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MATTERS IN THE AIR: 18th May 2016\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0– in which all may share as our networking prospers the cause of inclusive justice\u2026 visit the website to view the evolving agenda for the next meeting: http:\/\/www.globaltable.org.uk\/wp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

10-12am \u00a0 informal ICUK agenda formation<\/strong> \u2013 open, but attentive to that initiative.<\/p>\n

12-2pm GLOBAL TABLE utilising this week’s\u00a0 \u2018MATTERS IN THE AIR\u2019 on issues raised in our network. Please make your comments or raise questions on any of these. We are trying to sense the richness of our networking without overburdening with detail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nREPORTS:<\/strong> always invited our associates in the quest for inclusive justice. Then a discussion: Those who can\u2019t join us on a Wednesday \u2013 send us your comments and reports of your action.<\/p>\n

CCMJ<\/strong>: a report of the Annual Review pre-meeting held on 4th May will be available soon.<\/p>\n

COMPASS: see draft Strategy Paper:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.compassonline.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Compass-Draft-Strategy-Building-the-Alternative_final.pdf<\/a>. At the end of this are listed some questions for us to respond to: 1. Is this shift from immediate concerns to more structural change right? 2. Are we proposing to do it in the right way? 3. Are we proposing to do it around the right issues? Who else should we be working with? 4. What can you do to help? and DiEM25, the European Movement for Democracy with which we are seeking dialogue and to which we now subscribe, see;\u00a0https:\/\/diem25.org\/manifesto-short-version\/<\/a><\/p>\n

DESIGNING DEMOCRACY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: <\/strong>report from 10\/5\/2016\u00a0<\/strong>in progress:\u00a0<\/em>http:\/\/globaltable.org.uk\/wp\/venue\/designing-democracy-for-the-21st-century-1052016<\/a><\/p>\n

LAND TAX<\/strong> or Location Value Charge – a\u00a0Simple guide: \u00a0Dominic Frisby\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gD_dZvPwAj0&feature=share<\/a><\/p>\n

PREM SIKKA<\/strong>: As you know the UK is hosting the Anti-Corruption Summit and its Prime Minister is making all kind of claims about promoting corporate transparency. This article provides counter evidence to show that in order to appease corporations and wealthy elites the UK has continued to promoted practices which make is very difficult, if not impossible, to know the shareholders and directors of companies. The article is titled \u201cHow serious is David Cameron about tackling corruption?\u201d and is available at http:\/\/leftfootforward.org\/2016\/05\/how-serious-is-david-cameron-about-tackling-corruption\/<\/a><\/p>\n

RUNNYMEDE\u00a0GAZETTE:<\/strong> Thanks to Frank Taylor, the May edition is now available:\u00a0EUROPEAN PLEBISCITE\u00a0SPECIAL; MAY 2016\u00a0EDITORIAL:\u00a0A LONG JOURNEY,\u00a0THE IMPERIAL MINDSET,\u00a0REFERENDUM OR PLEBISCITE?,\u00a0BREXIT; THE MOVIE –\u00a0RUNNYMEDE_GAZETTE_1605_(1)<\/a>\u00a0– see archives<\/a><\/p>\n

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EVENTS :<\/strong> see: http:\/\/globaltable.org.uk\/wp\/forthcoming-events<\/a><\/p>\n

As part of this New Economics series, on Saturday 21st May John McDonnell is convening a national ‘State of the Economy’ conference<\/strong> at Imperial College in London.<\/p>\n

The Nature<\/em> of Prosperity – <\/strong>Inaugural debate Monday, 23 May 2016 \u2013 Central Hall Westminster, London –\u00a0<\/strong>2.30 \u2013 6.30 pm. \u00a0<\/strong>We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural event in a major new dialogue on the Nature of Prosperity<\/em>. The event also marks the launch of the ESRC-funded Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)<\/strong> – http:\/\/www.cusp.ac.uk<\/a> <\/strong>and features Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, in conversation with long-time peace and environmental activist Satish Kumar. Other speakers include: Jane Elliott (Chief Executive of the ESRC), Connie Hedegaard (former EU Commissioner for Climate Change, tbc), Tim Jackson (Director of CUSP) and Caroline Lucas (MP and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth). \u00a0The event is the first in a series of public debates (hosted by CUSP) engaging young and old alike across business, policy and civil society in one of the most vital questions of our time: what does prosperity mean in a world of environmental and social limits? The event is free to attend but please register your attendance on our Eventbrite page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Annual Justice & Peace Conference 15 \u2013 17 July 2016<\/strong> \u201cJustice, Power and Responsibility:\u00a0How Can Democracy Work for the Common Good?\u201d *** CONFERENCE NOW BOOKING *** Booking forms from NJPN, 39 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1BX 020 7901 4864admin@justice-and-peace.org.uk<\/a> or download here Some assistance may be possible for families. Please contact NJPN to discuss.<\/p>\n

Biomimicry in 16 mins https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3QZp6smeSQA<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>Michael Pawlyn: \u2018to Using nature’s genius in architecture\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nWEEK BY WEEK WE CONTINUE REFLECTING<\/strong> on the value of these three perspectives in our quest for inclusive justice. Inevitably there is overlap between each mode of approach. Each and all add richness to our searching and encouragement to collaboration:.<\/p>\n

1.The Christian Council for Monetary Justice [CCMJ]<\/strong> \u2013 examining enduring wisdom and contemporary evidence about money and its effect on society \u2013 utilising resources of the enduring wisdom from current evidence, scriptures, histories, valued publications http:\/\/www.ccmj.org<\/a> and identifying the deeper structural faults behind land [rent], money, lack of basic elements of very person’s inheritance of livelihood, and the over-powering by close boundaried rigid and permanent hierarchies.<\/p>\n

2. London Global Open Table [LGOT]<\/strong> \u2013 providing an open forum for serving a wider network of good faith with a point of weekly reference. All are welcome to send items for \u2018Matters in the Air\u2019 to indicate where our dialogue and action might take us in each particular week: http:\/\/www.globaltable.org.uk\/wp . It seeks to avoid dominance by the interssts of those attending and to develop the sesne of the scale and influence of our netwrk when collaboartion grows.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

3. Trustees All: The Independent Constitutionalists UK<\/strong> \u2013 advocate and advance a targeted initiative by \u2018principled pragmatism\u2019 to take viable, if difficult, steps towards weaving politics and economics \u2013 governance and vital trading \u2013 into a People\u2019s Political-Economy of Trusteeship in Harmony with Nature. Travel the new path via the 2020 [or earlier] General Election. The ICUK\u2019s Manifesto and Charter provide an incremental, imperfect process of evolving a People\u2019s Political-Economy of Trusteeship in the Harmony of Nature: http:\/\/ww.constitutionalists.uk<\/a><\/p>\n