Archive for November, 2008
Bom dia
Venho tentar esclarecer o que poderá ser “promover” esta reunião…
pois neste momento, apesar de já termos uma data e sala possível para a reunião,
estamos ainda a negociar os objectivos com outras organizações
formais e informais.
(agradeço que encaminhem esta mensagem para outros potenciais interessados).
Os objectivos (”negociáveis”) da reunião poderão ser, entre outros:
0- esclarecer o
“cenário – contexto regional – centro de Portugal ou Beira Litoral”,
nos pontos críticos, notoriamente negativos e positivos,
da dimensão economico-ficanceira da nossa comunidade regional,
partilhar o modo como nós concebemos e damos sentido às relações
económicas, produtivas e financeiras, as trocas de bens e serviços de modo geral,
e a relação desta dimensão com a justiça social, democracia cultural,
realização integral humana, familiar e comunitária, e relação adequada com o ambiente natural.
Será que aqui faz sentido perguntar:
Que pessoas, que famílias, comunidades, “nos estamos a tornar” mediante a “(in)justiça”
e “(in) adequabilidade”, do “fruto do nosso trabalho” e das nossas relações económicas e financeiras actuais
perante os contextos locais, nacionais e globais?
1- formar um “grupo formal de trabalho” (pessoas, associações, organizações), do distrito
de Coimbra, ou região Centro, para “promover” a “economia solidária”
e “sistemas monetários complementares” (mercados locais solidários? moedas locais? bancos de tempo? etc. )
(ver um conjunto de links abaixo sobre a extensão do assunto
e ficheiro em anexo).
1.1- definir princípios organizacionais, modo de funcionamento, objectivos e linhas gerais de acção para este grupo de trabalho.
1.2- discutir quais as variáveis, condições necessárias (recursos humanos,
profissionais, logísticas e financeiras) disponíveis para alcançar
o funcionamento eficiente e eficaz de um “grupo de trabalho”.
2- formar uma rede informal de comunicação (email) entre
todos os interessados, participantes da reunião / “agentes”, pessoas e organizações,
comprometidas em aprender, aprofundar conhecimentos, divulgar informação “à nossa volta”,
sobre “economia solidária” e “sistemas monetários complementares”.
Começaremos por ser “promotores” desta reunião se avançarmos para
esclarecer e acordar os objectivos da reunião,
e assumirmos o compromisso, dentro de cada organização promotora,
de fazer o necessário para os atingir.
Grato pela vossa atenção
João Gonçalves
www.abrigodepalha.blogspot.com
O curso a construir um abrigo de palha por Lpor no Porto está correr bem. Fazémos a estrtutura da madeira com vigas para o telhado e cortámos a palha (fazer as paredes mais direitinhas e é um chave melhor para o rebouco).
No proximo fim de semana vamos acabar o telhado vivo e rebocar as paredes. Estrou muito agradecido aõ gente que veio e o Damien e o Sylvie aonde ficava estas fim de semanas durante o curso.
Nos proximos semanas vamos a rebocar adentro da casa aqui e era bom se ha pessoas que pode ajudarnos. Talvez vou chamar uma minga (trabalho sessao de comunidade o que é uma initiativa do rede local de permacultura).
The strawbale donkey shelter course is going well in Porto for Lipor. At the weekend we put and fixed the wooden rafters and
cut the straw walls (to make them straight and to be a better key for the plaster).
In the next few weeks we will plater inside this house and I am thinking of calling a minga (community work session which is an initiative of the local permaculture network) to get some help with this quite big job. I´m very grateful for everyone who has come to the course and look forward to seeing you there next weekend to finish the living roof and plater the walls.
When I was involved in People and Planet (student campaigning organisation) we came across what sounded like a great idea by James Tobin. I haven´t heard anyone mention it so I thought I might bring it up.
Alguns anos atrás ouvi duma idea do James Tobin. A taxa Tobin funciona como cada transação entre moedas internacionais ha uma taxinha como 0.1%. Assim ha menos investimentos no muito curto prazo dos investidores.
Tobin taxes…
how to tame hot money and fund urgent global priorities…What are Tobin Taxes?
They are simple sales taxes on currency trades across borders. The original proposal came from James Tobin, Ph.D., a Nobel laureate economist at Yale, but economists have since refined his approach. Tobin Taxes can be enacted domestically by national legislatures, but will require multilateral cooperation to be effectively enforced… Political will for passage is the major obstacle to be overcome, by citizen mobilization…The proposal is important due to its potential to prevent financial crises. Also, the estimated $100 – $300 billion per year makes it possible to meet urgent global priorities, such as preventing global warming, disease, and poverty. Help turn the tide towards global solutions in the 21st century…
How Tobin-style Taxes would work:
Currency speculators trade over $1.8 trillion dollars each day across borders. The market is huge, and volatile.
Each trade would be taxed at 0.1 to 0.25 percent of volume (about 10 to 25 cents per hundred dollars)
This would discourage short-term currency trades,about 90 percent speculative, but leave long-term productive investments intact.
The currency market would thus shrink in volume, helping to restore national economic autonomy. Nations again could intervene effectively to protect their own currency from devaluation and financial crisis.
Billions in revenue, estimated at $100 – $300 billion per year, would be generated.
Revenue could go into earmarked trust funds to fund urgent international priorities.
Frequently Asked Questions…
Is there a need?
In the globalized economy, there is a lack of adequate funding for global problems such as disease, poverty and hunger. Global climate change, deforestation, population growth and unemployment, declining fisheries and pollution threaten local communities worldwide. Projects which could help to address these needs and create jobs will cost more than $400 billion annually. Private donors do not meet the need, and some nations cut their aid budgets. New multilateral approaches to public finance, such as Tobin Taxes, may provide part of the answer…What would happen to the revenue?
It is essential that guidelines and priorities be set, to avoid “pork barrels” and corruption. Citizens could demand international criteria such as earmarking funds for poverty, disease, and the environment.Are there groups supporting this approach?
Yes. From the World Council of Churches to the AFL-CIO, from Rainforest Action Network to Global Exchange, from Eurodad to War on Want, organizations large and small around the world are signing on. Is your group listed on our website yet?What can I do to help?
These proposals can be passed by national legislatures around the world, and national governments will then participate in the international cooperation necessary to enact multilateral enforcement procedures. Citizens can mobilize to encourage their legislatures and governments to support this hopeful and life-saving proposal… Here are some concrete steps you can take:Learn more by checking our websites and links. See www.tobintax.org for campaigners links.
Sign up to endorse the Tobin Tax proposal, by email or by letter.
Write us for an educational packet, and read it.
Join our monthly email update list, Tobin Tax Update, by writing to cecilr@humboldt1.com
Join an economic study group on globalization, and ask them to study and get speakers on Tobin Taxes.
Start a group to examine public budgets, and recommend urgent projects to address global warming and poverty.
Ask your local banks whether they invest in currency speculation with your money.
Start your own Tobin Tax chapter in your community, and work to pass local resolutions in your cities, and to convince your Congress members to support the DeFazio – Wellstone resolution, H.Con.Res.301.
Fazemos ouro telhado onde vai ser um lugar para lenha e e uma dispença…mais tarde.
We have made another roof round the back for wood storage and a celar which will come later.
Temos que comer menos carne ser mais sustentável.