MATTERS IN THE AIR at the 6th May as our monthly Election Forum MAJORING ON MAY 7th and OUR INITIATIVES BEYOND We invite all those on the Registered Interest list of the 2015Constuttionalists to attend if they can. We will examine two key charts that depict the bold task that this initiative is tackling. One shows the development by ‘power with’ – a self-organsing system – rather then by ‘Power over’, as in hierarchical and institionalised organisation. The other shows our earth house resting on 7 crumbling foundations and the nature of the foundations we must build in a systemic task to be tackled by a collective mind-shift if we are to make the house our Home.
PLEASE NOTE AND REGISTER FOR 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 Group • LETSlinkUK • et al….
July 11th CONFEDERATION Rally . We are welcoming ideas on how to Build a Movement [TRUSTEES ALL] to get more people to understand and to work for Confederation as a way of developing the debates about Devolution, Subsidiarity etc. We are increasingly aware that systemic change is likely to come only from the ground up. Thus the discussions about a Movement as contrasted to a Party. We also recommend a fascinating TED talk by Heather Barnet on the extraordinary life of a slimemold, giving even more impetus to our attempts to stir a movement without formal organisation but just the hidden energy of cellular growth and human mutuality. Watch this astonishing 14min video http://slimoco.ning.com/video/heather-barnett-what-humans-can-learn-from-semi-intelligent-slime
NB…available on request: A PPT. of SLIDE-SIZED discussion starter on : SOCIAL POLITICAL ECONOMY FOR HUMANITY’S PLANETARY TRUSTEESHIP – where – POLITICAL = methods of governance; inseparable from ….. – ECONOMY = money, business, finance for trading in all of society’s regional and global housekeeping, sharing risk and reward transparently…; – HUMANITY’S = all of us in our interdependence (voters, activists, general public, human); – PLANETARY = all related – biospheric /ecological /environmental concerns; the very ‘ground of our being’ – TRUSTEESHIP / VISION = recognition of the covenant between all things ‘under the rainbow’, as the ‘internet of all things’ and ‘zero marginal costing’ allow us to see ourselves at last as empathic, collaborating Homo. sapiens; bearing huge responsibility because of our consciousness and 0reflective ability to transform neo-liberalism into stakeholder (cooperative) uses of capital. etc.. ///////////////////////////
James Robertson PS to Newsletter No. 50 – April 2015 This text can also be viewed at http://www.jamesrobertson.com/news-apr15.htm Positive money raised in the public domain
A WIDER LOOK AT GLOBAL TABLE LIFE
1. ASSOCIATES IN VOICE AND VISION – Fred Harrison: ‘The Ugly Truth’ – prelude to ‘As Evil Does’; Power resides with the same class as acquired power under Magna Carta, a charter for the aristocracy, not the people. Magna Carta: The Ugly Truth (10 minute video)
– Clive Menzies: week after week on identifying the evidence of why structural change is the only political and economic hope for society – Ray Sheath: Off the cuff at Shoreham in a 90 min Podcast on http://theinformation.podbean.com/ as ‘A Peoples Democracy’
– Heather Barnett: Slimemold as natural modelling in this astonishing 14min video http://slimoco.ning.com/video/heather-barnett-what-humans-can-learn-from-semi-intelligent-slime.
– Peter Challen : demonstrating the value of some 20 submissions on the Story both old and new that we are seeking to share
– Heather Whyte: Easter as Quantum Mystery – a single page – ask for this IN BROKEN TEXT – ask for any of these Odd Lemming Out
– Alan Rayner Wrong Mountain – Nick Askew and now his new poem at the foot WAYS OF TELLING THE CONTEMPORARY STORY
1. As brief and universal as can be LET US DECLARE OUR COMMON HUMANITY AND AGREE THAT ALL HUMAN, RELIGIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC TRADITIONS AND THEIR SOURCES OF WISDOM, ARE NURTURING OUR REACHING TO A MATURE UNIVERSAL FAITH IN INCLUSIVE WELL-BEING EXPRESSED IN A PLANETARY CULTURE AND WORLDY CONSCIOUSNESS OF IMMENSE VARIETY. THAT IS- THE COMMON VALUES OF INCLUSIVE JUSTICE; FOUND IN MAINTAINING THE DELICATE CREATIVE TENSION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, COMMUNAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND PLANETARY TRUSTEESHIP
DATES
May 19 postponed – Book launch of ‘As Evil Does’. watch for new date!
