Matters in the Air: 30th Aug 2017 | The London Global Open Table

These notes, compiled by Rev Canon Peter Challen, are posted at http://globaltable.org.uk/wp, to contribute background information for associates of the Global Table. A core group continues to host meetings on Wednesdays from 12noon to 2 pm at the School of Economic Science, 11-13 Mandeville Place, W1U 3AJ. Meetings are open to all on a drop-in basis – contact the Open Research Group – org@globaltable.org.uk. This weekly forum is a persistent focal point for many who cannot often get to London but are encouraged in bold initiatives by association and collaboration. We all continue to foster the public sense of the search for inclusive justice. We are trying to sense the richness of our networking without overburdening with detail. We collaborate in order that action may flow BOTH in specified targeted initiatives AND in acknowledgement of our shared commitment to ending exploitation – usury – now exponentially rampant!

Notes of Open Research Group meeting on 23rd Aug 2017: OpenResearchGroup-170823
Notes of Open Research Group meeting on 30th Aug 2017: OpenResearchGroup-170830

Forthcoming Events: http://www.globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events

FROM ASSOCIATES AT THEIR POINTS OF WITNESS:

The Long Read in each Saturday’s Guardian is often of pertinent to our cause. Your comments on them – or on any other such valuable reflection will always be valuede.
An Associate asks: How, in your neck of the woods, is the case being made for “NO USURY – RESTORATION OF THE COMMONS – CELLULAR NOT HIERARCHICAL TASK SOLVING” as the 3 basic ‘stipulations’ of the quest for systemic inclusive justice?
The Quality of Life Partnership, Biomedical Research Building, Campus for Ageing & Vitality, NE4 5PL Websites: http://www.gcph.co.uk/power. Feel free to share this with your networks. www.qualityoflife.org.uk Reports on relevance to our dealing with ‘Power’ welcomed

Join our Autumn Series at the Co-operative College in Manchester! Saturday 30th September 2017 10am – 4pm Join co-op advisor Kate Whittle of Cooperantics for a one-day workshop to find out about Multi-Stakeholder Co-operatives and if they would could work for your organisation or business. The Workshop — A good understanding of what a multi-stakeholder co-operative is, the advantages offered by this model and some of the complexity — Awareness of some examples of multi-stakeholder co-ops, their successes and complexities — Practical experience of thinking about the design of a multi-stakeholder co-operative . Join financial activist Brett Scott, and author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance, for a one-day workshop exploring the history of money and how we can change its future.

Cosmological Wisdom and Planetary Madness by Sean Kelly via Tikkun www.tikkun.org/nextgen/cosmological-wisdom-planetary-madness [http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/cosmological-wisdom-planetary-madness ] *Editor’s Note:** *Sean Kelly presents a brief overview of the evolution of the consciousness of the universe and its current crisis as humanity continues to destroy the life-support system of Earth. It is a deep and profound article worthy of reading carefully to the end. –Rabbi Michael Lerner

Ben Zephaniah has strong things to say – https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/25/benjamin-zephaniah-revolutionary-minds

CCMJ – ..”the real reason things are so bad is because of usury. And the reason things aren’t getting any better is because no one is talking about what’s really wrong. …… What we accept today as interest once was called usury, and that through most of history most everyone was against it.” All the great faith traditions forbade usury for thousands of years. The Christian Church emphasised it until ‘Interest’ was watered down to ‘Excessive Interest’ and usury became exponentially disproportionate as a source in undermining justice throughout the human community. Reports on tackling this prime issue are always welcome.

INDEPENDENT CONSTITUTIONALISTS UK (ICUK): recognises the necessity of dealing with BOTH the need for many urgent palliatives within a dying system, AND a systemic curative re-design by participative representative democratic application of an integrated political-economy of trusteeship. It concentrates on the Meta-Narrative within which the UK could shape all its independent but mutually accountable communities. Curative change to the political-economy like “poetry happens in two stages, like sculpting; first the imagination, then the chisel.” An update of its website is now evolving: http://www.icuk.life. An informal Strategy Forum meets in central London every Wednesday between 12 and 2pm – you are invited to contact Peter Challen – peterchallen@gmail.com – for latest developments and meeting venue.

Free Critical Thinking: meetings are now on Tuesdays 7pm to 9pm in St John’s Church, 73 Waterloo Rd, Lambeth, London SE1 8TY, opposite Waterloo: http://www.freecriticalthinking.org • A view of Critical Thinking’s scope http://freecriticalthinking.org/9-general/1518-hierarchy-and-the-political-economy and in pithy summary : CT – “Hierarchy, theft of the Commons and Usury are the fundamental drivers of poverty, wars, environmental destruction and the enslavement of humanity. Once we understand that, we’re on the road to recovering humanity.”

LETSlink envisages national and regional hubs – LETSlink envisages national and regional hubs – dedicated training work is being done with individual LETS groups. The main website sets out theory and enables enquirers to connect with local groups: http://www.letslinkuk.net/uk-map.htm.

Commons Rising: http://commonsrising.uk – held a day conference on 29th August on the topic of Health Creation and Food Commoning: Updated Report: HealthCreation_&_FoodCommons_Report

Breaking the Frame: exposes and challenges the politics of technology: see details of next event on Wednesday 6th September 2017 7.15pm: http://breakingtheframe.org.uk

Low Impact: has a wide range of information on sustainability: http://www.lowimpact.org

P2P Foundation in collaboration with the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability at Cumbria University is running a four-week online course on Money & Society, starting imminently – this will be repeated in February and we hope to carry a review on this page: https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/money-and-society-mooc-starts-again-august-20th-2017/2017/08/15?

Further Reports are invited from our associates in the quest for inclusive justice to stir our awareness and effect change through both palliative and curative means.
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PUBLICATIONS & BLOGS – reviews always welcomed:

Robin Upton ‘s presentation on: Exploring the Deep State on 30th August 2017 featured http://www.wikispooks.com a shared blog founded by Peter Presland.

Natali Koslorova <natali.koslorova@gmail.com asks us to share this guide: about Online Privacy for Journalists: https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/online-privacy-journalists/

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COLLABORATION:
Over time our weekly forum has considered important aphorisms that help the development of dialogue that takes us into new understandings of the co-operative task. We revisited those guiding thoughts and now value responses about their use, or about any other enduring wisdom relating to collaboration flow in steadily. From Resurgence – “TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER – heroes for nature and inspiration”. The issue advances the necessity of “Becoming indigenous – finding our way home. What does it mean to be fully alive and human – at home on planet Earth at this historical moment of great change?”

“THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE WILL BE A COSMIC RELIGION. It will have to transcend a personal god and avoid dogma and theology. Encompassing both the natural and the spiritual, it will have to be based on a sense of intelligence arising from the spirit of all things, natural and spiritual, considered as a meaningful unity.” Albert Einstein