Where Credit’s Due

A flyer for ‘Where Credit's Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice - Reimagining Public Credit and Building Intersectional Solidarity in Boro’. Workshop 2 at the Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough, on Saturday 7 March 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm. Flyer also reads: ‘Does Middlesbrough and do the people and places of Teesside deserve more credit? Could new ideas about money transform our town? Join us to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit's due.’ Alongside the flyer is a ‘bank note’ which reads ‘I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of 1 Dorman Dollar’ and some pin badges featuring the Where Credit’s Due and Money on the Left logos.

Two colourfully decorated ‘Dorman Dollar’ bank notes.

Who wants to make some money with us at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough this weekend?

@wherecreditsdue.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social

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Six pin badges, six of them featuring the Where Credit’s Due logo (two trees in the shape of Middlesbrough’s iconic transporter bridge) and three with the Money on the Left logo

Our next workshop is at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough this Saturday morning and we have a few spaces left - come for the chat about inclusive monetary design, stay for the pin badges!

Book here: wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com/events

Huge congratulations to @greenparty.org.uk and to Hannah Spencer MP on a truly historic result in Gorton and Denton 🎉

As we build on momentum, all of us on the British left must now avoid falling into a very familiar trap. 🧵 1/

With @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social (among others) continuing to draw attention to the indefensible injustices of the UK’s atrocious student loans system, it’s as good as time as any to reshare this 🪡

Poster with a rainbow border. Inside the border, the text reads: Where Credit's Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice Reimagining Public Credit and Building Intersectional Solidarity in Boro Workshop 2 The Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough Saturday 7 March 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm Does Middlesbrough and do the people and places of Teesside deserve more credit? Could new ideas about money transform our town? Join us to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit's due

Our next workshop at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough, UK, is coming up on Saturday 7 March.

Join @robbhawkes.bsky.social and @robynollett.bsky.social to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit’s due!

Sign up here: forms.gle/xHALrL6xspdp...

Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro By Rob Hawkes and Robyn Ollett The summer of 2025, like the summer of 2024 before it, has been one of heightened tensions surrounding the issues of race and immigration in the UK. This year, Union …

“[T]here *is* such a thing as public money and public money belongs to everyone. Moreover, all money is credit, and credit is due to more people and more places than the present logic of scarcity and exclusion will ever allow.”

Look what I found.
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"Why can’t credit be extended to support essential green infrastructure while ecologically destructive profiteering gets the green light?"

“At the heart of a complementary currency strategy is a different understanding of what money is. Money is not a scarce thing to be hoarded or unlocked. Nor is it a capitalist medium of exchange. Money is a flexible infrastructure of recognition, designed through politics.”

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Monetary design is something that we're used to thinking of as something done by technocrats, not regular people. But just as centuries ago, government rules were made by fiat and now they are decided by representatives, so too with the design of monetary systems can we democratize the whats + hows.

Moral Economies of Money | Stanford University Press For much of American history, large numbers of people claimed that money was a public good and asserted the right to shape money creation practices. If popular knowledge about money creation was once ...

We mistake design for inevitability due to what Jakob Feinig calls ‘monetary silencing’.

‘Silencing processes discourage questions like “Who ought to make currency, and according to what rules?” When silencing is successful, monetary design and its stakes disappear from view’.

Exactly. The power to create money is delegated to banks but not other public authorities, not because these are inescapable facts of life but because they are aspects of the current institutional and systemic design. We could decide, democratically, to design things differently if we chose.

VERY grateful for your work in articulating what a different financial system could look like. The lack of imagination to solve this problem (& the laziness to even just check how other countries do it...) in Westminster is astonishing.

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This is happening today! We still have a few spaces left if you’re about in Boro and fancy popping down!

Can’t wait for this!

You can read more about our project here: wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/w...

And here: moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/30/w...

Should be a great event!

Book here! 💸 🌈

An A4 flyer with a rainbow border. Inside the border, the text reads: Where Credit's Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice Reimagining Public Credit and Building Intersectional Solidarity in Boro Workshop 1 The Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough Saturday 17 January 2026 10.30am-12.30pm Does Middlesbrough and do the people of Teesside deserve more credit? Could new ideas about money transform our town? Join us to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit's due Underneath this text are logos for the Where Credit’s Due project and Teesside University’s Institute for Collective Place Leadership alongside a QR code which points to our website: https://wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com

Our first workshop at Middlesbrough’s Dorman Museum is just one week away!

Let’s tell new stories about money and give credit where credit’s due.

Places are free but limited, so please book here asap if you’d like to join us: forms.gle/3eWNxLKbtvYH...

Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance by Rob Hawkes The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensio…

"As 2025 draws to a close, we should all be 'horrified beyond belief,' but not by @zackpolanski.bsky.social's calls to think differently about 'the markets.' What ought to 'frighten' us all 'to death' is the status quo."

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Storytelling is another word for accounting; accounting is another word for storytelling.

Who you include in your story matters.

Let’s tell new stories in 2026.

It’s time to give credit where credit’s due.

Today in #DemocraticPublicFinance

Mamdani in his speech challenged the casual narrative erasure of many in his coalition.

Narrative erasure is the first step of an accounting trick: if someone can be said to not really exist, then their existence presents as a cost to the city that excludes them.

Thanks again to Emi Imai and all at Boro Doughnut for playing a vital role on the day and to everyone who joined us @teessideuni.bsky.social to explore how new ideas about money could transform Middlesbrough 🍩 💷 🌈

Our event was a screening of the brilliant #MMT documentary Finding the Money, followed by a panel discussion with Maren Poitras (the film’s director), @videotroph.bsky.social, @philarmstrong58.bsky.social, and Antonia Liguori.

For me, one of the highlights of 2025 was launching @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social with my dear friend @robynollett.bsky.social as part of the #GlobalDonutDays. You can catch a glimpse of our event at 0:52 in this video, which beautifully captures the GDDs’ celebration of #DoughnutEconomics.

Global Donut Days 2025 Aftermovie YouTube video by Doughnut Economics Action Lab

A quick look at #GlobalDonutDays 2025 — a community-led festival centred on #DoughnutEconomics, and how it came together around the world:

Essential reading on the debate around, and ultimate future of, the @zackpolanski.bsky.social project 💚

Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance by Rob Hawkes The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensio…

"Achieving the Green Party’s vision ... will require us to move beyond the talking points ... according to which MMT is regularly pigeonholed by UK commentators such as @richardjmurphy.bsky.social, & which fail to ask more searching questions about who creates money & for what purposes."

Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance by Rob Hawkes The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensio…

✨ New Essay! ✨

Assessing rising tensions over economic policy in the @greenparty.org.uk led by @zackpolanski.bsky.social,
@robbhawkes.bsky.social calls for the Greens to embrace Democratic Public Finance, pushing beyond MMT talking points in order to democratize money's design.

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