Although
today is the end of CESJ’s fiscal year, things haven’t slowed down any. In fact, they’ve picked up quite a bit of
speed. Most of this doesn’t make good
news items, of course; it’s pretty baffling to read, “Someone whose name we
can’t reveal talked to someone here for over six hours last night, but we can’t
tell you what they talked about until something happens.” The events that we can tell you about are
often not quite as exciting as that, but we try:
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| "Cuz they's no Jack S. like owuh Jack S.!" |
• Some door openers
have been working with Norman Kurland to arrange a meeting with some key U.S.
Senators who may want to be the champions to introduce and spearhead the push
to enact a Capital Homestead Act for the United States. We estimate that within twelve to eighteen
months the economy would be in full actual recovery (instead of the “paper
recovery” that’s been ongoing since 2008), and full employment would be reached
in five to seven years. As a further
bonus, this would not be by means of taxpayer-funded “job creation,” but
because the workers would be needed to produce goods to satisfy growing demand
resulting from increased production naturally, instead of artificially by
increased government spending.
• CESJ recently
connected with a freelance journalist in Melbourne, Australia, who supports
“distributism” and works with the Democratic Labour Party down under. We put the journalist in touch with the
editor of the Perth Herald-Tribune, which has been
running a regular column on CESJ and the Just Third Way — after directing him
to the CESJ website, of course.
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• The CESJ core group submitted
“The Just Third Way: How We Can Create Green Growth, Widespread Prosperity and
Global Peace,” a condensation of the
longer article of the same title on the website, for an upcoming book to be
published in India.
• Guy S. in Iowa located the link
to last week’s article on binary economics, “The
[Just] Third Way: CESJ and Binary Economics,” in the Irish Rover, an independent student newspaper at the University of
Notre Dame.
• CESJ just submitted another manuscript to the local Catholic diocese
for an “imprimatur.” No, CESJ is not a
Catholic or even a religious organization, nor is the book particularly
religious. It’s an examination of how
the loss of widespread ownership and an expanded role for the State in an
attempt to fill the power vacuum created the situation in which the State is
considered to be the caretaker not of the common good, but of every individual
good, and the universal caregiver . . .
in short, what the totalitarian philosopher Thomas Hobbes called the
“Mortall God” of the State that rules on earth with the same sort of absolute
power that God presumably wields in Heaven.
It is thus in everyone’s interest, religious or not, to reverse this
trend and get power back into the hands of the people where it belongs — and
the only way to do that is through Capital Homesteading for
Every Citizen.
• CESJ’s latest book, Easter Witness: From Broken Dream to a New
Vision for Ireland, is available from Amazon
and Barnes
and Noble, as well as by special order from many “regular” bookstores. The book can also be ordered in bulk, which
we define as ten copies or more of the same title, at a 20% discount. A full case is twenty-six copies, and
non-institutional/non-vendor purchasers get a 20% discount off the $20 cover
price on wholesale lots ($416/case).
Shipping is extra. Send enquiries
to publications@cesj.org. An additional discount may be available for
institutions such as schools, clubs, and other organizations as well as
retailers.
• Here’s the usual announcement
about the Amazon Smile program,
albeit moved to the bottom of the page so you don’t get tired of seeing
it. To participate in the Amazon Smile
program for CESJ, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your account. (If you don’t have an account with Amazon,
you can create one by clicking on the tiny little link below the “Sign in using
our secure server” button.) Once you
have signed into your account, you need to select CESJ as your charity — and
you have to be careful to do it exactly this way: in the
space provided for “Or select your own charitable organization” type “Center for Economic and Social Justice
Arlington.” If you type anything
else, you will either get no results or more than you want to sift
through. Once you’ve typed (or copied
and pasted) “Center for Economic and
Social Justice Arlington” into the space provided, hit “Select” — and you
will be taken to the Amazon shopping site, all ready to go.
• As of this
morning, we have had visitors from 39 different countries and 48 states and
provinces in the United States and Canada to this blog over the past two
months. Most visitors are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia,
and India. The most popular postings this past week in descending order were
“Thomas Hobbes on Private Property,” “Distributism,
Socialism, and Syndicalism,” “News from the Network, Vol. 9, No. 33,” “Aristotle
on Private Property,” and “Where’s the Recovery?”
Those are the happenings for this
week, at least those that we know about.
If you have an accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a
note about it at mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into
the next “issue.” If you have a short
(250-400 word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the
blog — do not send them to us to post for you.
All comments are moderated, so we’ll see it before it goes up.
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