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 – which participants could choose to develop
1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS
a] Reports please on a] ‘ACT – now’ [Feb 2 Bristol]- b] NWA or c] Runnymede Project, d] Positive Money [26th] e] MF’s mapping f] Harrison lecture [26th], – all working on effective alliances !!!
b] Grassroots Fight Against ‘Corporate Personhood’ Swells:
http://ww
c] Future of CCMJ and the Table
d] Jubilee Centre’s Roadmap of Biblical economy – tablede] The skivers and shirkers are the economic rent extractors
The skivers and shirkers are the economic rent extractors. From the UK’s Guardian newspaper: “This is where the debate about workers and shirkers, strivers …
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f] Gathering momentum in the Eco-cide campaign:-European Citizen’s Initiative at European Parliament – Eradicating Ecocide louise@eradicatingecoc
g] Sign the Jubilee call http://www.
Faith Leaders Call for A New Jubilee Campaign We have started launching our ‘faith leader’s letter’ which calls for a new jubilee:
– Cancelling the unjust debts of the most indebted nations
– Promoting just and progressive taxation rather than excessive borrowing
– Stopping harmful lending which forces countries into debt
So far over 350 UK faith leader’s have signed, including 38 Church of England Bishops. There are articles about the letter in the Church Times and Catholic Herald today:
You can see the full list of signatories at: http://www.jubile
The Church Times has also published an article by my on the Mozal aluminium smelter paying very little in tax: http:/
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Tim Jones Senior Policy and Campaigns Officer Jubilee Debt Campaign The Grayston Centre, 28 Charles Square London N1 6HT United Kingdom.
h] NEW MEETUP HOUSE MEETING – Land Reform, Poverty & The Distribution of Wealth http://www.meetup.com/__ms104
GlobalNet21 Tuesday, February 12, 2013 7:00 PM Private Address To Be Sent out Later. Central London 16 spots left!
2. EVIDENCE OF MOUNTING DANGERS and OPPORTUNITIES
a] The Chicago Plan vs. Positive Money’s proposals: http://www.facebook.
b] Thanks to you, the Robin Hood Tax campaign has had a lot of successes. But this one tops the lot. This week, the European Union agreed that 11 European countries – including the biggest economies Germany and France – can set up a financial transaction tax to make the banks pay for the financial crisis they created. http://robinhoodt
c] With New Constitution, Post-Collapse Iceland Inches Toward Direct Democracy <
http://org2.democracyinaction
Sam Knight, Truthout: When the global financial system crumbled over four years ago, Iceland played host to one of the most dramatic economic collapses in modern history. Now, its is making headlines for more positive reasons. Read the Article: http://org2.democracyinaction
3. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION
a] Diarmuid O’Murchu’s work on ‘Reclaiming spirituality’ – an interview will be tabled..
b] Perezian Framework for the P2P Techno-Economic Paradigm – P2P Foundation http:
c] The Trillion Dollar Coin: A Debt Solution for the People ELLEN BROWN | JAN 17, 2013 http://online.yesmagazine.org
Far from being a gimmick, having the U.S. Treasury mint high-denomination coins is a solution that cuts to the root of America’s financial problems. And Benjamin Franklin would have liked it, too. MORE » <http://online.yesmagazine.org
4. YOUR INPUT ON THE ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ YOU WISH TO SHARE
Name other interests you know – Always glad, indeed eager, to have responses from the Table’s extensive network – Yours, Peter
THE SPIRITUALITY APPEALING TO SEEKERS TODAY EMBODIES GLOBAL, INCLUSIVE, CO-OPERATIVE, EGALITARIAN, AND FEMININE VALUES.
THE COMMONS – a vehicle for meeting everyone’s basic needs in a roughly equitable way – is being annexed and disassembled to serve a global a market machine which treats nature as a brute commodity. Commoners become isolated individuals. Communities of commoners are splintered and reconstituted as armies of consumers and employees. The “unowned” resources of the commons are converted into the raw fodder for market production and sale – and after every last drop of it has been monetized, the inevitable wastes of the market are dumped back into the commons. Government is dispatched to “mop up” the “externalities,” a task that is only irregularly fulfilled because it is so ancillary to neoliberal priorities. from ‘The Wealth of the Commons’
