MATTERS IN THE AIR: 18th May 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.
10-12am informal ICUK agenda formation – open, but attentive to that initiative.
12-2pm GLOBAL TABLE utilising this week’s ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ on issues raised in our network. Please make your comments or raise questions on any of these. We are trying to sense the richness of our networking without overburdening with detail.
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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.
CCMJ: a report of the Annual Review pre-meeting held on 4th May will be available soon.
COMPASS: see draft Strategy Paper: http://www.compassonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Compass-Draft-Strategy-Building-the-Alternative_final.pdf. At 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 and to which we now subscribe, see; https://diem25.org/manifesto-short-version/
DESIGNING DEMOCRACY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: report from 10/5/2016 in progress: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/venue/designing-democracy-for-the-21st-century-1052016
LAND TAX or Location Value Charge – a Simple guide: Dominic Frisby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_dZvPwAj0&feature=share
PREM SIKKA: As you know the UK is hosting the Anti-Corruption Summit and its Prime Minister is making all kind of claims about promoting corporate transparency. This article provides counter evidence to show that in order to appease corporations and wealthy elites the UK has continued to promoted practices which make is very difficult, if not impossible, to know the shareholders and directors of companies. The article is titled “How serious is David Cameron about tackling corruption?” and is available at http://leftfootforward.org/2016/05/how-serious-is-david-cameron-about-tackling-corruption/
RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE: Thanks to Frank Taylor, the May edition is now available: EUROPEAN PLEBISCITE SPECIAL; MAY 2016 EDITORIAL: A LONG JOURNEY, THE IMPERIAL MINDSET, REFERENDUM OR PLEBISCITE?, BREXIT; THE MOVIE – RUNNYMEDE_GAZETTE_1605_(1) – see archives
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EVENTS : see: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events
As part of this New Economics series, on Saturday 21st May John McDonnell is convening a national ‘State of the Economy’ conference at Imperial College in London.
The Nature of Prosperity – Inaugural debate Monday, 23 May 2016 – Central Hall Westminster, London – 2.30 – 6.30 pm. We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural event in a major new dialogue on the Nature of Prosperity. The event also marks the launch of the ESRC-funded Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) – http://www.cusp.ac.uk and features Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, in conversation with long-time peace and environmental activist Satish Kumar. Other speakers include: Jane Elliott (Chief Executive of the ESRC), Connie Hedegaard (former EU Commissioner for Climate Change, tbc), Tim Jackson (Director of CUSP) and Caroline Lucas (MP and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth). The event is the first in a series of public debates (hosted by CUSP) engaging young and old alike across business, policy and civil society in one of the most vital questions of our time: what does prosperity mean in a world of environmental and social limits? The event is free to attend but please register your attendance on our Eventbrite page.
Annual Justice & Peace Conference 15 – 17 July 2016 “Justice, Power and Responsibility: How Can Democracy Work for the Common Good?” *** CONFERENCE NOW BOOKING *** Booking forms from NJPN, 39 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1BX 020 7901 4864admin@justice-and-peace.org.uk or download here Some assistance may be possible for families. Please contact NJPN to discuss.
Biomimicry in 16 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZp6smeSQA Michael Pawlyn: ‘to Using nature’s genius in architecture’
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WEEK BY WEEK 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 and encouragement to collaboration:.
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 from current evidence, scriptures, histories, valued publications http://www.ccmj.org and identifying the deeper structural faults behind land [rent], money, lack of basic elements of very person’s inheritance of livelihood, and the over-powering by close boundaried rigid and permanent hierarchies.
2. London Global Open Table [LGOT] – providing an open forum for serving a wider network of good faith 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 each particular week: http://www.globaltable.org.uk/wp . It seeks to avoid dominance by the interssts of those attending and to develop the sesne of the scale and influence of our netwrk when collaboartion grows.
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
- CCMJ- LGOT – ICUK are differing but interweaving foci for mutual support and encouragement. All three have a physical meeting point in central London every Wednesday. In their range of ways each un-earths issues of inclusive justice and tries to re-earth elements that contribute to radical change – particularly systemic structural approaches founded in a new Peoples’ Political-Economy of Trusteeship in the Harmony of Nature – or its biblical equivalent perhaps of the ‘Kin[g]dom of God’ – thereby affirming activism among a far flung range of associates.
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
