Wednesdays 12noon-2pm at the School of Economic Science, 11-13 Mandeville Place, W1U 3AJ. From Bond Street tube, turn left/west into Oxford Street, when you see GAP, go right/north along James Street straight into Mandeville Place – No. 11 is the building with pillars last on the left.

‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ which participants could choose to develop…..

1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS

a] REPORTING LAST WEEK’S EIGHT EVENTS ON THE COMMONS – 350+ attendances

b]. Reporting the Putney Debates now running – Occupy http://www.facebook.com/OccupyLawUk

2. EVIDENCE OF MOUNTING DANGERS and OPPORTUNITIES

a} TIME TO BREAK OUT THE CHAMPAGNE

b} James Robertson Newsletter No. 8 – October 2012
The full Newsletter can also be viewed at www.jamesrobertson.com/newsletter.htm.

– IMF’s epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers – Telegraph
So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claim…
c] have you any significant evidence to share?

3. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION

a] Developing a ‘critical mass’ capable of moving the political economy significantly – charting ‘a matrix of critical mass’ –

b] Church of Scotland’s 49 page Special Commission on the Purpose of the Economy – A Right Relationship with Money: May 2012

c] Name others 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

b] Please let me know of any agencies we should invite into the alliance for significant change.

c] Mark Boyle: I’m just dropping you a quick note to let you know that my new book, The Moneyless Manifesto, is out today! There are a number of ways you can read it (I hope you enjoy it!): Get a paperback copy: http://amzn.to/SFRP6R. Read online for free: http://www.moneylessmanifesto.org/why-free/. Other sources from which to order it: < href=http://www.moneylessmanifesto.org/get-a-copy/>http://www.moneylessmanifesto.org/get-a-copy/

For more info and/or to get involved: www.moneylessmanifesto.org
Share on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheMoneylessManifesto

d] an analogy!!!

THE MEANING OF CAKE:
She stared into the slice of cake,
as it sat unenthusiastically
beside her coffee.
It seemed cake was everywhere.
And cake had been her downfall.
Or so she’d thought.

It had been a while since she’d
seen her toes.

She remembered back
to a time when cake was
rare. When the very
mention of cake
lit her smile. When
cake meant something.

But now there was too much.
There was too much of everything.

And the too much had numbed her
to the experience of the world.

As she stared into the slice,
she dreamed of a time of ‘not too much’.
Where, once again, cake would mean something.

Nic Askew

FROM SINGLE ACT TO CRITICAL MASS

What’s being done today
and what awaits the morrow
if of 187 on this list each acts
the mass moves towards critical;
and change we despair of may yet come.

Yours along the pilgrims’ costly way,

Peter

—
7 ISSUES recently restated by Charles Eisenstein
but identified in the work of CCMJ and the Global Table
….each issue with its…

1. Motivation:
2. Transition and Policy: and
3. Replenishing Effect on Economic life:

a. Negative-Interest Currency
b. Elimination of Economic Rents, and Compensation for Depletion of the Commons
c. Internalization of Social and Environmental Costs
d. Economic and Monetary Localization
e. The Social Dividend

—
7 ISSUES recently restated by Charles Eisenstein but identified in the work of CCMJ and the Global Table….each issue with its….

1. Motivation:
2. Transition and Policy: and
3. Replenishing Effect on Economic life:

a. Negative-Interest Currency
b. Elimination of Economic Rents, and Compensation for Depletion of the Commons
c. Internalization of Social and Environmental Costs
d. Economic and Monetary Localization
e. The Social Dividend
f. Economic Degrowth
g. Gift Culture and P2P economics

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QUILLIGAN and allied SEMINARS Oct. 22-28th

Main page/introduction by James Quilligan – philosopher and development economist
co-founder of the Global Commons Trust – acting as moderator of the series:
http://schoolofcommoning.com/content/october-2012-quilligan-seminars
Links on all pages to make navigation easy and
the overview with each point of access is here: http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/content/overview-october-2012-seminars

THE THESIS IS SIMPLE:
Our present ways of knowing are imbalanced, which has skewed the economic system and reduced the commons of the ordinary world into commodities and money. Since all people have two brain hemispheres which process complementary views on the nature of reality as a whole and as a part, a foundation exists for economic knowledge that is both universal and pluralistic. The development of this theory of knowledge [epistemology] will reunite the economy with the commons [ontology]. .JBQ

ITS APPLICATION IS OUR TOUGH TASK
……. in which we must each respect each other’s contribution and starting point.