[OccupySheffield] The Revolution is Love

[Anna Harris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtc-k6dhgs
This beautiful trailer for a new video called The Revolution is Love was
posted on Occupy Cafe.org with this contribution by Susan Livingstone:
Some of the Transition Towns are experimenting with community-based
economic systems and finding that they have the potential to render the
entire notion of exchange obsolete.  Mostly this happens because people are
sharing their gifts with their communities rather than "working for the man
every night and day."  It's not about *this* economic model or
*that*economic model - it's more about decentralizing our economy by
acknowledging, supporting, making visible, or replicating local initiatives
that are already in place (like clumps of imaginal butterfly cells
scattered throughout the muck of what used to be the caterpillar) such as
farmers markets, flea markets, community gardens, alternative currencies,
buyers cooperatives, and "maker" and service collectives of all sorts.  The
acceptance of a unified economy was sold to the sheeple based on the
convenience of a single currency for "all debts public and private" and the
efficiency of debt-driven competition and growth.  If we want to reclaim
our birthright of community-level interdependence and trust, let's throw
off the shackles of our wage slavery and enjoy the GIFT of life instead of
"earning a living" and devaluing the gift into a right or entitlement.
That's the world I want to live in!
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