Carol

Carol Brouillet is a Co-Founder of the International Media Project, which produces Making Contact , a half-hour radio program now heard on over 165 stations, primarily in the U.S. and Canada. Carol also helped found the Who's Counting Project , which promotes the film Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies & Global Economics . Most recently, she helped found the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance . All of these non-profit organizations seek to connect people, vital ideas and important information to nurture healthy social change, economic justice and ecological sustainability. A passionate advocate of local currencies to raise consciousness, nurture community, and increase local self-reliance, her paper Reinventing Money, Restoring the Earth, Reweaving the Web of Life has won an honourable mention from the Millenium Institute as one of the best ideas for the 21st Century.
The Feminist Perspective is a speech she wrote for The Other Economic Summit , The People's Summit 97 held in Denver, Colorado at the same time as the G-7(8).
Raised in California, she sailed around the world in her youth, and has traveled extensively.
Her political activism began in 1992 when she saw a film which disturbed her and started to do research on the government and the media. She began by writing articles and promoting books and films, such as Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky and the Media .
In '92 she also read excerpts compiled by dave ratcliffe on the health effects of low-level radiation which prompted her to compile and edit The Invisible Nuclear War about the effects of low-level radiation, the massive government cover-up, and the continuing battle waged by the Nuclear Powers against All Life on Earth.
Her activism has spanned a wide range of issues. In 1993 she read Debt Virus, A Compelling Solution to the World's Debt Problems by Jaques Jaikaran and an article by Paul Glover " Creating Economic Democracy " and began writing on Money -- one of our civilization's largest blind spot.
From writing articles to helping to organize events, conferences on the issue of money and Global Economics, and public speaking, she does all she can to raise consciousness and change the system, while raising her 3 boys -- Jules (born in '88), Jeremy (born in '90), Daniel (born in '93) with the help, support and love of her husband, Jean-Luc (who watches the kids when she goes to conferences and events).
In January '98, she organized the first " Gathering on Strategies to Transform the Global Economy ," in February '99, she organized a second "Gathering" (article about it appearing in the Christian Science Monitor) , (Report From the February Gathering) There was so much energy gathered that 24 people volunteered to help six months later with The August Gathering . (A transcript of Elisabet Sahtouris's "Big Picture" Overview.)
Carol is also the Green Network Center for Community Currencies . She is a member of the Green Party which includes local currencies in its platform and a member of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom .
Instead of organizing another Gathering in January, 2001, Carol tried to mobilize North Americans to go to the first World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 25-30, 2001, at the same time that the World Economic Forum was meeting in Switzerland. Here is the Report on the World Social Forum and the Call for Mobilization .
Energized by the historic event, she was working on combatting the FTAA, the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, and corporate globalization, speaking out against the FTAA , writing, and organizing,in the U.S.in 2001.
Shaken by the events of September 11th, she has worked to prevent World War III ( article about her trip to DC September 2001 ) and to mobilize and educate people about the hidden economic forces that are plunging humanity towards the abyss.
Since October 2001, she has organized a weekly listening project- Listening for Peace from 11:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Wednesdays at Lytton Plaza in Palo Alto. An evolution of Banners has attracted public attention to the Listening Project, including one that said-
REAL TERRORISTS
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld...
Guilty of 9-11...
In November 2001, Carol came across Richard LaBeviere's excellent book Dollars for Terror- The United States and Islam ; and wrote an expanded book review A Vital Piece of the Puzzle
Here are the Questions about 9-11 that she raised in 2001, and a report on the San Francisco March and meeting with Senator Feinstein and Boxers' staff to Demand a Congressional Inquiry of 9/11 . The evidence mounts of the Bush Administration's complicity in the attacks. The War on Terror is a fraud; it is truly a War of Terrorism, against democracy, people and planet. Please read Chossudovsky's articles about the CIA's connections with the terrorist networks that are being blamed for the attack on the World Trade Center. November 2, 2001, he posted "the smoking gun"- Cover-up or Complicity of the Bush Administration?
