KYOTO MARCH: Time to Stand up for the Environment

Economics Topics for the European Social Forum Agenda

Selling London Down the Thames

Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, Near Baker St. Tube. Cost: Donation of £3.50

Dr. Christopher Houghton Budd 01227 738207 or chb@ae-institute.com
Arthur Edwards 01993 891363 or mail@oxfordeconomicsforum.co.uk
Rudolf Steiner House 0207 723 4400
www.talkingeconomics.co.uk

FORUM FOR STABLE CURRENCIES at the House of Lords, Westminster, London SW1, Black Rod's entrance, Room G

Organiser: Sabine McNeill

EDM 1515 in 2002 called for using the public credit. EDM 854 in 2003 asks for an Inquiry into that the possible benefits of PUBLICLY-CREATED MONEY. EDM1515 with 24 and EDM 854 with 26 signatures have thus set signals for understanding the mechanisms of money creation and supply in a Parliamentary context. Interest on debt constitute some 22% of taxpayerâs money spent by Government - generally slightly more than the military budget . Who benefits? And how does the exponential growth of compounding interest effect the country's economy and government's budget? Public Services have been suffering noticeably and the Public Services Forum is an opportunity to draw the Union's attention to the devastating effects of our debt- and interest-based monetary system. John Courtneidge's article "New initiatives for Public Finance" has been published in "Voice of the Unions", and we will hear a report on the latest attempts of raising awareness among those who suffer most; the workers and employees - whether personally through health and education, or collectively through transport and pensions.

Dr John Courtneidge is a chemist, town councillor, Quaker, Co-operator and socialist. He co-founded the Campaign for Interest-Free Money in 1997 and has been an active supporter of monetary reform on many levels. Richard Murphy is the mastermind behind EDM854: an accomplished accountant and businessman. Richard Greaves worked as a solicitor for 15 years before becoming interested in economics and politics, including the power of banks in money creation.

The Forum for Stable Currencies has been hosting debates between analysts of monetary reform, victims of banks and institutions and promoters of LETS and Barter Companies since 1998. Programmes have been distributed to both Houses of Parliament in the hope that the topics debated become part of the political agenda, especially as the EURO challenges the sovereignty to issue a national currency.
The Forum operates from the following principles:
* The parliamentary process needs to make certain that the Money Supply ensures its value" Lord Caithness
* Money should be the servant not the master of humanity.
* Banksâ ability to create money out of nothing must be curtailed.
* Personal responsibility needs to be maximised.
When it is compounding interest upon interest, growth is exponential; for profits and for debts. Any exponential growth is unnatural and unsustainable. 97% of money in circulation is created as interest-bearing debt. Since 1967, notes and coin (M0), the share of the total money supply (M4) issued by governments free of interest has gone down from 31% to 3%, i.e. Virtually all money is created by banks with a near monopoly.
Organiser: Sabine McNeill, tel. 020 7328 3701, 21 Goldhurst Terrace London NW 6 3HB www.intraforum.net/money sabine@globalnet.co.uk

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Friday 14, Saturday 15, and Sunday 16 November 2003, 10am-4.30pm daily

Fee: £35 (Concession: £25) To register contact the Centre for Continuing Education - it is advisable to register early as demand for places is usually high. Places are allocated on a 'first come first served basis' and students are not registered on the course until they have completed a registration form and paid the fee. It is not possible to reserve places by telephone or e-mail.

Centre of Continuing Education, University of Wales, 10-11 Laura Place, Aberystwyth, SY23 2AU, Mid Wales - 01970-622-677 - bff@aber.ac.uk.

Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 6-9pm

FORUM FOR STABLE CURRENCIES, House of Lords, Westminster, London SW1, St Stephen's Gate Entrance - Committee room G

Organiser: Sabine McNeill

Loretta Napoleoni
Economist, political analyst and novelist, Loretta Napoleoni has spent several years interviewing former members of Italian armed groups. Thanks to her unique insight into the management of armed organisations, she has written a book on a new shocking phenomenon: the economics of terrorism.

Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks propels the reader into the nether world of illegal organisations. >From the Contras to Al Qaeda, Loretta Napoleoni maps out the arteries of an international economic system that feeds armed groups the world over with an endless supply of cash. Chasing terror money, she takes the reader from CIA headquarters to the smuggling routes of the Far East, from the back rooms of Wall Street to hawala exchanges in the Middle East.

The "Economy of Terror" that Napoleoni identifies is a 1.5 trillion-dollar fast-growing economic system. It is made up of an illegal businesses such as arms and narcotics trading, oil and diamonds smuggling, as well as charitable donations, profits from legal businesses and an intricate system of finance. Most importantly, Napoleoni reveals the interdependency between the economies run by armed groups and western economists. This ranges from consumption of narcotics to the production of arms, and from the recycling of illegal money to speculation on the stock markets, as occurred prior to 9/11.

