MATTERS IN THE AIR
in which all may share as our networking prospers the cause of inclusive justice…
NEW ASSOCIATES POSSIBLY ATTENDING: Pam Grearly; Rosemary Hadfield, Richard Anderson and Raeto West
EVENTS – relevant contributions to or reports from such events would be welcome:
FESTIVAL OF WELLBEING – from economic growth to growth in welling: Saturday October 10th 10-6pm – Booking: info@networkofwellbeing.org Reports would be welcome from anyone attending.
REAL GLOBAL DEMOCRACY Demonstration Saturday, October 24 at 1:00pm Parliament Square: https://www.facebook.com/events/1080107852000171/
“NATURAL LAW IN ECONOMICS” Sunday Oct 25th 10-5 at SES 20 POUNDS incl lunch
“ALTERNATIVE TO BARNETT REPORT Fred Harrison Friday October 30th at SES 6.30 for CEJ coalition members
ST PAULS INSTITUTE Nov. 3rd – with Mason, Pettifor, Oldfield [Theos] & Phillip Blond: http://www.stpaulsinstitute.org.uk/Events/PostCapitalism-Envisaging-A-Shared-Future.
NEXT CONVENTION ON CONFEDERATION – November 7th 10.30-3.30 at St. Andrews Church Hall Short St SE1 [south off the Cut. opp Young Vic] Register with peterchallen@gmail.com
REPORTS: always invited: in this week from some of our associates in the quest for inclusive justice.
ECOMODERNISTS’ Manifesto. Ironically, the solutions are relatively simple but require a shift of human consciousness whereas ecomodernists seem complacent in their belief that the current direction of travel will take us to “higher ground”. The more important that we work on ‘To Use the system, to become the system, to CHANGE THE SYSTEM.” – http://www.ecomodernism.org
Ellen Brown – The Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity will hold its first annual conference in Ohio on October 2-3 2015. Public banking author and advocate Ellen Brown will join Senator Bernie Sanders and other speakers for this important event. Read about it here. See also: Ellen Brown : Quantitative Easing for People: The UK Labour Frontrunner’s Controversial Proposal: http://ellenbrown.com/2015/09/02/quantitative-easing-for-people-the-uk-labour-frontrunners-controversial-proposal/ – Ellen Brown‘s latest article, posted on Truth-Out — Time for the Nuclear Option: Raining Money on Main Street
Finance Innovation Lab – Report from Ivor/Mary/Janos on conference held on 18th September: http://financeinnovationlab.org
The Four Horsemen arguing the case for systemic change in a fascinating documentary…. https://youtu.be/5fbvquHSPJU ihr 35 mins
Free Critical Thinking: Until we deal with hierarchy and the fundamental flaws in the political economy, the direction of travel remains towards the abyss. http://freecriticalthinking.org/9-general/1518-hierarchy-and-the-political-economy
Law for the Commons – Commons Transition Wiki – a first attempt to survey the more significant realms of commons-based law: http://wiki.commonstransition.org/wiki/Law_for_the_Commons.
Mark Joob: a very good summary of: What’s Wrong with the Current Monetary System. Recommended experts: For Credit Commons oriented solutions at the local level, see Thomas Greco [2] For Public Credit and credit-free financing solutions at the national level, see Modern Monetary Theory and Ellen Brown. For solutions relating to a global monetary commons, see Bernard Lietaer. For Money of the Commons, see Andrea Fumagalli: How Can Crypto-Money Become a Money of the Commons.
Positive Money: “People’s Quantitative Easing” Going Mainstream? Jeremy Corbyn, the leading figure of Britain’s Labour Party, is calling for banks to create money to ease personal debt and financial hardship. This is remarkably similar what groups like Positive Money and even the Public Banking Institute have called for. Now it’s gone mainstream. Read more here: “People’s Quantitative Easing” Going Mainstream? Read more here. Follow Richard Murphy’s comments.• How long until People’s Quantitative Easing? Not long, if Andy Haldane is right • I’m going to Kilkenomics • What will George Osborne call People’s QE when he adopts it? • The choice to put the book-keeping of a balanced budget above caring for the sick • Corbyn backs a Financial Transactions Tax • Where I am
P2P Foundation: an impromptu article by Raymond Aitken = Reclaiming the Economic Surplus: – http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/reclaiming-the-economic-surplus-by-liberating-the-economic-commons/2015/09/03 – see also: http://p2pfoundation.net/Reclaiming_the_Economic_Surplus_by_Liberating_the_Economic_Commons
Tikkun Daily: Raanan Geberer: Why Are the Republicans Ignoring Bernie Sanders? posted Sep 10, 2015: The most obvious answer about why the Republicans are virtually ignoring Bernie Sanders is that Hillary is still leading in the polls, and they expect her to be the nominee (and if not her, then Joe Biden). But there may be other answers. Read more: http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2015/09/10/why-are-the-republicans-ignoring-bernie-sanders/
TAXPAYERS AGAINST POVERTY: Dialogue between Paul Nicolson and Fred Harrison has enabled TAP to get a serious palliative amendment to the Welfare Bill. A huge witness to the importance of collaboration – see also: http://www.taxpayersagainstpoverty.org.uk/welfare-reform-and-work-bill-will-it-help-the-poorest-live-on-average-as-long-as-the-rich-there-is-a-twelve-year-gap/
Three Articles fom the USA perspective. Any thoughts they evoke pertinent to our work would be valued.• I’m not voting for Bernie Sanders – http://tinyurl.com/o3z27f4
• Markets Gone Mad – http://tinyurl.com/q42gkpc
• Four Reasons to Anticipate PostCapitalism – http://tinyurl.com/nolyhe5
WHY “LAND” MATTERS TODAY – Roy Douglas pub. HGFdn
REPORT ON 2015C ‘TAKING STOCK’ – TAKING STOCK 9 September 2015 FINAL
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 in Harmony with Nature. 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.
‘REALITY IS NI’ Reality is Natural Inclusiveness, in all bit parts, ubiquitous energy, creative dialogue suffusing the cosmos. Some nutshell it so simply in love of both God and Neighbour; one God and every neighbour to be sure. So not so simple after all, so a big question hangs over us in that tough and honorable pursuit. Do you stone the devil while on retreat, or love your enemies on every street,the one too easy, the other so, so hard?
