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Dear Friends
Welcome to the Christian Council for
Monetary Justice
Many current reports speak of our love affair with debt, others
speak of the debt timebomb. The slightly cynical reference could
be to personal debt, corporate debt, national debt or international
debt. We contend that debt and its concomitant interest, are
the fundamental issues in society today. They lead to many other
grave distortions in our human communities everywhere. Even
in the seasons of Advent and of Christmas debt is an underlying
theme. When you have read this introduction you might care to
look at the pertinence of the article, A Debt to Handel, in the
PAPERS file of this site.
The CCMJ has been warning against escalating
debt for 45 years. We base our concerns on research showing that
our monetary system is grievously distorted. Inclusive justice,
never very extensive, is further off than ever for the majority
of people on the planet. In the spirit of the faith we hold, we
are, therefore, dedicated to the eradication of usury, masquerading
as interest.
Interest permeates the complex structures of the financial
systems upon which our way of life and death depend today. Believing
that justice is the social form of love, we contend that the way
to inclusive economic justice is simple. Only the recognition
of the problem, and the generation of political will, stand in
our way of achieving it.
So we invite you to join us in the task of education, constructive
proposition and action. CCMJ will provide research, apposite reading,
supportive evidence, and consultation. Expect to access through
our members and our links ways of pursuing such themes as
Money creation • Publicly created
money for public infrastructure • Interest-free money repayable
and cancellable as economic activity kicks in • Debt free
money - spent into the economy • Universal basic income •
Universal capital ownership • Tax Justice abolitioning tax
havens • Land Rents • new forms of Open Capital •
Simultaneous Policy for adopting co-operation as the ordinate
motivation of enterprise • People's Pensions • Student
Debt • Tobin Tax • Interest limits • Earnings limits
• Financial regulations • Ethical Investment •
Barter • Community Currencies • Time Banks •
all, as if people and sustainability mattered.
Browse within to find the pages that
take you to the next step you seek. Join us and help us to rectify
the insidious distortions in our way of life, generated by usurious
money creation.
Canon Peter Challen - Chairman
December 2003
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