May 21st Harrison and Sheath speaking in Scotland at conference on CONFEDERATION
June 6 10-4 at St Andrews; Waterloo – CCMJ annual appraisal June To Be Announced – a post election rally focussing on CONFEDERATION
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 Inter-Generational Trusteeship for the Earth in a context of Ecology and Evolution. It must dominate our thought and action in the months and years ahead. Please take time to follow this practical initiative, participating in what ever ways you can.
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”.
Would you consider a donation, once off or by Standing Order, to fuel the huge voluntary efforts? either to “Launch 2015 Const UK” – Code 55-50-39 – Ac. No. 63414929, or to the work of the Global Table via “CCMJ”: sortcode 07-00-93 Ac.No. 33333334 Ac.No./Ref. 1197/702170451
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Notes from the London Global Table held on 6th May 2015
Present: Janos (chair), Ellena, Steve, Eddie, Mary (notes)
Apologies: Peter, Ray (on podcast training course)
Topics touched upon during the discussion were as follows:
1. Ownership
The issue of ownership of natural resources, and of capital. What is the nature of work, there are few real jobs that are doing other than occupying us.
Steve asked at what point does the movement tolerate minorities, recalling that the miners were portrayed as a dominant group, against which you are “not allowed” to voice sceptical views. He had attended a focus group at a choosing conference which which required people to adopt a consensus view, and was wondering how “cohesiveness” can be built between groups sharing common concerns.
2. Climate Change
Mary reported that there had been a very interesting presentation about Climate Change at the recent meeting of DemoCafe Camden: http://www.democafe.uk/blog/2015/05/02/notes-2nd-may-2015/
Ellena referred to “The Keiser Report” by Max Keiser, the fact that they don’t want to talk about Climate Change, but they all know about extreme weather: http://rt.com/shows/keiser-report/230695-episode-717-max-keiser/ • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ax0iCgoyIo
3. 2015 Constitutionalists
Steve mentioned the difference between setting up a formal political party and building a movement, and whether you can build one, or if it just develops, with reference, historically, to the slow development of the Labour Movement, and what happened in Berlin after the war. The 2015 Constitutionalists was legally a party, but the intention was to build a movement, and we had to learn how to do this. Much background work had been done on the website, and Janos reported that Piers of Digital Zest, who has been building the 2015 constitutionalists website, will present next week.
4. Global Table Outreach
Mary mentioned the long list contacts that Peter had developed, which were being updated on the website, and the need in future to update the version already online, rather than post a new version each time. See: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/links/engagements-by-the-ccmj-and-the-weekly-global-table-network (and sub-pages). She wondered if some kind of an online database would be an improvement if it would allow incremental updating, making this a shared task – Janos added that the experts have to be prepared to teach other people how to be experts.
5. Education
Janos went on to expand on the problem with education, which seems to impose existing knowledge on people, and recommended that we read John Taylor Gatto: https://www.johntaylorgatto.com. He also recommended the James Corbett report: https://www.corbettreport.com
6. The 2015 UK Election
With reference to Russell Brand’s 15-minute interview with Ed Milliband, Janos recommended The Emperor’s New Clothes, at Hackney Central, Central Picture House 270 Mare Street.
Janos also reported the Occupy screening of “Master of the Universe: 15th May 7pm at 88 Fleet Street, May Day Rooms: http://occupylondon.org.uk/events/film-screening-master-of-the-universe/
Janos also mentioned the cafe Russell Brand had started near Haggerston, funded by sales of his book “Revolution”: http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2015/04/what-happened-when-russell-brand-opened-the-trew-era-cafe/, and wondered if DemoCafe groups might be added to Russell Brand’s cafes. In his view that if RB had more economic literacy, he could be a catalyst for change. He feels there needs to be an expansion of complementary currencies, at different levels, and real jobs.
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Postscript Saturday 8th May 2015:
Russell Brand’s post-election tweet: “There will be no shortage of meanness, to the disabled, to immigrants, and to the poor, so all we’ve got left is to be compassionate to one another and get involved in causes we care about, to find ways of making alliances, new ways of making change: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2015/may/08/russell-brand-reacts-to-general-election-results-video
Jonathan Friedland writes in The Guardian Sat 9th May 2015: “Now someone has to pick up the pieces: …..It will require the greatest possible ingenuity and generosity on the part of those who still believe in the union o- perhaps an entirely new, federal design entrenched in a written constitution – to persuade Scotland to stay….. Cameron has won an astonishing victory. But he finds himself the ruler of a truly divided kingdom.”
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