HIGHLIGHT - Positive Money

Demanding a banking system that works for society and not against it!

This year the government will decide what to do to fix the banks. We have to make sure they make the right choice.

The Solution (30 second overview):

High-street banks have been creating up to £200bn of new money every year, causing massive inflation (especially in housing) and saddling the public with debt. We can't trust profit-seeking bankers or vote-seeking politicians to create money, as the temptation will always be for them to create too much. So instead we need an independent, transparent and accountable body that is responsible for creating money and keeping inflation low. We suggest that the Monetary Policy Committee should have this task.

Have a look at the very well developed website, loaded with tons of information including a complete proposal for a new national wide currency system. LINK

UK Crash Course - Chris Martenson

Values for a Great Transition

Stewart Wallis - nef's Executive Director
outlining the need for a radical transformation of the world economy, and the steps we can take to bring that transformation about.

Stewart based his argumentation on 5 PRINCIPALS and HOW to achieve these. Find the main idea of the principals in the linked doc and find the HOW here.There is a lot more to enjoy from his speech, so it is very worth watching the whole video.

The HOW!
Lets dream a bit...
Dreams are vital, because that is what we turn into reality later.

To pull together the brilliant idea work that many people are doing, to aggregate this ideas and to amplify them, put them across to tell the story in compelling and exciting way, that people make to say: YEAH I want to change.

We (us collectively) need to accompany that with campaigning, good research, lobbing, a space to grow the work of tellers, transition town movement, nef, partnerships...
What we got to do is bringing this together and tell a compelling tale with a new language. ...Simple and not misleading

acupuncture campaigning - focus on where acupuncture intervention could shift the system

Movement for change – transition everywhere
Business in transition (arts, education, universities, societies)

• Business would not and can not change without either people buying differently or governments changing the roles of the game.
• Governments would not change the roles of the game without people demanding they do.

Without serious people pressure we can write all the reports, bring the research and do all the lobbing but it would not bring change.

People ignoring the evidence that is in front of their eyes, they are still saying the sun is going around the earth... we know differently and we need a lot more people to know differently!
If not us...who, If not now.... when?


Stewart Wallis - New Economics Institute, Nov. 20, 2010 from Peter Montague on Vimeo.