Date: Tue Jan 14 23:32:35 1997
Subject: TURMEL: UK LETS Mission
Highlights
I didn't
get to tell the Queen about LETS but I did manage
to picket Buckingham Palace and not
get arrested. Lucky I could
answer that I was picketing
"for or against the Queen" with a
"for."
I did
manage to picket the Bank of England with an insulting
sign (Bankers Are Crooks) and wasn't
arrested as long as I only
used the Abolish Interest with LETS
sign. I was told I could use
the Bankers are Crooks sign down the
street in front of the
private banks so I did do the Royal
Bank of Canada for a while
with the Bankers are Crooks and LETS
Abolish Interest Rates. Give
it a try. Use those two signs while
picketing a bank and see all
the thumbs up and honks of support.
But best of
all, I did manage to find pro-LETS activists in
five different British political
parties including two of the top
three big ones: Labour Party,
Liberal Democratic Party, Islamic
Party, Green Party and Referendum
Party.
While
there, I found two separate articles in the Liberal-
Democrat Newsletter:
LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT NEWS
19961129
"HELPING PEOPLE HELP
THEMSELVES"
by Prof. Colin C.
Williams
and Gill Seyfang
One of
the key problems facing us as party activists is how
to implement our ideals. How do we
put into practice our views on
sustainable development?
What is the
best way to encourage people to become active
citizens? How can we enable deprived
communities to help
themselves in practical ways?
Recent
research reveals that one Liberal Democratic policy
is starting to bear fruit.
r> Local
Exchange (jct:Employment) Trading Schemes (LETS) are a
self-help initiative which seek to
enable those on low incomes to
become more actively involved in
overcoming their situation in a
sustainable manner.
LETS are
local associations whose members list their offers
of, and requests for, goods and
services in a directory and then
exchange them, priced in a local
unit of currency - favours in
Calderdale, acorns in Totnes.
As such,
they have the potential to overcome the problem
that there are many people with
unmet needs, and many others able
to and willing to work, but this
supply and demand cannot be
matched due to a shortage of money.
They also have the potential
to encourage the recycling and
re-use of goods in communities.
The LETS
movement has grown rapidly in the UK, from only 40
schemes in 1992 to over 350 last
year. Research at Leeds
Metropolitan University has shown
that there are now some 30,000
LETS members in the UK trading the
equivalent of some L2.1
million.
The largest
LETS in Manchester has nearly 700 people
involved, trading over L90,000 worth
of goods and services each
year, an average of L131 per member.
Although
this might seem insignificant, for the LETS members
surveyed, such trade was widely held
as important to their
living standards.
The LETS
had enabled them not only to get essential goods
and services that they would
otherwise have been unable to afford
- getting gutters repaired or
cookers mended - but had allowed
them to meet a wider range of people
who they could call upon for
help and rebuild a sense of
community in their localities.
Although
initially LETS was seen to be something of a green,
middle-class hobby, the recent
research shows that this is no
longer the case. As they have taken
off, more and more people
joining them are low income and
unemployed people who see them as
a way of overcoming their poverty
and strengthening their social
networks.
Further
research currently under way into the role of LETS
in promoting sustainability, also at
Leeds Metropolitan
University, is providing additional
information on their ability
to encourage a more
environmentally-friendly way of working.
It is time
for all Liberal Democrat local authorities to
take seriously their role as
enablers and to start to enable
people to help themselves.
jct:
Also great news of other politicians using LETS to alleviate
poverty.
"CAN COUNCILS HELP TACKLE
POVERTY?"
"Liberal-Democrat-led Stockport
thinks it can and has launched an
anti-poverty strategy - including a
LETS local currency scheme."
by Paul Porgess
Stockport's first LETS scheme is getting under way, assisted
by a grant from Stockport's Liberal
Democrat-led council's anti-
poverty budget.
LETS -
Local Exchange (jct:Employment) Trading Scheme - is a
scheme by which local people on low
incomes can have work done
without spending money, and then
repay their debt by providing a
service to someone else.
In other
words, it is a barter scheme which enables people
to use their skills and creative
talents for mutual benefit. To
be successful, the scheme needs to
be organised by committed
volunteers within the community it
serves.
It also
needs good control of the credits gained or traded
in. To assist in that, the council
is providing money for a
computer which is to be used for the
effective control, as well
as money for training of the
volunteers running the scheme.
