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

1. Robin Upton: http://www.altruists.org

2. Looking back – looking forward –

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 in human capital of investing 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

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Note added 10th January 2012

EPIPHANY – WHAT IS CCMJ MAKING MANIFEST FROM THE DEEP WISDOM AND PURSUIT OF OUR TRADITION ?

My recent appeal, to 200+ people who have associated with CCMJ at some points[s] over the last few years, for comment on the mode and process of CCMJ in the present rapidly changing responses to finance today, resulted by Jan 10th in ten responses. More responses are needed if we are to sustain and develop our contribution to the massive changes all about us….or decide that our concerns are now sufficiently and more efficiently pursued widely by other agencies.

Of course you each are doing your own significant thing – many such inititives are known to the full list, many are not – but we have potential for combined strength greater than the sum of all the smaller efforts. Present commitments under the open CCMJ label within that combined strength are these:

– HARVESTING AND SHARING helpful information on applied theology and faithful praxis relating to embedded exploitation: and sharing it appropriately within and beyond our network – eg the contemporary and applied studies by such as Hudson, Dominy, Selby, Gorringe, Bowman, Nicolson, Mouatt, Werner, Dyson, Dixon, Tomlinson, McConnachie, Abel, Hampton, Wong, Winkett, Bumstead, El Diwany, Pidcock, Harrison, Duchrow, Ahmed, Pettifer, O’Murchu, Por, Quilligan and many others…

– Maintaining the weekly focus and forum for a growing elist by the LONDON GLOBAL TABLE e.g . ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ to be viewed @ http://www.ccmj.org/members/news.php
– Contributing to OCCUPY’s Jan 15th Conference
– Contributing to the CSM training day – ‘DEVIL IN THE DETAIL’ – February 25th
– Major commitment in organising the QUILLIGAN SEMINARS May 8-18th, with the SCHOOL OF COMMONING.
– Maintaining a contribution to the annual BROMSGROVE CONFERENCE – or its successor if its pattern changes
– Affirming and re-stating the integrity of ‘money and economic rent’ by a place on the CEJ PLANNING GP.
– Stirring contextual reflection via the ‘FAITH AND FINANCE INFLUENCING FINANCE’ innovation lab in the Finance Lab network
– Public support [with internal critique] of the explosive thrust of POSITIVE MONEY

I wince at the thought of all that I may have missed in compiling this list. Forgive me.
Peter

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