These notes, compiled by Rev Canon Peter Challen, are posted at http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/, to contribute background information for associates of the Global Table. A core meeting continues on Wednesdays from 12noon to 2 pm 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 – now exponentially rampant!

Notes of Open Research Group meeting on 28th June 2017: OpenResearchGroup-170628
Notes of Open Research Group meeting on 5th July 2017: OpenResearchGroup-170705

Forthcoming Events:  http://www.globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events

FROM ASSOCIATES AT THEIR POINTS OF WITNESS: 

Reformation 2017 ‘IF WE WANT CULTURAL DEMOCRACY, ELITISM MUST MAKE WAY FOR CREATIVITY  [Guardian 29-6]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/30/excellence-arts-should-not-be-defined-by-metropolitan-elite

On July 2nd Professor Stephen Hawking has – probably quite dramatically – raised awareness by declaring that Trump’s abandoning of the Paris Treaty will lead to the destruction of humanity; suggesting thereby the importance of making clear that we set our challenge from the outset within the range of the whole cosmos and therefore of its subsidiary, planet-earth

Chesterton’s Hymn of c1920 : O GOD OF EARTH AND ALTAR  – i.e. of Both all in coherent entirety And all local expressions of that primal energy:  1. 0 God earth and altar bow down and hear our cry. Our earthly rulers falter, our people drift and die. The walls of gold entomb us, the swords of scorn divide us; take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride. 2. From all that terror teaches, from lies of tongue and pen, from all the easy speeches that comfort cruel men, from sale and profanation of honour and the sword, from sleep and from damnation, deliver us, good Lord! ie in a living tether the prince and priest and thrall, bind all our lives together, smite us and save us all; in ire and exultation aflame with faith, and free, lift up a living nation, a single sword to thee: https://www.chesterton.org/a-hymn-o-god-of-earth-and-altar/

POSITIVE MONEY: Main differences between the current dysfunctional debt-based monetar. system and what we propose:  – see also  #sovereignmoney.

CCMJ – last call has gone out for responses to the  2017 Annual Appraisal: this is a collaborative process: see http://ccmj.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CCMJ_APPRAISAL_2017.pdf. One very bold statement reminds us that …..”Usury is a word you don’t hear every day. You don’t hear it on the radio or television talk shows. You don’t hear it in political speeches or in the news. You do hear in all of those places how bad the economy is, and you do hear about all kinds of reasons for why things are so bad and about ways to fix it. But the real reason things are so bad is because of usury. And the reason things aren’t getting any better is because no one is talking about what’s really wrong. …… What we accept today as interest once was called usury, and that through most of history most everyone was against it. He explains in easy to understand terms how the Bible condemned usury thousands of years ago, and how the Church followed the Bible on this point until our Modern era. Mooney ends on a stirring note: Will you be part of the problem, or part of the solution?

INDEPENDENT CONSTITUTIONALISTS UK {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 Meta-Narrative within which the UK could shape all its independent but mutually accountable communities. An update is now evolving online. http://www.icuk.life  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.” The ICUK forum  meets in central London every Wednesday between 12 and 2pm. You are invited to make direct  request for details of the venue. Informal  Strategy formation meetings are on Wednesdays – seek details is interested.

Free Critical Thinking: meetings are now on Tuesdays 7pm to 9pm in St John’s Church, 73 Waterloo Rd, Lambeth, London SE1 8TY, opposite Waterloo: http://www.freecriticalthinking.org • A view of Critical Thinking’s scope http://freecriticalthinking.org/9-general/1518-hierarchy-and-the-political-economy and in pithy summary : CT – Hierarchy, theft of the Commons and Usury are the fundamental drivers of poverty, wars, environmental destruction and the enslavement of humanity. Once we understand that, we’re on the road to recovering humanity.

LETSlink  envisages national and regional hubs – LETSlink  envisages national and regional hubs – dedicated training work is being done with individual LETS groups.  The main website sets out theory and enables enquirers to connect with local groups:  http://www.letslinkuk.net/uk-map.htm.

Further Reports are invited from our associates in the quest for inclusive justice to stir our awareness and effect change through both palliative and curative means.
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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. We revisited those guiding thoughts and now value responses about their use, or about any other enduring wisdom relating to collaboration flow in steadily. “Do not feel absolutely certain about anything.”