London Global Table 22nd May 2013
We meet 12 – 2 in Room 2:1 *[no food or drink permitted]* of the SES, 11 Mandeville Place W1U
‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ ………some of which participants could choose to develop…..*
1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS
a] LATEST DRAFTING: CCMJ, and its focus in the London Global open Table, support exploration of SOME FUNDAMENTALS OF CREATIVITY IN THE GLOBAL HOUSEHOLD. Associates know of, and participate in, work on all these issues:
· Land and its resources accepted as gift, requiring the reinstatement of the Commons and the maintenance of our replenishing contract [recognising the Covenant/Contract discerned both in nature and some enduring wisdom in the Abrahamic scriptures].
· Rent as public revenue to be returned to the community as the outcome of inevitably interdependent productive contributions – challenging the misguided but resolutely defended laws of property; and renewing our understanding of the nature of trusteeship, stewardship and co-operation.
· Debt cancellation to end intolerable exploitation, which now divides rich and poor in a ratio of 1:99%. Closely linked to the Jubilee theme and the agencies pursuing it.
· Interest free new money created as a public utility – thus tackling embedded structured exploitation [in its monetary form ‘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, recoverable subsequently in a vibrant economy.
· The means for basic livelihood provided for all, as a platform for the development of each person’s unique potential while exciting 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.
· All adding up to replenishment of the earth and its manifold resources by global house-keeping as the predicate to economic thought and design
b] “SPRING CONFERENCES ON COVENANT AND CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS” One conference left ..Register with me or see this URL for registration and donations for the 3rd conference http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5506287454 : If you cannot attend, recruitment and donations are still both ways of giving support to our search for and practical application of
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.com/book.php?id=859
d] Finance Innovation Lab May 10th Conference – Report http://www.debtonation.org/2013/05/transforming-finance-how-do-we-fund-the-green-economy/ .
e] Ian Mason, recently presented a paper at the UN to celebrate Mother Earth Day. The session was opened by the President and Secretary General of the UN who expressed sympathy with the view that there is an urgent need to re-assess the human relationship with Earth and find a harmonious way of living within the boundaries that Nature sets. Here is a link http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/general-assembly/watch/interactive-dialogue-on-harmony-with-nature-general-assembly/2341072131001
f] Our associate, Prem Sikka comments on the Bank of England governor’s claim of economic recovery. It draws attention to institutionalised social squalor and is titled “Mervyn King’s rosy recovery prediction means little for a shattered nation” and is available a thttps://theconversation.com/mervyn-kings-rosy-recovery-prediction-means-little-for-a-shattered-nation-14321 . You are most welcome to stimulate the debate by adding your comments. As always, there is more on his AABA website (http://www.aabaglobal.org<http://www.aabaglobal.org/>).
g] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c5wKeWznx0 a 16 min excerpt from Hazel Henderson. Hazel is saying stress is the tool of evolution, breakdown is driving breakthrough with new innovations. Media can’t see them. She talks of biomimicry and good earth science (looking at the earth as a whole system) FTT discussed. 16 mins of 1 hr interview.
2. REPORTS on any of these 22 initiatives with which Table associates work???
a] ‘ACT NOW ALLIANCE’ – Secrett – now inviting you to the first ACT! Alliance Gathering, ‘MOBILISING FOR 2015’, which will take place from Friday 12 to 14 July at Green and Away in Worcestershire.
b] St Paul’s Institute – 3 events in may and June on ‘Good Money’
c] Democracy 2015 – Abel – faltering Leader needing a rest
d] Positive Money – Dyson – steadily widening influence
e] Critical Thinking – Menzies & Abel – example of utilising ‘tentative conviction’ in study of complexity
f] Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility – CCMJ a member
g] Banking for the Future – Dixon
h] IU Conference at SES July 24-28 – CEJ
i] Runnymede Gazette – Taylor – The April edition of the Runnymede Gazette now available covering surveillance state, Bitcoin, false flag attacks and bank deposit confiscation.
j] New Wilberforce Alliance – Moore and MacDonald
k] ‘Peace Child’ – Harbottle
l] the rich resource site of Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability
http://pelicanweb.org latest report just out
m] Prosperity latest edition – McConnachie
n] NJPN latest resource reports – Mills
o] Finance Innovation Lab Conference May 10 – Dyson
p] CI – Citizen’s Income Newsletter, No.2 , 2013 now available. www.citizensincome.org to read it.
q] Evolver Learning Lab. – Eisenstein et al
r] The MOOT Community – Mobsby and Kennedy
s] Commons Rising – Betz & Por
t] Coalition for Economic Justice – http://www.c4ej.com/news – for 2012 Report
2. EVIDENCE OF MOUNTING DANGERS and OPPORTUNITIES
a] Justin Walker promotes the BRADBURY pound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NyJXwXI-K4
b] Berlin Conference on the Commons
Visit Commons Rising at: http://commonsrising.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
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c] The Cashless Society Arrives in Africa. The “Multipurpose” Biometric National Identity Smart Card Timothy Alexander Guzman Global Research, May 16, 2013 Url of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cashless-society-arrives-in-africa-the-multipurpose-biometric-national-identity-smart-card/5335292
d] would you wish to share anything here ?
3. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION
a] James Quilligan seminars in London last year, rallied groups interested in seeking solutions to 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
b] Why is labour so reluctant on debt – Meacher http://www.michaelmeacher.info/weblog/2013/05/why-is-labour-so-reticent-about-spelling-out-the-true-position-on-debt/
c] St John’s Nottingham Philosophy and Faith and modernity timeline project http://stjt.org.uk/modern.html and http://postmodernbible.blogs.com/postmodernbible/2013/03/videodigital-timeline-by-tim-hull-at-st-johns-college-nottingham-.html
4. YOUR INPUT ON THE ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ YOU WISH TO SHARE*
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
