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Challenging
MAJOR ABUSES within the current system, eg
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Curtailing the activities of high-interest loan
sharks and credit card companies: new Credit laws
in train (Richard Murphy)
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Preventing banks from forcing people into bankruptcy:
SAFE (Keith Wincup)
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Critiquing proposed new legislation - for example
on PPPs etc (Chris Cook)
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Knowing the range of literature (CCMJ Librarian
Ken Palmerton).
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Addressing the Public (CCMJ Press Officer Kevin
Donnelly)
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Alerting our representatives:
The Forum for Stable Currencies is in regular exploration
and debate in the Palace of Westminster and proposes
Early Day Motions (EDMs) (Sabine McNeil) & Private
Members Bills eg Ministry of Peace.
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Supporting
incremental change by means of: COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES
which can run alongside the current system:
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Credit unions offering lower interest rates (Peter
Bussy)
• Cash-free exchange networks, e.g. LETS and
Timebanks
• New modes of investment involving risk-sharing
rather than usury (Chris Cook)
• Pension Reform by investment in building
projects not the stock-market (Richard Murphy)
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Know of the co-operative advantage represented by
the International Co-operative principles (John
Courtneidge)
• Dialogue with Churches, Mission agencies,
Muslims, Jews (Peter Challen, Rodney Shakespeare,
David Pidcock )
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Developing
a coherent set of comprehensive, electable, STRATEGIES
FOR CHANGE
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Who. if not commercial banks, should create and
issue "national currency"?
• To underpin essential social investment,
how could funds be issued which are without interest
and repayable in some circumstances?
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State support of social infrastructure - social
credit, land rental income, "Open Capital",
etc
• How could the complex pattern of social security
payments be replaced by a single basic income?
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Know the lucid description of the Monetocracy that
is dominating our private and our public lives,
and the nature of holistic democracies "Gaian
Democracies - a Schumacher Briefing)
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Educate with basic primers, eg David Boyle's "Little
Money Book" or work by Frank McManuys or Richard
Greaves
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