MATTERS IN THE AIR: February 10th 2016: in which all may share as our networking prospers the cause of inclusive justice… visit the website to view the evolving agenda for the next meeting: http://www.globaltable.org.uk.
N.B. OPEN PERIOD 10-12. 12- 2 Formal agenda of ICUK – this is now the order for every Second Tuesday. IT IS AN OPEN FORUM with a FORMAL AGENDA – notice of attendance is asked for and that would ensure you receive the agenda and working papers.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS: See http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events
ELLEN BROWN : our associate is the Speaker at the RSA on Wednesday 17 February 2016 – Why We Should Own the Banks – 1.00pm – 2.00pm – RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ – https://www.thersa.org/events/2016/02/why-we-should-own-the-banks/.
REPORTS: always invited our associates in the quest for inclusive justice. Then a discussion: Those who can’t join us on a Wednesday – send us your comments and reports of your action.
Claudius van Wyk shared publicly – 2 Feb 2016: “I’ve seriously begun writing a book on Living Systems Leadership. Institutions have become trapped in the mechanistic metaphor and consequently lose their capacity to adaptation which characterises living systems. Our way of viewing the world is represented in our language. So changing what we say about the world changes how we see the world. When we see the world as a complex network of relationship constantly in process of adaptation we detect challenges and opportunities earlier and can maximise our response, converting challenges into opportunities for growth in resilience and opportunities into successful outcomes. That requires a transformed epistemology, or, way of thinking about the world. This is the task of the book.” For background see: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/links/key-analyses/claudius-van-wyk
Frank Taylor’s RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE: January 2016: RUNNYMEDE_GAZETTE_1601
Fred Harrison, on South Africa + letter to the Guardian: WHOSE LAND IS IT ANYWAY?
Kosmos Journal: January 12, 2016 – New Governance | The Future of Power Newsletter –http://www.kosmosjournal.org/newsletter/2016-01-12/ has excited a valuable thread of exchanges.
Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
WE CONTINUE REFLECTING on the value of these three perspectives in our quest for inclusive justice. Inevitably there is overlap between each mode of approach. Each and all add richness to our searching:
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. Trustees All: The Independent Constitutionalists UK – advocate and advance a targeted initiative by ‘principled pragmatism’ to take viable, if difficult, steps towards weaving politics and economics – governance and vital trading – into a People’s Political-Economy of Trusteeship in Harmony with Nature. Travel the new path via the 2020 [or earlier] General Election. The ICUK’s Manifesto and Charter provide an incremental, imperfect process of evolving a People’s Political-Economy of Trusteeship in Natrual Harmony : http://ww.constitutionalists.uk
Reality is Natural Inclusiveness – is there not resonance there ‘with the panentheistic love of God’ so strongly affirmed by all the major faith traditions? – in all bit parts, ubiquitous energy, creative dialogue suffuses the cosmos. Some nutshell it so simply in ‘Love both God and every Neighbour.’ It’s not as simple as that sounds, 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?
