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About Paul Glover
Paul Glover (born 18 July 1947) is founder of more than a dozen organizations and campaigns dedicated to ecology and social justice, including Ithaca HOURS local currency, Citizen Planners of Los Angeles, Philadelphia Orchard Project, and Health Democracy. He is author of six books on grassroots organizing, and a former teacher of urban studies at Temple University. He walked across the USA entirely on foot in 1978. He was invited by the Green Party to participate in their 2004 presidential primaries, and was the 2014 Green Party candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. He is currently organizing the Patch Adams free clinic in Philadelphia.
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“How to Take Power ([http://www.issuu.com/metroeco/docs/htp.1) (2012)”
““Dollars control people. Community currencies connect people.””
““All national currencies are deep in debt-- indebted to nature-- because human economies extract from nature faster than we replenish.””
““Without the expansion of a Mutual Enterprise economy responsible to communities and nature, this present boom will bust, creating a Greater Depression than that of the 1930's.””
“Los Angeles: A History of the Future (http://paulglover.org/lahofbook.html) (1982, second edition 1989, third edition 2012)”
““The world is coming to a beginning rather than an end. We have the knowledge, tools, creativity, and capital to proceed. Our challenge is merely to begin where we live, with whatever capabilities are at hand.””
““An empire can do a lot of damage as it flails deeper into quicksand. Wrapping ourselves in flags does not pull us free. Permanent war justifies permanent unquestioned dominance by military and industrial interests.””
““While dissecting the universe scientists discovered that uranium, a metal invisibly boiling, can boil water to spark electricity. They believed the 'peaceful atom' would give cheap clean power. Recent years cause many to doubt this.””
““War fans spit on the principles of the American Revolution when they charge obediently wherever their president points our flag. Many flag-wavers know little about the U.S. Constitution, but can explain soap operas and football in detail.””
““Community organizers are motivated to promote the dignity of the nation, the beauty of people and planet. They don't tolerate injustice. History depends more on such common folks than on presidents and generals. Democracy works because of their generosity.””
““These new green laws, organizations and personal styles show understanding that, no matter how super our computers, we will never invent substitutes for food, water and air, that our nation will progress or erode with its soil, that ultimately the land is the law of the land.””
““Located in a low-income Philadelphia neighborhood, the Patch Adams free clinic will provide community-based health care that is genuinely non-profit, preventive, humane and fun. It is a refuge for doctors and nurses who want time to heal patients. It is a refuge for patients who want to be treated with dignity.””
““As usual, the future will be different. Philadelphia's responses to global warming and market cooling, high fuel and food prices, health unsurance, mortgages, student debt and war will decide whether our future here becomes vastly better or vastly worse. Whether we're the Next Great City or Next Great Medieval Village.””
““Americans are everywhere very decent, magnificent and ignorant. They are generous and lovable; they hog the earth and blight the land. In every hill and holler, highland, forest, meadow and plain they will continue to mingle and to learn, by intelligent transition or headlong catastrophe, to bind their lives to the resources of the land.””
““All of America's institutions have become too big to change. Like sumo wrestlers in a basketball game, they move too slow. Big Government, Big Oil, Big Insurance, Big Finance, Big Agriculture, Big Highway, Big Education, Big Military, Big Prison, Big Police, Big Poverty-- these feed on disaster and control. They no longer exist primarily to fix problems, but to grow.””
“"When conservatives don't conserve and liberals don't liberate, Greens become centrists, because we directly address the central concerns of average Americans for healthy food, clean water and air; for secure housing; for reliable health care and satisfying work. By contrast, Democratic and Republican party leaders are dangerous extremists, indulging extremes of violence and greed, converting global wealth and human decency into chaos."”
““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.” .”
“"While Greens are horrified at corporate and consumer trashing of planet and society, our message is primarily confident and affirmative. Greens foster grassroots nonprofit and worker-managed enterprises that repair nature. Greens can govern to literally rebuild America's cities and suburbs, such that neighborhoods become energy-efficient; productive of food and fuel; respectful of water; safe and fun to live in. We can restore regional agriculture, rural economies, and habitat."”
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Michael Shuman on Paul Glover
“No one in the world has done a better job in defining local solutions-- that are simple, empowering, and fun-- for seemingly intractable global problems than Paul Glover. Health Democracy" offers powerful, proven, and participatory tools for communities to begin solving their piece of the national health-care crisis.”
Patch Adams on Paul Glover
“Grab Paul's book [Health Democracy] and become a player where the delivery of health care goes. Here is an invitation to be engaged with both health and democracy where it seems our government seems concerned with neither. Glover is not a doctor or administrator. He has shown that you, a citizen, can do it... he has. Do something!”
John Diamante on Paul Glover
“An outstanding synthesis of ecological planning. Glover is one of the few professionals in California stimulating competent design for our post-automotive society.”
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“One of our best bioregional writers.” --Kirkpatrick Sale, author of Human Scale, Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision, The Green Revolution, **Power Shift (dustjacket of Los Angeles: A History of the Future)”
Ithaca Journal editorial on Paul Glover
“This is textbook grassroots empowerment-- people improving their lives through their own initiative, free of the federal currency system and the traditional labor market.”
Our Towns;Ithaca Hours: Pocket Money For Everyman on Paul Glover
“With the trend in corporate downsizing, local HOUR money seems like an idea whose time has come.”
About Paul Glover
Paul Glover (born 18 July 1947) is founder of more than a dozen organizations and campaigns dedicated to ecology and social justice, including Ithaca HOURS local currency, Citizen Planners of Los Angeles, Philadelphia Orchard Project, and Health Democracy. He is author of six books on grassroots organizing, and a former teacher of urban studies at Temple University. He walked across the USA entirely on foot in 1978. He was invited by the Green Party to participate in their 2004 presidential primaries, and was the 2014 Green Party candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. He is currently organizing the Patch Adams free clinic in Philadelphia.