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From Dan:

I think this is a huge story. This reminds me a lot of the Labor Exchanges that arose during the Depression in the 1930's. The Federal Government really had to scramble to get people to drop those and return to the "official" economy - because they were fair, and they worked.

Some stories on the UXA & UCRO during the 1930's Depression:

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   LIVING IN THE U.X.A. - Community-Wealth

   www.community-wealth.org/_pdfs/articles.../article-curl.pdf

   File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
   Nov 11, 1983 – U.X.A. Operating Committee, Oakland. At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed. Oakland workers decided to take matters ...
2. Cooperatives like UXA and UCRO from the ... - YES! Magazine

   www.yesmagazine.org › Issues › 5,000 Years of Empire

   May 8, 2006 – After the 1929 crash, workers created a cooperative economy, using industrial leftovers and ingenuity. It was called the Unemployed Exchange ...
3. UXA

   www.red-coral.net/UXA.html

   LIVING IN THE U.X.A.. The Self-Help Movement in California in the Great Depression. By John Curl. The Self-Help movement of the early 1930s attempted to ...
4. Cooperatives like UXA and UCRO from the ... - denise aday...

   deniseaday.com/.../cooperatives-like-uxa-and-ucro-from-the-d...

   Cooperatives like UXA and UCRO from the depression era are models for today.

5. For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, ... - Page 171 - Google Books Result

   books.google.com/books?isbn=1604867329

   John Curl, Ishmael Reed - 2012 - History

   The Oakland police department received word that the UXA was a ... barter and labor exchange, the UXA began producing The Great Depression & the ...
6. LIVING IN THE U.X.A. | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

   whatreallyhappened.com/es/content/living-uxa

   May 2, 2010 – LIVING IN THE U.X.A.. At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own ...
7. The Unemployed Exchange Association (UXA) - P2P Foundation's ...

   blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-unemployed...uxa...in.../17

   Dec 17, 2009 – Closer to home, throughout California during the Depression, ... The short history of the local Unemployed Exchange Association (UXA), written ...
8. The Unemployed Exchange Association (UXA) of Oakland in the ...

   www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/10/18725443.php

   Nov 10, 2012 – The Unemployed Exchange Association (UXA) of Oakland in the 1930's. In July 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, a group of six ..

    

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   The federally-created economy is not the only thing going, or the only thing possible. 

    

    I'm personally very tired of watching billionaires run the country into the ground when there are forms of capitalism that are actually fair to working people out there and available. It's time for us to take the reigns as a people and yank the rug out from under those who are rail-roading Washington DC to their drum-beat, and violence is NOT necessary to do it.

   
   

   All the best, if you work and vote for it,

   
   

   Dan