MATTERS IN THE AIR at the 18th Feb
DATES AHEAD:
1. CHANGE! Cafe Society launched in Camden, now running weekly on Saturdays 2-4pm at The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, London NW1 7NL – http://www.forgevenue.org – a pilot for local discussions, recommended by the 2015 Constitutionalists group.
2. March 11th 2.30-4.30 GODRIC BADER ANNUAL LECTURE at Wollaston, Nr. Northampton – Ray Sheath on Trusteeship Today. Train 1 hour from St Pancras
3. June 6th – 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 Group • LETSlinkUK Et al….
Early notice of intention to attend the March and/or June meetings 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:
CALL FOR READER’S ESSAYS What Makes You Feel Truly Alive? Twice a year Kosmos invites our readers to submit an 800-word essay. We choose 2 or 3 essays to publish in our hard copy journal and publish several others in our newsletter and on our website. This is an opportunity for you to share your work and expertise with a large international audience. We are excited about the next issue of Kosmos and hope you will participate. →Clive Menzies and Peter Challen were had articles published last year. Keep the pressure on!!!!
Ellen Brown interviewed – The G20 has completely changed retail banking rules – and the rules are not in your favor (and that’s putting it mildly.) The ink is barely dry on this thing and no one seems to grasp how bad it is. Video: http://www.realecontv.com/
Latest poetic menu from the Table: “Political Economy in the Light of the Kingdom of God: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/poetry/political-economy-in-the-light-of-the-kingdom-of-god
Bill Still reports #357 and 358: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2-49Tn4Cs0&list=TLfdHRhx2dz48
Rodney Shakespeare on ‘Greece – Grease, or a new engine?’ http://www.panorama.am/en/analytics/2015/02/09/rodney-shakespeare
Commended by Clive Menzies to everyone…. Murray Bookchin’s Ecology of Freedom which requires deep study. Sustainability and health of humans and the planet is derived from diversity rather than homogeneity – there is no hierarchy in nature and we need to emulate nature in developing non-hierarchical structures to organise human activity to deliver a co-operative global community in a sustainable world of abundance. We cannot be free until everyone is free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_jfS4Q-k30
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://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_tisa_en_de/?pv=66&rc=fb
– 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.
– 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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