lag ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Started Giftflow</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-we-started-giftflow.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Hans Schoenbergfrom Shareable.netThe most emailed NY Times article right now is titled “But Will It Make You Happy?” Questioning our consumer culture, the author interviews a number of wealthy yet unhappy people who found relief in giving away t...]]></description>
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		<title>SF Community Congress Economic Plan</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/08/sf-community-congress-economic-plan.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Recommendations 2010Posted on August 13, 2010 by sfcommunitycongressGuiding principles1. Economic development policies must contribute to the health and well-being of the city’s neighborhoods and residents, provid...]]></description>
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		<title>A Cooperative Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/08/cooperative-manifesto.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tim HuetA Manifesto for a Life-Changing ConclusionWhen my colleagues, the editors of this publication, asked me to write a brief piece explaining why I got into cooperative development, I responded that this posed a perhaps insurmountable difficulty...]]></description>
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		<title>The Bay Area needs to act like a city-state</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/08/bay-area-needs-to-act-like-city-state.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good argument for regaining local economic control through city or regional banks and currencies, as well as economic planning institutions.From SFGate.com Paul SaffoSunday, July 11, 2010   It is July and once again California has no budget. The Legi...]]></description>
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		<title>How Money Separates Us</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-money-separates-us.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mira LunaI came to currency work out of a sense of hope for a new economy that builds relationships between people and with nature rather than breaking them. I also come from a place of trauma. I have watched through my activist work people being ex...]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland Mayoral Candidates Support Local Currency</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/08/oakland-mayoral-candidates-support.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAll of Oakland’s Mayoral Candidates Agree         Wednesday, August 11 11:00 am                                                                 In front of Oakland City Hall                                             The Oakland...]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Considers Participatory Budgeting (After Chicago)</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/08/san-francisco-considers-participatory.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a recent article about participatory budgeting in Chicago. Will SF be the next city? Perhaps to the first in the US to have a municipal-wide participatory budgeting process? The SF Community Congress has listed this among its top priorities to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Ecology update</title>
		<link>http://sfbace.org/2010/07/25/open-source-ecology-update/</link>
		<comments>http://sfbace.org/2010/07/25/open-source-ecology-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Di Franco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcin Jakubowski, whose work was featured in our previous project roundtable, writes to inform us of his progress: We&#8217;ve been making good progress on the Economy in a Box &#8211; the infrastructure tools for post-scarcity, resilient communities. This is aligned with the economic localization efforts of BACE. Our work focuses on the integration of flexible fabrication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto Tenants Participate in $9 Million Budget Allocation</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/07/toronto-tenants-participate-in-9.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from http://www.torontohousing.ca/participatory_budgetingsee the UN Guide to Participatory Budgeting to find out how to move your city towards greater participatory self-management...Despite a downturn in the economy that is putting the pinch on househ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Cooperative Movement in Century 21</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/07/cooperative-movement-in-century-21.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cooperative Movement in Century 21By John Curl“There is nothing new under the sun.”2010INTRODUCTIONIn 2002 the UN General Assembly recognized that cooperatives “are becoming a major factor of economic and social development,” and urged gove...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Marcin Jakubowski&#8217;s presentation on resilient communities</title>
		<link>http://sfbace.org/2010/07/07/video-marcin-jakubowskis-presentation-on-resilient-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://sfbace.org/2010/07/07/video-marcin-jakubowskis-presentation-on-resilient-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Di Franco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The video from Marcin Jakubowski&#8217;s presentation at last month&#8217;s project roundtable is now available.  Marcin describes it here, and you can watch it here. Thanks to Marcin for coming out and presenting and to Andrew Hasse of East Bay Pictures for producing the video.  We look forward to Marcin&#8217;s return to the area in October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festival of Grassroots Economics</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/06/festival-of-grassroots-economics.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Final cut of video from the festival we held last Sept in Oakland:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrMkQFsQTQ]]></description>
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		<title>SF Community Congress Economic Development Summit</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/06/sf-community-congress-economic.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter from the SF Community Congress OrganizersHello progressive friends,You’ve survived the mid-year elections and the annual budget crisis! Many of you have spent long hours developing revenue measures. Some of you have just returned inspired from...]]></description>
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		<title>Neighborgoods</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/06/neighborgoods.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Shareable.netBy Micki Krimmel06.09.10After a long discussion with my ex-boyfriend about his 8 year old son Evan and the perils of a childhood staring at glowing screens, I decided to do my part to encourage Evan to break away from the television t...]]></description>
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		<title>The Central Bank of Ecuador Supports Complementary Currency Development</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/06/central-bank-of-ecuador-supports.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Complementary Currency ProgramFundación Pachamama and the Central Bank of Ecuador jointly organized a workshop on complementary currency systems that was held on June 3 and 4 in the headquarters of the Central Bank in Quito. Ultimately the goal is...]]></description>
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		<title>2 Day Timebank Training at the US Social Forum</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/06/2-day-timebank-training-at-us-social.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Register hereTimeBanks USA has teamed up with the Michigan Alliance of TimeBanks to present a regional TimeBanking Training for 2 full days on June 26th and 27th.Why you should come:These are tough times. Find the Wealth of your community and discover ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why do CUs oppose ‘Reasonable Fees’ in card payment amendment</title>
		<link>http://lebleu.org/blog/2010/06/08/why-do-cus-oppose-reasonable-fees-in-card-payment-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://lebleu.org/blog/2010/06/08/why-do-cus-oppose-reasonable-fees-in-card-payment-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guillaume Lebleu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, Patelco sent the letter below to their members asking them to voice their opinion against the REASONABLE FEES AND RULES FOR PAYMENT CARD TRANSACTIONS amendment (original text). This campaign seems to be orchestrated at the state and national level.
What is not clear to me is why would Patelco, a credit union [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unplugged</title>
		<link>http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/06/unplugged.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira Luna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor's note: I wish many more entrepreneurs would take heed from this lesson. On a tangential note, I was speaking with someone yesterday about why alternative currencies have been able to take root more easily in poorer countries. I don't think it i...]]></description>
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