MATTERS IN THE AIR
in which all may share as our networking prospers the cause of inclusive justice…
EVENTS – relevant contributions to or reports from such events would be welcome
Saturday September 11-14 PEACE FESTIVAL at Rickmansworth
London – Wednesday 23rd September 2015 “THE UNITED NATIONS AT 70 – What Prospects for Peace?” Keynote speaker: Clare Short – Former UK Secretary of State for International Development. The title of the talk is “The United Nations at 70 – What Prospects for Peace?” The lecture will focus on the UN’s successes, failures and future prospects for peace. Most importantly it will explore how UN can pursue its Charter goals of ending the scourge of war, promote sustainable development, protect Human Rights, mitigate climate change, build peace and justice for all. After the lecture there will be opportunity for the audience to have interactive Q&A session. “Now, we have to go forward in the giant undertaking of building democratic United Nations to make the real world safe, just and sustainable for all its children” – Erskine B. Childers Venue : Hilton London Euston, 17 – 18 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0HT
Saturday October 10th 10-6 FESTIVAL OF WELLBEING – from economic growth to growth in wellbing Booking : info@networkofwellbeing.org Reports would be welcome from anyone attending.
NEXT CONVENTION ON CONFEDERATION – NOVEMBER 7TH 10-4 at St. Andrews Church Hall Short St SE1 [ south off the Cut] Register with peterchallen@gmail.com
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NEW ASSOCIATES POSSIBLY ATTENDING: Pam Grearly; Lee Cant, Rosemary Hadfield, Richard Anderson and Raeto West
REPORTS: always invited : in this week from some of our associates in the quest for inclusive justice.
Charles Eisenstein : http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/dont-owe-wont-pay-everything-youve-been-told-about-debt-is-wrong/
Michael Hudson 0n company share buy-backs which fuelled stock-market rises but which indicate financial engineering has become the dominant activity, rather than investing in production, owing to the availability of cheap money. Behind the Market Crash: The Smoke and Mirrors of Corporate Buybacks “We’re in a debt deflation now. The 99 percent of the people are so busy paying off their debt that what is counted as savings here is just paying down the debt. That’s why they don’t have enough money to buy goods and services, and so sales are falling. That means that profits are falling. And people finally realized that wait a minute, with companies not making more profits they’re not going to be able to pay the dividends.” Markets have been riding a roller-coaster, plummeting early in the week followed by sharp rallies in the last two days. Given the banks propensity to manipulate markets, it’s worth rereading Matt Taibbi’s excellent The Great American Bubble Machine which provides insights into how bankers profit from crashing markets to buy assets on the cheap from distressed sellers. Crashing markets plunged the world into chaos in 2008, since when the global economy has been on “life -support” in the form of cheap money which has inflated asset prices and speculative bubbles. Unless the power of the banks to create money at will is removed, the spiral into collapse will continue.
Brian Wills [Aug3] Peter Challen [Aug 10 & 17] BrianWills [Aug 24] Ray Sheath [Aug 31]latest Newscasts heard on www.2015Constitutionalists.uk/Home …… scroll down…..responses invited — all 15 Newscasts to date available via – http://www.globaltable.org.uk/wp
Ivor Kellock, Ray Sheath visiting Frome to discuss “Flat-Pack Democracy”
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”.
Reclaiming the Economic Surplus by Liberating the Economic Commons – P2P Foundation – http://p2pfoundation.net/Reclaiming_the_Economic_Surplus_by_Liberating_the_Economic_Commons
Runnymede Gazette August – http://www.runnymedegazette.org
Mother Pelican September – http://www.pelicanweb.org/
WE CONTINUE REFLECTING on the value of these three perspectives in our quest for inclusive justice?
1. The Christian Council for Monetary Justice [CCMJ] – examining enduring wisdom and contemporary evidence about money and its effect on society – utilising resources of the enduring wisdom like current evidence, scriptures, histories, valued publications http://www.ccmj.org
2. London Global Open Table [LGOT] – providing an open forum for serving a wider network with a point of weekly reference. All are welcome to send items for ‘Matters in the Air’ to indicate where our dialogue and action might take in this particular week: http://www.globaltable.org.uk/wp
3. The 2015Constitutionalists – advancing a targeted initiative by ‘principled pragmatism’ to take viable, if difficult, steps towards weaving politics and economics – governance and vital trading – into a Peoples Political Economy of Trusteeship, set in Harmony with Nature. NEWSCASTS each Monday on http://www.2015Constitutionalists.uk alternate between understanding systemic change and reporting on issues that must find hard-coding for their inclusive contribution to the whole system. TheNewscast appears on the Home page on Mondays and is then also on Youtube.
Aug 17 ‘Why are those People so Small’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y524EBziqhQ
Aug 10 Newscast: ‘Principled Pragmatism’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXN8ONFTkYs
See list of podcasts to date: 2015 CONSTITUTIONALISTS NEWSCASTS
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. See the Introduction to the Project, which is subject to ongoing amendment. See also the latest draft of the 2015C Compendium of Constitutionalists thinking and Glossary of words and their usage: http://www.2015constitutionalists.uk/resources/compendium/ – please respond with suggestions to improve this..
Inevitably there is overlap between each mode of approach. Each and all add richness to our searching and our action in the public arena.