Fours years
ago, Liberal Democrats on Stockport Council,
concerned about the link between
poverty and ill-health, and that
nationally one in three children
live in poverty, set up an anti-
poverty strategy and allocated money
in the council budget for
anti-poverty work.
Stockport
covers some of the more deprived parts of Greater
Manchester, as well as some of the
wealthiest. When we embarked
on the anti-poverty programme, we
wanted to know what the needs
were in the various parts of the
town.
We wanted
to find out where people on low incomes were
living, as not everyone living on
council estates is in poverty,
and many people on low incomes do
not live on council estates.
We
therefore held a series of anti-poverty forums, open to
the public, voluntary organizations,
churches, as well as the
health authority and front line
council employees.
LETS
schemes were a subject of one of the anti-poverty
forums where their advantages and
difficulties were explored.
A major
issue with LETS schemes is that officials sometimes
view the credits gained in monetary
terms, even though there is
no exchange of money. A member on
Support and participating in
LETS schemes is in danger of having
their benefit reduced.
The Heatons
LETS scheme is the first to be started with the
initiative coming from residents of
the area. Progress will be
reviewed after six months and, if
successful, a second LETS
scheme will be supported.
STOCKPORT'S
anti-poverty drive has two main aims, to -
- ALLEVIATE
the effects of poverty amongst residents of
Stockport;
- REDUCE
the number of people living in poverty in
Stockport.
There is a
small budget - L60,000 for 1996/1997 - against
which local groups can bid for
grants.
Bids are
assessed against published criteria which are based
on improving quality of life,
increasing people's disposable
income and ability to pay for
essentials, influencing other
agencies and organisations which
contribute to a reduction of
poverty, and supporting people in
poverty to take action on their
own behalf.
Assessment
is made with the help of council officers, the
health authorities, and the Council
for Voluntary Service. Self-
funding or the ability to gain
outside funding when council
support ceases is also expected.
Other
activities assisted include healthy eating cafes,
fruit and vegetable co-ops - with
the health authority - a toy
library and several other projects
run by volunteers...
Also funded
has been a country court case worker to give
free representation in court for
home owners facing mortgage
repossession...
Stockport
Council has subscribed to the National Local
Government Forum Against Poverty and
- in recognition of the work
done in the borough - the January
meeting of the North West and
North Wales Anti-Poverty Forum is
being held in Stockport.
Cllr Paul Porgess is chair of Stockport's equal opportunities.
jct:
Remember that during my 1996 Hamilton East federally
by-election, I organized five of us
candidates, Green, Christian
Heritage, Abolitionist and 2
Independents to sign a petition for
a national Canada LETS. Now I've
started pro-LETS movements in
five UK parties to get their leaders
to cooperate on LETS when
they form the next government.
With
these Liberal Democrat politicians who I'd bet will
vote for LETS when comes the time, I
first spoke with pro-LETS
activists from Paddy Ashdown's
Liberal Democratic Party, the
third largest party, including Ken
Palmerston and former Liberal-
Democrat municipal candidate Richard
Kay, a most prominent UK
LETS supporter.
Then I
spoke with pro-LETS activists from the Islamic Party
including leader David Pidcock who
assured me no Islamic
candidate would stand against a
pro-LETS candidate from one of
the larger parties and that they
would even help the pro-LETS
candidate from the larger party to
win. Mr. Pidcock stated he
would declare Jihad, the religious
duty of all 2 million Muslims
in the UK to vote for the program,
not the party.
When I
returned from my trip, I was pleased to read of their
commitment to that
larger-pro-LETS-party support in
uk.religion.islam:
Article #3174 (3176 is last):
From: mail@smb.powernet.co.uk
(Islamic Party of Britain)
Newsgroups: uk.religion.islam
Subject: Islamic Party joins
Canadian abolitionists
Date: Fri Jan 10 16:03:51 1997
*In a meeting in London with John
Turmel, leader of the Canadian
*abolitionist party, the Islamic
Party of Britain representatives
*re-affirmed their intention to join
forces with anybody willing to
*fight the evil of interest which is
most strongly condemned in Islam
*(the Qur'an contains a declaration
of war from Allah and His messenger
*against usury), as it is prohibited
in Islam's monotheistic
*precedessors, Judaism and
Christianity, in their unadulterated
*message.
