MATTERS IN THE AIR …. WELCOMING NEW COMERS – Reminding each other of opportunities before us.

– Reporting the COMMON CAUSE seminar on FRAMES AND VALUES by WWF and CAFOD [100 strong] of March 21 and reflection in Oxfam, Christian Aid and other NGOs

– Submissions to the ICB and the Treasury – ? on The Treasury Committee’s inquiry into the Accountability of the Bank of England??

– FINANCE LAB Report http://tinyurl.com/5unnsul – And the Innovation Gp we are adding to the Finance Lab – http://tinyurl.com/682o7c9 CEJ and the Fin Lab

– KEEP UP WITH RODNEY’S WORK ON YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rodney+shakespeare&aq=f
– Rodney is now Chairman of the Committee against Torture in Bahrain, London

– Positive Money – the March 26 lecture at SES

– Social and Economic Models – extending perspective on the vision at the end of the U curve. What will finance for people and planet look like – http://tinyurl.com/6eol4rc

– Latest Citizen’s Income Bulletin – http://www.citizensincome.org/

PERTINENT PICKINGS from the week

– Latest The Social Creditor – a fine edition – http://www.douglassocialcredit.com

– Prem Silkka has an article in the Tribune Magazine which argues that the next financial crisis is inevitable. It argues that the proposed reforms have failed to address the fundamental issues and that the finance theories, which drive much of the speculative trade, are incapable of being reformed.
See:  http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2011/03/11437/ – and you can stimulate the debate by adding your comments.

– Paul Hellyer -former Deputy PM of Canada – http://tinyurl.com/5wwkw3g

– MARCH FOR THE ALTERNATIVE – JOBS*GROWTH*JUSTICE:  Saturday 26 March 2011
– http://www.tuc.org.uk/march – Paradox: Linchpin Of The Long Emergency – Carolyn Baker 13 February, 2011 – http://carolynbaker.net/2011/02/13/paradox-linchpin-of-the-long-emergency-by-carolyn-baker/

• SEE MONBIOT IN GUARDIAN 7/3/11 plus Ad on Co-operatives

What is the pithiest form of our core message? What of this draft?

WHO IS THE ENEMY?
The enemy is hubristic humanity,
living as though we could control nature.
Until we decommodify people, land and credit,
we are doomed to inappropriate exponential growth
and the entrenched habit
of exploitation of people and planet
that together widen the rich poor gap and
degrade the planet’s life support systems.