London Global Table 8th May 2013
‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ ………some of which participants could choose to develop…..*
1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS
We know of and participate in 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 inevitably interdependent productive contributions – thus challenging the misguided but resolutely defended 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 embedded structured exploitation as in its monetary description as ‘usury’
- As new money Credit is made available and lent under the audited discipline of its ability to nurture 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 and mutual respect for given talents of immense variety – call it Citizens’ Income, Universal Basic Income or Social Dividend.
- Encouraging local currencies as a means of renewing localised mutuality so essential to viable communities.
b] “SPRING CONFERENCES ON COVENANT AND CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS” . Report on May 4. One conference left ..Register with me or see this URL for registration and donations for the 3rd conference http://www.eventbrite.com/
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] Economics for a new civilisation – Clive Menzies in a 53 min lecture to CISI
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e] Finance Innovation Lab May 10th Conference of main NGOs on finance
f] Charles Eisenstein on the scene again at http://evolverlearninglab.
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2. REPORTS on any of these initiatives with which Table associates work???
3. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION
a] European campaign for basic income is about to start and needs a million signatures.http://www.
b] James Quilligan seminars, held in London last year, brought together groups interested in seeking solutions to our economic ills through the Commons, a concept which is alien to most on initial exposure but which could form the basis for a new economy. James is writing a series of articles on the Common Theory of Value, part four of which has just been published in Kosmos. Toward a Common Theory of Value
Name other interests you know. Always glad, indeed eager, to have
responses from the Table’s extensive network
” Rent is the secret tax the [materially] wealthy charge the [materially] poor.” Stiglitz
