Global Table Nov 17th
COMMENT ALWAYS WELCOME from all our friends in the Table’s wide network
MATTERS IN THE AIR …. WELCOMING NEW COMERS – Reminding each other of opportunities before us:
Reporting on current surge in action
– ‘Independent Commission on Banking – Development re our submission
– Bromsgrove {oct 29-31],
– CCMJ annual meeting [Oct 23],
– Positive Money, www.postivemoney.org.uk or info@psitivemoney.org.uk Note Mary Fee’s initial report as an attachment
– Coalition for Economic Justice,
– The new Innovation Lab we are adding to the Fin Lab
– Visit of Leonard Orr and THEN at SOAS that evening [Raga and Mary]
– Faiths in London Economy
– High Pay Commission – https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12c310bee98d23b5
– Prof. Kaoru Yamaguchi’s breakthrough – evidence from AMI
For a refreshing course on economics with justice run by the School of Economic Science, the Table’s generous host, visit www.economicswithjustice.co.uk
Finance Lab Updates – 2100 participants 18 Innovation Group meetings since the last Assembly 9 on the Lab core team 20+ stewards supporting work of the Lab 2 Assemblies oversubscribed £170k in funds raised 10+ Innovation groups 1 Operating framework complete 40 Faculty Champions 1000+ on the online community 13 Organisational supporters. Get Involved.
PERTINENT PICKINGS from the week
# A gruesome account of the US financial scene. Ruling on Behalf of Wall Street’s “Super Rich”: The Financial End Time has Arrived Prof. Michael Hudson
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21947
The Lax Tax Pact – Monbiot http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/11/08/the-lax-tax-pact/
Maybe of interest..http://ineteconomics.org/blog/free-pdf-available-future-finance R.Searle
‘Fleeing Vesuvius’ Feasta’s new book :
https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12c19d54d831e796
LET THE ENVIRONMENT GOVERN THE HUMAN MIND-SHIFT – Johan Rockstrom
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2wxw8aa a vivid 18 minutes on danger and opportunity
www.fouryearsgo.org FOUR YEARS GO is a campaign to shift the current trends of humanity by 2014 so that we will be headed on a path toward an environmentally sustainable, socially just, and spiritually fulfilling future on this planet.
Note that ‘Matters in the Air’ for the following Wednesday fall into place as matters arise and can be seen at each stage on www.ccmj.org/members/news.php
Let Peter know if you have anything to add or ask.
ARTICLES and RESOURCE sites
21st Century Enlightenment – Marvellous animation! Matthew Taylor of the RSA before marvellous animation! http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/2010/08/23/rsa-animate-21st-century-enlightenment/ Full 1.14.00 lecture http://www.thersa.org/events/vision/vision-videos/matthew-taylor-21st-century-enlightenment