MATTERS IN THE AIR’
At the Global Table on Wed. we wrestled awhile with the issue of making progress while seeking consensus. I hope you’ll enjoy [and improve?!] this tongue-in-the-cheek draft……………..
THE LEADER SANITY REQUIRES
“A benevolent dictator, a humbly charismatic servant leader, living simply on a low stipend, with expenses paid only with societal external agreement, enabling an inter-disciplinary team of philosophically sensitive activists with similar statesman-like attributes.
That they together resolutely pursue, under a Constitution built on inclusive more-than-human inclusive justice, principles of mutual responsibilities within a confederation that honours subsidiarity – direct democracy – and is subject to 360% accountability; monitoring for intimate, corporate and global impacts as they impinge on each other, whether we yet acknowledge that they do, or do not so interact.” Discuss
On August 27th we continue reflecting on new outcomes of wide consultations with
1- 2015 CONSTITUTIONALISTS CHARTER – composite drafting out of dialogue – Ray Sheath
2- THE NEW MODEL CHARTER – roots in land, money, right livelihood – Clive Menzies
as models about systemic roots, derived from attention to all these scholarly contributions of thought and action.
3- TRAUMATISED SOCIETY evolving thro TEN THESES – impact of cultural blight – Fred Harrison
4- PURTON DECLARATION [Grievances] & RUNNYMEDE PROJECT & GAZETTE– processes – Frank Taylor
5- SIMPOL – Using our votes for global cooperation on global justice – John Bunzl
6- ROBERTSON REVIEW – protagonist of building mutual awareness – James Robertson
7- SYNTHESIS Think Tank – understanding & auditing complex systems – Greg Fisher
8- LEGAL MONITORING – various searches
9- POSITIVE MONEY – educative campaigning among on money creation – Ben Dyson
10 COALITION FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE – 11 agencies collaborating on LVT – Ed Randall
11 DEFINITION OF THE COMMONS – Modern disastrous complexity v Integral alternative J Quilligan
12 ORIGIN OF RIGHTS – principles of dignity in complexity – Thomas Berry – & Earth Charter
13 TAX JUSTICE NETWORK – business and academic experience in critique – Prem Ski
14 EQUALITY – spirit Level – David Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
15 GLOBAL ECONOMIC INCLUSION – Colin Hines
16 RED PEPPER – Hilary Wainwright
17 SCHUMACHER COLLEGE, CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM, REIMAGINE – Claudius Van Wyk
18 MUSLIM THINKING – Tarek El Diwany
19 THREE FAITHS FORUM – Sir Sigmund Sternberg
20 SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE – Peter Bowman…. AND MORE…
all in the light of the ‘Paradigm of Judicature’ and ‘Fiduciary Duty’ in the difficulty of distinguishing between vital PALLIATIVE care and urgent CURATIVE structural redesign; promoting both in their dynamic tension. We are exploring the interplay of a Constitution, the Governance that responds to it, through structures of deliberative democracy and accountable Government.
1. ACTIVITY REPORTS FROM ASSOCIATES
a] CCMJ – I’d welcome reports on the Greenbelt book signing by Peter Dominy [24th] and book launch ‘An Idol Unmasked – A Faith Perspective on Money’ by Peter Selby [25th]
b] A remarkable description of Thomas Jefferson with strong quotations: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?pli=1#inbox/1480ed6ff396cebe
Please visit the website http://www.globaltable.org.uk/wp and make your suggestions or offers for help in its functioning. Mary Fee is tireless in her encouragement of me to improve it… and I fall short… therefore cri de coeur for greater involvement by associates – not least because Peter Selby gives us a huge boost in the preface of his new book and we might therefore expect responses
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Our STRATEGY is to seek ways to communicate the quintessential significance of :
– LAND: The economic rent of all nature provided resources to be the source of public revenue – thus undermining the false rentier economy :
– MONEY: The currency of society is to be issued on behalf of the people of that society interest free [given agreed costs] as a trust based public utility – ending commercial profiteering from a badly needed public trust utility:
– A BASIC MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD for all. A welfare security provision in the form of a living income is to be sourced for every citizen as of right—unconditionally. This replaces the costly current means-testing bureaucratic arm of the state :
– CORPORATE PERSONHOOD – challenging this dangerous legal fiction.
Our TACTICS are outlined in these basic papers on Global Table engagements and fundamentals, which you all are invited to update or improve…………
– Initiatives with which associates engage – http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/?page_id=44
– Fundamentals of a sane economy – http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/?page_id=376
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LONDON GLOBAL TABLE SEPTEMBER 10TH
Last week’s first Wednesday’s 2015 Election Forum advanced the initiative.
1] If your interest has been aroused in this potent initiative [fool-hardy as it may be!] and you wish to know more, ask me for a one-to-one briefing – since its history, potency and current stage of evolution and organic growth need careful explanation in relation to your specific context and opportunities. I’d love to be flooded by such requests from curious associates! Any response would include, in strict confidence.
– the report from last week
– the finalising of the trade-marked Centralised or People’s Power
– the Constitution for the phantom Party we have registered
– ways you can help find local Speakers and Independent Candidates
Are you intrigued????
2. Other matters participants bring to the Table this week
a] The new Selby Book ‘An Idol Unmasked – a Faith Perspective on Money DLT
b] Starting dialogue groups
c] …………….
Peter
