Greetings to all
LETS supporters after two months on the road.
I'm back to participate in another Ontario
provincial byelection,
Ottawa West, to try to make LETS the Number
1 issue. Pauline and I
have lots of interesting news from mail
relating to the Petition for
National/Global LETS, reports on LETS
at the TOES97 People's Summit
and other LETS goings-on. Over the next
two weeks, I will be
publishing:
1. LETS Ottawa West Candidate reports
During the last
June 1997 Canadian federal general election, John
Turmel was the only federal candidate
in Canada who mentioned National
LETS on National Television. Of course,
I had to gate-crash the
televised debate for five of my 7 Ottawa
West opponents to get my
lawful "equitable" share of the broadcast
time.
I am running
for 43rd time in the Sept. 4 1997 Ontario Provincial
byelection in Ottawa West as an Abolitionist
Independent candidate and
intend to continue to make LETS the major
issue of the campaign.
My aim is to
achieve the consensus of all the candidates to
install a province-wide Greendollar LETS
"Local Employment-Trading
System" at all Ontario banks in parallel
with our Canadian and US
money accounts.
In Hamilton East
1996, Abolitionist, Green, Christian Heritage,
Christian Freedom and one independent
candidates out of thirteen
signed the pro-LETS petition (38.5%).
In Ottawa West
1997, Abolitionist, Green, NDP, Marxist-Leninist,
Natural Law out of eight candidates candidates
signed (62.5%). Only
the Liberal, Conservative and Reform did
not.
So we know that:
- Bhuddists liked LETS first;
- Jews like LETS;
- Christians like LETS;
- Muslims like LETS;
- Abolitionists members like LETS;
- Greens members like LETS;
- Christian Freedom members like LETS;
- Christian Heritage members like LETS;
- Natural Law members like LETS;
- New Democrat members like LETS;
- Marxist-Leninists members like LETS.
This time in Ottawa
West, there are only the Abolitionist, Green,
Liberal, Tory, and New Democrat candidates.
I think the Liberal and
Tory are going to spend this election
explaining why Liberals and
Conservatives do not. My Candidate Reports
will deal mostly with
gaining that consensus from the negatives
and questions dealing with
LETS as an anti-poverty solution and posted
to politics-related
newsgroups.
I also hope to
start a slate of pro-LETS candidates to run in the
upcoming municipal elections.
2. LETS TOES 97 PEOPLE'S SUMMIT REPORT
At the TOES 97
People's Summit in Denver, Michael Linton, the
LETS project engineer, and I, the LETS
consulting engineer, were
speakers at the LETS workshop and had
to clash over government using
LETS currency too. Just goes to show that
it's possible for engineers
to collaborate on the technical even while
holding philosophical
disagreements. I will post a TOES97 Report
with transcript of our
debate with my commentary to LETS related
newsgroups and TOES mailing
list.
3. LETS Book Reports
I'll be
doing some reports on books I found at the TOES
conference and since. I found 10 books
I never owned before which all
offer LETS 1/s currency as an anti-poverty
solution:
Money and Debt: A solution to the global
crisis
ISBN 0-9625208-1-0: Thomas H. Greco (1990)
Future Wealth: A new Economics for the
21st century
ISBN 0-942850-25-4: James Robertson (1990)
Paradigms in Progress: Life Beyond Economics
ISBN 0-941705-21-8: Hazel Henderson (1991)
New Money for Healthy Communities
ISBN 0-9625208-2-9 Thomas Greco Jr. (1994)
Invested in the Common Good
ISBN 1-55092-243-2: Susan Meeker-Lowry
(1995)
Whole in Life Economics: Revaluing Daily
Life
ISBN 0-86571-266-2: Barbara Brandt (1995)
Towards a Sustainable Economy: The need
for fundamental change
ISBN 1-897766-14-9: Ted Trainer (1996)
Eco-City: Healthy Communities, Healthy
Planet
ISBN 0-86571-353-7: Mark Roseland (1997)
A World that Works: Building Blocks for
a Just and Sustainable Society
ISBN 0-942850-38-6: Trent Schroyer (1997)
Grace and Mortgage: The Language of Faith
and the Debt in the World
ISBN 0-232-52170-0: Peter Selby (1997)
Peter Selby who
held the William Leech Professorial Fellowship
in Applied Christian Theology at Durham
University before becoming
Bishop of Worcester cited my Banking Systems
Engineering Analysis to
prove John Kenneth Galbraith wrong on
whether inflation is the direct
or the indirect function of the interest
rate, what I call the Big Lie
of Economics. The Bishop saw the lie.
FULL-POST NEWSGROUPS:
For any interested
in all the LETS activities in the Municipal,
Provincial, National and Global political
arenas, I've decided to
cross-post everything to "own.eco.lets."
For those who can't receive
it, try "alt.fan.john-turmel" which, as
an "alt" class newsgroup,
should be available to all.
The campaign
is only two weeks and then we'll be into the next
municipal elections for November. LETS
is making inroads everywhere
and I could use some help in promoting
it to every candidate we see.