I'm a member of Manchester Trans Liberation Assembly - we try to make sure all our meetings have food because sharing a meal is a form of loving care that our members don't always have access to and full bellies make it easier to listen to one another with love and attention.
So interesting to hear that, Bean; I was involved in something similar (pay if you can, but still eat if you cannot) with asylum seekers in the UK East Midlands for about five years until "external pressures" heartbreakingly pulled the plug on it all. About ten years have passed since, and yet people still come up to me in the street just to joyously reminisce about it.
In solidarity with, and respect for, all that you do. 😃🏴☠️
Thanks for this thought provoking and caring essay! Perhaps nothing enacts the values of our society as much as how money is created and allocated. Money is not a thing, a commodity. It is a social practice. It circulates, like life blood, through the bodies of our societies. I once gave a presentation for the American Monetary Institute, on how we could have monetary practices that embody care—love! That is certainly not the global monetary system we now have. This one creates money when private banks make loans. So money exists on the back of debt servitude. And serves mainly to enrich already wealthy investors and corporations, and to further only their interests. Money practices would embody care if money is created debt free, when public monetary authorities spend money into existence rather than lending it into existence. Only then will we have enough funding for adequate healthcare, quality foods, affordable housing, infrastructure, education, and shoring up the environment, our planetary home. So, please find the organizations in your country working to transform money. In my country, the United States, it is the Alliance for Just Money, and the American Monetary Institute. And let’s remember, money is love only when it circulates, not when it is hoarded. ❤️
After a particularly trying week of motherhood (and existence - haha), this was a lovely and very welcomed read. Thank you also for the mention, warmed my heart and uplifted my tired head. Hope all is going well in London 😊
Thanks for commenting, Stevie. I'm sorry to hear you had a trying week of motherhood and existence, and happy that reading this helped a bit. I know you're a wonderful mum and give all us other caregivers so much by organising the playgroup!
I'm a member of Manchester Trans Liberation Assembly - we try to make sure all our meetings have food because sharing a meal is a form of loving care that our members don't always have access to and full bellies make it easier to listen to one another with love and attention.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful practice of love, Bean, the role of food in liberation struggles is so important!
So interesting to hear that, Bean; I was involved in something similar (pay if you can, but still eat if you cannot) with asylum seekers in the UK East Midlands for about five years until "external pressures" heartbreakingly pulled the plug on it all. About ten years have passed since, and yet people still come up to me in the street just to joyously reminisce about it.
In solidarity with, and respect for, all that you do. 😃🏴☠️
Thanks for this thought provoking and caring essay! Perhaps nothing enacts the values of our society as much as how money is created and allocated. Money is not a thing, a commodity. It is a social practice. It circulates, like life blood, through the bodies of our societies. I once gave a presentation for the American Monetary Institute, on how we could have monetary practices that embody care—love! That is certainly not the global monetary system we now have. This one creates money when private banks make loans. So money exists on the back of debt servitude. And serves mainly to enrich already wealthy investors and corporations, and to further only their interests. Money practices would embody care if money is created debt free, when public monetary authorities spend money into existence rather than lending it into existence. Only then will we have enough funding for adequate healthcare, quality foods, affordable housing, infrastructure, education, and shoring up the environment, our planetary home. So, please find the organizations in your country working to transform money. In my country, the United States, it is the Alliance for Just Money, and the American Monetary Institute. And let’s remember, money is love only when it circulates, not when it is hoarded. ❤️
Many thanks for sharing this, Bruce, I love this idea of monetary practices as embodying love - I think this needs to be part of any 'loveconomics'.
After a particularly trying week of motherhood (and existence - haha), this was a lovely and very welcomed read. Thank you also for the mention, warmed my heart and uplifted my tired head. Hope all is going well in London 😊
Thanks for commenting, Stevie. I'm sorry to hear you had a trying week of motherhood and existence, and happy that reading this helped a bit. I know you're a wonderful mum and give all us other caregivers so much by organising the playgroup!
❤️ thank you!
https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2013/12/28/the-ancient-greeks-6-words-for-love-and-why-knowing-them-can-change-your-life
xxx Anthony
Nice one, Anthony, thanks!
Miffsky's First Rule of Anticapitalist Organising -
"Everything worthwhile is achieved by behaving kindly rather than by behaving importantly".
Kindest solidarity wishes! 😃🏴☠️
Thank you for adding this, Miffsky, an important maxim!
Thank YOU Laura for taking the trouble of writing this column in order to share so many uplifting thoughts with our world!
😃🏴☠️