MATTERS IN THE AIR
in which all may share as our networking prospers the cause of inclusive justice…
EVENTS – relevant contributions to or reports from such events would be welcome:
• Earth Charter News: http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/articles/1179/1/Third-Earth-Charter-15-webinar-on-Social-and-Economic-Justice/Page1.html – NB a webinar will take place on September 22nd, 2015 at 14:00 UTC, 10AM New York time, 4PM in Paris, and 7:30PM in Delhi.
• London – Wednesday 23rd September 2015 “THE UNITED NATIONS AT 70 – What Prospects for Peace?” Keynote speaker: Clare Short – Former UK Secretary of State for . International Development. The lecture will focus on the UN’s successes, failures and future prospects for peace. Most importantly it will explore how UN can pursue its Charter goals of ending the scourge of war, promote sustainable development, protect Human Rights, mitigate climate change, build peace and justice for all. After the lecture there will be opportunity for the audience to have interactive Q&A session. “Now, we have to go forward in the giant undertaking of building democratic United Nations to make the real world safe, just and sustainable for all its children” – Erskine B. Childers. Venue: Hilton London Euston, 17 – 18 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0HT
• Fri/Sat October 2-3, 2015: Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity: Inaugural Confererence: Denison University, Granville, Ohio: Free Livestreaming video footage available
• FESTIVAL OF WELLBEING – from economic growth to growth in welling: Saturday October 10th 10-6pm – Booking: info@networkofwellbeing.org Reports would be welcome from anyone attending.
• REAL GLOBAL DEMOCRACY Demonstration Saturday, October 24 at 1:00pm Parliament Square: https://www.facebook.com/events/1080107852000171/
• ST PAULS INSTITUTE Nov. 3rd – with Mason, Pettifor, Oldfield [Theos] & Blond: http://www.stpaulsinstitute.org.uk/Events/PostCapitalism-Envisaging-A-Shared-Future.
• NEXT CONVENTION ON CONFEDERATION – November 7th 10.30-3.30 at St. Andrews Church Hall Short St SE1 [south off the Cut. opp Young Vic] Register with peterchallen@gmail.com
NEW ASSOCIATES POSSIBLY ATTENDING: Pam Grearly; Rosemary Hadfield, Richard Anderson and Raeto West
REPORTS: always invited: in this week from some of our associates in the quest for inclusive justice.
REPORT ON 2015C ‘TAKING STOCK’ –
The Corbyn-Sanders effect!!! with Richard Murphy as Economic Advisor, see again below….
Dialogue between Paul Nicolson and Fred Harrison has enabled TAP to get a serious palliative amendment to the Welfare Bill. A huge witness to the importance of collaboration – see also: http://www.taxpayersagainstpoverty.org.uk/welfare-reform-and-work-bill-will-it-help-the-poorest-live-on-average-as-long-as-the-rich-there-is-a-twelve-year-gap/
Cat Zavis: Stop Telling Me It’s Impossible. We’ve put men on the moon, We’ve counted the stars, planets and galaxies, We’ve built weapons of mass destruction . . . If we can compete to get into space, If we can compete to produce more goods that anyone needs, If we can compete to create … Read more: http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2015/09/08/stop-telling-me-its-impossible/
Earth Charter News: http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/articles/1179/1/Third-Earth-Charter-15-webinar-on-Social-and-Economic-Justice/Page1.html – NB a webinar will take place on September 22nd, 2015 at 14:00 UTC, 10AM New York time, 4PM in Paris, and 7:30PM in Delhi.
Ellen Brown – The Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity will hold its first annual conference in Ohio on October 2-3 2015. Public banking author and advocate Ellen Brown will join Senator Bernie Sanders and other speakers for this important event. Read about it here. See also: Ellen Brown : Quantitative Easing for People: The UK Labour Frontrunner’s Controversial Proposal: http://ellenbrown.com/2015/09/02/quantitative-easing-for-people-the-uk-labour-frontrunners-controversial-proposal/ – NB Ellen will be with us at the Global Table on September 23rd
las Indias collective *The Book of Abundance* – Reflections on abundance, economics, and community: translated by Level Translation: http://www.geo.coop/story/book-abundance
Law for the Commons – Commons Transition Wiki – a first attempt to survey the more significant realms of commons-based law: http://wiki.commonstransition.org/wiki/Law_for_the_Commons.
Mark Joob: a very good summary of: What’s Wrong with the Current Monetary System. Recommended experts: For Credit Commons oriented solutions at the local level, see Thomas Greco [2] For Public Credit and credit-free financing solutions at the national level, see Modern Monetary Theory and Ellen Brown. For solutions relating to a global monetary commons, see Bernard Lietaer. For Money of the Commons, see Andrea Fumagalli: How Can Crypto-Money Become a Money of the Commons.
