Notes for Democafe meeting 

2-4pm on Sat 27th February 2016 – meeting cancelled due to key apologies, please get in touch if you did meet, and tell us something about your discussion. 

Present: 
Apologies: Janos, Mary – Anti-Trident Rally, Marble Arch 12noon to Trafalgar Square.

1. NOTES of the last meeting held on Saturday 13th February 2016

2.  MATTERS ARISING from the NOTES other than on the agenda.

 

3.  EVENTS LISTINGS:

• DemoCafe Events Listings: http://www.democafe.uk/events/

• DRUK – Debt Resistance UK: https://www.facebook.com/DebtResistanceUK – http://debtresistance.uk

• Global Table:  http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events

• Occupy Economics Working Group: events listing http://occupylondon.org.uk/events/

• Momentum: http://www.peoplesmomentum.com/calendar

• Pathways Network:  http://www.pathwaysnetwork.co.uk/meetings.htm

 

4.  UPDATES

• 38 DEGREES: Current Campaigns: https://home.38degrees.org.uk

• FREE CRITICAL THINKING:  Daily Pickings, edited by Clive Menzies: Feb 12th: What you won’t see in the media today,  Feb 13th: The State Within The State, Feb 14th: Gas for Oil, and currency implications, Feb 15th: Newsbud – new hope for alternative news, Feb 16th: Israel: Definitive Rogue State, Feb 17th: Syria, The Final Act Begins, Feb 18th: Have Rothschilds lost their hold on Russia?, Feb 19th: To arrive at peace, we need truth, Feb 20th: Self-help and cocreation for survival and to thrive, Feb 21st: Snapshot of work-in-progress, Feb 22nd: We will rock you!, Feb 23rd: How to win friends and influence people, Feb 24th: Ideology, change and Brexit – all links go to pages on: www.freecriticalthinking.org

• ICUK (Constitutionalists): Report of meeting held on Wed 10th February.

• LGOT: London Global Open Table: “Matters in the Air” are circulated in advance, providing background information for the weekly open meetings on Wednesdays 12noon to 2pm: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/

• RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE:
January 2016 edition now available. Backnumbers of the Runnymede Gazette, produced by Frank Taylor and now in its seventh year, have been added to the Global Table archive:  http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/links/newsletters/runnymede-gazette.  In conversation, Frank Taylor also pointed us to a the website “Towards an Agreement of the People for the 21st Century”, which is a fascinating store of campaign information:  http://agreementofthepeople.org

• POLITICS & SPIRIT: The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination – Defending the Zad: https://labofii.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/defending-the-zad-a-new-little-book-about-the-struggle-against-the-airport-and-its-world/

• LABOUR PARTY: • London Mayoral Campaign – request for volunteers to support Sadiq Khan’s campaign: www.sadiq.london/volunteer

 

5. PRESS REPORTS:

• GREG PALAST: Previous of new film The Greatest Democracy Money can Buy – see latest newsletter: Who Hatched Rubio: http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=be1dcacb0d&e=69f91a05f1

 

6.  Discussion Topics

6.1 Housing Event 20th February 2016:
Report of this event:  http://www.quaker.org.uk/events/housing-and-inequality-what-canst-thou-do – see also Trevor Griffiths update on his paper: THE GREAT ‘RIGHT TO BUY’ RIP OFF!

6.2 “Meet where you are”  –  Recruiting new Democafeteers.
Consideration of the idea, which originated from the Runnymede Project’s idea about setting up local “lodges”, that we should seek to collaborate directly in extending the DemoCafe project to other areas of the country, by linking to Runnymede Gazette, and other sources of information, which might form a backdrop to consideration of local concerns. Linking out to other organisations might encourage them to propagate details of a common “agenda” to their own organisations.

6.3 Venue:  Update from Michael re Chalk Farm Library.

 

7. A.O.B.

 

8.  NEXT MEETING:

to be held on Sat 5th March TBC location TBA – we aim to produce a draft agenda in advance and invite all readers to suggest additional items by email and/or let us know about local meetings they have held and/or to send apologies for the Camden meeting to group@democafe.uk.

JA/mf