London Global Open Table: 25th May 2016 | The London Global Open Table

MATTERS IN THE AIR: 25th 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.

10-12am informal ICUK agenda formation – open, but attentive to that initiative.

12-2pm GLOBAL TABLE utilising this week’s ‘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.

ASSEMBLIES FOR DEMOCRACY: report from 10/5/2016 in progress: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/venue/designing-democracy-for-the-21st-century-1052016

CCMJ: the annual Appraisal continues.

COMMUNITY CURRENCIES: interesting overview of the new Hullcoin: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/22/hullcoin-bitcoin-volunteers-new-way-pay

COMPASS: see draft Strategy Paper: A dialogue opening [25th] today as we meet.

CORBYNOMICS: a State of the Economy Conference was held on Sat 21st May 2016 – speakers included Shadow-Chancellor John McDonnell on the Labour Party’s plans to make the next Labour Manifesto even more ambitious than that of the Attlee Government, Ha-Joon Chang on a balanced and sustainable economy. Highlights of ten workshops included the Tax System (Richard Murphy), Alternative Models of Ownership – innovative work in developing co-operatives happening in Lancashire, and Rewriting the Rules to tackle inequality chaired by Richard Wilkinson of the Spirit Level: http://www.labour.org.uk/page/content/economy-conference. See Guardian report of Jeremy Corbyn’s closing address: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/21/jeremy-corbyn-labour-economy-re-industrialisation-digital-age and John McDonnell’s blog: http://www.labour.org.uk/blog/entry/the-new-economics.

RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE: Thanks to Frank Taylor, the May edition part 2 is now available: EUROPEAN PLEBISCITE SPECIAL NO 2: EDITORIAL: A EUROPEAN SHANGRI-LA? • THE BISMARCK MODEL • DEMOCRATIC ARMAGEDDON – RUNNYMEDE_GAZETTE_1605_(2) – see archives

ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY: Quantitative Easing and the Quantity Theory of Credit by Richard Werner While the effects of QE continue to be debated, Richard Werner1 explains the origin of the term (and some misconceptions surrounding it): http://www.res.org.uk/view/art5jul13features.html

WAKING TIMES: A reminder of the change of consciousness needed and now arising around the world ; All Eyes Are On the Control Matrix Phillip J. Watt, Contributor Waking Times and paradigmatic shifts in our collective consciousness.

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

As part of this New Economics series, on Saturday 21st May John McDonnell is conveneda national ‘State of the Economy’ conference at Imperial College in London. Reports welcome

The Nature of Prosperity – Inaugural debate Monday, 23 May 2016 – Central Hall Westminster, London – 2.30 – 6.30 pm. Anyone able to report?

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.

Biomimicry in 16 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZp6smeSQA Michael Pawlyn: ‘to Using nature’s genius in architecture’

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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] – is a wide ranging association of people examining enduring wisdom and contemporary evidence about money and its effect on society – utilising resources of wisdom from current evidence, scriptures, histories and evaluated publications to identify the deeper structural faults behind land [rent], money, lack of basic elements of very person’s inheritance of livelihood, and the over-powering by close boundaried, rigid and permanent hierarchies. It is not a membership organisation but an open association of explorers learning by collaboration and by shared evolving insights and possible actions. We long for more online reports, comments, questions etc. We dare to probe possible contemporary interpretations of the concept of the ‘Kin[g]dom of God; contributing to and learning from the specific formation of a political process, such as is being steadily evolved in ICUK described below http://www.ccmj.org

2. The London Global Open Table [LGOT] – provides an open forum for serving an even wider network of people of good faith with a weekly focus for mutual support and encouragement. 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. We seek to avoid dominance by the interests of those attending and to develop the sense of the scale and influence of our network when collaboration grows: http://www.globaltable.org.uk.

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 the Harmony of Nature. We seek to travel a new path via the 2020 [or earlier] General Election. The ICUK’s Manifesto and Charter provide an incremental, imperfect process of evolving that People’s Political-Economy of Trusteeship in the Harmony of Nature in a pattern of Confederation and genuine subsidiarity for the UK: http://www.constitutionalists.uk

A single paragraph for the same interpretive task:

CCMJ- LGOT – ICUK are differing but interweaving foci for mutual support and encouragement. All three have a physical focal meeting point for their wide networks in central London every Wednesday. In their range of ways each un-earths issues of inclusive justice and tries to re-earth elements that contribute to radical change – particularly systemic structural approaches founded in a new Peoples’ Political-Economy of Trusteeship in the Harmony of Nature – or its biblical equivalent perhaps of the ‘Kin[g]dom of God’ – thereby affirming reflection, open-mindedness and activism among a far flung range of associates.

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.

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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:

2. The London Global Open Table [LGOT] – provides an open forum for serving an even wider network of people of good faith with a weekly focus for mutual support and encouragement. 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

3. Trustees All: The Independent Constitutionalists UK – advocate and advance a People’s Political-Economy of Trusteeship in the Harmony of Nature. The ICUK’s Manifesto and Charter provide an incremental, imperfect process of evolving a pattern of Confederation and genuine subsidiarity for the UK: http://www.constitutionalists.uk