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. Late call – I hope some of our list of 184 can attend and call the event to the attention of your networks. See:
http://www.meetup.com/School-of-Commoning-Events/events/55021042/
2. Low Pay and High Cost Lending: The role of mission-driven investors in achieving a better society. This will be held in the Wren Suite at St Paul’s Cathedral on the evening of Monday 16th April, 2012. More information on what promises to be a practically focused, high-level seminar can be found on the attached flyer or through the St Paul’s Institute website: http://www.stpaulsinstitute.org.uk. If you would like to register for this free event, you can do so by replying to this email or phoning 020 7489 1011.
3. Prof. Michael Hudson – Global Research, March 4, 2012: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29605
4. Occupy and Commons movement learning from each other
” What makes the commons come alive are human relationships — the dynamic interactions of people working together to address shared needs.” Leo Burke
The time for the Future of Occupy is happening right now through working together with all social change movements. Come and join us to explore where your role could be in this
The event is on Friday 16th March at 6:30pm at Pimlico Academy
Details: http://www.meetup.com/School-of-Commoning-Events/events/55021042/
Please RSVP if you are coming and let your friends know.
5. Levellers Day 19 May Burford Oxford – Offer a Stall? http://www.levellers.org.uk/
6. World Economic Association https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/135d30e186cd6d2e
7. The 12 Quilligan Seminars May 7-18 – latest design see http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/content/what-role-commons-economy – encouraging participation. It would help to have people indicate what seminars they would consider attending at a £5 registration fee for each. That is how we are funding the whole venture. Seminar Conveners will have first responsibility for initial recruiting, but are also being asked to say how many places for open advertising they are allowing. At this stage I’m just testing the waters; although if you register now I would place you at the top of each chosen seminar’s waiting list.
SEE 6 MINUTE INTRODUCTORY VIDEO http://www.indiegogo.com/CommonsCampaign
8. Paul Moore on Money Creation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_tP87QDnU&list=UU82By0y-2ZdjigNu5bWY4LQ&index=1&feature=plpp_video. See also: http://www.moorecarter.co.uk.
9. March 17th Conference http://reinvestigate911.org/content/crimes-one-percent-2nd-scad-conference
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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 naturally 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
Yours along the pilgrims’ way, Peter
The Earth Proclamation
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Rare opportunitiy to meet gathered creative radicals…. at a cost.
Anyone from our Table list financially able to leap the pond and make
this conference, when some of the freshest minds will be available
with whom to share hopes and practical ideas for inclusive justice???
What a resource for all of us to have a direct report on its progress
and process.
Peter
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: New Economics <neweconomics@neweconomicsinstitute.org>
Date: 13 March 2012 21:34
Subject: Discounted Registration through April 1st
To: peterchallen@gmail.com
Dear Peter Challen
The June 8-10, 2012, Strategies for a New Economy conference
(http://www.neweconomicsinstitute.org/conference) will feature speakers from
a range of organizations:
BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) — Michelle Long, Judy
Wicks, Merrian Goggio Borgeson
BerkShares — Susan Witt
Capital Institute — John Fullerton
Center for New American Dream — Juliet Schor
Cutting Edge Capital — Jenny Kassan
Democracy Collaborative — Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb, Ted Howard
Demos — Lew Daly
Equal Dollars — Deneene Brockington
Ethical Markets — Hazel Henderson
Global Development And Environment Institute — Neva Goodwin
Global Reporting — Mike Wallace
Green Village Initiative — Dan Levinson
Greenhorns — Severine von Tscharmer
Hawthorne Valley Farm — Martin Ping
Institute for Policy Studies — John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins
Intervale Project — Will Raap
Meta-Currency Project — Eric Harris Braun
Presencing Institute at MIT — Otto Scharmer
New Economics Founation — Stewart Wallis, David Boyle, Andrew Simms
New Economics Institute — Robert Massie
New Economy Network — Sarah Stranahan
Oberlin Project — David Orr
On the Commons — Peter Barnes, Alexa Bradley
New Economy Working Group — David Korten
Post Carbon Institute — Richard Heinberg
Practical Action — Paul Smith Lomas
ProHumana — Soledad Teixido
Purpose — Alnoor Ladha
Resources for Human Development — Robert Fishman
RSFSocial Finance — Don Shaffer
Stakeholder Forum — Felix Dodds, Kirsty Scneeberger
Tellus Institute — Allen White, Marjorie Kelly
Time Banks USA — Edgar Cahn, Christine Gray, Lisa Conland
Tomales Bay Institute — Peter Barnes
Transition Towns, — Trathen Heckman
United Nations Foundation — Tim Wirth
University of California, Berkeley — Richard Norgaard
University of Massacchusetts — James Boyce
Vermont Department of Agriculture — Chuck Ross
Vermont Law School — Gus Speth
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund — Ellen Kahler
And that’s just the start of the list. More speakers are being confirmed.
