Filed under: Poverty-Free World, climate change, poverty | Tags: Robin Hood Tax
The Robin Hood Tax is the UK version of the Tobin Tax which was at the beginning of ATTAC in France ten years ago.
As an anti-poverty campaign, it is more pragmatic than the economic theories of Tobin Tax definitions or the political demands of the Attac network.
Supported by a coalition of 48 organisations, the Robin Hood Tax campaign spells out what the income should be spent on.
And in the spirit of our times, it uses Twitter and YouTube.
The video is set to private until the launch which is set to 0.05am in parallel with the 0.05% tax that Robin Hood wants to take.
However, Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, dismissed the idea of a Tobin Tax only recently, according to the FT.
Of course, this tax doesn’t get to the root of all evils, but at least it’s bound to capture people’s imagination!
“Money for Climate Change” is effectively what we’re asking with Green Credit for Green Purposes.
Blog Action Day is an effort to focus on climate change collectively in the blogosphere.
Filed under: Online petition, capitalism, early day motion, future | Tags: institutions, oppression, victims
Raising awareness of a deep seated systemic problem means informing the ‘victims’ and the ‘oppressors’.
With our history of Early Day Motions (EDMs) we’ve been addressing the monetary causes since 2002, trying to educate MPs.
Based on our latest EDM, we’ve now created a website that brings MPs and victims together: www.edm1297.info.
Some of the questions one has to ask oneself are:
- are institutions achieving what they are supposed to?
- if not, why not?
- what on earth can I do?
- what is worth doing?
- which side am I on?
- am I coping and staying positive by doing SOMETHING?
I saw this slide in a remarkable presentation by a civil engineer from Arup – We shape a better world the other day.
Instead of the usual political right – left divide, it pictures what the world might become, depending on our human development and the degree to which we care for the health of our planet!
This article in the Guardian must give us reason for hope as Obama’s choice of experts is one of significance:
- Harvard physicist John Holdren as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy takes a position on climate change that is remarkably serious
- Climatologist Jane Lubchenco is to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Nobel prizewinner Steven Chu heads the Department of Energy to lead the development of alternative energy sources
This is the title of 42 excellent slides with most interesting content, produced by Conrad Taylor who is a multi-media expert and knowledge producer par excellence.
Filed under: Treasury Select Committee | Tags: henry kerby MP, prince of wales, queen
John McFall MP is the Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee and our Chairman Austin Mitchell MP has given him a copy of our online petition at long last. So he now knows what we’re asking him and his committee. My next steps are Early Day Motions in support of the petition – after the Queen’s speech.
On December 22nd, 1964, Henry Kerby MP requested that the emission of all the means of exchange should be returned to the Crown.
We’ve been asking for Public Credit since 2002. May the net, the web and the magic of blogging robots help all of us to achieve what Henry Kerby MP asked for at the time. As one of the steps I sent our key documents to the Queen and the Prince of Wales.
Do you feel like adding your name to the signatures of the petition Stop the Cash Crumble to Equalize the Credit Crunch?
Filed under: Treasury Select Committee | Tags: climate capitalism, climate change, climate urgency, stern report, Treasury Select Committee
At long last the Committee’s Fourth Report came out on February 5th and all our 63 paragraphs of “Green Credit for Green Purposes” are part of the publication.
I have yet to learn who reads the £24 document – besides all of the people who gave evidence and therefore got a free copy.
And I have to discover the value of our submission in this document.
Since the Yunus Event at St. James’s, I begin to talk about ‘climate urgency’ and ‘climate capitalism‘.
Our current Early Day Motion is entitled “Green Credit for Green Growth” but so far only 11 MPs have signed.
In the UK, WriteToThem makes it easy to ask your MP to sign. Are you happy to click through?
