12-2 at SES * We will ensure we attend this Wednesday to these items at least:
1. The 12 Quilligan Seminars May 7-18 – see Attachments: THE COMMONS-2 and CONVERGENCE NOTICE doc – encouraging participation. It would help to have people indicate what seminars they would consider attending at a £5 registration fee for each. That is how we are funding the whole venture. Seminar Conveners will have first responsibility for initial recruiting, but are also being asked to tell me how many places for open advertising they are allowing. At this stage I’m just testing the waters; although if you register now I would place you at the top of each chosen seminar’s waiting list.
2. Attached a leaflet on the basics of NEFdn’s ‘GREAT TRANSITION – 7 summareis‘ as a context for the Quilligan Seminars. You may need to adjust the numbered pages before printing out.
3. THE COMMONS – attached a leaflet with formal description of The Commons. Adjust as above.
4. OCCUPY reports and views – http://thefutureofoccupy.org
5. The Bristol pound website has a lovely graphic on it http://bristolpound.org/
6. Preoccupied with the Possible
QUESTION: What do you mean when you say that awakening to the evolutionary impulse literally changes everything and inspires you to become a completely different person?
ANSWER: This means that when we awaken to what I call the “evolutionary impulse,” our fundamental relationship to life, to existence, changes in the most dramatic way. Now we have discovered an absolute, non-relative reason to be who we are. We’ve realized that we are products of an evolutionary universe, we’re on a moving train, and that train is going somewhere. This realization shifts our attention from the past and the present to the future. Now we are constantly preoccupied by what’s possible instead of what has already been. Awakening to evolution instills a super life-positive inspiration to be in this world as ourselves and, most importantly, to make sure that the world is a better place because we are here.
7. George Soros has stressed the importance of reflexivity in social systems. It means they’re indeterminable and inherently uncertain, which is an uncomfortable message. In this blog Greg Fisher discusses how a narratives approach to human cognition and understanding helps us overcome – or at least make less intractable – the problem of reflexivity.
http://synthesisips.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c4cc0cbd91536cfdc1561804&id=acd9d6d764&e=86dc08217d
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FROM EXPLOITATION TO INCLUSIVE JUSTICE
To indicate how from the principle of ending exploitation certain basic aspects of restructuring in the financial system are required: especially its financial form of ‘usury’ on money bearing compound interest issued by commercial banks, and the passing of location value to rentiers rather than to the community that created it,
As all people of good faith reassess their contribution to public truth these suggestions should be seriously studied by intra-disciplinary bodies:
PRINCIPLE: Good faith in any tradition must be universal – that is, serving justly people and the planet.
PRAXIS: To develop that principle, some major systemic changes are needed, urgently:
– Renew the priority of investing in human capital before all else.
– Return to publicly created money – end issuance of new money bearing interest by commercial banks.
– Educate people to understand that Social, Solar and Material Commons are more fundamental than traded commodities.
– Return location value created by the community to the community – ending much accumulation of unearned income.
– Introduce a new form of material wealth’s inclusive distribution – so that consumers and producers are the same people.
– Respond to the mantra that ‘the first call on a nation’s wealth should be a basic income for all citizens.’
– Rescind laws creating ‘corporate personhood’ and the primacy of returns to directors and shareholders.
Behind these brief indicators serious studies and proposals are available for intra-disciplinary appraisal.
We seek a practical workable post-capitalist ecological economy, an economy by the people, for the people that is geared to production for need, not for profit, other than the dichotomy of all state versus all private. This is to make a principled distinction between what is naturally private property and what is the common wealth of all. Two complementary aspects of this are emphasised.
1. Recognising that the money system is naturally a social institution whose benefits should naturally be enjoyed by all.
2. A recognition of the distinct economic role of land.
For any individual access to land or natural resources that society bestows there is a corresponding duty to make a return commensurate with the privilege. These two policies combine a community-based issuance of money and government revenue based on land and resource rents.
NOTE:
‘THE PROCLAMATION OF JESUS CHRIST AS THE CRUCIFIED AND RISEN LORD AND THE CONFESSION THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD HAVE BOTH A INTIMATE AND COSMIC IMPLICATION. WE CANNOT CONFESS JESUS CHRIST IS LORD WITHOUT SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE ORDERING OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS AND THE HARMONY IN WHICH HUMANKIND LIVES AS A PART OF THE WHOLE CREATION. Anglican Mission Agencies. Brisbane 1986
Yours along the pilgrims’ way, Peter
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We are One people…
We share One planet…
We have One common dream…
We want to live in peace…
We choose to protect and heal the Earth…
We decide to create a better world for all…
We will do our best to make that dream come true…
We will change what needs to be changed…
We will learn to love, share and forgive…
We are One people, we want to live and we will.
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Relating to conversations at the Table on Incredible Edible Todmorden, Lancaster [and elsewhere?], Did you see last night’s (Wednesday Feb 22nd BBC2 8.0pm) *Bees, Butterflies And Blooms Cities (T) Sarah Raven travels to Birmingham, where she challenges the city’s parks department to create more habitats for pollinating insects. Last in the series. 7551 – see http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening
A stirring [democratic] campaign by Sarah Raven with the combination of ‘cost saving’, ‘low maintenance’, ‘sustainability’, reinstating ‘pollinater friendly flowers’, ‘highly colourful’, both annual and perennial’, hugely attractive to bees and butterflies and a rage of insects’, ‘social pride building’ aspects. All in stark contrast to the inbred potting plant patterns presently holding sway that attract almost no bees , butterflies or insects. The examples shown were all so ‘down to earth’ and encouraging. The story of 10000 sq metres of such experiment in the Olympic park was well detailed, designed to change colours and patterns over the whole span of the Olympics both fit ad para. Experiments are also advancing in Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Liverpool, ???? I feel that the two campaigns should elide but have no contacts with either . Perhaps we should also ensure our own lack authorities are aware of this move.
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The Earth Proclamation: http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/Proclamation.htm