Michel Bauwens – 3 -9-15 = free currencies embody this fundamental and universal claim that any citizen, any community, any organization has the right to create tools for wealth to flow. No individuals, no community should be dependent on monopolistic and private currencies, unless they have decided so. [1] This section’s theme are generally the monetary aspects of P2P trends, and more specifically, aspects of monetary reform, that aim to make the monetary system into a participatory resource that more broadly benefits larger sectors of the world population.Human and social wealth is never reducible to its translation in money, see the Wealth Typology. –
Platform cooperativism instead of netarchical capitalism: The Future of Work: Owning What We Share: imagining a sharing platform owned by its workers and users Excerpted from Nathan Schneider, one of the co-organizers of the Platform Cooperativism conference to be held in NYC. “The goal is not to enforce a rigid orthodoxy. Rather, it’s to have a world in which a can-do young entrepreneur—the kind who wants nothing more than to create something new and excellent—will conclude that the best way to proceed is to practice democracy.” For Michael’s latest P2P Blog go to: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net – See also: Cooperative events run by NASCO https://www.nasco.coop/events and CNYC: https://www.cnyc.com
Michael Hudson 0n company share buy-backs which fuelled stock-market rises but which indicate financial engineering has become the dominant activity, rather than investing in production, owing to the availability of cheap money. Behind the Market Crash: The Smoke and Mirrors of Corporate Buybacks
“We’re in a debt deflation now. The 99 percent of the people are so busy paying off their debt that what is counted as savings here is just paying down the debt. That’s why they don’t have enough money to buy goods and services, and so sales are falling. That means that profits are falling. And people finally realized that wait a minute, with companies not making more profits they’re not going to be able to pay the dividends.” Markets have been riding a roller-coaster, plummeting early in the week followed by sharp rallies in the last two days.
Given the banks propensity to manipulate markets, it’s worth rereading Matt Taibbi’s excellent The Great American Bubble Machine which provides insights into how bankers profit from crashing markets to buy assets on the cheap from distressed sellers.
Crashing markets plunged the world into chaos in 2008, since when the global economy has been on “life -support” in the form of cheap money which has inflated asset prices and speculative bubbles. Unless the power of the banks to create money at will is removed, the spiral into collapse will continue.
Positive Money: “People’s Quantitative Easing” Going Mainstream? Jeremy Corbyn, the leading figure of Britain’s Labour Party, is calling for banks to create money to ease personal debt and financial hardship. This is remarkably similar what groups like Positive Money and even the Public Banking Institute have called for. Now it’s gone mainstream. Read more here: “People’s Quantitative Easing” Going Mainstream? Read more here. Follow Richard Murphy’s comments.
P2P Foundation: an impromptu article by Raymond Aitken = Reclaiming the Economic Surplus: – http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/reclaiming-the-economic-surplus-by-liberating-the-economic-commons/2015/09/03 – see also: http://p2pfoundation.net/Reclaiming_the_Economic_Surplus_by_Liberating_the_Economic_Commons
Tax Research UK – Congratulations to Richard Murphy, who reports that he has been appointed as Professor of Practice in International Political Economy in the Department of International Politics at City University. The appointment is a 0.2 position i.e. one day a week. It is salaried pro-rata and carries pro-rata teaching and research obligations. I will be teaching a course entitled economics of the real world. See: http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2015/09/08/prof-murphy
Tikkun Daily: Raanan Geberer: Why Are the Republicans Ignoring Bernie Sanders? posted Sep 10, 2015: The most obvious answer about why the Republicans are virtually ignoring Bernie Sanders is that Hillary is still leading in the polls, and they expect her to be the nominee (and if not her, then Joe Biden). But there may be other answers. Read more: http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2015/09/10/why-are-the-republicans-ignoring-bernie-sanders/
Trickle Down Economics: The Greatest Lie Ever told? http://renegadeinc.com/trickle-down-economics/#autoplay. Longer version: http://renegadeinc.com/four-horsemen-feature-documentary-official-version/
Truth Out: Government by the Banks, for the Banks: The ESM Coup D’Etat in Europe – http://www.truth-out.org/op-ed/item/10093-government-by-the-banks-for-the-banks-the-esm-coup-detat-in-europe
Unlock Democracy: People’s Republic of Frome: meeting on Sunday September 13th 2015 – entrance free – http://www.unlockdemocracy.org/events/2015/9/13/do-democracy-take-back-power-and-politics-in-2015
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.