The beautiful campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is the
site of the conference. Registration fees include single room accomodation
in campus dorms and all meals. Registration begins at 11AM on Friday, June
8th. The opening plenary session is at 3PM. The conference continues
through lunch on Sunday, June 10th.
Registration fees are $650 inclusive, but a discounted rate of $550 is
available until April first. Remember to register early.
http://neweconomicsinstitute.org/content/2012-conference-registration2
Those unable to attend have already begun organizing to make use of
resources developed as background material for conference workshops. Darcy
Hitchcock of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals
emailed to say “I’m not sure I can make your event but I am thinking about
creating discussion groups for our members around the conference papers.
Will those be publicly available?”
The answer is “yes” at:
http://neweconomicsinstitute.org/conference/resource/index
New Economics Institute staff will be adding to these theme pages up through
and after the conference.
As interest in building an economic system that is accountable to people and
environment continues to grow — several related conferences are in
planning. We recommend the following:
Transition to a New Economy, Student organized conference
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 30-April 1
http://www.economyfutures.org/index.php
International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas
Montreal, Quebec, May 13-19
http://montreal.degrowth.org/
BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) conference
http://www.livingeconomies.org/conference-2012
Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 15-18
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Rio de Janerio, Brazil, June 20-22
http://www.unscd2012.org/
Aspen Institute Socrates Program, summer seminars
Aspen, Colorado, July 5-8
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/seminars/socrates-society-seminars
Please join us in June at Bard College for what promises to be a remarkable
gathering.
Staff of the New Economics Institute
Board of Directors: Gar Alperovitz, Jessica Brackman, Eric Harris-Braun,
John Fullerton, Neva Goodwin, Hildegarde Hannum, Dan Levinson, Richard
Norgaard, David Orr, Will Raap, Gus Speth, Peter Victor, Stewart Wallis, Tim
Wirth, and Susan Witt.
Advisory Board: Peter Barnes, Merrian Goggio Borgeson, Bill McKibben, Otto
Scharmer, Doug Tompkins, and Robert Wade.
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PS Message 16th March 2012:
Dear Friends,
The centre page double spread of the St Paul’s Occupy Newsletter flaunts a banner headline that reads: ROOT OUT USURY – NOTHING CAN EVICT A GOOD IDEA! You will recall that Root out Usury was the banner over our Moving Planet Day event ‘IDENTIFYING THE MONEY POWER BEHIND CLIMATE CHANGE’, at St James Piccadilly last September.
So word spreads – and hopefully action by each of us also spreads. ‘Root out Usury’ – being usury in the basic meaning of exploitation – is a slogan to excite more examination today than for centuries before..
Last September we drew attention to the economic drivers, particularly the present system of money creation by commercial banks and the way it drives unsustainable growth.
“The seeds of destruction lie in the commodifying of land, labour, credit and knowledge, even religion and the earth, which are patently not in themselves commodities. Unrestrained this leads to the commodifiction of more and more aspects of human life and the exploitation of the planet.
We are moving on now to another thrust
The LONDON ‘QUILLIGAN SEMINARS’, May 7th- 18th
