One of the first successful local currency schemes in North America, Ithaca Hours have gown to include chapters all throughout the United States as well as served as an inspiration for similar schemes throughout the world.
Web homepage: http://www.lightlink.com/hours/ithacahours/
Orginally Ithaca New York, but the scheme and mdoel has spread throughout the world.
We printed our own money because we watched Federal dollars come to town, shake a few hands, then leave to buy rainforest lumber and fight wars. Ithaca's HOURS, by contrast, stay in our region to help us hire each other. While dollars make us increasingly dependent on transnational corporations and bankers, HOURS reinforce community trading and expand commerce which is more accountable to our concerns for ecology and social justice. (“ Creating Community Economics with Local Currency ” from ithaca hours online website)
Creation of economic and community alternatives.
Non-violent, non-branded tactics aimed at economic and cultural transformation.