MATTERS IN THE AIR: 20th July – 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 week, noting it will be the last. http://www.globaltable.org.uk/wp. Engaging with changing paradigms opens up unlimited possibilities but we need to set ego aside, along with all our cherished beliefs to recognise that “Nothing is impossible if you don’t mind who gets the credit.”
12-2 pm 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.
The venue for ICUK meetings are in NEGOTIATION and notice of that will go to those on its Registered Interest E-list: JULY 27TH WILL BE THE LAST MEETING OF THE GLOBAL TABLE – ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ WILL STILL FILL THE AIR WEEK BY WEEK…. IN ORDER THAT ACTION MAY FLOW WITH BOTH SPECIFIC TARGETTED INITIATIVES AND IN ACKNOWLEDGED SHARED COMMITMENT TO A COMMON PURPOSE
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REPORTS: are always invited from 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.
POSITIVE NEWS – latest inspires with many fine examples from which we may learn much, or even contribute more: Responses to the editorial ‘Sharing the Vision’ would be welcomed: https://www.positive.news/2016/perspective/editors-letter/21783/sharing-the-vision/
The Green New Deal’s just become the British New Deal 17 -7-16 Jeremy Corbyn took Richard Murphy’s Green Quantitative Easing and made it People’s Quantitative Easing. Now it looks like Owen Smith has taken the Green New Deal, of which Richard is a leading exponent and policy group member, and made it into the British New Deal with £200 billion of investment plans and energy and climate change at the heart of it.
LAND AND LIBERTY – Spring 2016 – http://www.landandliberty.net – carries fine articles affirming our fundamental emphasis that total system change has to be an aspect of the change we seek. Please recommend it to others.
We speak of ‘non-violence’ and being ‘non-partisan’ in a new political-economy! Here is a significant article on concerted effort to face that immense challenge. “Is Violence Against Oppression Legitimate? http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/is-violence-justified-to-resist-racist-oppression
Reports please on COMPASS • DiEM25 • Free Parliament • Momentum • CUSP: UK Column …et al
Note and support all these Momentum rallies around the country: http://www.peoplesmomentum.com/calendar
Co-operative Socialism – new website in development: http://www.co-operativesocialism.org
Gian Andreone reports on Doug Bandow’s article in National Interest: – 16 Reasons to Celebrate Brexit’s Win: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/16-reasons-celebrate-brexits-win-16739
Positive Money – Ben Dyson reports of significant change in Bank of England regulations: http://positivemoney.org/2016/06/bank-of-england-uk-banks-to-lose-their-status-as-gatekeepers-to-the-payment-system/
RSA Comment by Peter Challen presenting ICUK: https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-comment/2016/06/trusteeship-in-the-harmony-of-nature
RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE:
Thanks to Frank Taylor, for two further EU Referendum special editions received: see Archives
RUNNYMEDE_GAZETTE_1606(1) – European Plebiscite Special No 3.
RUNNYMEDE_GAZETTE_1606(2) – European Plebiscite Special No 4 – plus this essay:
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WAKING TIMES: A reminder of the change of consciousness needed and now arising around the world ; All Eyes Are On the Control Matrix Phillip J. Watt, Contributor Waking Times and paradigmatic shifts in our collective consciousness. Latest from Kerry Creaswood, Jun 14, 2016 06:08 pm: There is no doubt that what you are thinking originates in the brain, but are the mind and the brain the same thing? Your Brain Is Not Your Mind: True Nature of Consciousness
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NEW PUBLICATIONS:
“Heralding Article 25 – A people’s strategy for world transformation” – to discuss this UN challenge in relation to our work. A profound study of the extent of the mind-shift we require today. http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=3772
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EVENTS : see: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events
Wednesday July 20th 7-9 pm : Citizens Dividend Cocktail – A discussion about sharing the wealth of the planet in the form of a Citizens Dividend. Brief presentations on the Commons, Usury, Arts and Culture in the context of a Citizens Dividend will be followed by discussion, in the round, of the three presentations. People often refer to Basic Income; the House of Commons discussion referred to an amount of £70 per week per adult – this is hardly the means to life. A Citizens Dividend from the wealth of the planet could provide the means to shelter, clothe and feed everyone, debt free without increasing income, sales or employment taxes; indeed they could even be reduced. The event is now up on the Critical Thinking Events page: http://freecriticalthinking.
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WEEK BY WEEK WE CONTINUE REFLECTING IN OPEN ‘COUNCIL’ on the value of 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 in collaboration:
1. The Christian Council for Monetary Justice [CCMJ] – is a wide-ranging association of people examining enduring wisdom and contemporary evidence about money and its effect on society – utilising resources of wisdom from current evidence, scriptures, histories and evaluated publications to identify 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 boundaries with rigid and permanent hierarchies. It is not a membership organisation but an open association of explorers learning by collaboration and by shared evolving insights and possible actions. We long for more online reports, comments, questions etc. We dare to probe possible contemporary interpretations of the concept of the ‘Kin[g]dom of God; contributing to and learning from the specific formation of a political process, such as is being steadily evolved in ICUK described below http://www.ccmj.org
2. The London Global Open Table [LGOT] – provides an open online forum for serving an even wider network of people of good faith with a weekly focus for mutual support and encouragement. 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. We seek to develop an encouraging sense of the scale and influence of our network when collaboration grows: 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 the Harmony of Nature. We seek to travel a new path via the 2020 [or earlier] General Election. The ICUK’s Manifesto and Charter provide an incremental, evolving process of defining and implementing a People’s Political-Economy of Trusteeship in the Harmony of Nature in a pattern of a Confederation of the British Isles with genuine subsidiarity for the UK: http://ww.constitutionalists.uk
