MATTERS IN THE AIR
in which all may share as our networking prospers the cause of inclusive justice…
The table continues throughout August.
NEW ASSOCIATES POSSIBLY ATTENDING: Pam Grearly; Lee Cant, Rosemary Hadfield, Richard Anderson and Raeto West
DATES 2015
Saturday October 10th 10-6 FESTIVAL OF WELLBEING – from economic growth to growth in wellbing Booking : info@networkofwellbeing.org Reports would be welcome from anyone attending.
REPORTS: always invited : in this week from some of our associates in the quest for inclusive justice.
IT’S OUR MONEY with ELLEN BROWN” presents: REVOLTING – Is the financial deprivation of entire nations engendering a new level of frustration and political unrest? Ellen Brown speaks with renowned economics writer Michael Hudson–who has just returned from consultations with Greece’s Syriza government–on European banking, U.S. politics, and the future of finance. Listen here: http://prn.fm/its-our-money-with-ellen-brown-revolting-08-05-15
Tom Greco in the UK – workshops in Dublin and Belfast
Ray Sheath on visits to Bath, Bristol, E Devon Alliance and Frome
Brian Wills [Aug3] Peter Challen [Aug 10 & 17] BrianWills [Aug 24] latest Newscasts heard on www.2015Constitutionalists.uk/Home …… scroll down…..responses invited — all 14 Newscasts to date available via www.globaltable.org.uk/wp
Clive Menzies regular reports on Critical Thinking
Eddie Farrell, Mary Fee, Michael Mulvey, Omar K Camden and Uxbridge Democafes
Ivor Kellock, Ray Sheath visiting Frome to discuss “Flat-Pack Democracy”
Paul Nicolson Regularly informs the Press. Quote this week “The costs of Poverty and debt-related mental and physical ill-health are soaring in schools and hospitals.”
Calls to allow Scottish local authorities to scrap council tax http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13621507.Calls_to_allow_Scottish_local_authorities_to_scrap_council_tax/?ref=ebln
Wayne Sturgeon ‘Getting the enemy right’ http://www.glimpsesofagoodlife.com/getting-the-enemy-right/
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”.
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WE CONTINUE REFLECTING on the value of these three perspectives in our quest for inclusive justice?
1. The Christian Council for Monetary Justice [CCMJ] – examining enduring wisdom and contemporary evidence about money and its effect on society – utilising resources of the enduring wisdom like current evidence, scriptures, histories, valued publications http://www.ccmj.org
2. London Global Open Table [LGOT] – providing an open forum for serving a wider network with a point of weekly reference. All are welcome to send items for ‘Matters in the Air’ to indicate where our dialogue and action might take in this particular week: http://www.globaltable.org.uk/wp
3. The 2015Constitutionalists – advancing a targeted initiative by ‘principled pragmatism’ to take viable, if difficult, steps towards weaving politics and economics – governance and vital trading – into a Peoples Political Economy of Trusteeship, set in Harmony with Nature. NEWSCASTS each Monday on http://www.2015Constitutionalists.uk alternate between understanding systemic change and reporting on issues that must find hard-coding for their inclusive contribution to the whole system. TheNewscast appears on the Home page on Mondays and is then also on Youtube.
Aug 17 ‘Why are those People so Small’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y524EBziqhQ
Aug 10 Newscast: ‘Principled Pragmatism’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXN8ONFTkYs
See list of podcasts to date: 2015 CONSTITUTIONALISTS NEWSCASTS
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. See the Introduction to the Project, which is subject to ongoing amendment. See also the latest draft of the 2015C Compendium of Constitutionalists thinking and Glossary of words and their usage: http://www.2015constitutionalists.uk/resources/compendium/ – please respond with suggestions to improve this..
Inevitably there is overlap between each mode of approach. Each and all add richness to our searching and our action in the public arena.
GLOBAL MINDSET
“To operate effectively at the world level
is still in some way peculiar and unlikely.
The Planet is not yet the centre
of rational loyalty for all humankind.
But it is precisely this shift of loyalty
a profound and deepening sense
of our shared and inter-dependent bio-sphere
can stir to life in us.
That people can experience
such transformations is not in doubt.
From family to clan, from clan to nation,
nation to federation – such enlargements
of allegiance have occurred
without wiping out earlier loves.
Today, in human society,
we can yet hope to survive
in all our prized diversity
provided we can achieve an ultimate loyalty
to our single, beautiful and vulnerable Planet Earth.
Alone in space, alone in its life supporting systems,
powered by inconceivable energies,
mediating them to us through the most delicate adjustments,
wayward, unlikely, unpredictable,
but nourishing, enlivening and enriching
in the largest degree
is this not a precious home for all of us earthlings?
Is it not worth our love?
Does it not deserve all the inventiveness,
courage, generosity of which we are capable
to preserve it from degradation and destruction
thus to secure our own survival*”
[* NB ‘Salvation’, in the theological sense of healing, not ‘survival’, had been the original word used by one consultant in urging the editors that the great perspective be not lost in recording the detailed responses from 167 contributing scientists] – From ‘Only One Earth – The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet’ Barbara Ward and René Dubois 1972
Survival is static and may fail to recognise inter-generational life. Salvation is healing as we move on
