Paul Glover (activist)
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Paul Glover (born July 18, 1947) is a community organizer, author, and former university professor currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Community work
Glover published local histories of Ithaca starting in the 1970s with Glad Day Press. In 1992, he founded the Ithaca Hours, one of the first local currency systems. He said he founded it because there wasn't enough money in the local community.<ref name=pg1 /><ref name=pg2 />Template:R
He founded of the Philadelphia Orchard Project,<ref name=pg3 /> the Citizen Planners of Los Angeles<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Ithaca Health Alliance,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Failed verification He is author of several books on community economic development,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> a former professor of urban studies at Temple University,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Ecological economics<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> at Philadelphia University.
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Glover suffered a stroke in January 2019.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref>
Political career
Glover was the Green Party candidate for mayor of Ithaca, New York, in 2003.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Glover participated in the Green Party's presidential primaries in 2004.<ref name=gg>Template:Cite press release</ref>
Glover was the Green Party candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in 2014<ref name=gg2>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and 2018.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
Bibliography
- Hometown Money: How to Enrich Your Community with Local Currency, 2013<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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