MATTERS IN THE AIR: April 6th 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/WP.

THIS IS THE NORMAL TIMING which reverses each second Wednesday of the month
10am-12noon….. INFORMAL DIALOGUE ABOUT ICUK
12noon-2pm ……..OPEN TABLE ON INCLUSIVE JUSTICE

RICHARD NELSON VISITING – see http://www.podnet.is

FROM AN ASSOCIATE’S LETTER: The great Festivals such as Good Friday and Easter remind us of a spectrum not of historic time but of potential to recover sanity and humanity in the present. Time is not the basis of enduring wisdom. Rather, that wisdom is renewed in rehearsing how we create right relationships by showing the relevance of significant events afresh in each period as they lead to the evolving universal creativity that we can remember and re-enact in our own time and in our own way.

Important updating of studies in our areas of concern :

Frank Taylor has circulated the March 2016 issue of Runnymede Gazette: RUNNYMEDE_GAZETTE_1603

The April 2016 issue of Mother Pelican has also appeared: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv12n04page1.html

We would not have had a steel crisis if we had enjoyed a Courageous State – 03-4-16   Larry Elliott has said for the Guardian today that ‘the laissez-faire economic model has proved a complete dud’. Peter Hitchens agrees. Is there an alternative? I’d beg to suggest so. Try The Courageous State:  Richard Murphy

FROM CRITICAL THINKING: Western thought is trapped in abstract rationality which isolates in seeking absolutes and completion, in contrast to oriental philosophy which is open to contradictions, seeks balance and recognises interdependence. Taiji is the physical manifestation of the Chinese approach: harvest energy and balance through movement and stillness. Like Natural Inclusion (NI), taiji is experienced rather than explained but this TED talk by Al Huang demonstrates the fundamental principles through exercises everyone can try. Taiji/yinyang philosophy: Chungliang Al Huang at TEDxHendrixCollege (31 minute video)   Alan Rayner posed the following challenge to his NI discussion group:‘Natural inclusion is the mutual inclusion of space and energy in all distinguishable natural occurrences’. Discuss

EVENTS : see: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events

How is Europe to Deal With Violent Religious Extremism – April 13th 12-00 to 2 pm – meeting organised by Universal Peace Federation on Wednesday 13th April 2016 in House of Commons, Committee Room 9 – see http://www.uk.upf.org

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.

The COMER lawsuit. The 8 Feb. decision of the Federal Court of Canada was bad news, however an appeal has been launched – see the link at the top rigyt of  http://comer.org/ Michael Sinclair

Compass: see events page for link to forthcoming conference on 5th March 2106: Also draft Strategy Paper: http://www.compassonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Compass-Draft-Strategy-Building-the-Alternative_final.pdf. A the end of this are listed some questions for us to respond to: 1. Is this shift from immediate concerns to more structural change right? 2. Are we proposing to do it in the right way? 3. Are we proposing to do it around the right issues?  Who else should we be working with? 4. What can you do to help? and DiEM25, the European Movement for Democracy with which we are seeking dialogue

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 us 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 the Harmony of Nature: http://ww.constitutionalists.uk

Grant me ….

The serenity to accept things that cannot change
The courage to tackle the things that can
And the wisdom to know the difference