12-2 at SES: rather a lot of ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’. As well as items on that general list on the site above, we will ensure we attend this Wednesday to these items at least:
1. LESS THAN A MONTH AHEAD. Press for registrations for Quilligan Seminars. Take a few minutes to hear the invitation on the attached slide: Latest design of 12 x12 -: <http://on.fb.me/IynQwI> and http://tinyurl.com/c5uszgd. Please indicate what seminars you will attend at a £5 registration fee for each. That is how we are funding the whole venture. Note May 10.14 and 15 are by inviation only. Fees and donations can be made online – see the DONATE BUTTON on http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/content/what-role-commons-economy.
SEE 6-MINUTE INTRODUCTORY VIDEO http://www.indiegogo.com/CommonsCampaign
2. James Robertson’s new book ‘ Future Money – Breakdown or Breakthrough’ 2012 Green Books isbn 978-1-900322-98-0 See also Newsletter No. 35 – April 2012 http://www.jamesrobertson.com/newsletter.htm.
3. Comments welcomed on the basic statement below – please.
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FROM EXPLOITATION TO INCLUSIVE JUSTICE
To indicate how from the principle of ending exploitation certain basic aspects of restructuring in the financial system are required: especially its financial form of ‘usury’ on money bearing compound interest issued by commercial banks, and the passing of location value to rentiers rather than to the community that created it,
As all people of good faith reassess their contribution to public truth these suggestions should be seriously studied by intra-disciplinary bodies:
PRINCIPLE: Good faith in any tradition must be universal – that is, serving justly people and the planet.
PRAXIS: To develop that principle, some major systemic changes are needed, urgently: • Renew the priority of investing in human capital before all else. • Return to publicly created money – end issuance of new money bearing interest by commercial banks. • Educate people to understand that Social, Solar and Material Commons are more fundamental than traded commodities. • Return location value created by the community to the community – ending much accumulation of unearned income. • Introduce a new form of material wealth’s inclusive distribution – so that consumers and producers are the same people. • Respond to the mantra that ‘the first call on a nation’s wealth should be a basic income for all citizens.’ • Rescind laws creating ‘corporate personhood’ and the primacy of returns to directors and shareholders.
Behind these brief indicators serious studies and proposals are available for intra-disciplinary appraisal. We seek a practical workable post-capitalist ecological economy, an economy by the people, for the people that is geared to production for need, not for profit, other than the dichotomy of all state versus all private. This is to make a principled distinction between what is naturally private property and what is the common wealth of all. Two complementary aspects of this are emphasised.
1. Recognising that the money system is a social institution whose benefits should naturally be enjoyed by all.
2. A recognition of the distinct economic role of land.
For any individual access to land or natural resources that society bestows there is a corresponding duty to make a return commensurate with the privilege. These two policies combine a community-based issuance of money and government revenue based on land and resource rents.
NOTE: ‘THE PROCLAMATION OF JESUS CHRIST AS THE CRUCIFIED AND RISEN LORD AND THE CONFESSION THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD HAVE BOTH A INTIMATE AND COSMIC IMPLICATION. WE CANNOT CONFESS JESUS CHRIST IS LORD WITHOUT SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE ORDERING OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS AND THE HARMONY IN WHICH HUMANKIND LIVES AS A PART OF THE WHOLE CREATION. Anglican Mission Agencies. Brisbane 1986
The Earth Proclamation: http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/Proclamation.htm
Yours along the pilgrims’ way, Peter
“Monetary Reform + Location Value Tax + Guaranteed Basic Income
+ Recovery of The Commons, would eliminate,
within a few years at most, world wide poverty and the recurring economic crises.”
