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BREAD local currency P. O. Box 3973 • Berkeley,CA 94703 visit: 1920 MLK Jr.WAY,Berkeley BREAD rising (510) 644-0376 LOCAL CURRENCY FOR THE BAY AREA volume 5 / issue 3 www.breadhours.org In this issue Homegrown economics winter 2001-2002 How Boulder Businesses Are Staying Ahead of the Chains How BREAD Works . 2 Article by Stacy Mitchell, reprinted with her pharmacies have closed. The relationships that are essential to a BREAD & Barter. 3 permission. BREAD congratulates Boulder market share of independent book- strong community. BREAD’s Vision . 4 for this innovative project — a program that stores has fallen from 58 percent in we’d like to foster in our town. Bolduc discussed the idea of an Classified Table of Contents . 5 1972 to just 15 percent today. Two alliance with other local merchants. Classified Listings . 5–16 If you visit Boulder, Colorado, you chains, Barnes & Noble and They recognized that they all faced can’t miss it. It’s displayed on the Borders, now control nearly one- Member Poll . 17 common challenges and that their door or window of nearly every quarter of all book sales. Local BREAD Calendar. 20 prosperity depended in part on one locally owned business in town. hardware dealers are disappearing another’s survival. Home Depot’s Membership Form . 20 Stop for coffee at a local cafe and too; Home Depot and Lowe’s have arrival not only affects the local it’ll be on the side of your cup. At captured one-third of that market. hardware store, but the many local the Boulder Book Store you’ll find Five firms account for one-third of ooo businesses that the hardware store it on the complimentary book- all grocery sales. Blockbuster Video supports, like banks, printers, and marks. Open up the Boulder rents one out of every three videos winter crafts fair accountants. Chains centralize Weekly and you’ll see it in an nationwide. A single corporation, these functions at their head offices advertisement for local video and Wal-Mart, now controls seven Shop for holiday gifts as the Farmer’s Market and keep local spending to a music stores. percent of all consumer spending. Holiday Crafts Fair. Support local artisans minimum. Then in 1997 Bolduc and buy meaningful presents. This year, This widely visible symbol — two Local businesses are owned by met Jeff Milchen, a community BREAD members are invited to sell their arrows circling into each other, people who live in the community activist and founder of handmade arts and crafts. Call for details. much like the mark on a recyclable and are invested in its future. Their ReclaimDemocracy.org, a national container — is the logo for the kids attend local schools. Their tax organization that promotes grass- Farmer’s Market Holiday Craft Fair Saturdays, December 8, 15, and 22 Boulder Independent Business dollars pay for local services. They roots democracy and works to 10 - 4 pm at the MLK Civic Park Alliance (BIBA), a pioneering are often actively involved in civic restore democratic authority over coalition of over 150 locally owned and cultural organizations. David corporations. ooo businesses determined to defend Bolduc, owner of the 28-year-old The idea of forming an independent the city’s homegrown economy Boulder Book Store, first had the business alliance was a natural from takeover by national and glob- idea for a business alliance because BREAD BANK extension of Milchen’s work. al chains. Much like everything he believes that by doing business “Political and economic democracy BIBA does, the logo conveys an with our neighbors we build a web Come and visit the BREAD office in Berkeley: are intricately related,” he argues. 1920 Martin Luther King Jr. Way important lesson in community of personal and economic economics: locally owned business- Continued on page 18 Call for hours 510-644-0376. es recycle a higher percentage of their revenue and profits back into ooo the local economy when compared to their chain competitors. bread on the web Founded in 1998, BIBA’s primary Visit our website for the most current directory. mission is to make the choice “local To exchange messages with other BREAD or chain?” a significant considera- members send email to [email protected] write tion for residents in their spending “subscribe bread” in the body of the message. decisions. Recent national trends www.breadhours.org provide a sobering picture of what email: [email protected] BIBA is up against. Since 1990 ◆ ◆ ISSN 1522-4503 more than 11,000 independent classified directory inside how bread works BREAD Mail: P.O. Box 3973, Berkeley, CA 94703 BREAD is local currency for the Classified Listings Community Meetings Visit: 1920 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley 510-644-0376, [email protected] Bay Area. It is valued at $12 per To get started, just call