May 13, 2010 Broadcaster At-Large has been changed to The End of Money: a critique of paying, owing and working "for a living." It is the companion website to a book of the same name that Kellia is writing. You can follow us on Twitter as EndofMoney. The Facebook page is The End of Money. Tokkar is building a new web site to showcase his art work (http://tokkar.com/) Some of the older material on this blog will remain if it is germane to the current issues: The failures of money-based economies. The need to deconstruct the memes on which money and working "for a living" are based. How the world can learn to operate without money. How we get there from here seems like the toughest if not an impossible task, but we believe that the toughest task is to get people to understand that we don't need to put up with this unjust monetary system. When a critical mass of people understand that, the answers to how to effect an abolition of money worldwide will come streaming in.

This site is open to people of all countries. We will look into translation engines to help those who don't use English to translate this site and to help those of us who use only English to understand what internationals are saying.

Although we are sympathetic to socialism, we think it has a fatal flaw: it is a money-based system. We invite all here to think beyond the dualism of capitalism and socialism to something(s) beyond.

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