MATTERS in the AIR: 12.00-14.00 at the SES, 11-13 Mandeville Place, London W1U 3AJ
Just two ‘matters in the air’ for your serious pondering this week.
1. On Mar 8 and 9 [in London] there are two opportunities to debate the history, present responsibilities and the future of the labelled agency that has sustained the open, weekly, London Global Table as a focus on inclusive justice for 18 years, that is, the Christian Council for Monetary Justice.
The numbers registering for each day are small: 9 on Saturday and 11 on Sunday. I’d value your presence or your reflections on both CCMJ and its 17 year old offspring, the London Table. Please register your attendance or comments with me as soon as you can, to aid the preparations. Details would then be sent to you.
2. . Both CCMJ and LGOT acknowledge the difficulty of getting ourselves and others to work BOTH on the vital alleviating of symptoms AND identifying and seeking change to the deeply underlying causes. A group of us have been trying to make this point as briefly and poignantly as possible as a starting point for widening the numbers tackling this problem.
Your comment on the points below would be valuable at this time of Appraisal
BOTH AND ………………to meet the need………….
RE-FORM – palliatives, caring for the dying – treating symptoms
Research among associates has led to the conclusion that laudable initiatives like the UN’s MDG’s goals, Positive Money and other reforms cannot, in principle, be achieved; and that the World Bank advocacy of change cannot, in principle lead to a qualitative change to the social system that germinates the conditions for suffering.
Why not? Because the IMF/World Bank and the Financial sector all work within a fiscal/financial framework that is structured to reproduce– to literally fabricate – the kind of inequality that widens inequality, accentuates poverty, kills children in Africa, and the aged in the rich countries.(50,000 people die every year, prematurely, in England and Wales alone, because of that fiscal/financial system – many of those people losing up to 12 years of life they could otherwise enjoy on earth).
RE-DESIGN – curatives – acknowledging and altering the cause
The Social Contract developed over the last 800 years has a bias to property ownership that has led to asset enclosure and wage enslavement, reaching a Statecraft of Greed that has generated a culture of socially acceptable cheating in which all become embroiled and to which enterprise becomes addicted.
Institutional formation and drag makes the identification and changing of the faulty structures less and less possible.
We must formulate a new social contract and re-design a systemic structure of inclusive justice within an ecological community. To achieve this we must create a critical mass to demand and support it.
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Yours along this tough stage of the pilgrims’ way,
Peter
