MATTERS IN THE AIR
1. NOTE THAT OUR DEC 3rd MEETING WILL BE DEVOTED TO THE ELECTION FORUM – ITS PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS. Please notify me in advance if attending so room size can be checked.
2. Please listen to at least the first 19 mins of an astonishing lecture by Jeremy Rifkin, Economist, Author with prophetic foresight about the interweaving of many trends: Are We Moving from a Capitalist to a Collaborative Economy? (04/09/2014). Even by starting at 13.30 mins in you’d get his astonishing insights in the next 4 mins. It seems to me to be the economic foundation for the necessity of what we are embodying in the 2015 Constitutionalists Charter. He describes ‘Zero Marginal Cost’ transformation and the rapid exponential undermining of capitalism in a 1.08hr lecture with Q and A. ‘Bits to atoms’ on ‘the internet of things’. ‘Social commons’ spreading very rapidly directed to social capital. Its reveune grown at 42% – tradition business at 16%. While he suggests food and water are the wild card at the heart – climate change may ruin this emergent global consciousness of the human family – the 2015 Charter is evolving as a deeper way to avert the many wild cards that threaten the prospect so clearly anticipated in the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCLPizjSe6I
3. Outcome and Implications of the Parliamentary debate on Money generated by POSITIVE MONEY: see report: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/positive-money-debate-in-parliannet-after-170-years.
4.. We would greatly value reports on any of so many significant meetings of recent weeks, such as the new Putney Debates; and notes of dates ahead. Notes on their implications for our 2015CC initiative would help uis in the huge communication trask. See the lifestream from New Putney Debates: http://thenewputneydebates.com/livestream.
5. WE WILL CONTINUE to follow the course of the 2015 CONSTITUTIONALISTS CHARTER launched at Runnymede on Nov 5th: http://www.2015constitutionalists.uk.
Our London Global Table is a vital enabling partner in this ‘principled pragmatic’ initiative focused first on the Election in May 2015 – now less than six months away. A new Mission statement of the initiative will be finalised this week.
Only 9 replies came from the posting to 197 associates to the questions below. If all recipients reply, we will have a significant understanding of the way forward. If you feel insufficiently informed of the project to answer, then let me know and I will send the introductory Package.
1. Would you sign up to the 2015 Constitutionalists Charter initiative when the process for doing that is clear: Yes/No
2. Do you understand the relationship of the dense and comprehensive Charter at its present stage and the filling in of the detail now taking place? It might help to imagine accepting the value of an Atlas in hand before the content of each page becomes clear: Yes/No
3. Will you join in the search for Speakers and Candidates around the regions of England? Yes/No
4. Would you consider a donation, once off or by Standing Order, to fuel this huge voluntary effort? to “Launch 2105 Const UK” – Code 55-50-39 – Ac. No. 63414929, or to CCMJ: sortcode 07-00-93 Ac.No. 33333334 Ac.No./Ref. 1197/702170451: Yes/No.
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3. The awareness of issues of devolution has spread so rapidly that our contribution has had to be made public more quickly than we anticipated. There has been such a particular flow this last week of information on the activities of associates of the Table, as to make it even clearer how our association is contributing to societal sanity: valuable correspondence is flowing on key issues like; Devolution ; Implications of ‘Universality’, ‘Inclusiveness’, ‘Value and Dangers of Boundaries’, ‘How to be an umbrella and both invite and acknowledge all contributions’. Further insights on these matters would be gratefully received.
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1. 2015 Constitutionalists Charter: www.2015constitutionalists.uk Email: info@2015constitutitionalists.UK. Receive only mobile: 07580 972380.
Please ask your questions about this collaborative work set to learn many lessons in the six months ahead.
2. A Precariat Charter. A new book that is relevant to the Magna Carta. Dr Guy Standing, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Professor in Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Co-President, Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) –
www.basicincome.org. Mob: +41 (0)79 647 6379, Email: GuyStanding@standingnet.com, Website: www.guystanding.com. Latest book: A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). The Precariat on Facebook. Indian basic income pilot video www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvErJvuWrWc
3. ‘Kingdom of God: A Steady Sate Economy’ http://www.tinyurl.com/omzcdv2 From CASSE [the Centre for Advancing a Steady State Economy.] follows Herman Daly’s ‘Economics Fit for Purpose‘
4. Tony May invites you to examine and comment upon The Kingdom Lab. http://kingdomlab.org.uk
5. We look forward to a visit from Robin Upton who works in Bangladesh, whose project is about Altruisim: http://www.altruists.org. Together with Mary Fee of LETSlink, he is hoping to organise a meeting whilst he is here to bring many activists together, current suggested name being “Collaborative Action For Economic Justice (CafeJustice) – Are you on the Map?” – which refers to: http://www.themap.org.uk – (in development) -o watch this space for further details.
6. Eddie, visiting the table on 26th November, drew to our attention The Corbett Report: http://www.corbettreport.com. Another interesting source of information. Eddie reports on interesting things he reads on his own blog: http://00atmen.blogspot.co.uk.
7. Peter has also added a paper The Right of Jurors to Judge on the Justice of Law: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/the-rights-of-jurors-and-the-paradigm-of-judicature.
