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‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ which participants could choose to develop…..
Welcome to any first timers or returners. John Egan
1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS
Can we concentrate this week on the impact of the book launched on Oct 28th, the impact of which I summarise in some rough hewn, broken text, written to get a concentrated view of the stern and bluntly honest account of 500 years of mis-used, indeed insidiously socially disruptive, ‘economic rent’ in Fred Harrison’s ‘The Traumatised Society – How to Outlaw Cheating and Save Our Civilisation,’ which launch served as the climax of the ‘Quilligan and Allied Seminars’ of Oct 22-28th 2012.
ENDEMIC DECAY
‘Tis all too readily to be seen
the interplay, systemic decay,
revealing geno-cide, side by side,
with many-angled eco-cide
merging remorselessly, without delay,
into humanicide.
Is the tide turning
or the darkness deepening?
Alas time will not tell
for time is not available,
but well-noted evidence of
imminent danger requires
immediate action.
SYSTEMIC RECOVERY
Action by everyone at their
hard yard daily points
of contact with this global house-,
seen now so desperate
for wise –keeping.
As we each play a part, seen far and wide,
growing public clamour will announce
the changing mindset that will prove
opportunity for root and branch
structural, personal and wide societal,
renewal, to consistently re-form.
Only when assured systemic interplay
is alive again today,
will ‘geno-regeneration’,
‘eco-replenishment’ and
‘a new humanity’ arise,
side by side, where once
advanced wide planetary suicide.
The creative surplus
of all our energies and talents,
the planet’s commons, our shared wealth,
become again the resources of humanity,
for common good, our flourishing,
the earth’s well-being, her economic rent,
rightly valued and shared everywhere.
It poses the question of how we can communicate the seriousness and urgency of radical reform in a movement that takes account of many starting points. December 8th in Bristol is a key date for the next step in answering that question.There are only a few of the 75 places left. Let Charles Secrett know immediately if you wish to join that conference. [“Charles Secrett” <cmsecrett@btinternet.com>, ]
a] FURTHER REPORTS ON ‘OUTCOMES OF THE QS2 AND ALLIED SEMINARS’
b]. Reporting the Putney Debates now running – Occupy http://www.facebook.com/OccupyLawUk
c] Occupy NY and the Rolling Jubilee. A brilliant initiative.
2. EVIDENCE OF MOUNTING DANGERS and OPPORTUNITIES
a] Book Launch of “The Wealth of the Commons — a World beyond Market and State” Friday, November 23, 2012
http://www.meetup.com/School-of-Commoning-Events/events/90327962/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1
3. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION
a] Keep in touch with SIMPOL and help in their campaign of recruitment. The Simpol-UK blog was 2 years old last week 🙂 http://simpoluk.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/happy-birthday-dear-blo-og-2/
b] Name other interests you know
4. YOUR INPUT ON THE ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ YOU WISH TO SHARE
a] New Wilberforce Alliance – http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/162939 – Paul Moore
Yours along the pilgrims’ costly way, Peter
