Where does money come from? Who creates it today, how, and to whose benefit? How does our current money system direct the allocation of resources? How does it affect our relationships with each other, locally and globally, and with the rest of nature? Does it support or undermine democratic practices, sustainability, and just exchange? Are there alternatives?
These questions and more will be explored in
Money Matters, a three-part
online learning series. Join for one or all three.
I have been a McLean County LWV member for four years, almost as long as I've been retired from ISU's College of Education and living off my deferred wages (pension) to work full-time on "money matters," an issue I started to grasp through working on my 1998 dissertation on Value in Economics, Ethics, and Education.
Monetary critique and reform answered questions that had been percolating in me ever since working on recycling and hunger issues, domestic and global, in my teens and college years, and since doing community development and adult education work in rural Botswana, and anti-Apartheid and urban education work in Chicago, throughout my 20s.
The money issue has continued to be generative for me across the decades as I've tried, as all of you do, to understand and be a force for good in an unjust, unsustainable, undemocratic, and violent nation and world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. And it is relevant, in my view, to nearly every issue the LWV exists to work on and nearly every position we have taken across our 106 years as we strive to have an
Impact on Issues. This is why the LWV of Athens County Ohio is proposing, as part of the
LWVUS Program planning process, that LWVUS engage in a money study as part of the LWVUS 2026-2028 Program. (See
study proposal.)
And it is why I encourage you to participate in any or all of the upcoming 3-part webinar detailed below. It will teach you things you don't know about "money matters," and will give you a heads-up if or when LWVUS, LWVIL, and/or our own LWVMC takes on doing a money study of our own.
For full details and to register, click the button below to visit the program webpage.
Money Matters - A Three Part Series
League member Lucille Eckrich is one of two presenters for the series, and will be representing The Alliance For Just Money. You can contact her by email with your questions at lucille.e@monetaryalliance.org.