someone BREAD is dedicated to community www.breadhours.org Hour, a fair hourly wage for our in this directory that you would accountability. As a member, you area, and is not redeemable for BREAD is a member-directed, volunteer like to hire. This journal contains are invited to attend community federal currency. It comes in organization. BREAD is a project of the classified listings of goods and meetings. Council Meetings are held International Society for Ecology and Culture, a denominations of 2 Hours ($24), services available in exchange for to provide guidance to the organiza- nonprofit organization. Tax-deductible donations 1 Hour ($12), 1/ Hour ($6), 1/ 2 4 BREAD HOURS — keep it next to tion in setting its policies. For can be paid to the order of ISEC. 1 Hour ($3), and /12 Hour ($1). your phone book. BREAD reserves instance, members will make BREAD Collective Staff It is lawful for our community to the right to edit and omit listings. decisions about the distribution of Jovida Ross print its own currency. Local By joining, you agree to have your BREAD HOURS as grants and Dina Mackin currency may be considered taxable contact information (name, phone, loans. David Melly income for some business trades. e-mail) published. Release of this Other community meetings are Miyoko Sakashita Participants are individually information is at your own risk. organized as social events, such as Jim Burr responsible for their own tax BREAD cannot be held responsible potlucks, craft fairs, or talent liabilities and reporting. BREAD BREAD Volunteers for the quality of services or goods shows. Check out the Calendar has no obligation or ability to report Natasha Ravnik provided by advertisers. Member- (back page) and join us — these exchanges or to collect any taxes. It Nishi Moonka ship of any individual will be dis- meetings are intended for building is illegal to counterfeit BREAD. Michael Manoocherhi continued if evidence suggests that connections with neighbors. Laurie Winestock Members they are using their membership Grants and Loans Chris Burbridge for illegal, fraudulent, or harass- To become a member of BREAD, Frances McIntosh ment activities. We make BREAD grants to local send in the form on the back page. organizations. By printing local Cliff Hirsch When you join, you will receive a Exchanges money, we are able to show appre- Marcy Greenhut few BREAD HOURS to start trad- It’s easy to call someone and arrange ciation to projects that are benefi- BREAD Advisory Committee ing. Then you can earn and spend a trade. Each exchange is negotiated cial to the community. BREAD Jerry Mander, International Forum BREAD HOURS in exchange for all between members. If you desire, loans are also available to local on Globalization sorts of goods and/or services. you may make exchanges in partial businesses. Please call for grant or Helena Norberg-Hodge, International Please offer skills, services, or goods BREAD Hours and federal currency. loan guidelines. Society for Ecology and Culture that you enjoy trading. Make sure Because traders may have high Patrick Archie, Urban Agriculture Specialist you keep your phone number and Damaged Notes & Change overhead costs or assistants to pay, Timothy Huet, Center for Democratic listings updated; you may earn an Solutions some may charge more than one Damaged notes will be replaced — additional Hour by updating your Weyland Southon, KPFA Radio Producer Hour per hour. Feel free to ask for just bring or mail them to the listing every six months. Renew credentials or references before BREAD office. If you need change, your membership each year. ooo arranging an exchange. bring us your HOURS and let us To have the BREAD Rising news- know what denominations you Please provide quality services and/ letter mailed to your home, there is would like. or goods. Be honest if a trade is Advertising an annual subscription fee of Volunteers & Information inconvenient or beyond your abili- BREAD Rising has great advertising rates and $15–$100 (sliding scale), BREAD ties. Let us know about any excep- BREAD is a volunteer-run organi- wide circulation. As a periodical, people will accepted. You can usually pick up tional or unsatisfactory exchanges. zation. We could use your help to browse this publication for several months. Pay additional newsletters at our office for ads with dollars or HOURS. make BREAD rise. Can you spare a and shops that accept BREAD. You are in control. No one is Storefront businesses accepting BREAD receive obliged to accept any invitation to few hours to make phone calls, Trading Area work on the newsletter, have a ben- their first business-card size ad free (or a 50% exchange or engage in any transac- discount on a larger ad). BREAD local currency serves the tions with other members. 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