*The eloquent Canadian who argues
for the introduction of a
*government-backed LETS (Local
Exchange Trading System), a free and
*green alternative to interest-based
debt-finance, is picketing
*Buckingham Palace today to petition
the Queen to support the scheme.
*He has offered her free credit from
the tens of thousands of LETS
*supporters already in the UK, some
of whom are local councils using
*the scheme to alleviate the
hardships of the money draught which
*results in unemployment and poverty
in spite of people's ability
*to be productive.
*He has promised to return for the
British general election
*expected in the spring to run a
joined campaign to form a
*coalition promising support for any
candidate willing to
*support this issue. The Islamic
Party of Britain has made the
*fight against an interest-based
monetary system is key issue
*since it fought the Bradford
bye-election in 1990 against
*"Satanic Purses". The
party hopes that the issue can be
*effectively raised in the
forth-coming general elections,
*and is willing to support any
candidate or pressure group
*joining the campaign.
islamparty@smb.powernet.co.uk
*http://www.muslims.net/islamparty/islamparty.htm
*
I like it
when they include the Torah of their cousins, the
Jews. They could be kissin cousins
with LETS but they're stuck as
killin cousins with usury.
And I
asked nothing more but that from the pro-LETS
activists from the Green Party
including the publisher of the
Green Sustainable Economics
newsletter, Brian Leslie, who
indicated he would urge Greens to
join a political coalition and
support a larger pro-LETS party.
And
long-time LETS organizers Liz Sheppard and Sabine
MacNeill have both pledged their
vote to a LETS candidate. I
doubt many actual LETS members will
not!
I got to
speak to Mr. Gamre, a candidate from Sir
Goldsmith's Referendum Party who was
pro-LETS when I had finished
my poetic presentation.
And
finally, I spoke with pro-LETS activists from Tony
Blair's Labour Party, the second
largest party, including Labour
candidate David Williams, the first
person ever hired by a
government to teach LETSystems. He
said he would look into making
it a national issue and am sure
he'll find more interest than he
ever imagined.
Richard Kay
emailled his leader Paddy Ashdown informing
him of the offer of support from the
Islamic leader, the Green
activists and possible LETS members
in general, and it's been
referred to the right department. On
the same day was a huge
full-page of articles in the UK
Guardian, a nationally distributed
paper, about the upcoming LETS
election battleground:
THE GUARDIAN (UK)
The Economics Page
19970106
"ELECTION BATTLEGROUND /
Local currencies gain ground in era of
globalisation"
by Sarah Ryle
Picture#1: "Bank of Exchange
Note: Caricature of smiling plumber
receiving freshly baked pie from
granny for fixing faucet:
Caption: "We promise to
exchange goods or services to the value
of one Bobbin"
Picture#2: "Corner Shop...
cornerstone of successful LETS"
Picture#3: "Disabled access...
LETS work for everyone"
Picture#4: "Drumchapel,
Glasgow... LETS regenerate"
Picture#5: "Old Lady (Bank of
England)... LETS work with main
economy.
"THE HAVES AND
HAVE-NOTS"
Graph#1: "The rise of the
jobless household: % of households
without work" Source: Centre
for Economic Performance (LFS)
Graph#2: "Credit card
transactions: Number of transactions,
millions" Source: British
Bankers' Association
"CREATING MORE THAN A TOKEN REVOLUTION"
All
sensible people with homes, jobs or pubs to go to have
spent recent days warmly ensconced
and not at the sales. But
sense diminishes as cash flow or
confidence in credit rises - or
so it would appear from the
retailers' and banks' gleeful reports
of shoppers carrying all before
them.
Sooner or
later, the authorities will decide that the fun
has to be paid for. Devotion to low
inflation will trigger a rise
in interest rates, with economists
and the markets betting on
this month, next month, 25 basis
points now or 50-plus later.
Mortgages will become more
expensive.
Consumers
are presented with a non-choice: spend now and pay
later, or save any disposable
income. Either way, they have to go
without at some point. The
individual's free will in an economic
context is at best irrelevant.
Changes in
economy-driving factors like communications,
labour relations and
financial-sector reforms have chipped away
at the role of the ordinary person.
Globalisation means that for
many workers, bosses are thousands
of miles away. Electricity and
water services line the pockets of
American firms.
Talk of
electronic money baffles many. In the UK, the
increasing number of jobless
households means the concept of a
bank account and cheque book, let
alone a credit card, is an
alien one.