Loretta Napoleoni is the first author to tackle the issues raised by September 11th 2001 from a specifically economic perspective. Presenting an astonishing array of evidence, taken from the extensive research and interviews, her book is a fascinating account of controversial issues of life at the heart of many of today's international problems. Revealing how the "new economy of terror" has evolved by proxy through various wars -- from the Cold War to Al Qaeda --Napoleoni argues that today's Islamic terror groups are driven by real economic forces in the Muslim world. They are the same forces that have been hindered in the last century by the economic interests of both the West and it allies, the oligarchic powers of the Middle East.

The Forum for Stable Currencies has been hosting debates between analysts of monetary reform, victims of banks and institutions and promoters of LETS and Barter Companies since 1998. Programmes have been distributed to both Houses of Parliament in the hope that the topics debated become part of the political agenda, especially as the EURO challenges the sovereignty to issue a national currency.
The Forum operates from the following principles:
* The parliamentary process needs to make certain that the Money Supply ensures its value" Lord Caithness
* Money should be the servant not the master of humanity.
* Banksâ ability to create money out of nothing must be curtailed.
* Personal responsibility needs to be maximised.
When it is compounding interest upon interest, growth is exponential; for profits and for debts. Any exponential growth is unnatural and unsustainable. 97% of money in circulation is created as interest-bearing debt. Since 1967, notes and coin (M0), the share of the total money supply (M4) issued by governments free of interest has gone down from 31% to 3%, i.e. Virtually all money is created by banks with a near monopoly.
Organiser: Sabine McNeill, tel. 020 7328 3701, 21 Goldhurst Terrace London NW 6 3HB www.intraforum.net/money sabine@globalnet.co.uk

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Contact:
peter@southwark.org.uk
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We are inviting publishers and booksellers to display and sell books related to economic justice at an Open Day from 11am, with the CCMJ AGM to follow at 3.30pm. We will also LAUNCH a stirring new book brimming with anecdotal accounts of the deep effect of monetary injustice on our lives. Christchurch is the HQ of the South London Industrial Mission) and is close to both Blackfriars and Southwark

Rev Peter Challen writes
Dear Friend,
This week's Church Times (October 3rd 2003) has a Leader Commentary on 'Forgive us our debts' [in response to an article by Antonia Swinson in the same edition (p15)], and which includes the sentence 'Debt is the church's business, on pastoral grounds alone', and ends with the words 'A prophetic Church will focus on the victims of reality'. It is an interesting coincidence, as I was about to send you the invitation below. I hope that you might wish to take up the invitation or to pass it to specific persons who you think might like to attend this event.

The Christian Council for Monetary Justice asks you to consider this invitation. CCMJ is taking an initiative to advance the readership in economic justice, and the knowledge of incremental steps towards peace and inclusive justice, especially where there is Christian resonance in the writing. We are inviting publishers and booksellers to display and sell books/journals related to economic justice, and in particular to monetary justice.

We would like to promote such new books as : Jonathan Bartley's - Subversive Manifesto - lifting the Lid on God's political Agenda, BRF 2003, Antonia Swinson's Root of All Evil? - how to make spiritual values count - St Andrew's Press 2003, Kamran Mofid's - globalisation for the common good 2000, and older works like Peter Selby's - Grace and Mortgage: what it means to be in Christ today - Credit Action's - range of popular writings - David Jenkins' - Market Whys and Human Wherefores: thinking again about Markets, Politics and People -Cassell 2000, Keith Tondeur's What Jesus Said about Money and many more that may well appear in Christian Bookshops.

BUT we would also like to bring to you attention many books written by Christians in their professional capacities, whose significant work does not normally appear in Christian Bookshops such as :- James Robertson's Creating New Money, Michael Rowbotham's The Grip of Death, John Tomlinson's Honest Money, Rodney Shakespeare and Peter Challen's Seven Steps to Justice - NEP 2002, James Gibb Stuart's The Money Bomb, Michael Hudson's The Lost Tradition of Biblical Debt Cancellations, The Dundee report - Wealth;: a Christian View, Margrit Kennedy's 'Interest and Inflation-Free Money - Creating an exchange medium that works for everybody and protects the earth'

Burdens of debt at personal, corporate, national and international levels and the disregard of biblical teaching on usury are conspiring to create immense social disease. This is an initiative to tackle those issues among Christian readers. This Open Day might even raise up a commitment to hold, say, a Faith and Just Economics Week in Christian Bookshops, in 2004. I would be grateful to hear you response to this invitation and to answer any questions you may have. Yours sincerely, Canon Peter Challen, Chair, Christian Council for Monetary Justice

