Wednesdays 12noon-2pm at the School of Economic Science, 11-13 Mandeville Place, W1U 3AJ. From Bond Street tube, turn left/west into Oxford Street, when you see GAP, go right/north along James Street straight into Mandeville Place – No. 11 is the building with pillars last on the left.
‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ some of which participants could choose to develop…..
Welcome to any first timers or returners.
1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS
a] Reports on ‘ACT – now’ !!!
b] Spring Conferences Jan 26th, Apl 6 – May 4th – June 1st put in your diaries and watch for details. Using the two new books – ‘Decoding Mammon’ and ‘Traumatised Society’. Early registration with me helps the planning.
c] Charles Eisenstein in conversation with Satish Kumar – Friday 11th January at Gaia Fdn. in Hampstead, visit GaiaFdn website: http://www.gaiafoundation.org/event/charles-eisenstein-in-conversation-with-satish-kumar
d] ECCR critque – Tomlinson and Moat
e] POSITIVE MONEY – Volunteers Wanted – Conference We are looking for volunteers to help us at the3rd annual Positive Money Conference “Modernising Money”: , that will take place in London on Sat 26th January. We need photographers, facilitators, cameramen, and video-editors. Please contact us: fran@positivemoney.org
f] Future of CCMJ and the Table
g] Robin Hood Tax now…….visit our blog: http://robinhoodtax.org.uk
h] Promote a petition on the government’s e-petition website, concerning the impact of welfare reform on sick and disabled people and their carers. You can see it at www.wowpetition.com Bernadette Meadon wrote about why it matters so much here http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/17656
2. EVIDENCE OF MOUNTING DANGERS and OPPORTUNITIES
a] Rodney Shakespeare on Press TV http://presstv.com/detail/2012/12/05/276239/tricks-of-global-financial-elite/
b] The Citizen’s Income Newsletter, Issue 1 for 2013 is now available at. www.citizensincome.org.
c] The University of Food – Mario’s Molinari’s work www.newliteracy.co.uk
d] Dennis’ last day in Congress was Jan 2. This is the new year’s speech he gave on the floor of the house yesterday. Worth sharing I think. You may find a better online source to send from, but this is a video link that’s pretty clean. http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/dennis-kucinich-congress-must-regain-power-to-coin-money-interest-free/
KUCINICH SAYS EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF INTEREST ON DEBT WILL BRING US RIGHT BACK TO EDGE OF ANOTHER CLIFF. Debt Will Keep Ballooning with Compounded Interest; A Call for a New Monetary Policy, HR 2990, NEED Act.
3. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION
a] Fiscal Cliff: Let’s Call Their Bluff!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-brown/fiscal-cliff-desperate-ti_b_2319236.html
b] PREM SIKKA : The article is headed “The predatory practices of major accountancy firms” and is available at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/08/predatory-practices-accountancy-firms
c] Everything We Tell Ourselves About America and the World Is Wrong
Why we need a new story that gives meaning to the world – Charles Eisenstein: http://www.alternet.org/visions/everything-we-tell-ourselves-about-america-and-world-wrong
4. YOUR INPUT ON THE ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ YOU WISH TO SHARE
Name other interests you know
a] An exceptional sermon on including collaborators = Winkett http://www.st-james-piccadilly.org/sermons/WINKETT%20L%20Advent%203%2016.12.12%20collaborators.pdf
b] New Wilberforce Alliance – http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/162939 – Paul Moore
c] Course in Mastery in Sustainability Starts JAN 22 http://www.asp-online.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=220:mastery-in-sustainability
d] Major Course at Schumacher College May 2013 http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/holistic-science-and-leadership-transforming-organisational-practice-in-an-age-of-uncertainty
e] Wouter Tebbens reviews Wolfgang Hoeschele’s The Economics of Abundance -: A Political Economy of Freedom, Equity, and Sustainability
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/
e] The Free World Charter http://www.freeworldcharter.org Let’s make everything free (info available in 23 languages)
Yours along the pilgrims’ costly way, Peter
“Deny the wisdom of ending usury and the eco-system dies” Buchan
For a fairer, replenishable world economy we need to address the three fundamental drivers of inequality: private land ownership, interest based money and lack of a basic income.