To top it
all, there is Europe and the single currency which
a large chunk of the public
dismisses as too complicated to think
about. Fear of losing control to
Euro-bankers or to American
companies is pointless. Control of
the economy is arguably more
in the gift of the international
money markets than the elected
government, and what is the
difference between American firms and
home-grown fat cat bosses?
Yet people
are fearful. Some of this trepidation has taken
human form in the New Moral Army.
A more
useful manifestation of the individual's desire to
regain control, the wish to count
for something in this world, is
the explosion of locally run
economic systems.
The number
of Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) in the
UK is estimated to exceed 300, with
many starting up over the
past two years. Small groups with
big goals club together to
trade local skills and products
ranging from legal advice to
baby-sitting to organic potatoes.
Local currencies are developed
to tally the transactions.
The aim is
to regenerate local economies and communities
suffering the ravages of
unemployment and income inequality.
Studies have argued that LETS are a
godsend for people with no or
low income, and show they have
mushroomed during past
recessions.*
So far, the
jibe has been that they appeal only to people
who fit the Hampstead Liberal
tradition rather than descendants
of the Jarrow marchers. But schemes
have taken root on some of
Britain's most deprived estates. The
fact that LETS have become
so much more common since the
recession also shows they are a
direct response to unemployment and
lower conventional spending
power. Given that the last recession
notoriously hit white-collar
workers harder than blue-collar
ones, it is not surprising if the
middle classes have been the engine
behind the LETS revolution.
There have
been minor slashes with the authorities in the
shape of the Inland Revenue and the
Department of Social
Security whose local offices have
been known to suspend benefits
for members of LETS. Officials now
reckon one unit of local
currency is equivalent to one pound
but judge scheme members on a
case-by-case basis.
There are
cases of local money systems in America and
Austria becoming so successful that
the central banks felt the
need to crush them (Murray and
Collins).
Schemes in
America, Canada, Australia have begun to mirror
the mainstream economy with central
computes monitoring
transactions. The LETS in Nova
Scotia has even experienced
inflation participants began to
demand a bigger percentage of
each transaction in dollars as
Maritime Hours became too common.
In this
country, by charming coincidence, there are two
significant monetary meetings due to
take place on Jan 15. As
Chancellor Kenneth Clarke meets the
Governor of the Bank of
England to debate the macroeconomy
and wangle over base rates,
the Manchester LETS will be
examining the future of the Bobbin.
Manchester
LETS is one of the biggest in the UK, with 700
members who span age and class
distinctions. All transactions are
worth six Bobbins an hour. Although
this raises questions about
the Bobbin's similarity to
traditional money, which yields
information on supply and demand,
the members appear to value
this minimum and maximum wage.
It is set
to become the first LETS in the country to start a
credit union, linking the Bobbin to
sterling and - according to
one of the scheme's founders,
Siobhan Harpur - increasing its
durability in a post-recession
economy. The credit union will
offer loans to help establish
micro-businesses which will pay
interest in Bobbins. The
administrators, too, will be paid in the
LETS currency.
There are
11 LETS in Suffolk which are also discussing a
credit union - membership of a LETS
fulfills the legal
requirement that all participants of
credit unions must have
something in common. But according
to the LETS coordinator, Sally
Moxon, it will be run along
conventional sterling lines rather
than using their currency, the
Talent.
The aim is
to stimulate business and offer personal loans to
low- or no-income households who
would otherwise visit
loansharks.
LETS aim to
help the growing number of households without
access to sufficient conventional
money, but also to embrace
other people who are on the margins
of the mainstream economy.
These include mentally ill and
physically disabled people. The
social aspect of LETS is almost as
important as their use as a
tool of the economic regeneration.
Enthusiasts
have a long way to go if they want to convince a
family living in poverty that
earning LETS currency is worthwhile
when it cannot be used to feed a gas
or electricity meter.
But the
bigger they become, the more relevant they will be.
The Manchester and Suffolk schemes
are investigating the
potential to link LETS to local
authority taxation.
This has
been done in other countries and the security it
provides has attracted a wider range
of business ventures into
the the schemes, anchoring LETS as
crucial to the local economy.
Councils could extend
already-established municipal cards which
give discounted use of facilities
and other bonuses.
Ultimately,
it may be the fact that LETS are small, and
manageable, that sustains them. When
all the power in the world
is being distilled into the hands of
fewer and fewer players, the
human need to assert individuality
and local identity is stronger
than ever.