May 10-12th, 2002 the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear power in Space met to protest Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale and to hold their annual conference. Kathy Kelly and Carol gave two workshops entitled Deadly Connections: Corporate Globalization, Space and War .
Carol has focused her energy on Understanding/Exposing 9-11 organizing, demonstrating, writing...and trying to keep up a 9-11 page and a blog of the 9/11 Truth Movement activities,.
In 2002 her energies were devoted to exposing The Truth About 9-11 . The local paper did a cover story, November 20, 2002 on "The Rising Local peace movement gathering steam," which profiled a number of activists, including Carol; while a good story, they did omit the gist of her "work." They did not print her "Letter to the Editor ."
The rallying "Impeachment, Not War!" on the January 2003 March onCongresswoman Eshoo's office, demanding Preemptive Impeachment . Joyce Lynne also wrote an article- Control, fear, and the New World Order Part 2: A dialogue with activist Carol Brouillet about the federalization of academia .
One of the best tools that Carol and artist, Blaine Machan, developed to empower, encourage, bring a smile to everyone's face, raise consciousness on 9-11 has been the Deception Dollar , Fraudulent Event Note, Bush Buck, which was first printed in October 2002. 10,000 were published in October; 100,000 in December, 500,000 in February, one million in March, 600,000 in May 2003, and 1,080,000 in September 11, 2003. May 25, 2004, the seventh edition was printed- with 750,000 Deception Dollars and 250,000 Media Deception Dollars ; in December 2004, the eighth edition included a new Media Deception Dollar , a Billion Dollar Note , an Election Deception Dollar (over 500,000), as well as the traditional Deception Dollars ; there are now over 5,000,000 in circulation and six million in print. (Blaine also created four huge beautiful banners which have caught the media's attention.)
In April 2003, Carol and Blaine, risked their entire Deception Dollar printing fund to put on a couple of major events in San Francisco and Palo Alto- along with 9-11 activists from the Bay Area, the budding 9-11 Truth Alliance, they screened Aftermath- Unanswered Questions from 9-11 with Guerrilla News Network, Mike Ruppert, Peter Dale Scott, Riva Enteen, Barry Zwicker and Richard Heinberg and a lively panel/ Q & A following the film. At the beautiful Herbst Theatre in the heart of San Francisco (which holds nearly a thousand people), they had a full house, had to turn 300 people away and received a standing ovation. In Palo Alto over 400 people come to the event; Carol described the Aftermath of Aftermath- from an organizer's point of view - if you want the details.
On September 11, 2003, the local 9-11 Truth Alliance held rallies and marches to Impeach the Terrorists! and on October 7th in Oakland to "Stop the 9-11 Cover-Up" and oppose the 87 Billion for Occupying Afghanistan and Iraq.
February 1st and 2nd, 2004- they organized two Comedy Benefits - Behind Every Terrorist There is a Bush to raise funds and awareness about the San Francisco International Inquiry, Phase One -
Phase Two took place in Toronto, Canada.
They organized a series of protests and rallies in the fall of 2004 against the "Police State Legislation" (reorganization of the Intelligence Agencies), Cheney, the 9-11 Cover-Up, the 9-11 Commission. At that time, The Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance formally became a project of Agape Foundation . Carol also spoke at the International Conference on the Gift Economy primarily about the psychological barriers to Facing the Shadow of 9-11 .
In March 2005, The Northern California Truth Alliance organized a series of very successful premieres of The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw- The Great Conspiracy which drew together activists from Canada and all over the country, press and public.
Carol believes our greatest hope is to organize resistance faster than the ruling elite can organize repression. Her strategy to change the system is outlined in an article entitled Tripping the Four Horsemen .
Behind Every Terrorist- There is a Bush - The Movie Premiered 9/11/2005.
On January 15, 2006, Carol announced her intention to run for Congress .
Her official Campaign Website is -
www.carolforcongress.org
Her Website is -
www.communitycurrency.org .