Thursday, November 13th 2008

Conspiracy Culture presents:

~ The Launch of the 4th Annual UsuryFree Week ~

Usury
u-su-ry [yoo-zhuh-ree] - noun, plural -ries.

1. the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest.
2. an exorbitant amount or rate of interest, esp. in excess of the legal rate.
3. Obsolete. interest paid for the use of money.



The Fourth Annual UsuryFree Week kicks off on UsuryFree Day, Thursday, November 13th, 2008 at 7:00 PM at Conspiracy Culture, 1696 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON. Canada M6R 1B3.

The Key Note Speaker: The UsuryFree Network is once again honoured that Peter Jon Simpson from Atwater, Minnesota will be the key note guest speaker who will be introduced by Tom J. Kennedy, founder of The UsuryFree Network.

In the mid-1980's Peter authored 2 books: 'Avoid Bank Holidays' and 'Life Without Usury'. Also during the 1980's Peter created some noteworthy audio cassettes on issues related to money and banking.

In summary, Peter Jon Simpson has been a pioneering mentor for usuryfree creatives. His research has helped people understand just how the design flaw of usury is the evil function on our orthodox money system that is directly and/or indirectly responsible for violence, wars, poverty, scarcity and lack.

Peter Jon Simpson will be addressing the current economic crisis and the various implications of Usury/Interest when he speaks on November 13th, to launch this Fourth Annual UsuryFree Week.


Topics to be addressed will be selected from this list:
a) why celebrate UsuryFree Day & UsuryFree Week
b) comparing usury-based orthodox economics and innovative usuryfree economics
c) creating and spending our own usuryfree community currencies
d) unique strategies to evade usury and avoid taxes
e) the awakening in rural and urban Ontario
f) private member-supported organizations, clubs and networks


What's the cost of admission?

Attendees are invited to pay-what-they-think-it-is-worth to be present and learn from those who are making the presentations. Cash, cheques, money orders and any usuryfree community currency accepted.

The expenses to be covered are:
a) a gift to Conspiracy Culture for offering to share the space for the meeting
b) advertising
c) gifts or donations to the guest speaker to cover his travel expenses and his time investment for any preparation and the presentation

Obviously, the advertising costs and the travel costs of the speaker will require federal cash. Attendees are encouraged to be generous with 'gifts' or 'donations' so that this workshop model can be copied or duplicated in any community in Ontario or elsewhere.

Remember, seats are limited and RSVP's are required for this Special Workshop in honour of our Fourth Annual UsuryFree Day. Please request your seat for this event by sending an email to: patrick @ conspiracy culture . com (remove spaces)... with 'UsuryFree' in the Subject line or by telephoning: 416.916.1696

The event will start at 7:00 pm and will end at roughly 9:00 pm. The event location is Conspiracy Culture: 1696 Queen St. W. Toronto, ON. Canada M6R 1B3 (There are limited spaces available so send your RSVP to Patrick to confirm your intent to attend sooner than later as the event is sure to fill up).

PS: For more background details at this Fourth Annual UsuryFree Day/Week readers are invited to read the article below which is authored by Tom J. Kennedy.

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The Fourth Annual UsuryFree Day/Week
By Tom J. Kennedy

In mid-November (13th to 19th) 2008, usuryfree creatives from all walks of life will gather in living rooms, community halls, board rooms and/or hotel rooms to celebrate the Fourth Annual UsuryFree Day/Week.

Who are these usuryfree creatives? To better understand, permit me to refer you to the website for Cultural Creatives: culturalcreatives.org where it is written:

While Cultural Creatives are a subculture, they lack one critical ingredient in their lives: awareness of themselves as a whole people. We call them the Cultural Creatives precisely because they are already creating a new culture. If they could see how promising this creativity is for all of us, if they could know how large their numbers are, many things might follow. These optimistic, altruistic millions might be willing to speak more frankly in public settings and act more directly in shaping a new way of life for our time and the time ahead. They might lead the way toward an Integral Culture.

UsuryFree Creatives often see themselves as a subgroup within the larger group of Cultural Creatives. The focus of point of usuryfree creatives is to re-educate our fellow citizens that a world without interest (usury) is possible again in this 21st Century as it was in the Middle Ages. UsuryFree Creatives are commonly found as active participants within the growing movement of local communities that are launching usuryfree community currencies to use as a complement with their diminishing amounts of paper notes of federal cash.

