The Global Table meets on Wednesdays from 12 noon to 2pm at the School of Economic Science, 11-13 Mandeville Place, W1U 3AJ – from Bond Street tube cross over, go west, turn right into James Street.
We are a network in search of ways to inclusive justice – see Global Table.
Notices and Matters to air…. Reminding each other of opportunities before us: URGENT consideration: MR and LVT :”The key is to “divert the economic rent” currently flowing into bankers (which don’t provide public services) into governments (which do). Monetary reform without land reform just entrenches present landed interests. Land reform without money reform is slow, difficult or painful as the basis for money issue is removed. It’s easier to do both than to do either alone.”
Bahrain – reporting on the struggle for justice
1. Spare half an hour to read the article referred to and become more informed on the world economic scene and its solution than readers of any mainstream media source on the planet! First go to: http://www.the-free-lunch.blogspot.com/ then click on ‘a very readable and hard hitting article’. Charles Bazlinton
2. Inequality – view Richard Wilkinson describing his findings in ‘The Spirit Level’.. seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_sxLpq-tc. Reports of actvity this past week,
Global Financial Integrity Launches “G20 Transparency” Campaign Calling on World Leaders to Fight Poverty, Protect Human Rights, Global, grassroots petition drive seeks 100,000 signatures in six months www.G20transparency.com.
3. How does Ombama’s Bank strategy affect our communication on Monetary Justice?
4. The Great Transition by NEF is a must read as we look for where momentum lies [www.neweconomics.org/publications/the-great-transition] and plan a collaborative strategy. The Coalition for Economic Justice, in whose work the Global Table is a partner, is seeking dialogue with NEF.
5. A professional poll and the Dyson team campaign? – a Poll on publicly created money has been proposed. It would cost £300-500. I have received pledges for £265 from 10 people to date. Would any others of the 135 on this list care to pledge in support of this way of gauging public understanding and support? RSVP to peterchallen@gmail.com. The decision on whether proceed will be taken on Jan 20th
6. The petition http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Money-creation/ [112] Please ensure you’ve signed it.
7.Please take a look at the new page on Monetary Reform on nef’s website – www.neweconomics.org/projects/monetary-reform.
It will be interesting to see how it goes. 8. Report on Dec 12 Seminar on the language of systemic redesign CEJ and Equality Trust – report – consider models of system re-design.
9. ‘Long Finance’ seminar -strong panels [ http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=4&EventId=1019]
10. Times Jan 14 ‘Britain should not be a Casino’ – see http://times.cluster.newsint.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6982965.ece
11. Chris Cook – Youtube on Oil Markets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6oaLgcJfkw
CURRENT MATTERS OF RELEVANCE:
12. This strenuous review of Greco is important. It needs to be read with close attention and right through to the final paragraph where he explains the damage to LETs of Greco’s approach. http://economics.arawakcity.org/node/344. If you don’t agree that this is a fundamental critique to be widely read, please explain why after comparing it with R Cook’s review http://www.richardccook.com/2009/10/12/thomas-grecos-the-end-of-money-and-the-future-of-civilization-a-review-by-richard-c-cook/
13.GFI Launches “G20 Transparency” Campaign Calling on World Leaders to Fight Poverty, Protect Human Rights Global Financial Integrity, January 21, 2010 WASHINGTON, DC – Global Financial Integrity (GFI) launched its “G20 Transparency” campaign today, an international grassroots sign-on drive to collect 100,000 signatures on a petition calling for greater transparency in the global financial system. The petition will be delivered to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper prior to the G20 meeting in Toronto at the end of June. The campaign kicked off with the debut of www.G20transparency.com, a Web site devoted to the campaign where supporters may read and sign the petition, which will be available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. The Web site will also allow supporters to share the petition with others via peer-to-peer and social networking tools.
Note now to transform UK politics Ekklesia is involved in POWER2010, an exciting new initiative set up by the Joseph Rowntree Trusts to push democratic reform up the political agenda in the run up to the general election. Last weekend, POWER2010 held a meeting with people from across the UK to sift through the 4,500 proposals they have received and come up with a long list of proposals to put to a public online vote. The final list of 29 proposals has now been published. You can vote for as many of them as you would like. The top 5 will be put to candidates at the general election.Find out more. www.power2010.org.uk. Note also that church bodies have worked together to create an electronic booklet and website at www.churcheselection.org.uk, hosted by the official ecumenical body Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI), which includes information on how to arrange a hustings meeting at local churches as well as a downloadable guide offering information on the important questions of this election campaign.
