London Global Table 1st May 2013
‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ ………some of which participants could choose to develop…..*
1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS
a] SOME FUNDAMENTALS OF CREATIVITY IN THE GLOBAL HOUSEHOLD – we know of work on all these aspects
- Land and its resources accepted as gift, requiring the reinstatement of the Commons.
- Rent as public revenue to be returned to the community as the outcome of interdependent productive contributions – thus challenging the misguided laws of property.
- Debt cancellation to lift intolerable exploitation, which now divides rich and poor in a ratio of 1:99%.
- Interest free new money created as a public utility – thus tackling exploitation as in its monetary description as ‘usury’
- Credit made available and lent under the audited discipline of its nurturing replenishable productive creativity in goods and services.
- The means for basic livelihood provided for all, as a platform for the development of each person’s unique potential and talents – call it Citizens’ Income, Universal Basic Income or Social Dividend.
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- Encouraging local currencies as a means of renewing localised mutuality so essential to viable communities.
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b] “SPRING CONFERENCES ON COVENANT AND CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS” . MAY 4 THIS SATURDAY ahead!!! Register with me or see these URLs for registration and donations for the 2nd conference ] http://theologyofland2of3.
A THEOLOGY OF LAND
founded on
A COVENANT between GOD and HUMANITY
ensuring that the ever emergent gift of life on earth
is continuously replenished
by our trusteeship and husbandry of
the finite resources of the land.
c] Please consider reading the comments to date and then voting for Fred Harrison’s book in the People’s Book Prize entries http://www.peoplesbookprize.
d] This week’s Big Questions: Where does Occupy go from here? Should Thatcher have been given such a grand funeral? How much is the Labour lead in the polls down to Ed Miliband? How worried should we be by reports of mounting Chinese debt?
k] Banking for the Future
3. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION
a] European campaign for basic income is about to start and needs a million signatures.http://www.
b]“Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.” —Wendell Berry, Farming: a Hand Book
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