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Saturday 25th October 10am-5pm

Booking essential - prices below - via: Schumacher UK on 0117-903-1081
www.schumacher.org.uk
yolanda@schumacher.org.uk

Speakers: MICHAEL MEACHER MP, Minister of State for the Environment 97-03 - NATURAL GOVERNANCE
ANN PETTIFOR, Director at the New Economics Foundation - REAL WORLD ECONOMICS
PETER RUSSELL, Cosmologist and Author - THE SCIENCE OF UNDERSTANDING

Theme: In the last couple of years we have seen global conflict scale up to truly dangerous levels. It is as though the interests of a small group of countries and companies take priority over the concerns of the rest of humanity. Unprecedented military technology is being used to assert political and economic power. Whilst it is desirable for tyrants to be removed, there is growing concern about the legitimacy of preventative warfare. It is time that human scale development became incorporated into a new diverse world view. Drawing on the thought of E.F. Schumacher we are helping to develop positive solutions. This year's Bristol Schumacher Lectures coincide with the 30th Anniversary of the publication of Small is Beautiful and the 25th Anniversary of the founding of Schumacher UK. Our three speakers will echo some of Schumacher's thinking while presenting their own unique ideas and experience. We look forward to a stimulating and thought provoking day of Lectures and debate. Please join us for a very stimulating day.

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THE SPEAKERS

The Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP - Minister of State for the Environment 97-03
Michael Meacher was Minister of State for the Environment from May 1997 until he was replaced in the cabinet reshuffle of June this year. Many people think it was because of his increasing concerns over genetically modified food. He became a Labour MP in 1970 and since then his varied political appointments have included Chief Opposition Spokesman on Health and Social Security (83-87, 89-92), on Employment (87-89, 95-96) on Overseas
Development (92-93), on Public Service and Citizen's Rights (93-94), on Transport (94-95) and on Environmental Protection (96-97). Currently he is a member of the Environmental Audit Committee. His many political interests
include environmental protection, sustainable development and the reform of the machinery of government. In 1992 his book Diffusing Power: The Key to Socialist Revival was published.

Ann Pettifor - Director at the New Economics Foundation
Ann Pettifor is editor of a new annual publication - Real World Economic Outlook (RWEO) - first published in Sept 2003 by Palgrave Macmillan. The mission of this radical survey of the global economy is to promote easy-to understand economics, and to give consumers a real understanding of the frightening legacy of globalisation: debt-deflation. RWEO will also give activists the confidence, the data, and the analyses needed to challenge the orthodoxies of their governments, the IMF, and mainstream economists. In 1996 Ms Pettifor co-founded the Jubilee 2000 movement for the cancellation of the debts of the poorest countries. In 1998 she led a protest of more than 70,000 in Birmingham, at the G8 Summit. Jubilee 2000 mobilized the first-ever global petition of 24 million signatures and persuaded G8 leaders to cancel $100bn of debt - $36bn of which is now written off.

Peter Russell - Cosmologist and Author
Peter Russell studied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge. Then, as he became increasingly fascinated by the nature of consciousness, he moved into experimental psychology. He then went to
India, studied meditation and Eastern philosophy, and on his return took up research into the psychophysiology of meditation at Bristol University. He was one of the first people to introduce human potential seminars into the corporate field, and for twenty years worked with major corporations on creativity, learning methods, stress management and personal development. His principal interest is the inner challenges of the times we are passing
through. He has written ten books in this area, including The Awakening Earth, The White Hole in Time, and most recently, From Science to God: A Physicist's Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness.

TICKET PRICES & SCHUMACHER UK MEMBERSHIP
Single (non member): £22, Concessionary (non member): £18, Schumacher UK Member: £12 (members are entitled to 1 discounted ticket, Family members two discounted tickets), plus Lunch: £7. Single Membership £25, Family Membership: £35, Concessionary £20.
For post and packing please add the following if you live: in the UK: £2.50; outside the UK in Europe: £5; outside Europe: £10

For FURTHER INFORMATION or to BOOK A TICKET please contact:
Yolanda Pot, Schumacher UK Administrator, CREATE Environment Centre, Smeaton Road, Bristol, BS1 6XN, UK.
Tel/Fax: 0117 9031081, Email: yolanda@schumacher.org.uk, Website: www.Schumacher.org.uk

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Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, Near Baker St. Tube. Cost: Donation of £3.50

