These “How To” guides are tools, but the real power comes from people coming together, supporting one another, and refusing to rely on systems that don’t serve us. Linktr.ee/generalstrikehttps://peoplespowerplaybook.my.canva.site/ #Bartering #Timebanking ❤️‍🔥✊️❤️‍🔥

Ever wish you could trade your time doing something you love for help doing something you don't know how to do? Simbi is making is possible. It's free, easy to use, and (for the skeptical) you can test it by receiving help on something without even giving, and the person who chooses to help you still benefits. Could this be the new gift/trade economy?

https://simbi.com

#TimeBanking #SkillShare #GiftEconomy #BarterEconomy #Simbi #CommunityExchange #MutualAid #PeerEconomy #ShareSkills

For Beckett, time banking is less about economics, and more about mending social fragmentation. “We invariably wind up making friends,” he told Truthout, noting that he offers sailboat rides to fellow members. “The whole point is to knit community.” Some banks seem to wither not because they fail, but because they succeed. People stop recording hours once they are friends. “Your time bank’s a complete success now,” he said. “You built community.”

https://truthout.org/articles/digital-tools-are-fueling-the-rise-of-new-time-exchange-solidarity-economies/

#TimeBanking

Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies

https://murica.website/2025/09/digital-tools-are-fueling-the-rise-of-new-time-exchange-solidarity-economies/

When we withdraw our labor ( #strike) and withdraw our capital ( #boycott) we will build intentional communities with #barter and #timebanking. Where we're going, we don't need "banks". #GENERALSTRIKEUS

Maybe start practicing that signature. ✍️ #timebanking #mutualaid #barter #usgs

What's the point of being a job creator when your employees' time is virtually worthless? #GENERALSTRIKE #TIMEBANKING #SOLIDARITY ❤️‍🔥✊️❤️‍🔥

Job creators?

DreamTimeTechOverview2.18.25

https://peertube.communecter.org/videos/watch/effb73f6-10ca-49cd-98c6-77a584f0f406

Posh Life Workshop 2.4.25

https://peertube.communecter.org/videos/watch/6b945e5b-2f9d-4570-92f6-a6890788f8e4

Pondering the supreme irony of working on a funding application for a #CommunityResilience project with a focus on #DisasterPlanning and #extremeweather events while #StormEowyn is raging outside. #MutualAid #timebanking #Microvolunteering #OffersAndNeedsMarket #OANM

More openwashing from the timebank software world.

"After Edgar's passing in 2021, TimeBanks.Org sought to replace their outdated timebanking software, which had fallen behind in adopting modern digital standards. They searched worldwide for a technology partner and found Made Open."

https://cothrive.timebanks.org/tbo

Ah! They realised their mistake with CommunityWeaver 3 and went back to commissioning software from a company committed to. Open Source. Nope.

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#openwashing #MadeOpen #TimeBanking

Thinking about the period I was involved in a fledgling Timebank. Kinda failed as the council stopped funding the voluntary group. Almost an attempt to manufacture community in the wake of viscious austerity cuts. #Musing #RandomThoughts #TimeBanking
https://timebanking.org/
https://timebankingscotland.org.uk/

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But there's only so much I can do as an atomised individual. I'm sure much more could be achieved collective action.

I'm inspired by a mutual aid model from a 90s TV show called Vengeance Unlimited. This guy helps people get justice, calling on the special skills and connections of people he's helped before.

I think people really want to pay it forward, rather than being objectified by charity. This is why #timebanking can work, as Edgar Kahn said in his book No More Throwaway People.

I was interviewed about urban gardening on the official TimeBanks.org podcast - https://open.spotify.com/episode/44J1RdYs1tlFndlyyWmRvq?si=Q5PKoYGGSU-JVrE-DZQQQg #timebanking #podcast #Gardening #gardenpodcast #urbangardening

I'm writing a report on my #ChurchillFellowship travels on #timebanking and #MutualAid and there are an awful lot of #anarchist references and pondering that a Google folder may not be the best place to store them.. is there any open source non spying alternative to #EndNote or similar..it's been 20+ years since I've needed to do this sort of thing! I do use #Notion a bit so that would work too. Any suggestions gratefully received.

I'm heading to #WestCoastUSA today for part 2 of my #ChurchillTravelFellowship to meet with lots of interesting #Timebank and #MutualAid projects. Starting in #Seattle and ending in #LosAngeles where I'll be seeing some of the people in this film. The whole reason I am coming is because I met #EdgarCahn at a conference in 2018 and he suggested I visit. Sadly he died 2 years ago but I am doing this trip with his widow #ChrisGray who is still very involved with #Timebanking https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/time-as-money-a-documentary-film-about-time-banking/ Film is on @filmsforaction site and they have just joined here so say hello and give them a follow.

@neonsnake if you aren't already aware .. Stephanie Rearick is doing great work to promote the concept of #MutualAid She organises regular online #Clusterflocks to get people together and also link #MutualAid #Timebanking #SharingEconomy stuff and much more to get people to think more widely about how all this stuff can be used. She is based in #Madison #Wisconsin but lots of people involved all over the world. They are developing some interesting 'non spying' software too through a #Coop https://mutualaidnetwork.org/

I want to create a version of this #timebanking if I ever overcome my fear. Of peopley stuff.
https://vimeo.com/63034955

Not really an #introduction but sorta? I migrated away and now I'm back. I'm still #anticapitalist #antiterf #antiracist #solarpunk and recently realized I have #aphantasia and #ADHD
I am a #writer who #writes but also deletes a lot. I have a #solarpunk #scifi #fantasy #novel in my head that's s l o w l y emerging into the daylight.
I'm interested in learning new stuff and willing to change when the evidence indicates I need to.

#community #timebanking #nutritiousMovement

After several years of delays.. my Churchill travel fellowship is back on. Off to USA in Oct for 5 weeks visiting lots of #timebanks #MutualAid schemes and more. Starting in Washington DC and around, then up the coast to Boston and New England, hopefully detour to Montreal for a mini break to see an old friend.. then on to Chicago and Austin. Planning on doing lots by train with an Amtrak pass so will have plenty of time to admire the views! Also doing some research and surveys with timebanks in other places and plan to pull all this into a report sometime next year. Would love to connect with folk on here doing something around #timebanking #SharingEconomy and similar.