Subject:	Social Forum on Public Banking-Sunday, March 1, at 3 pm with location
From:	Roya
Date:	Mon, Feb 23, 2015 5:39 am
To:	Its Our Econ- CO
Sorry for sending this email again as I did not give information about time and location of this Social Forum. The great part of this mistake was that I heard from many of you. Hope to see you all there. Best Roya Denver Social Forum Presents: Public Banking Initiative in Colorado On March 1, 2015, 3 pm at the Mercury Cafe (2199 California St., Denver, CO 80205) Jason Bosch founder of Argusfest and Earl Staelin, a trial lawyer and co-sponsor of an initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to establish a state-owned bank will be presenting at the Denver Social Forum. After we bailed out the "too big to fail" Wall Street banks in 2008/2009, things appear to have improved, but the folks on Main Street working for low hourly wages or Coloradans paying tens of thousands of dollars in student debt with no end in sight, who lost their homes, or are working part time jobs with no benefits are not so sure. Colorado entrepreneurs seeking green energy solutions and small business start-ups scramble for funding. In 1729 Benjamin Franklin wrote a pamphlet giving credit to the colonial government of Pennsylvania for restoring prosperity by lending money beginning in 1723. Franklin later blamed Britain's decision in 1764 to prohibit further lending and printing of paper currency by colonial governments as the chief cause of the Revolution because it rapidly caused widespread unemployment and poverty. Apparently North Dakota paid attention to Franklin. This year they are celebrating the 96th year of having a state-owned bank, the Bank of North Dakota, as the only state that has one. Arguably as a result of its bank, North Dakota was the only state not to suffer budget deficits or declining employment as a result of the 2008 crash.  Now is Colorado turn. The public bank's mission would be to serve our communities by helping them thrive and our citizens prosper---through supporting small and medium sized businesses, green energy, lower student debt, reduced home foreclosures, sustainable farming, infrastructure. -- “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” RUMI Walt: How about we raise taxes where happiness plateaus, around $70-75K/year and target increase to education in ‘your’ industry, be that basketball, sports, music, banking, etc, to help rich see how their taxes are giving back and helping their own industry. Back to Top

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Subject:	Worker-Owned Cooperatives: Imagining an Economy for the Rest of Us- Feb 1
From:	Roya
Date:	Sat, Jan 17, 2015 5:54 am
To:	Its Our Econ- CO
Denver Social Forum Presents Worker-Owned Cooperatives: Imagining an Economy for the Rest of Us  Sunday, Feb 1, 2015, 2 pm at the Mercury Cafe (2199 California St., Denver, CO 80206) Our minds have been so colonized by the paradigm of industrial-age capitalism that we’ve lost the ability to imagine other ways of organizing an economy.” --Marjorie Kelly, Owning Our Future The Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center is a Denver-based non-profit whose mission is to promote the employee-ownership model as an important business option in our nation’s system of free enterprise, and as a path to greater commercial vitality, employment opportunity and economic security for all Americans. This presentation will invite the participant to imagine a new economic model, the worker-owned cooperative. Cooperatives were created in the 18th century to enable working people to acquire assets and to determine their own destiny. Worker-owned cooperatives move the economy from Wall Street to main street where it belongs.We can do it! -- "Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun" RUMI Back to Top