Dr. Christopher Houghton Budd 01227 738207 or chb@ae-institute.com
Arthur Edwards 01993 891363 or mail@oxfordeconomicsforum.co.uk
Rudolf Steiner House 0207 723 4400
www.talkingeconomics.co.uk

Robert Newman, Caroline Lucas, Zac Goldsmith, Peter Kilfoyle

Organised by
The Centre for Sustainable Design, UK

Register at www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd8

Sponsored by The Nordic Council of Ministers, Sweden, Swedish Business Development Agency (NUTEK), Sweden, Ministry of Environment, Sweden
Supported by World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Switzerland, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK, Sustainable Trade & Innovation Centre (STIC), The Netherlands
Benefits to delegates * Access to leading-edge research and practice * Over 60 high quality papers * 'Out of box' thinking opportunities * Networking with business, government and academia * Visit to Ice Bar
Invited speakers Leading experts from Europe and Japan will present at Sustainable Innovation 03: Dr Peter White, Procter & Gamble, UK, Katsuro Oda, University of Tokyo, Japan, Bas de Leeuw, United Nations Environment Programme, France, Nigel Roome, Erasmus University, Netherlands; Gunnel Wisen, ABB, Sweden; Anna Lise Mortensen, Hartmann, Denmark; Maarten Ten Houten, Philips Consumer Electronics, Netherlands; Andrew Baynes, Apple, France; Mike Barry, Marks & Spencer, UK Andreas Englund, MiNT, Sweden; Daleanne Bourjaily, Royal Tropical Institute, Netherlands; Per Eriksson, VINNOVA, Sweden; Sune Halvarsson, NUTEK, Sweden; Frieder Rubik, IOEW, Germany; Ritu Kumar, Sustainable Trade & Innovation Centre, UK; Arnold Tukker, TNO, Netherlands; Colin Beard, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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Unique Features:
Creative Spaces: The Centre for Sustainable Design are working with five highly creative
individuals to add a unique 'out of the box' element to the conference. Creative Spaces will provide delegates with new perspectives and experiences, whilst providing a platform to generate high quality, innovative ideas.

(nobleandsilver) - Comedians and Video Producers - UK
* Will launch two short videos to highlight key sustainability challenges with a range of examples of
'sustainable solutions' * Will showcase their award-winning and highly entertaining mult-media experience

Niels Peter Flint - Concept Designer - Denmark
* Will direct two unique 'experiences' designed to enable delegate's to think differently about sustainability
* Processes used act as catalysts to stimulate new thinking and viewpoints

David Walker & Rob Holdway - Directors - Giraffe Innovation, UK
* Will direct five workshops aimed at creating innovative sustainable products and services concepts
* The workshops will focus on five areas and will be led by experienced industry practioners
- home - food - mobility - information and communications technologies - clothing
* Central to the session will be the use of Giraffe's unique Eco-Cubes process
* Awards will be given to winning ideas

Living Laboratory
Five innovative concepts will be presented:
* The Power Tile * PReco * Eco Mileage Card * Memo Board * Splendid Eco-Car

Contact
For more information on Sustainable Innovation 03 please contact:
Russ White, Conference Administrator, The Centre for Sustainable Design, The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College, Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7DS, UK, Tel: + 44 (0) 1252 892772, Fax: + 44 (0) 1252 892747, Email: rwhite@surrart.ac.uk Website: www.cfsd.org.uk

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Saturday 25th October 10am-5pm

Booking essential - prices below - via: Schumacher UK on 0117-903-1081
www.schumacher.org.uk
yolanda@schumacher.org.uk

Speakers: MICHAEL MEACHER MP, Minister of State for the Environment 97-03 - NATURAL GOVERNANCE
ANN PETTIFOR, Director at the New Economics Foundation - REAL WORLD ECONOMICS
PETER RUSSELL, Cosmologist and Author - THE SCIENCE OF UNDERSTANDING

Theme: In the last couple of years we have seen global conflict scale up to truly dangerous levels. It is as though the interests of a small group of countries and companies take priority over the concerns of the rest of humanity. Unprecedented military technology is being used to assert political and economic power. Whilst it is desirable for tyrants to be removed, there is growing concern about the legitimacy of preventative warfare. It is time that human scale development became incorporated into a new diverse world view. Drawing on the thought of E.F. Schumacher we are helping to develop positive solutions. This year's Bristol Schumacher Lectures coincide with the 30th Anniversary of the publication of Small is Beautiful and the 25th Anniversary of the founding of Schumacher UK. Our three speakers will echo some of Schumacher's thinking while presenting their own unique ideas and experience. We look forward to a stimulating and thought provoking day of Lectures and debate. Please join us for a very stimulating day.