These notes compiled by Rev Canon Peter Challen are posted at http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/, to contribute background information for the Global Table, which continues on Wednesdays from 12noon to 2pm at the School of Economic Science, 11-13 Mandeville Place, W1U 3AJ – now hosted by the Open Research Group – meetings are open to all on a drop-in basis. This weekly forum is a persistent focal point for many who cannot often get to London, but are encouraged in bold initiatives by association and collaboration. We all continue to foster the public sense of the search for inclusive justice. We are trying to sense the richness of our networking without overburdening with detail. We collaborate in order that action may flow BOTH in specified targeted initiatives AND in acknowledgement of our shared commitment to ending exploitation – usury!
Notes of 18th January 2017 meeting: OpenResearchGroup-170118
An Ameican associate’s response to the new era:
THE BLACK MIST
As the people railed against
the most obvious acts of
dark spoken violence,
they missed the black mist
that encircled the world.
A mist that lay as the cause.
Veiled and casting blame
on each dramatic symptom.
Eventually it would be
the kindness of people
that would compel
the mist take its leave.
But not before the people
were drawn into the
righteous battle
for the high ground.
The United States of America is so obviously fractured. We live in troubled times. And as we fight to deem who and what is right, the fracture grows. And an increasingly divided society suffers inestimable consequence. We talk about the symptoms believing they are the cause. But the cause of such human fracture lies deep. Far deeper than we’ve cared to look. What if we were to gaze deeply into the Soul of this Nation. What if we were to listen to its inner-most voice. A voice that exists far beyond the ideas of right and wrong. Nic Askew’s Soul Biographies Method is revolutionary in its ability to elicit and capture on film what lies deep within people. Nic and his team are to travel far and wide across this vast and fractured Nation, in order to capture its very Soul. To give voice to its innermost longing. And its outermost possibility. A nation turned inwards and the Soul of America defined for this new and unsettled age.
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ASSOCIATES AT THEIR POINTS OF WITNESS:
Critical Thinking posts daily blogs on a wide range of topics, and runs a regular discussion group on Wednesday evenings: http://www.freecriticalthinking.org.Douglas Social Credit: The Winter 2016 issue of The Social Artist (incorporating The Social Crediter) in two pdf formats, one for reading on screen, the other for printing out as a booklet – available on www.douglassocialcredit.com
ICUK: recognises the necessity of dealing with BOTH the need for many urgent palliatives within a dying system AND a systemic curative re-design by the participative representative democratic application of an integrated political-economy. It concentrates on the Mega-Narrative within which the UK could shape all its independent but mutually accountable communities. An update is in its formation: www.icuk.info/wp. Please contact peterchallen@gmail.com for latest developments. Curative change to the political-economy like “Poetry happens in two stages, like sculpting; first the imagination, then the chisel.”
LETSlink envisages national and regional hubs – http://www.letslinkuk.net/practice/central-hub.htm – in order to enhance participation in different regions of the UK: existing local groups are linked here: http://www.letslinkuk.net/regions/uk-map.htm and work continues with putting individual groups online, recently Sheffield LETS: www.sheffieldlets.org.uk. But with many gaps in provision, there is an urgent need to bring enquirers together to form new groups – watch this space.
Occupy’s ‘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:
Michael Sinclair contributes “an excellent lead article in the current weekly issue of The Epoch Times” – http://www.theepochtimes.com/ – (in Canada available free at its own newspaper boxes): http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2207829-why-economists-cant-seem-to-get-it-right/
Campaign for Free Parliament CFP an 8 minute video of explanation: http://www.southdevonwatch.org.uk/independence-group/independence-in-democracy-martyn-greene-the-campaign-for-a-free-parliament/
The Simpol Solution – Solving global problems may be easier than we think – by John Bunzl & Nick Duffell . To be published in February 2017: Summary: Humanity is failing to tackle urgent global problems like climate change, tax havens, mass migration and wealth inequality. Meanwhile, voters are rebelling in the form of Brexit, Trump and the rise of the Far-Right. The SIMPOL SOLUTION reasons that there is just one barrier that prevents all governments from taking action: the fear that it would make their national economies uncompetitive. No nation can move first for fear of losing jobs and investment to others. http://www.simpol.org/index.php?id=545Videos: An associate suggests ….Please watch this brilliant 5 min video clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyaEQEmt5ls&feature=youtu.bemomondo – The DNA Journey
How land is valued for fiscal purposes – at the cutting edge – with a government agency, the Valuer General of NSW, in Oz that does it on a daily basis http://www.valuergeneral.nsw.gov.au/land_values/valuation_method
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COLLABORATION: Over time our weekly forum has considered important aphorisms that help the development of dialogue that takes us into new understandings of the co-operative task. Let us remind ourselves of one of these each week: 11. “The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race.”
