<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtc-k6dhgs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtc-k6dhgs</a><br>This beautiful trailer for a new video called The Revolution is Love was posted on Occupy Cafe.org with this contribution by Susan Livingstone:<br>
Some of the Transition Towns are experimenting with community-based
economic systems and finding that they have the potential to render the
entire notion of exchange obsolete. Mostly this happens because people
are sharing their gifts with their communities rather than "working for
the man every night and day." It's not about <em>this</em> economic model or <em>that</em>
economic model - it's more about decentralizing our economy by
acknowledging, supporting, making visible, or replicating local
initiatives that are already in place (like clumps of imaginal butterfly
cells scattered throughout the muck of what used to be the caterpillar)
such as farmers markets, flea markets, community gardens, alternative
currencies, buyers cooperatives, and "maker" and service collectives of
all sorts. The acceptance of a unified economy was sold to the sheeple
based on the convenience of a single currency for "all debts public and
private" and the efficiency of debt-driven competition and growth. If
we want to reclaim our birthright of community-level interdependence and
trust, let's throw off the shackles of our wage slavery and enjoy the
GIFT of life instead of "earning a living" and devaluing the gift into a
right or entitlement. That's the world I want to live in!<br><div style id="avg_ls_inline_popup"></div>