The London Global Table on Nov 2nd – 12-2 at SES. We will ensure we attend this Wednesday to these five items at least:
1. ‘OCCUPY’
• Sermon delivered on 29th October 2011 by RevPaulNicholson_111029: Peers involved in the Grand Committee considering the Welfare Reform Bill.
• One-man protest photo:
One Man Protest Oct 2011: Root Out Usury!
• A Former banker’s articulate article comment on OCCUPY – its origin, process and outcome, JohnFullerton_1110, Founder and President, Capital Institute: http://capitalinstitute.org
• implications related to the NY and PURTON DECLARATIONs and the RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE this last posted as the attachment: RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE OCTOBER 2011. See also note to BBC below:
2. Report on Positive Money Conference
3. I can now send the full pdf of Peter Dominy’s PhD thesis ”Decoding Mammon: Money in need of redemption” – on request.
4. Report on Greg Fisher of Synthesis before the CEJ
5. Planning Quilligan week in London Apl 2-7 or May 8-13 2012
Footnote to BBC: These are the notes I said I’d send 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 the churches and all people of good faith reassess their contribution to public truth these suggestions should be seriously studied by intra-discipinary 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 Commons are more fundamental than commodities
– Renew the priority of investing before all else in human capital
Behind these brief indicators serious studies and proposals are available for intra-disciplinary appraisal.
Peter
“Deny the wisdom of ending usury and the eco-system dies” Buchan
