We meet 12 – 2 in Room 2:1 *[no food or drink permitted]* of the SES, 11 Mandeville Place W1U
THERE ARE NOW BASIC PAPERS ON GLOBAL TABLE LINKS – Initiatives with which we engage http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/?page_id=
1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS
a] ATTACHED references to Common Wealth and Basic Income.
b]The three Spring Conferences have opened up six directions for some further work as reported to those on the contact list. These will be reported shortly. Comments from participants still welcome. More on progress as it evolves or in answer to direct questions.
c] Responses to Archbp Welby’s St Paul’s address – available on request – good discussion evolving..
d] We are writing to invite you (or a key player from your organisation) 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 This event is about building alliances amongst a range of campaign groups and activists, working on environmental, social, economic and political issues. Our purpose is to start creating a voter-based movement aimed at pressuring politicians to back a broad and deep sustainability agenda at the 2015 General Election. It’s time to change things fundamentally. Before we are overwhelmed.To book your place at the Gathering, please find details attached or the booking form onThe ACT! Alliance website – www.theactalliance.com – or follow links from Green and Away website.
f] ‘Labour on the land hoarding’ discuss in relation to our work on the coalition for the return of location value to the society that created it. Weekend Read: Strangling Innovation — When Rent-Seekers and Startups Collide Wall Street Journal (blog)
g] Co-operatives Fortnight (22 June to 6 July) is the UK co-operative sector’s national campaign. see how you can help www.uk.coop/choosecoop to find out more about the campaign.
f] The Crime of Alleviating Poverty Ellen Hodgson Brown / June 28th, 2013 Former Peace Corps volunteer Will Ruddick and several residents of Bangladesh, Kenya, face a potential seven years …
2. REPORTS on any associated links – see also fuller record on www.globaltable.org.uk/wp
a] WHAT IS BASIC INCOME? . http://
a] How the world works in a 2 min video ending with the punch line – Unless we understand that the whole earth is our homeland’ ;http://www.
b] The Shocking Amount of Wealth and Power Held by 0.001% of the World Population Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy.com’s Global Power Project The level of inequality around the world is truly staggering. READ MORE»
4. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION
a] Ellen Brown is pleased to announce the release of the sequel to Web of Debt, titled ‘From Austerity to Prosperity – THE PUBLIC BANK SOLUTION. http://www.
b]What else is new at the Finance Innovation Lab? There has been lots of activity on financelab.org in recent weeks with great blogs from Lab co-conveners Richard Spencer and Jen Morgan. Brett Scott, one of our community members wrote an awesome piece about the The Three Faces of Financial Innovation. To help you out here are the links to them so you can go and check them out! Spotlight on The Professions: do we need them – Impact investors catalysing transformative change – The Three Faces of Financial Innovation http://
c] . Monetary and Fiscal Policies for a Finite Planet, by Joshua Farley, Matthew Burke, Gary Flomenhoft, Brian Kelly, D. Forrest Murray, Stephen Posner, Matthew Putnam, Adam Scanlan and Aaron Witham
d]A fine 3.30 video on the importance and approach of SIMPOL http://vimeo.com/
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
“On whatever rocky soil she landed she made a garden, it was WORK THE SOUL MUST HAVE.”
As the imagination is not in the mind; the mind is in the imagination, so the soul is not in the body; the body is in the soul
