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) and
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?
Kow 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 Boyles's Little Money
Book" or work by Frank McManuys or Richard Greaves
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