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 meeting 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. 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! Contact the Open Research Group – org@globaltable.org.uk.
Notes of Open Research Group meeting on 30th August 2017: OpenResearchGroup-170830
Notes of Open Research Group meeting on 6th September 2017: OpenResearchGroup-170906
Forthcoming Events: http://www.globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events
FROM ASSOCIATES AT THEIR POINTS OF WITNESS:
Giles Fraser Guardian 31-8-17: Why the rise of the robots could allow humans to flourish again
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.
Mother Pelican Sept 2017: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15e3b5f91af419de rich resource in notes on an Ethical Universe and Feature article: Relating to All That Is: Ecology, by Therese F. Hicks
LAND SEMINAR to be held on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 9-11am, at Houses of Parliament, Portcullis House, 1 Parliament St, Westminster, London, SW1A 2JR. Taxpayers Against Poverty is co-hosting this event with the APPG on Health in All Policies and the APPG on Poverty. It will be Chaired by Debbie Abrahams MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Chair of APPG on Health in all Policies. The speakers will include Fred Harrison of the Land Research Trust. The people thrive on Land Value Tax in Australia, Denmark, Harrisburg Pensylvania and other US cities and Hong Kong. The seminar will focus on how it works.
Richard Murphy: From national debt to national equity: how we need to view government made money Posted: 31 Aug 2017 12:12 AM PDT
Gian Andreone recommends : Preparing For A World Without Cash Please would you add this very important article to your next update. https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/item/18619-establishment-pushing-cashless-society-to-control-humanity. Unless the legal tender laws are abolished, then sovereign digital currencies is a false reform. [see Revelation 13:16-18]. Comment.
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 was once called usury, and that through most of history almost 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.”
Free Critical Thinking: Stuart Robson led a discussion at CT on building bridges to academia and a couple of sources were mentioned:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/05/02/a-liberal-decalogue-bertrand-russell/
http://www.freecriticalthinking.org/daily-pickings/1840-managing-the-public-mind http://www.freecriticalthinking.org/daily-pickings/2054-plagiarise https://revisesociology.com/2016/01/25/learning-to-labour-paul-willis-summary-evaluation-research-methods/ Stuart will come back for another session in mid-September. Eddie’s produced the postcards on three causes – see attached and we’ve stickers for the event on 9th September: http://www.freecriticalthinking.org/events/2327-cake-and-conversation
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.
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:
Janos Abel (member of Open Research Group) contributes a review of Denounce the Deception -The Layman’s Guide – by David Robinson: SpeakingtruthToPower-6pp
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COLLABORATION:
Over time our weekly forum has considered important aphorisms that help the development of dialogue and takes us into new understandings of the co-operative task. We revisit those guiding thoughts regularly and always value responses about their use, or about any other enduring wisdom relating to collaboration as they flow in around us. From Resurgence this month – “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
