Challenging
MAJOR ABUSES within the current system, eg
Curtailing the activities of high-interest loan
sharks and credit card companies: new Credit laws
in train (Richard Murphy)
Preventing banks from forcing people into bankruptcy:
SAFE (Keith Wincup)
Critiquing proposed new legislation - for example
on PPPs etc (Chris Cook)
Knowing the range of literature (CCMJ Librarian
Ken Palmerton).
Addressing the Public (CCMJ Press Officer Kevin
Donnelly)
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:
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)
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
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?
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?
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)
Educate with basic primers, eg David Boyle's "Little
Money Book" or work by Frank McManuys or Richard
Greaves
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