MATTERS IN THE AIR: 28th October 2015
in which all may share as our networking prospers the cause of inclusive justice…
NEW ASSOCIATES POSSIBLY ATTENDING: Lilias Cheyne, Pam Grearly; Rosemary Hadfield, Richard Anderson and Raeto West
RIP Michael Meacher We are very sad to have lost a friend and ally in Michael Meacher. Michael was one of the Commons’ foremost champions for money reform. He worked with colleagues from across the house in calling for greater parliamentary scrutiny of our monetary system. Most recently, in November last year, he co-sponsored a backbench debate on money creation and society.
EVENTS
– relevant contributions to or reports from such events would be welcome:
“ALTERNATIVE TO BARNETT REPORT Fred Harrison Friday October 30th at SES 6.30 for CEJ coalition members’ members notify Peter Challen if you are able to attend
ST PAULS INSTITUTE Nov. 3rd – with Mason, Pettifor, Oldfield [Theos] & Phillip Blond: http://www.stpaulsinstitute.org.uk/Events/PostCapitalism-Envisaging-A-Shared-Future.
Thu 5th Nov 2015 – The UK and EU Dimensions of “Forced Adoptions” – a campaign meeting organised by Sabine McNeil on the occasion of ten MEPs visiting London on a Fact Finding Mission – 2.30-5pm: Information Sharing; 6.30-8.30pm: Panel Discussion with Ian Josephs, Ruby Harrod-Claesson, Sabine McNeil, Belinda McKenzie, Deborah Mahmoudieh, Maggie Tuttle: Link to Petition. Details of Event PDF downloads – A4 format – A5 format – at Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Rd, London NW1 1TT: Link to Facebook: Register at: www.meetup.com/childrensrightsfirst
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. INVITE OTHERS
Thursday 12 November, 6:30pm: 2015 annual John Stott London Lecture: Intertwined Roots: Nourishing Radical Discipleship in Today’s Global Church and World: All Souls Church, Langham Place, London. £5 including refreshments: Booking Information
Friday 13th November: Pilgrimage2Paris from St Martins in the Fields for the Climate Change Conference: https://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2015/08/join-us-on-the-road-to-paris.aspx
Saturday 21 November 2015: The Psychology of Inspired Collective Climate Change Action (and what gets in its way) A conference – London –http://www.confer.uk.com/climate.html
Thu-Sun 29th September – 2nd October 2016: Twelfth AMI Monetary Reform Conference. Message from Stephen Zarlenga of the American Monetary Institute <ami@taconic.net>: The 2016 Monetary Reform Conference at the University Center in Chicago is now open for early registration. This is our 12th Annual Conference. We bring together monetary reformers to discuss actual monetary reform such as Kucinich’s NEED Act, introduced into the 112th Congress. Register by December 15, 2015 for $195. instead of $395!: http://www.monetary.org
REPORTS:
always invited: in this week from some of our associates in the quest for inclusive justice.
More on the evolving outcome of Corbynomics and conviction politics
FREE CRITICAL THINKING: latest articles: http://freecriticalthinking.org/daily-pickings
TAXPAYERS AGAINST POVERTY: 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/
REPORT ON 2015C ‘TAKING STOCK’ – TAKING STOCK – outcome 2015 FINAL and the KICK-START MENU
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 in Harmony with Nature. 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.
‘REALITY IS NI’ Reality is Natural Inclusiveness, in all bit parts, ubiquitous energy, creative dialogue suffusing the cosmos. Some nutshell it so simply in love of both God and Neighbour; one God and every neighbour to be sure. So not so simple after all, so a big question hangs over us in that tough and honorable pursuit. Do you stone the devil while on retreat, or love your enemies on every street,the one too easy, the other so, so hard?
