1. Northeast Ohio
American Friends
Service Committee
{ Economic and Political Justice
Program
Greg Coleridge – Program Director
Leah Davis – Administrative Assistant

2. Address: 2101 Front St., #111, Cuyahoga
Falls, OH 44221 [between Akron and
Cleveland]
Web: http://afsc.net/
Blog:
http://createrealdemocracy.blogspot.com/
On Facebook

3. Economic and Political Justice Committee
Member Roster:
 John Fuller – Clerk
 Vicki Armstrong
 Carla Rautenberg
 Willie Smith
 Joe Mosyjowki
 Patti Longville
 Lois Romanoff
 Chaeli Moyer
 Effie Stewart
 Zach Friedhof
 Eugene Watkins
 Peter Schanz

4. Interns:
 Brittany Senger – The University of
Akron, School of Social Work
 Bethany Marcum – The University of
Akron, School of Social Work
 Victoria (Rosie) Holcomb – The
University of Akron, School of Social
Work
 Randi Cutlip – The University of
Akron, School of Social Work
 Elizabeth Rose – 2012/2013 John
Looney Intern

5. Goals:
To change…
…culture
… laws (legislation)
… ground rules (U.S. Constitution)
…through education, advocacy and
organizing for economic and political
justice

6. Four Areas of Focus:
1. Akron Time Bank
2. Budget Priorities
3. Monetary Reform
4. Corporations & Democracy

7. 1. Akron Time Bank

8.  A pattern of reciprocal exchange that uses
units of time as currency.
 One example of an alternative monetary
system
 You receive one time credit for every hour
you spend doing a service for someone.
 A way to build community and address
social problems
What is Time Banking?

9. 1. Everyone is an asset
2. Some work is beyond monetary price
3. Reciprocity in helping
4. Social networks are necessary
5. A respect for all human beings
Time banking is based on
5 core values

10. Students Rosie Holcomb and Bethany Marcum help a fellow
time banker and learn about sustainable gardening.

11. 2. Budget Priorities
- Educational events
- Street Actions
- Lobbying

12. No Cuts March and Rally,
December, Cleveland

13. Save Our Communities
Conference, April, Cleveland

14. Tax Day
Actions –
April,
Cleveland
and Akron,

15. Tax Day March, April,
Cleveland

16. Budget Priority Bar Graph
Action, May, Akron

17. Public Hearing on Poverty and
the Federal Budget, June, Akron

18. 3. Monetary Reform
- General Monetary Literacy
- Advocacy for National
Emergency Employment
Defense {NEED] Act - HR 2990

19. General Monetary Literacy
Production of weekly Monetary History
Calendar
[sample]
JANUARY 24, 1939 – STATEMENT MADE BY ROBERT H.
HEMPHILL, CREDIT MANAGER OF THE FEDERAL
RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA
"We are completely dependent on the commercial
banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in
circulation, cash or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic
money, we are prosperous; if not, we starve..It is the most
important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect
upon. It is so important that our present civilization may
collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects
remedied...”
To subscribe, send email to monetarycalendar@yahoo.com

20. General Monetary Literacy
Helped start Monetary Literacy Group
- Sponsor events
- Book reviews
- Public discussions
- Attend and report back from conferences
- Advocacy of monetary reforms
- Composed of “radicals,” “progressives,” “libertarians,”
“conservatives” – people who support everyone from Jill
Stein to Mitt Romney, who listen to everyone from Glenn
Beck to Amy Goodman

21. Promotion of NEED Act
National Emergency Employment Defense [NEED] Act, HR
2990)
 Pays off national debt as it comes due with national $
 Create 7 million jobs debt-free repairing the nation’s physical
and human infrastructure
 Eliminates power of banks to use debt as money – ending
fractional reverse banking
 Democratize money system & society by placing the Fed
under public control/creation of monetary authority
PUBLIC BELIEVES, THANKS TO MISINFORMATION, 3
MAJOR PROVISIONS OF ACT WHICH ALREADY EXIST
1.Federal Reserve is public
2. Money is issued and circulated by the government /We the
People
3. Banks only lend money they possess

22. 4. Corporations & Democracy

23. Promotion Nationally, in Ohio, and in Northeast
Ohio
Proposed 28th Constitutional Amendment
- Only human beings, not corporations, possess
constitutional rights
- Money is not equivalent to speech and, therefore,
political campaign spending and contributions can be
regulated.

24. Move to Amend
Nationally
- Initial national Steering Committee member
- Participate in monthly national conference
- calls.
[Major goal in 2012 is passing resolutions /
ballot initiatives by municipalities and
organizational endorsements]
Ohio
- Coordinate Move to Amend Ohio campaign (10
affiliates/partners)
- Corporations/Democracy email listserve / Create Real
Democracy blog
- Helped organize new affiliates in Summit County, Cleveland,
and Fremont. Working with people in Cleveland Hts,
Lakewood, Shaker Hts, Chesterland, S.Euclid and Dayton.

25. Move to Amend
Northeast Ohio
- Coordinated Occupy the Courts
actions in Akron and Cleveland
- Helped pass municipal resolutions in Cleveland Hts. and
Barberton
- Helped organize successful ballot access campaigns in
Newburgh Hts and Brecksville and unsuccessful campaign
in Defiance
- Helping Cleveland Hts launch a citizen initiative campaign
- Coordinating the STAMPed
Tour in Cleveland

26. Model of Social Movement
According to the 20th Century
Populists / NEO AFSC
FOCUS ON CHANGING CULTURE, AND ECONOMIC
AND POLITICSL LAWS AND RULES
1. RECRUITMENT - Producer Coops / Time Bank
2. EDUCATION - Sub-treasury plan and definition of
corporations / Monetary reform and definition of
corporations and money as speech
3. COMMUNICATION - Lecturers and newspapers / talks,
workshops, internet
4. POLITICALIZATION - People's Party / AMI and MTA