MATTERS IN THE AIR: April 20th 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.
10-12 INFORMAL ICUK AGENDA – OPEN – but attentive to that initiative: http://www.constitutionalists.uk
12-2 GLOBAL TABLE AND ITS ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ 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. 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.
Richard Nelson – visiting from Canada – has a project on Regenerative Energy, Food and Water with a production prototype: http://www.podworksglobal.com. In discussion he has recalled Joanna Macey’s book: “Active Hope – how to face the mess we are in without going crazy”: http://www.activehope.info.
On the issue of Trusteeship, we have heard from AndrewTucker, Arna Blum, her deceased husband Fred Blum who researched the history of the Scott B\ader Commonwealth and are examining Gandhi’s writings; also consulting Patrick Andrews and Timothy Phillips on UK Trusts and so developing our ability to articulate the responsibility we bear.
Report from Positive Money: Success! We have just heard that the Money Commission amendment will be debated in Parliament next Tuesday – on Tuesday 19th April. Thousands of us emailed our MPs asking for their support – and it has paid off! This is a major breakthrough – but there is still a lot of work to be done. We have just a few days to build support for a Money Commission in Parliament. We need to know if your MP is planning on attending the debate and will be adding their name to the amendment. Will you send a follow up email to your MP? This is a chance to let them know the debate has been scheduled and to ask for their assurance that they will be there.
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.
Rodney Shakespeare – informs us that homelessness rising sharply among UK ethnic minorities – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_IhN6V3Plc – published on 16 Apr 2016. Based on official data, the homeless population among the people of colour has surged by more than 60 percent since 2010 when Prime Minister David Cameron assumed power. The figure now stands at around 20-thousand which indicates homelessness is rising twice as fast among ethnic minorities compared to other groups. Critics blame the sharp increase on the government’s failed housing policy. They say without a change of course, more families will fall apart and more individuals will have to sleep on the streets in the years to come.
EVENTS : see: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events
Compass’ Good Europe invite you to participate in a significant Good Europe event which is being organised in partnership with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) London and in collaboration with Free Word. Activists from across Europe and cultural figures will kick us off with their visions for what a good Europe would look like followed by purposeful small group discussion. When: Saturday 23rd April, 10am – 4.30 Where: Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA (fully accessible) Tickets limited.
Compass: see draft Strategy Paper: http://www.compassonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Compass-Draft-Strategy-Building-the-Alternative_final.pdf. At 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 and to which we now subscribe.
NEW WEBSITE! Quantitative Easing for the People: http://www.qe4people.eu.
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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
