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REPORTS:
John Bunzl: Brexit’s Causes Are Global – So Are the Solutions: http://www.johnbunzl.com/#blog
Further Reports are invited from our associates in the quest for inclusive justice to stir our awareness.
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PUBLICATIONS (book reviews welcomed):
Co-operative Socialism – new website in development: http://www.co-operativesocialism.org
Michael Hudson’s ‘The Lost Tradition of Biblical Debt Cancellations’. Not so new – but a vital reminder: The opening paragraph to a 6 page summary that I could send you on request. — “The once-glowing core body of law within the Judeo-Christian Bible has become all but ignored — indeed, rejected — by the colder temper of our times. This core provided for periodic restoration of economic order by rituals of social renewal based on freedom from debt-servitude and from the loss of one’s access to self-support on the land. So central to Israelite moral values was this tradition that it framed the composition of both the Old and New Testaments.” – http://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/HudsonLostTradition.pdf
Roy Madron : Has anyone read his new ebook “Super-Competent Democracies: Dissolving Neoliberalism”? – http://www.rescuingdemocracy.com – Comments would be valued.
The importance of a new narrative for human society on earth FROM the Guardian Sat. August 27th “Cronuts, vaping, Kardashians – playful essays explore deeper meanings in modern culture” –
Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis by Peter Conrad. Reviewed by Steven Poole. I could send the article on request. Commnents aroused by this strong material would be welcomed: http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/mythomania-tales-of-our-times-from-apple-to-isis-hardcover
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EVENTS
“The End of Banking?” with Jonathan McMillan: 10 Sep 2016 14:00 GMT+01:00: Birkbeck College, London: Will fintech overthrow the forces that crashed our financial system? Fintech is the segment of the technology startup scene that stands poised to disrupt the operation of money transfers, loans, mobile payments, asset management, and fundraising. RSVP »Details »
The Reformation of Banking: 14 Sep 2016: The Prince of Greenwich, (London): Ivo Mosley is now working on the final chapter of his book ‘Bank Robbery’ and will outline his target proposals for reform. He is hoping for some difficult questions to test how far these can be pushed. Positive Money Greenwich & Lewisham Local Group.
Discussion: “Values, Wealth and Money” 15 Sep 2016: 19:30pm Godly Play Room (aka Crypt Meeting Room): Many of us find it hard to fully comprehend what money is. Movements like Positive Money have helped to dispel some of the illusions which surround it, including the idea that it is just a commodity ~ notes and coins. Posiive Money London – Waterloo Local Group – RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Positive-Money/events/232869591/
See CALENDAR OF EVENTS : see: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events
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WEEK BY WEEK REFLECTION CONTINUESIN 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. Local Global Open Tables [LGOT] – now associated with the new intiative entitled “Open Research Group” 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 exchanged information and evolving action might take us week by 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 next 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 exploring a pattern of a Confederation of the British Isles with genuine subsidiarity for the UK: http://ww.constitutionalists.uk
