[Iyf-ct] Things

Wed Oct 7 07:39:44 PDT 2009

Hey

I'm up for a meeting from next week, including in the evening (except for next Monday and Wednesdays in general).

Meghan, I'm cutting and pasting the text I thought I'd use for the Facebook group below.

Andreas

The
Really Really Free Market

Nothing is free these days, right!? Everything has a
price tag and money rules the planet, right!?

Wrong! Like the best things in life - friendship,
community and mutual aid - the Really
Really Free Market is, well, really, really, 100% free. 

The first ever Really
Really Free Market in Cape Town will be held at Zandvlei in Muizenberg (see
directions and map below) on Sunday 15 November from 1pm to 5pm.

What
is it?

The Really Really
Free Market is a community event where people get together and share
useable items, art, food, performance, music, skills, stories and whatever else
we can enjoy together. It’s 100% free, non-commercial and organised by the
participants themselves, including you.

Everyone brings something - even if it’s just a sense of
humour - and leaves with so much more!

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to
give, receive, and create, so bring your kids and the whole family. The Really Really Free Market is a
celebration of the cooperation and gift-giving that make life possible beyond
the constraints of capitalist markets.

At the Really Really Free Market there is no trading and no bartering,
just gifts. No money changes hands, no one haggles over the comparative worth
of items or services, nobody is ashamed about being in need.

So it’s not strictly speaking a
“market” at all then, is it? Correct, we’re just poking a bit of fun at anyone
who still has faith in the so-called free market, when it’s so obvious that
that’s just a blatant contradiction in terms.

There will be: food, music, a treasure
hunt, toys, plant seedlings, pamphlets, CDs and more.

How?

● Bring useful
items that you no longer need or want to share freely with other members of
your community. Browse through the things others have brought and leave with
what your family needs, regardless of whether you brought something or not.

● Bring your talents, creativity,
skills, ideas and smiles and give something of yourself: 
music, poetry, storytelling, lessons. Or bring your unique service or
expertise to share with others: haircuts, painting, juggling, knitting, etc. 

● Bring some food and share in a
picnic lunch with other friends and families from your community.

Why?

... because there's enough for
everyone

... because sharing is more fulfilling than owning

... because corporations would rather the landfills overflow than anyone get
anything for free

... because a sunny day outside is better than anything money could buy

... because "free trade" is a contradiction in terms

... because life should be a picnic, but it only will be if we make it happen

... because we live in a society, not an economy

... because there is too such a
thing as a free lunch

Contact
us

Please let us know if you are keen to
take part in the Really Really Free
Market. Let us know how you would like to contribute.

Are you part of a performance, art,
music, poetry or theatre group? Do you belong to a travelling flea circus or a
troupe of radical trapeze artistes? We’d love to have you do your thing at the
Really Really Free market.

Send us an email:

Call us:

Visit our website:

Where?

Zandvlei, Muizenberg

Directions

Map

When?

Sunday 15 November

1 – 5pm

--- On Wed, 10/7/09, meghan judge <megatrops at gmail.com> wrote:

From: meghan judge <megatrops at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Iyf-ct] Things
To: iyf-ct at lists.resist.ca
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 4:50 PM

Hey

Im in sutherland this week and am not too sure when we will get back to cpt. I planned to do the illustrations here for our brochure / pamphlet but went and left my wacom tablet at home. silly me. I will get em done by early next week - in the meantime could you pls send me the informationthat needs to go on it Andreas? thanks!

im up for a meeting next week sometime or next weekend, whenever suits...

goot goot
x
m

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Mandy Moussouris <mandymoussouris at hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone - I am sorry haven't had time to type up minutes from last meeting will do it ASAP. Not sure what we should do about the meeting, we need to have one soon if we are going to have the RRFM on the 15th November. Maybe we should think about having an evening meet, just for now because we really need to assess if we have enough time to still pull it off...

Hope everyone is well and happy

Comradely

mands

Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 21:47:05 -0700
From: andreas_spath at yahoo.com
To: iyf-ct at lists.resist.ca

Subject: Re: [Iyf-ct] Things

Hey Peter

We've just come back from a week up north. Unfortunately we'll be going away again this weekend and I won't be able to make a meeting then :-(

Andreas

--- On Tue, 10/6/09, Peter van Heusden <pvh at webbedfeet.co.za> wrote:

From: Peter van Heusden <pvh at webbedfeet.co.za>
Subject: [Iyf-ct] Things
To: iyf-ct at lists.resist.ca

Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 7:35 AM

Hi everyone

Firstly, can we meet this coming Saturday, that is the 10th, at my house
in Muizenberg?

Secondly, how are things coming along? The list has been very quiet, I'm
just wondering what people are up to.

Peter
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