MATTERS IN THE AIR: 31st August – now without a focus in a weekly location – a new and distinct series of meetings will recommence in September 2016 under the title of Open Research Group‘. We continue to foster the public sense of the search for inclusive justice.
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. We collaborate that action may flow in both, specified targetted initiatives AND in acknowledgement of our shared commitment to a common purpose.
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REPORTS: are always invited from our associates in the quest for inclusive justice to stir our awareness.
Our associate Paul Nicolson speaks out boldly. Churches should clear their decks to speak without compromise about how unfair modern British state has become | Taxpayers Against Poverty No citizen without an affordable home and an adequate income in work or unemployment.
Clive Menzies: ‘ Global warming was conceived as a threat to the planet by the same crew who bring us wars, inequality and destruction. Climate is not the problem, the political economy is.’ Views welcomed.
Sabine McNeill boldly challenges imposed legalities that leave great suffering ignored and intensified….
Reports are welcome on ICUK :Free Parliament UK : More United UK :COMPASS : DiEM25 : Momentum : CUSP : UK Column …et al
Co-operative Socialism – new website in development: http://www.co-operativesocialism.org
Dave Wetzel – His letter on Housing in the Guardian: “The letter from Labour MPs and others on the need to address homelessness misses one crucial policy: we cannot build new homes without access to land. Before the government and others begin to build more homes they will need to acquire land, and in the face of this increase in demand, landowners will naturally increase the price of land, meaning the cost of these new homes will escalate. The answer is to remember that land is not a manufactured good but a free gift of nature. Housing policy needs to acknowledge that land speculation (the hoarding of land out of use) is the underlying cause of the high cost of homes. An annual land value tax would kill land speculation in its tracks and provide government with the funds to build more homes.”
RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE. Sadly the last editions of the RG are archived. Thanks to Frank Taylor for all his diligence in study of issues of inclusive Justice. Archives
Trevor Griffiths has contributed a first draft of Operation Rescue Britain
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NEW PUBLICATIONS:
Not so new – but a vital reminder: Michael Hudson’s ‘The Lost Tradition of Biblical Debt Cancellations’. The opening paragraph to a 6 page summary that I could send you on request. — “The once-glowing core body of law within the Judeo-Christian Bible has become all but ignored — indeed, rejected — by the colder temper of our times. This core provided for periodic restoration of economic order by rituals of social renewal based on freedom from debt-servitude and from the loss of one’s access to self-support on the land. So central to Israelite moral values was this tradition that it framed the composition of both the Old and New Testaments.” – http://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/HudsonLostTradition.pdf
Roy Madron : Has anyone read his new ebook “Super-Competent Democracies: Dissolving Neoliberalism”? – http://www.rescuingdemocracy.com – Comments would be valued.
The importance of a new narrative for human society on earth FROM the Guardian Sat. August 27th “Cronuts, vaping, Kardashians – playful essays explore deeper meanings in modern culture” –
Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis by Peter Conrad. Reviewed by Steven Poole. I could send the article on request. Commnents aroused by this strong material would be welcomed: http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/mythomania-tales-of-our-times-from-apple-to-isis-hardcover
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EVENTS : see: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events
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WEEK BY WEEK REFLECTION CONTINUES IN OPEN ‘COUNCIL’ on the value of 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 in 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 boundaries with 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 Global Open Table [GOT] – now being associated with the new intiative entitled “Open Research Group” provides an open online 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 exchanged information and evolving action might take us week by week. We seek to develop an encouraging sense of the scale and influence of our network when collaboration grows: 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 the Harmony of Nature. We seek to travel a new path via the next General Election. The ICUK’s Manifesto and Charter provide an incremental, evolving process of defining and implementing a People’s Political-Economy of Trusteeship in the Harmony of Nature exploring a pattern of a Confederation of the British Isles with genuine subsidiarity for the UK: http://ww.constitutionalists.uk
