London Global Table 29th May 2013

London Global Table 29th 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…..*
 ‘We must find a moral equivalent for war or perish’, from ‘The Modern Mind Outrun’  Rosenstock-Huesey in 1945

THERE ARE NOW BASIC PAPERS ON GLOBAL TABLE LINKS  Initiatives with which we engage   http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/?page_id=373  Fundamentals of a sane economy http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/?page_id=376       Recommendations for up-dating these entries are always welcome.

1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS

a] THIS SATURDAY  “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  notify me if coming at peterchallen@gmail.com 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

b] IMMEDIATE OPPORTUNITY Cast your four votes for global impact schemes  https://globalimpactchallenge.withgoogle.com/#/solaraid

c] LAST CHANCE Please 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] IMF recommends LVT  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/time-for-plan-b-imf-tells-george-osborne-to-ease-pace-of-spending-cuts-8627109.html

e]  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.

f] ACT Alliance Conference – hope some associaites of he Table can get there and report back on progress. https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/#inbox/13ed7274180f43b9

2. REPORTS on any associated links – see also fuller record on www.wordpress.ccmj.org./wp/wp

 a] James Robertson Newsletter No.41 – May 2013. Newsletter www.jamesrobertson.com/newsletter.htm.

b] ECCR May and June newsletter  https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/?ui=2&ik=b2967a5256&view=lg&msg=13ed1597c3de6419

c] 57 minute interview on the work of Henry George Frank Peddle on the Harold Channer Show tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX5gzRnUfSw

3. 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 

http://commonsrising.ning.com/forum/topics/world-conference-on-the-commons-berlin-21-25-may-2013  Visit Commons Rising at: http://commonsrising.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

c] would you wish to share anything here ?

4. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION

aJames 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] St John’s Nottingham Philosophy & Faith & 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

c]  ‘Servant’ Leadership ?? Miki Kashtan: May 24, 2013 People who feel empowered know they are agents, not pawns. When people take on an orientation of leadership, it becomes near impossible to oppress them. Stepping into leadership, by all of us, then, can become an inoculation against submission and passivity, paving the way for a collaborative future.             Read more: http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2013/05/24/leadership-101/?utm_source=Tikkun+Daily+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=0a3af10c48-DAILY_DIGEST_EMAIL&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_19adec7513-0a3af10c48-96204518

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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