MATTERS IN THE AIR’
W E CONTINUE TO REVIEW THE PROSPECTS FOR ‘PRINCIPLED PRAGMATISM’.
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 studiesof 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
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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SOME ASPECTS OF THE GLOBAL TABLE DIALOGUE ON Sep 17: – REACTIONS WELCOMED
1. Scotland’s vote stirs the air on devolution and we considered the developments in our 2015 Election initiative – introductory notice will follow.
2. We then related that to an initiative being taken by Trevor Griffiths on democratic revival – there should be some synergy there with the 2015 Charter. The Wolf lecture at LSE on 16th – it added nothing to our cause.
3. A revival of Ivan Illich’s work reviewed in Resurgence – copy of article could be sent on request
4. Also a Rifkin article on Zero Cost Society.
5. Articles by Clive Menzies and Peter Challen are to be published in KOSMOS.
6. The Cafe society’s Walthamstow open air initiative last week – few appeared but passers by were positively engaged.
7. The Findhorn and Cable car dialogues were reported – debate on devolution is in the air!
8. Lively discussion on ‘militant’ non-violence.
9. Mary Fee congratulated on her efforts in promoting a lively Festival of Life at Conway Hall.
10. WCC Conference on ‘Sound the trumpet in time of Jubilee’ reported.
