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undergroundpanther

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4. there is a way

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 03:06 AM

Feb 2013

a free store or gift economy.Don't need money to run these things.Rival and better economic model.
If we live without using thier money,we make no profits for them.We can starve the plutocracy. Remember after 9/11 people didn't shop for a few days,then bush had to tell people to go shopping?

Imagine if we stopped shopping and started SHARING on a massive scale?

http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/blog-5811~the-gift-economy
http://freestorebaltimore.org/

http://giftflow.org/

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