FORTHCOMING EVENTS
You are invited to a House of Commons Meeting hosted by Ruth Cadbury MP on the right to withhold our taxes when our Government chooses to go to War. The meeting takes place on October 11th at 6.30pm in the House of Commons. You can find out more and register here … and if you go…. please report impressions pertinent to our cause.
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REPORTS:
CCMJ’s AGM was held on Sat 24th September 2016 and a report is awaited – watch this space.
Critical Thinking posts daily blogs on a wide range of topics, and runs a regular discussion group on Wednesday evenings: http://www.freecriticalthinking.org
Some of our associates have attended the Labour Party Conference and their impressions would be greatly valued in this network. Meanwhile see Guardian Feature on Momentum: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/18/momentum-activists-labour-jeremy-corbyn-feature
Bruce Nixon: submits valuable reflection on the need for change and approaches to it https://brucenixonblog.wordpress.com/
Taxpayers Against Poverty launches affordable housing campaign – Nine blogs in nine weeks – 1st blog Friday 7th Oct | Taxpayers Against Poverty. No citizen without an affordable home and an adequate income in work or unemployment.
ICUK: is dealing with BOTH the need for many urgent palliatives within a dying system AND a systemic curative re-design and the democratic application of a curative and integrated political-economy. Everyone who is ready to consider our challenge is likely already to be engrossed in a palliative in the existing system. We must clearly honour that fact, while also asking them as sensitively as we can to put their name and some deliberate additional activity to a critical mass movement for systemic restructuring. In this context we are offering the vital non-partisan, that is inclusive, approach ‘to use the system, to become the system to change the system, to recover trust’.
In order to bolster this educative mind-shift and maintain the creative tension of what so many think of as either/or rather than both/and, we must ensure that any clarifying of language does not obscure this profoundly radical intent – otherwise we are seen to be just another worthy radical adjustment disconnected from the integrity that is natural in the creative forces from which we all spring. Cromwell puts it bluntly in ousting Parliamentarians. Collective discord demands fundamental reform, but we are trying ‘to use the system. to become the system, to change the system to recover trust: http://www.constitutionalists.uk. This site is now subject to revision with new more realistic targets – enquire via peterchallen@gmail.com
LETSlink continues with systematic implementation of long-envisaged national and regional hubs – http://www.letslinkuk.net/practice/central-hub.htm – in order to enhance participation in different regions of the UK: local groups are linked here: http://www.letslinkuk.net/regions/uk-map.htm
Occupy Economics Working Group continues to meet Mondays and Fridays 5-7pm at Friends House Euston, welcomes new visitors who drop by, and contributes papers to our network: http://occupylondon.org.uk/occupy-economics-working-group/
Further Reports are invited from our associates in the quest for inclusive justice to stir our awareness.
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PUBLICATIONS & BLOGS – reviews always welcomed:
Isaac Asimov on Creativity: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531911/isaac-asimov-asks-how-do-people-get-new-ideas/ – October 20, 2014
Rodney Shakespeare comments on Brexit : http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/10/02/487374/UK-EU-Brexit-May-Shakespeare
Richard Murphy important blog. Corbyn’s investment plans will cost less than the government’s QE programme – 29 Sep 2016. Also from Richard Murphy: The Financial Reporting Council really has got to talk to the world beyond the City – 21 Sep 2016. Richard spoke at the Labour Party Conference – can anyone report on his impact?
A fine example for explaining why that which people say is IMPOSSIBLE must be seriously considered. Mother Pelican’s Editorial Essay: Integral Human Development for an Integral Ecology in today#s Quarterly edition
George Monbiot: Disposable Planet: 14 Sep 2016 Consumerism occupies a sacred and inviolable space, while the wonders of the living world are dispensable.
Peter Frase presented at a recent Momentum meeting a summary of his latest book: Four Futures: Life After Capitalism – one thing we can be certain of is that capitalism will end – an exhilarating exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society: see review in Jacobin Mag: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/ – published by Verso Books, see: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1847-four-futures
Richard Vague: How to Suffocate Your Economy: Drown it in Massive Private Debt The whole world has too much of it. History suggests this won’t end well. Read more
The Devil’s Pulpit by Robert Taylor: published 1832 in Boston Massachussets, and re-published in 2006 – recommended as an important read by Pete Davis. This series of sermons challenged the rigid and uncompromising views that were held by Christianity in England at the time. Reverend Taylor was originally a doctor who took up the holy orders in the Church of England. Read more of this fascinating history: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-Pulpit-Robert-Taylor/dp/1585092576.
See also Astronomico Theological Lectures: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Astronomico-Theological-Lectures-Robert-Classic-Reprint/dp/B0093DF53C – Rev Robert Taylor was challenging the whole structure of the church
