MATTERS IN THE AIR at the 11h Feb
CONTEXT FOR ALL OUR DELIBERATIONS: I have recently listened, and watched bemused by his erudition, to 14 mins of the 51 mins of this video by Jeremy Rifkin, The Empathetic Civilisation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-7BjeHepbA&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
or the less detailed and shorter RSA animated version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g
DATES AHEAD;
1. March 11th 2015: 2.30-4.30 – GODRIC BADER ANNUAL LECTURE at Wollaston, Nr. Northampton – Ray Sheath on Trusteeship Today. Train 1 hour from St Pancras.
2. June 6th 2015: – 10.00 – 16.00 – CCMJ ANNUAL APPRAISAL OF THE OUTREACH OF THE NETWORK at ST ANDREW’S CHURCH, Short Street, off The Cut, Waterloo, SE1 8LJ, lying between Waterloo mainline and Southwark/Jubilee Line, stations. Knowledge of your intention to be at either or both of these events would be helpful in our planning. We will clarify on the day the relationship of a number of collaborating networks such as – CCMJ.org/wp, Forum for Stable Currencies, London Global Open Table, 2015CUK, Coalition for Economic Justice, EquilibriumState.org, Ourbrokensystem.com, Positive Money, Critical Thinking, Occupy, St Paul’s Institute, Kingdom at Work Project, SIMPOL-, ECCR, NJPN, Civil Society Forum, Runnymede Project, Living Systems Gp, LETSlinkUK, et al…. Early notice of intention to attend either or both of these aids logistics.
“The move from seeing ourselves as separate beings placed on earth (“the world is made for us”) to seeing ourselves as self-reflective expressions of Earth (“we were made for the world”) is an immense transformation in human identity. ” Discuss in light of Alan Rayner’s work in this field.
A major effort is being made to encourage Local Global Tables, by whatever name, around the country to prosper the cause of inclusive justice in a Cafe Society. A report will be given.
Please add your comments on the issues and actions we appraise each week. Discussion is determined by those present. We are concentrating at this time on systemic change and the enabling contribution we are making in a bold bid to ‘a noble mission to make the earth ‘ a common treasury for us all’. NOTE various contributions from associates below.
The 2015 Constitutionalists Charter is an incremental, imperfect process of evolving a People’s Political Economy of Trusteeship for the Earth. It must dominate our thought and action in the next few months. Please take time to follow this practical initiative, participating in what ever ways you can. Our achievement won’t be dramatic by, May but we are gathering a large number of people and learning many lessons as we proceed. You will receive by a separate email the rich range of material we are putting together around the 2015 Constitutionalists Charter.
Available now are 43 accumulated reports and papers aiding us in the communication of this initiative and all it implies for a new involvement by people in a far healthier application of a political economy of global housekeeping. Our London Global Table is a vital enabling partner in this ‘principled pragmatic’ initiative focused first on the Election in May 2015 – now but five months away. The Manifesto is available in its latest draft.
Thoughts encouraging collaboration……. “When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.”—R. B. Fuller “You are not as drop in the ocean, but you are the entire ocean in a drop”.
NOTES FROM OUR ASSOCIATES
Brian Leslie : TTIP was just the beginning – now TISA, a new secret deal, threatens to further privatise our health system and drinking water! Click here to help me stop it! https://l.facebook.com/l/pAQEIKGmhAQFlbTKVvwPPqR9p83ozwIdnLYaTZ6r6jpSzrg/https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.avaaz.org%2Fen%2Fstop_tisa_en_eu_sas%2F%3FsJfMaab
– Lost in the the 21st Century – Monbiot on Consumerism run out of control http://www.monbiot.com/2015/02/03/lost-in-the-21st-century
– Towards a Commons-Based Political Economy: Rethinking State, Market and Civil Society https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/short-courses/towards-a-commons-based-political-economy
– Five Reasons why your vote matters from the TUC http://act.goingtowork.org.uk/page/content/vote
– Change:HOW? 2015 was on Feb 8 at Islington and the buzz built up . We made a dozen valuable contacts! – please report/////
– The Politics of Stupidity: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/politics-of-economic-stupidity-by-joseph-e–stiglitz-2015-01
– At an international level, in late 2014 the WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES published The Economy of Life: An Invitation to Theological Reflection and Action, a thought-provoking paper setting the challenges facing today’s world in the context of God’s justice and what it means to be baptised – see http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/21116 SOMEONE TO READ AND REPORT PLEASE!!
– On Rock or Sand?, a book edited by Archbishop of York John Sentamu and published by SPCK in January 2015 (http://www.archbishopofyork.org/articles.php/3202/archbishops-book-on-rock-or-sand), has also caused a stir (see e.g. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/15/uk-economy-tale-two-cities-archbishops, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2912573/Fury-bishops-say-cuts-mean-poor-cast-aside-Cameron-angry-MPs-attack-church-s-two-senior-figures.html). He has called for ‘a just, sustainable and compassionate society in which we can all participate and flourish’, and the slaying of the giant of ‘income inequality – where some few have far too much and the many have too little’. Contributors include Andrew Sentance, a former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, Julia Unwin, chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Justin Welby.
– Eighty People Control Half of the World’s Wealth and All of the Elected Officials Crystal Shepeard, Care2: Global poverty has continued to rise and it’s only going to get worse. Oxfam has predicted that if we do nothing, the wealthiest 1% of the world will control the same amount of wealth as the other 99% combined do.
– Co-operative Commonwealth: Decommodifying Land and Money, Part 1 Today we present the first of 3 parts from Co-operative Commonwealth: De-commodifying Land and Money a paper prepared by Pat Conaty for the 13th International Karl Polanyi Conference at Concordia University, Montreal on 6-8 November 2014. Pat is research associate of Co-operatives …
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