12-2 at SES * We will ensure we attend this Wednesday to these items at least:

1. WELCOME TO Daniel Evans, CEO of Ormita Commerce Network. Ormita Report on Barter and the City. http://tinyurl.com/6rn4w9v

2. Looking back – looking forward –

3. Occupy Jan 15th conference – Norwich – Ekklesia – Occupy together
[plus – “Our resolve continues to deepen and take on a different tenor” by George Pór .A blog based on ‘Occupy my soul’ – https://mail.google.com/mail/?tab=wm#inbox/134c4915fa5218dc

4 Anyone attending the Fabian Conference and able to reprt for us? – Jan 14 – The Economic Alternative http://www.fabians.org.uk/events/events-news/the-economic-alternative-fabian-new-year-conference-2012

5.. 12 Quilligan Seminars May 8-18 – advances in the the design

6. Reflections on Robin Upton’s visit last week – and ‘Friend to Friend’ transactions in the new era. www.altruists.org

7. Are you keeping in touch with the FINANCE INNOVATION LAB?
www.thefinancelab.ning

FROM EXPLOITATION TO INCLUSIVE JUSTICE

To indicate how from the principle of ending exploitation, and 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, certain basic aspects of restructuring in the financial system are required.

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.

To develop that principle, some major systemic changes are needed, urgently:
– Return to publicly created money – end issuance of new money bearing interest by commercial banks.
– Return location value created by the community to the community – not to rentiers.
– 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.
– Educate people to understand that Social, Solar and Material Commons are more fundamental than traded commodities.
– Renew the priority of investing in human capital before all else.
– Democratise the Corporation of the City of London.

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

Peter

“Deny the wisdom of ending usury and the eco-system dies” Buchan

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5/1/2012: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Future of Occupy Is Published
For several months, during the unfolding events of the Occupy movement, supporters, media and world observers have been wondering, ‘where is this movement heading?’. To help provide both a signpost and a compass for that question, The Future of Occupy collective, an international initiative supporting the movement’s self-reflection, is announcing the opening of its website. It is a virtual library of actionable movement documents, blogposts, and a platform for conversations that matter. It provides the media, activists, academics, and an engaged public with one-stop access to information and insights about the future of the movement, as it emerges.

The Future of Occupy Collective is an open and expanding group of individuals from different parts of the world, inspired to bring their talents to serve the global Occupy movement by curating an online platform that mirrors its best thinking and most innovative practices. It brings into focus the news and views related to the movement’s identity, future, and strategy, scattered in various print and electronic media, including bloggers and websites sympathizing with Occupy.

On January 4th, 2012, The Future of Occupy Collective announced the publication of the first issue of its newsletter, dedicated to the Future of Assemblies. As we enter the new year and the movement enters a new phase of its development, many sites are evicted or facing eviction. Continuing to hold General Assemblies, in one way or another, seems more important than ever, since they are one of the movement’s potent life-giving forces. That’s why we focus the first issue of the newsletter on them. You can find it here:
http://thefutureofoccupy.org/thematic-issues/20121-the-future-of-assemblies/

The FoO Collective recognized the movement’s need to learn fast from its experience in order to remain a vibrant, living laboratory for overcoming the democracy deficiency of present social systems. There’s a section of the website focused on Movement Sense-Making, which says “Collaborative sensing and thinking is a crucial part of the movement and essential for boosting capabilities to the scale of transformation it seeks… Our aim is not to produce a uniform perspective on the future of the movement, but to present the diversity of existing views.”

The originator of the FoO site is the School of Commoning, an international group of commons educators, partnering with the University of Notre Dame in the US, and other organizations. The FoO Collective is now an autonomous project and has members with no connection to the School of Commoning.
CONTACT in the US: Mary Beth Steisslinger, Contributing Editor
+1-412-916-8716 marybeth.steisslinger(at)gmail.com
skype: marybeth.steisslinger
CONTACT in the UK: George Pór, Founding Editor
+44-7780-181-865 team(at)thefutureofoccupy.org
skype: georgepor

Notes to the Editor:
1. George Pór can be available for an interview by phone, skype or email, if need be.
2. To subscribe to the monthly The Future Occupy newsletter, click on the “Get Our Newsletter” button on the right margin of the FoO homepage: http://thefutureofoccupy.org/
3. To follow new blog posts on the FoO site as they appear, click on the “Follow Blog Via Email” link on the right margin of the FoO homepage: http://thefutureofoccupy.org/

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George Pór, Director of the School of Commoning and Founding Editor of The Future of Occupy, says: “For society to overcome its current crisis, a deeper and broad-based dialogue is needed about what it’s lacking in terms of social and economic justice, and participatory democracy. The passion of our team is to promote that dialogue by, first, strengthening our capacity for collaborative sense-making and boosting the collective intelligence of the Occupy movement itself.”

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Future of Occupy Blogs
1. http://thefutureofoccupy.org/2011/12/06/campaign-for-the-commons-rising-at-ows/
2. http://thefutureofoccupy.org/thematic-issues/20121-the-future-of-assemblies/
3. http://thefutureofoccupy.org/2011/12/30/chomsky-to-occupy-come-back-bigger-better-and-with-much-more-of-the-99/