MATTERS IN THE AIR: April 13th 2016: in which all may share as our networking prospers the cause of inclusive justice… visit the website to view the evolving agenda for the next meeting: http://www.globaltable.org.uk/WP.

SECOND WEDNESDAY AND OUR MEETING TIMES REVERSE

10-12 GLOBAL TABLE AND ITS ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’

12-2 FORMAL ICUK AGENDA AND DESCISON MAKING  – OPEN – BUT ATTENTIVE TO AN AGENDA

Latest on issues raised in our network. Please make your comments or raise questions on any of these. We are trying to sense the richness of our networking without  overburdening with detail.

1]. Panama Papers – extent of impact and awakening it stirs – references from 5 associates

2]. Who am I today? Profound study of the weight of the culture of individualism working against the common good –  Jubilee Centre

3]. Bob Paul on S Wales and Steel , a view at the pastoral level and

4] Richard Murphy on steel –at the level of economic complexity and relating to ‘The Courageous State’.

5]. Richard Nelson’s visit from Canada – re: a  Regenerative Energy, Food and Water production prototype ……in Kent OR WHEREVER….. various points of enquiry being made !

6]  LVT clearly shown as community benefit;  Tommas Graves [ out of our association with the Coalition for Economic Justice ]

7] Paul Nicolson/TAP /Guardian and see  1] ABOVE and its implications

8] Trusteeship – Tucker, Blum , and Gandhi. F/u with Andrews and Phillips – developing our ability to articulate the  responsibility we bear

9] Bill Still regular pithy digest on money matters

10] Ellen Brown has broken her wrist – quieter for awhile – our good wishes sent. Reinventing Banking: From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador by ELLEN BROWN  http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/11/reinventing-banking-from-russia-to-iceland-to-ecuador/

11] Basic income on the move ! note sent to you 8-4-16

FROM AN ASSOCIATE’S LETTER: The great Festivals such as Good Friday and Easter remind us of a spectrum not of historic time but of potential to recover sanity and humanity in the present. Time is not the basis of enduring wisdom. Rather, that wisdom is renewed in rehearsing how we create right relationships by showing the relevance of significant events afresh in each period as they lead to the evolving universal creativity that we can remember and re-enact in our own time and in our own way.

We would not have had a steel crisis if we had enjoyed a Courageous State – 03-4-16   Larry Elliott has said for the Guardian today that ‘the laissez-faire economic model has proved a complete dud’. Peter Hitchens agrees. Is there an alternative? I’d beg to suggest so. Try The Courageous State:  Richard Murphy

FROM CRITICAL THINKING: Western thought is trapped in abstract rationality which isolates in seeking absolutes and completion, in contrast to oriental philosophy which is open to contradictions, seeks balance and recognises interdependence. Taiji is the physical manifestation of the Chinese approach: harvest energy and balance through movement and stillness. Like Natural Inclusion (NI), taiji is experienced rather than explained but this TED talk by Al Huang demonstrates the fundamental principles through exercises everyone can try. Taiji/yinyang philosophy: Chungliang Al Huang at TEDxHendrixCollege (31 minute video)   Alan Rayner posed the following challenge to his NI discussion group:‘Natural inclusion is the mutual inclusion of space and energy in all distinguishable natural occurrences’. Discuss

EVENTS : see: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events

REPORTS: always invited our associates in the quest for inclusive justice. Then a discussion: Those who can’t join us on a Wednesday – send us your comments and reports of your action.

The COMER lawsuit. The 8 Feb. decision of the Federal Court of Canada was bad news, however an appeal has been launched – see the link at the top rigyt of  http://comer.org/ Michael Sinclair

Compass: see events page for link to forthcoming conference on 5th March 2106: Also draft Strategy Paper: http://www.compassonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Compass-Draft-Strategy-Building-the-Alternative_final.pdf. A the end of this are listed some questions for us to respond to: 1. Is this shift from immediate concerns to more structural change right? 2. Are we proposing to do it in the right way? 3. Are we proposing to do it around the right issues?  Who else should we be working with? 4. What can you do to help? and DiEM25, the European Movement for Democracy with which we are seeking dialogue

WE CONTINUE REFLECTING on the value of these three perspectives in our quest for inclusive justice. Inevitably there is overlap between each mode of approach. Each and all add richness to our searching:

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 us in this particular week: http://www.globaltable.org.uk/wp

3. Trustees All: The Independent Constitutionalists UK – advocate and advance a targeted initiative by ‘principled pragmatism’ to take viable, if difficult, steps towards weaving politics and economics – governance and vital trading – into a People’s Political-Economy of Trusteeship in Harmony with Nature. Travel the new path via the 2020 [or earlier] General Election. The ICUK’s Manifesto and Charter provide an incremental, imperfect process of evolving a People’s Political-Economy of Trusteeship in the Harmony of Nature: http://ww.constitutionalists.uk

Grant me ….

The serenity to accept things that cannot change
The courage to tackle the things that can
And the wisdom to know the difference