*
"LETS on low-income, New Economics Foundation, and Local
Money and Community Economic
Development, Robin Murray and Keith
Collins
---
"BRIXTON BUILDS COMMUNITY ON BRICKS"
by Charlotte Denny
In
Brixton there is a butler available for hire (has own
uniform, can do silver service) who
takes payment in the local
currency, the Brixton Brick.
Silver
service might not appeal much to the 20 percent of
the area's inhabitants who are
unemployed. But for Ann Parnell
McGarry, who is disabled, the
services she can buy with Bricks,
the currency of Brixton's Local
Exchange and Trade Scheme (LETS),
have made a real difference.
"I
discovered the scheme a year ago and now I use it for
paying a cleaner, a chiropodist, a
driver and someone to fix my
computer. I cannot imagine now how I
would do without Bricks. It
means I can pay for all the things
which social services do not
provide anymore."
Brixton's
is one of many local exchange schemes, or systems,
in the UK which allow members to
trade without using real money.
The idea is to stimulate local
economic activity in low-income
areas. For someone like Ms. McGarry,
whose disability prevents
her from taking on full-time work,
Bricks mean she no longer has
to ask friends for favours.
"It is
very hard to keep up your self-respect when you are
always asking for help. When you can
offer Bricks you don't have
to be grateful because it is a
proper exchange and you know it is
helping them as well."
Her cleaner
uses the Bricks she earns to buy child care from
someone else within the scheme.
Ms. McGarry
makes gin and lemon marmalade, offers advice on
fund-raising and hires out her
computer scanner to earn Bricks.
She sees LETS as a way of using all
her talents: "I am a jack of
all trades but if I were in a job I
would only be using a few of
my skills." She advises people
new to the scheme to think
carefully about the things they are
good at which might provide
business opportunities and make use
of them all.
New
members' needs and wants are listed in a regular
newsletter and directory. Entries in
the most recent directory
range from plumbing to psychic
healing.
New members
have to make some Bricks before they are issued
with a cheque book. Once they have
cheques, they can pay for
goods and services in Bricks. The
cheques are sent to one of the
organizing group who enter the debts
and credits on a computer.
Members are
not charged interest if they run up overdrafts
but if they get too far into debt,
the organizing group will send
a warning letter, and may ultimately
withdraw their cheque
books.
Ms. McGarry
says that LETS are easier to organize in rural
areas and villages where people know
their neighbours. In
Brixton, LETS provides a sense of
community "without the
downside, the lack of privacy."
There are
not many unemployed members, even though Brixton
has a large number of people out of
work. According to Ms.
McGarry, many people join because
they believe in community or
green politics rather than because
they need the income.
Some local
businesses have joined the scheme. But at the
Cafe on the Common, Leah Hargreaves,
one of the three women
running the establishment, says that
it has had mixed results.
The cafe lets people pay for part of
their meals in Bricks, with
a Brick being equal to a pound. The
problem came when they hired
people to do building work through
the scheme.
"We
only pay ourselves four Bricks an hour but the people we
hire through the scheme sometimes
charge 10 Bricks an hour. We
have to pay for our food and other
bills in pounds, so it can
prove quite expensive."
jct: As
the headline heralds, forming a LETS coalition the
election battleground in the
upcoming UK general election. LETS
will be endorsed by more and more
candidates over time and would
expect to soon break the record of 5
parties in such consensus.
I do
hope to be back in the United Kingdom in time to cheer
on pro-LETS members of all parties
to obtain the commitment of
their party leaders to LETS
installation on a national database.
This is a once in a 5 year chance to
vote for a national LETS.
Otherwise, you're going to have to
keep grinding LETS out locally
without government support or
sanction.
I have
planted the seeds of consensus on LETS in
five parties so far and I'd would
hope that talk of LETS
coalition would soon be on every UK
LETSer's agenda. This is not
a time to think small and think
slow. Doubters need simply debate
what advantages there are to
building up slowly from the local
level over installing nationally the
Hour-for-Tally national
LETSystem software overnight.
I think the
folly of choosing small becomes obvious.
Sadly, I
note the probable demise of the ncf.ca.lets
newsgroup after a concerted effort
by expert "Administration and
Security" pro-LETS enthusiasts
to shut it down to an archive.
