MATTERS IN THE AIR: 4th May 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.
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.
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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.
A SHARING WORLD COMMUNITY – The civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander is one of the people who is waking us up to history we don’t remember, and structures most of us can’t fathom intending to create. She calls the punitive culture that has emerged the “new Jim Crow,” (http://onbeing.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c4ce343e5cb83e8b16dffbf08&id=e0f65c1bca&e=4f397e7c74) and is making it visible in the name of a fierce hope and belief in our collective capacity to engender the transformation to which this moment is calling. ALSO ON THIS THEME http://www.stwr.org/ and http://www.DiEM25.org
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.
Land Tax or Location Value Charge – a Simple guide: Dominic Frisby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_dZvPwAj0&feature=share
Mother Pelican Web – May edition: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv12n05page1.html#editorial
Quantitative Easing for the People: http://www.qe4people.eu. – http://www.qe4people.eu/blog
Runnymede Gazette – thanks to Frank Taylor for April issue: RUNNYMEDE_GAZETTE_1604
Trusteeship studies. See ‘Matters in the Air’ for April 20th on how we are developing our ability to articulate the responsibility we bear – references needed here, or in original article
William Shakespeare’s 450th Birthday: our debt in words – sayings you use without knowing it:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/william-shakespeares-450th-birthday-50-everyday-phrases-that-came-from-the-bard-9275254.html
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EVENTS : see: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events
Wednesday 4th May 2016 from 4pm at Friends House, Euston, CCMJ meeting in advance of the Annual Appraisal Meeting planned for May 14th, which has been deferred. Meanwhile, the appraisal is gathering momentum in e-mails. For information or if you would like to attend, contact info@ccmj.org – and updates will be sent in due course, with some valuable developments.
Demo for Democracy 12 pm Saturday 7th May – Old Palace Yard, Houses of Parliament. — https://www.facebook.com/events/1732795900291616. On the anniversary of the most disproportionate election in British history we will unite to call for all voters to be fairly represented in our Parliament and for the establishment of genuine democracy in the UK.
The Nature of Prosperity – Inaugural debate Monday, 23 May 2016 – Central Hall Westminster, London – 2.30 – 6.30 pm. We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural event in a major new dialogue on the Nature of Prosperity. The event also marks the launch of the ESRC-funded Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) – http://www.cusp.ac.uk and features Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, in conversation with long-time peace and environmental activist Satish Kumar. Other speakers include: Jane Elliott (Chief Executive of the ESRC), Connie Hedegaard (former EU Commissioner for Climate Change, tbc), Tim Jackson (Director of CUSP) and Caroline Lucas (MP and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth). The event is the first in a series of public debates (hosted by CUSP) engaging young and old alike across business, policy and civil society in one of the most vital questions of our time: what does prosperity mean in a world of environmental and social limits? The event is free to attend but please register your attendance on our Eventbrite page.
Annual Justice & Peace Conference 15 – 17 July 2016 “Justice, Power and Responsibility:
How Can Democracy Work for the Common Good?” *** CONFERENCE NOW BOOKING *** Booking forms from NJPN, 39 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1BX 020 7901 4864admin@justice-and-peace.org.uk or download here Some assistance may be possible for families. Please contact NJPN to discuss.
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WEEK BY WEEK 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 and encouragement to collaboration:.
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 from current evidence, scriptures, histories, valued publications http://www.ccmj.org. Bromsgrove 2010 was a turning point. Positive Money took on the issue of usury, allowing CCMJ to broaden explorations into BOTH-AND ..a larger theological perspective on planetary integrity and the nature of an integrated Political-Economy. CCMJ helped create and develop the Coalition for Economic Justice [CEJ], some 11 agencies wrestling with Location value, Citizens’ Income [CI] was establishing a serious position in public discourse.
2. London Global Open Table [LGOT] – providing an open forum for serving a wider network of good faith 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 each 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