To qualify as an active usuryfree creative one must be aware of the design flaw of usury and know that it functions as the killer machine in our orthodox system of economics. As a usuryfree creative one also supports the growth and expansion of the usuryfree community currency movement as our last, best alternative that will aid us in setting up our 'economic lifeboats' in our respective local communities so that we-the-people can negotiate trades when the Titanic of usury-based debt money goes down.

These gatherings of usuryfree creatives in mid-November 2008 will begin with a brief history about the evolution of UsuryFree Day and Week from its birth in a small town (Tamworth) in economically depressed, rural, eastern Ontario, Canada to its present state four years later. November 13th is designated as UsuryFree Day and the following week is designated as UsuryFree Week.

This year there will be a series of meetings/gatherings hosted in various locations. At these meetings there will be some of the pioneering usuryfree creatives who have been blazing trails for others to follow.

Part workshop, part seminar, part re-education, part brainstorming, the events of the Fourth Annual UsuryFree Day/Week are co-hosted by the UsuryFree Network. Active and prospective usuryfree creatives are attracted to these events and to the usuryfree community currency movement.

UsuryFree Day/Week events offer an opportunity for people from anywhere/everywhere to communicate and interact with usuryfree-thinkers and charge or re-charge their alternative economic batteries.

This Fourth Annual UsuryFree Day/Week is expected to draw the largest number of usuryfree creatives ever because it is nearly impossible to be ignorant of what's been happening in the orthodox world of usury-based debt money.

It is the hope of usuryfree creatives that awareness of the problems associated - either directly or indirectly - with usury as exacted by creditors will motivate debtors to action. Rather than withdrawing and throwing in the towel and portraying a defeatist attitude, debtors are encouraged to view the DVD 'Money As Debt' and thereafter commit to following a self-imposed course on how to eventually experience a usuryfree lifestyle.

Copies of the DVD 'Money As Debt' are available for sale. It is a 47 minute DVD that explains how money is created in Canada and USA - something that formal education neglects to teach. The cost is $25.00 and it is a fundraiser for The UsuryFree Network. (see address below)

During this Fourth Annual UsuryFree Day/Week, usuryfree creatives will be recommending that the optimal path to follow is for uncommon people to lead the way in their respective local communities by implementing a usuryfree community currency. Usuryfree creatives advocate that consumers change the way they spend their federal dollars by shopping locally. Additionally, it is recommended by usuryfree creatives that people learn how to create and spend their own usuryfree community currency thereby launching their own economic lifeboats now so as to be ready to abandon the usury-based Titanic of orthodox, usury-based, debt money when it goes down - and go down she will ....

It is in the spirit of re-building local community that usuryfree creatives are celebrating this Fourth Annual UsuryFree Day/Week. Their hope is that by the end of November 2008, we will have more usuryfree creatives talking not about the gloom and doom of our orthodox system of usury-based debt money, but rather about the possibility and probability of we-the-people experiencing the reality of usuryfree living - joy, love, peace and prosperity for everyone on this planet.

There will be meetings in Ontario - Toronto on November 13th, in Ottawa on November 17th, in Kingston on November 19th and maybe in elsewhere on November 15th. For details (time & place) of these meetings and other meetings which are currently being planned readers are invited to contact The UsuryFree Network (see contact details below)

For background details visit these websites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SUJoX7GBZ0
http://www.cyberclass.net/usuryfree.htm
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/biglie.htm
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/bankmath.htm
http://studimonetari.org/articoli/lifewithoutusury.html

Additionally, there are plenty of articles about our orthdox system of usury-based money and the innovative usuryfree community currency movement. Readers can find these by going to any search engine and typing "usuryfree community currency" and "usuryfree creatives" and/or "Tommy UsuryFree" - that's my moniker or pen name.

The UsuryFree Network,
P. O. Box 9333,
Ottawa, Ontario K1G 3V1
Tel: 1.888. NOUSURY
Email: usuryfree@gmail.com

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Noteworthy Quotes:

"Interest never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation; it never visits nor travels; it takes no pleasure; it is never laid off work nor discharged from employment; it never works on reduced hours; it never has short crops nor droughts; it never pays taxes; it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is un-housed and without home and so has no repairs, no replacements, no shingling, plumbing, painting, or whitewashing; it has neither wife, children, father, mother, nor kinfolk to watch over and care for; it has no expense of living; it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you."

- J. Reuben Clark’s classic statement on interest -- April, 1938.

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