With pro-LETS enthusiasts like this,
we hardly need enemies.
Nevertheless, there are now Brits running with the LETS
political football now. Who says I
need to do anything more than
to have kick-started their
coalition?
Just like
in Hamiton, I told the voters I only needed one
smart guy to
"do-it-locally-yourself" and within 1 month, a bunch of
smart guys did
"do-it-locally-yourself." Perhaps now that I've
cheered on 5 smart parties to
"do-it-nationally-yourself,"
then a bunch of smart guys from
those 5 parties just may also
successfully within 1 month of the
election "do-it-nationally-
yourself."
What's
really fascinating is that much of this is movement
by an army of pawns. Each little
person can use his vote to push
his politician for LETS. Each little
politician can use his job
to push his leader for LETS.
As I told
David Williams, how will you feel if you're facing
your Liberal Democract opponent
wearing the same LETS diskette
you are except that his leader is
also wearing it while your
leader is not? Somehow, I think that
worried him and I believe
that he will try to make LETS one of
his party's issues before
the Liberal Democrats.
If every
LETSer in the UK called their local federal
candidates and informed them that
they will support the party
that supports LETS, I'd bet those
candidates call up their
leaders. I know it got David
Williams motivated. He knows how
foolish he'd look if Paddy Ashdown
leads his party
members pro-LETS while David's
leader Tony Blair does not.
Please try
this out. See if you have any political power you
were not aware you could use. Call
the candidates and tell them
you're voting for the program and
not the party. Is the party
pro-LETS nationally or not? And why
not?
A lot of
you missed the chance to help me ask Her Majesty
for a LETS before Christmas. I hope
you don't miss the chance to
insist upon Her Majesty's government
with your vote. You just
can't keep ignoring these one-shot
chances at a quick national
solution.
And I'd
like to give Prince Charles to decide on LETS. He
deserves the chance to decide for
himself whether to retain the
old "Mort-gage" 1/(s-i)
banking software or support the sleeker
new LETS 1/s no-feedback banking
software.
I have a
few more surprises up my political sleeve but right
now, we need progress reports.
Friends who are reading this,
start your calls and tell us which
candidates do and don't
support a national LETS. We have to
know where every potential
candidate and party stands on LETS.
Using a questionaire to get
that information will make LETS a
national issue when enough
candidates are approached.
I tested
the waters. Everyone I explained LETS to was ready
to vote pro-LETS. Everyone. I met no
doubters that LETS could be
installed overnight. This is a
political idea whose time has come
and you must not miss this chance to
use your once-in-5-year vote
to prod your candidates along the
electoral battleground towards
a national LETS.
Those who
want me to come back in time for the election
campaign, the least you can do is do
your best to get it agreed-
upon on your own and perhaps freeing
me up for other duty.
It would be
a shame if all us paupers and pawns didn't use
this rare opportunity to get
everyone an interest-free bank
account to settle up their debts and
start fresh.
Fortunately, there's no need to handle any doubters since
the LETSystem 1/s engineering design
is as trivial to grasp as
poker chips. Give any 16-year-old
who banks the neighborhood
small-stakes poker game a chance to
explain LETS with his chips
and you'll be surprised how well
most children can get a handle
on it. The real feat is for adults
to beat the brainwashing and
see the evil of USURY 1/(s-i)
software versus the soundness of
the LETS 1/s interest-free software.
You have
political power. Many people in the grips of usury
debt slavery do not have the
opportunity to vote. To fail to use
your available power is a sin
against those who cannot vote for
help themselves.
The Islamic
Party has declared anti-USURY pro-LETS Jihad on
Britain's 2 million Muslims. I urge
the Islamic Party to declare
Jihad on all in the Muslim world.
Informing Her Majesty and
candidates for Her Government that
Greenhour Tallies will be
accepted in trade as a secondary
currency for oil. If the Muslim
oil producers offered trade in oil,
hour for hour, Her Majesty's
government would soon see the
advantage of maximizing the
nation's number of hours worked.
You know
how are the Abolitionists of Interest in the Muslim
world. Get them to ask their
governments to offer Britain barter
trade deals using the LETS for the
accounting.
Any
Buddists out there who want to jump on the pro-LETS
anti-USURY bandwagon? Any Jews? Any
other religions? Is there any
religion which says USURY is good
for the members?
Jihad for
pro-LETS consensus now.
Amen.