12-2 at SES * we will ensure we attend this Wednesday to these items at least:

1. ‘OCCUPY’ 10 Ways the Occupy Movement Changes Everything: Article in Yes Magazine: http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/ten-ways-the-occupy-movement-changes-everything?utm_source=nov11&utm_medium=yesemail&utm_content=subs&utm_campaign=8_10WaysExcerpt • 50 Proposals for Reform as distributed 11/11 – and much of the latest: http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/11/10/50-proposals-for-reform-and-reclamation-in-solidarity-with-the-wall-street-protesters-and-the-99-percenters/

2. Ten days of seminars led by James Quilligan May 8-18 2012

3. Initiatives for Change Feb 1st – London Meeting – Selby keynote speaker

4. Prof. Tim Gorringe and the recent Op Noah Lecture. He ended on the note that a ‘Status Confessionis’ at this time required:
1. Our carbon footstep is part of our discipleship
2. We must challenge the driver of finance capitalism. Endless growth is an aberration.
3.We must be repentant for complicity and set our own house in order.

5 The Finance Innovation Lab’s new Disruptive Finance Policies Project

6. Article in EKKLESIA makng our case

7. some broken text…………….associating dialogue with an ‘high tolerance for ambiguity’.

Dialogue is a thin win course;
a reaching for outcome;
a process at whose end
respect remains
for the other
of both sides.

FROM EXPLOITATION TO INCLUSIVE JUSTICE

To indicate how from the principle of ending exploitation, and 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, certain basic aspects of restructuring in the financial system are required.

As the churches and all people of good faith reassess their contribution to public truth these suggestions should be seriously studied by intra-discipinary bodies:

Principle: Good faith in any tradition must be universal – that is, serving justly people and the planet.

To develop that principle, some major systemic changes are needed, urgently:
– Return to publicly created money – end issuance of new money bearing interest by commercial banks
– Return location value created by the community to the community – not to rentiers
– 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
– Educate people to understand that Commons are more fundamental than commodities
– Renew the priority of investing before all else in human capital
– Democratise the Corporation of the City of London

Behind these brief indicators serious studies and proposals are available for intra-disciplinary appraisal.

Peter

“Deny the wisdom of ending usury and the eco-system dies” Buchan

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PS: 18th November 2011: Quite some week for CCMJ and the Global Table!!!!!!

the global seething brought on by OCCUPY the world has its impact on the Table and CCMJ

note some of the opportunities in just this week ……………….

– Follow up to the Gorringe Op Noah lecture on a ‘status confessionis’ for our time
– Jasper article for OCCUPY LSX in a drafting dialogue with editor
– 10 attributes of OCCUPY sent out from strong USA team
– CCMJ promoted on the EKKLESIA site by Bernadette Meadon
– A response posted on www.iofc.org in comment on the article by Michael Smith on ‘A sea Change…’
– Launching of the Finance Lab Project with opportunity for CCMJ to submit
– Preparations to see if we can get a thrust on 38degrees
– Preparing response to CofE report ‘Church and Capitalism’
– Preparing ten days of seminars May 8-16 2012 with James Quilligan
– Simon and Moeen preparing CCMJ and Muslims contribution in the University tent
– Positive Money and Coalition for Economic Justice at the University tent

and all that you are doing too………………. see attachment:

Reports welcome

Peter

“Deny the wisdom of ending usury and the eco-system dies” Buchan
………………….and society dies too it seems !!!” Challen

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CALL FOR COMMENT FROM THE LONDON GLOBAL TABLE’S NETWORK

Please note this new project, ATTACHED Disruptive Finance Policy Finance Lab (1) – and feed your thoughts about the Global Table’s possible contribution.

It might be built around these parts of systemic change discussed last Wednesday

PRINCIPLE:
“THE BENEFITS OF ANY FINANCIAL SYSTEM MUST BE UNIVERSAL – THAT IS, SERVING THE INTERESTS OF ALL PEOPLE AND THE PLANET”.

PRAXIS
To develop that principle, some major systemic changes are needed, urgently:

– Return to ‘publicly created money’ – end issuance of new money bearing interest by commercial banks
– Return location value created by the community to the community – not to rentiers.
– Introduce forms of inclusive distribution of material wealth – 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.
– Educate people to understand that Commons are more fundamental than commodities.
– Renew the priority of investing in human capital before all else
– Democratise the Corporation of the City of London

BEHIND THESE BRIEF INDICATORS SERIOUS STUDIES AND PROPOSALS ARE AVAILABLE FOR INTRA-DISCIPLINARY APPRAISAL. Peter

“Deny the wisdom of ending usury and the eco-system dies” Buchan
………………….and society dies too it seems !!!” Challen