G20 Monetary Reform Campaign 2009
The February/March 2009 campaign - to
get national and international monetary reform added
to the agenda for the G20 meeting in London on 2nd
April - was launched
on 4th February with the message below to over 900 newsletter
subscribers and other people interested in monetary reform.
The Launch Document is below. Events leading up to
the launch and through the short campaign, together with
reflections after it, will be found in the following
newsletters.
23
- April 2009
22-
March 2009
21
- March 2009
20
- March 2009
19
- February 2009
18
- February 2009
17
- January 2009
I have also written a one-page Note on "THE
ROOT OF THE PRESENT CRISIS AND ITS CURE: Who
Should Create The Money Supply? Should It Be Created
As Debt Or Debt-Free?" - www.jamesrobertson.com/presentcrisisroot.htm.
As reported in Newsletter 21, a monetary
reform video was produced by Fred Harrison
and Ross Ashcroft in connection with the campaign.
Also see http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/G20moneyreform.
Some of the actions suggested for people
who wanted to take part in the campaign can be found here.
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LAUNCH DOCUMENT
The G20 Must Discuss Monetary Reform
at its 2nd April Meeting
and We Must Make Sure It's On
Their Agenda
The way money is created today,
nationally and internationally, cannot avoid leading
to recurrent highly damaging booms and busts. In normal times too it results in a skewed
system of financial rewards and penalties that motivates
almost everyone in the world to get money in socially,
environmentally, and economically damaging ways.
This
means that not only active citizens should support
monetary reform. So should non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) concerned with social issues (poverty,
welfare, social injustice, health, human rights, etc), environmental
issues (climate
change, energy supply and use, water, food and agriculture,
etc); and general economic and
public policy issues (world
future prospects; local and community economic development;
ethical investing, trading and consuming; corporate
social responsibility; etc).
The G20 (twenty of the economically most important
countries in the world) is replacing
the G7 as the top international forum for discussing
the world’s
economic problems. It is meeting at the beginning of
April in London to discuss international co-operation
in handling the present global financial crisis.
So far, their policies have ignored the importance
of national and international monetary reform. It
is vital that they should be persuaded to put these topics
on their agenda and we must make sure that this happens.
For more information, read the G20
Monetary Reform campaign
document.
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