EMERGENCY LOCAL CURRENCY

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With bird flu an imminent threat, some of the best people working in

economics and in the local-currency movement are now contributing to a new

effort to:

- Raise awareness globally of the importance of having emergency local

currency plans;

- Create simple models for emergency preparedness and emergency

response;

- Develop a network for pre- and post-onset to share this work and support it's

implementation in communities.

Please join us in this work by using the links below, and please help us by

forwarding this information today.

Every community in the world needs an emergency currency on-hand.

Currently, there are only about 4000 communities world-wide using local

currency to some extent, usually very limited, almost all systems formed

during the last 10 years.

Currently, most of us are living in hubs of a single global community, but if

the

global marketplace is crippled, then most of us will find ourselves living in

local communities; and then we will need to create local marketplaces very

fast, or many millions of people will suffer unnecessarily. Using local

currency

is the best way to create local marketplaces fast. But we must assume that

most communities will not have a local currency ready, regardless of how

long we have to prepare, simply because the idea is too unfamiliar to most

people. Thus, we are developing two types of emergency currency:

preparedness and response, and also a network to share this information and

support it's implementation in communities.

The work we develop will be posted at BIRDSHOT at http://

homepage.mac.com/forever.net/About/BIRDSHOT.html , and is being linked

from the international ccLibrary (cc is community currency) at http://

www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?s_documentType=5 . If

you'd like to stay informed but not contribute to the discussion, you can join

the working group to receive copies of the discussion at http://

/group/emergencylocalcurrency/, or just bookmark the

BIRDSHOT webpage.

Join the working group at:

ELC (Emergency Local Currency/Bird Flu) at:

emergencylocalcurrency/

Emergency currencies:

BIRDSHOT at: http://homepage.mac.com/forever.net/About/BIRDSHOT.html

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Parcell

Moderator of ELC working group

email: forever.net@...

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