MATTERS IN THE AIR at the 29th APRIL –
MAJORING ON MAY 7Tth and OUR INITIATIVES BEYOND
NB. POSTPONEMENT of the May 19th Book launch of [Evil is …..] ‘AS EVIL DOES’ in which Fred Harrison, author, journalist, economic historian, examines the historic and current evil of great human faults in ignoring the Covenant of Gift and Humanity’s responsive Trusteeship.
PLEASE NOTE AND REGISTER FOR June 6th 2015 – 10.00-16.00 – CCMJ ANNUAL APPRAISAL OF THE OUTREACH OF THE NETWORK at ST ANDREW’S CHURCH, Short Street, off The Cut, Waterloo, SE1 8LJ, lying between Waterloo mainline and Southwark – Jubilee Line, stations. Knowledge of your intention to be at either or both of these events would be helpful in our planning. We will clarify on the day the relationship of a number of collaborating networks such as – CCMJ.org/wp • Forum for Stable Currencies • London Global Open Table • 2015CUK • Coalition for Economic Justice • EquilibriumState.org • Ourbrokensystem.com • Positive Money • Critical Thinking • Occupy • St Paul’s Institute • Kingdom at Work Project • SIMPOL • ECCR • NJPN • Civil Society Forum • Runnymede Project • Living Systems Group • LETSlinkUK • et al….
CONFEDERATION. We are welcoming ideas on how to Build a Movement to get more people to understand and to work for Confederation as a way of developing the debates about Devolution, Subsidiarity etc. We are increasingly aware that systemic change is likely to come only from the ground up. Thus the discussions about a Movement as contrasted to a Party. We also recommend a fascinating TED talk by Heather Barnet on the extraordinary life of a slimemold, giving even more impetus to our attempts to stir a movement without formal organisation but just the hidden energy of cellular growth and human mutuality. Watch this astonishing 14min video http://slimoco.ning.com/video/heather-barnett-what-humans-can-learn-from-semi-intelligent-slime
NB…available on request: A PPT. of SLIDE-SIZED discussion starter on :
SOCIAL POLITICAL ECONOMY FOR HUMANITY’S PLANETARY TRUSTEESHIP
– where
– POLITICAL = methods of governance; inseparable from …..
– ECONOMY = money, business, finance for trading in all of society’s regional and global housekeeping, sharing risk and reward transparently…;
– HUMANITY’S = all of us in our interdependence (voters, activists, general public, human);
– PLANETARY = all related – biospheric /ecological /environmental concerns; the very ‘ground of our being’
– TRUSTEESHIP / VISION = recognition of the covenant between all things ‘under the rainbow’, as the ‘internet of all things’ and ‘zero marginal costing’ allow us to see ourselves at last as empathic, collaborating Homo. sapiens; bearing huge responsibility because of our consciousness and reflective ability to transform neo-liberalism into stakeholder (cooperative) uses of capital. etc..
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A WIDER LOOK AT GLOBAL TABLE LIFE
1. ASSOCIATES IN VOICE AND VISION
– Fred Harrison: ‘The Ugly Truth’ – prelude to ‘As Evil Does’; Power resides with the same class as acquired power under Magna Carta, a charter for the aristocracy, not the people. Magna Carta: The Ugly Truth (10 minute video) – Clive Menzies: week after week on identifying the evidence of why structural change is the only political and economic hope for society
– Ray Sheath: Off the cuff at Shoreham in a 90 min Podcast on http://theinformation.podbean.com/ as ‘A Peoples Democracy’
– Heather Barnett: Slimemold as natural modelling in this astonishing 14min video http://slimoco.ning.com/video/heather-barnett-what-humans-can-learn-from-semi-intelligent-slime.
– Peter Challen : demonstrating the value of some 20 submissions on the Story both old and new that we are seeking to share
– Heather Whyte: Easter as Quantum Mystery – a single page – ask for this
IN BROKEN TEXT – ask for any of these
Odd Lemming Out – Alan Rayner
Wrong Mountain – Nick Askew and now his new poem at the foot
WAYS OF TELLING THE CONTEMPORARY STORY
1. As brief and universal as can be
LET US DECLARE OUR COMMON HUMANITY AND AGREE THAT ALL HUMAN, RELIGIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC TRADITIONS AND THEIR SOURCES OF WISDOM, ARE NURTURING OUR REACHING TO A MATURE UNIVERSAL FAITH IN INCLUSIVE WELL-BEING EXPRESSED IN A PLANETARY CULTURE AND WORLDY CONSCIOUSNESS OF IMMENSE VARIETY. THAT IS- THE COMMON VALUES OF INCLUSIVE JUSTICE; FOUND IN MAINTAINING THE DELICATE CREATIVE TENSION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, COMMUNAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND PLANETARY TRUSTEESHIP
DATES
May 19 postponed – Book launch of ‘As Evil Does’. watch for new date!
May 21st Harrison and Sheath speaking in Scotland at conference on CONFEDERATION
June 6 10-4 at St Andrews; Waterloo – CCMJ annual appraisal
June To Be Announced – a post election rally focussing on CONFEDERATION
Please add your comments on the issues and actions we appraise each week.
Discussion is determined by those present. We are concentrating at this time on systemic change and the enabling contribution we are making in a bold bid to ‘a noble mission to make the earth a common treasury for us all’. NOTE various contributions from associates below.
The 2015 Constitutionalists Charter is an incremental, imperfect process of evolving a People’s Political Economy of Inter-Generational Trusteeship for the Earth in a context of Ecology and Evolution. It must dominate our thought and action in the months and years ahead. Please take time to follow this practical initiative, participating in what ever ways you can.
Thoughts encouraging collaboration……. “When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.”— R. B. Fuller “You are not as drop in the ocean, but you are the entire ocean in a drop”.
Would you consider a donation, once off or by Standing Order, to fuel the huge voluntary efforts? either to “Launch 2015 Const UK” – Code 55-50-39 – Ac. No. 63414929,
or to the work of the Global Table via “CCMJ”: sortcode 07-00-93 Ac.No. 33333334 Ac.No./Ref. 1197/702170451
