International Conference on the Gift Economy
Nov 12-14, 2004: Las Vegas, Nevada

A Radically Different World View is Possible

The gift economy inside and outside of Patriarchal Capitalism

Abstract: Carol Brouilet

Facing the Shadow

We have a War Economy. Money is a tool of Empire. The World Bank and IMF have killed more people, than war.

The rise of a Global Justice Movement frightened the Global Elite. Aung Sung Suu Kyi wrote: "It is not power that corrupts, but fear -- fear of losing power and fear of the scourge of those who wield it."

9-11 was a desperate act orchestrated by necrophiliacs, who believe if they cannot own or control something; they have the right to kill it. 9-11 was designed to perpetuate a dying paradigm, to allow a few to seize military control over the world.

This has birthed a global resistance movement- the 9-11 Truth Movement, a recharged, unstoppable Global Justice Movement, acting in a cooperative, non-violent way to overturn the institutions of war, oppression, injustice, and communications which fail to serve Truth, Humanity and Life.

Biographical Information

Carol Brouillet is a Co-Founder of the International Media Project, The Who's Counting? Project, The 9-11 Truth Alliance, and organized the San Francisco International Inquiry into 9-11, Phase One.' She has worked with researchers and activists from around the world to expose "the big lie," the truth about 9-11- that it is not a "War on Terrorism," but a worldwide "War on Truth, Democracy, and Dissent."

She has been holding a weekly Listening Project in downtown Palo Alto for over three years. Her goal has been to expose the complicity of the Bush Administration and the CIA with the attacks, and to hold government officials accountable for their crimes against humanity, and to remove them from positions of power, where they threaten all Life on Earth. She is a longtime member of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and a fulltime mother of three boys ages 11, 14 and 16.

Articles about
the Gift Economy

Radio Interviews

Il Dono/ The Gift: A Feminist Analysis

Gift Economy Website

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