{"id":282,"date":"2008-05-07T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=282"},"modified":"2008-05-07T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T17:01:15","slug":"just-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Just Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t really seem very long ago that I was photographing the closing event of Jubillee 2000<\/a>, with Ann Pettifor<\/strong> on the stage at Trafalgar Square, but the fact that I took most of the pictures in black and white is a reminder of how much things have changes since then.<\/p>\n


\nThe candlelit march up Whitehall in Dec 2000<\/em><\/p>\n

Jubilee 2000 did get things moving on debt relief, although there is still a long way to go, and since then we’ve had other campaigns – such as ‘Make Poverty History<\/a>‘ which have added to the impetus.<\/p>\n


\nApplause for Nelson Mandela in a packed Trafalgar Square, Feb 2005<\/em><\/p>\n

Ann Pettifor is now working for Advocacy International<\/em>, which works with “low-income country governments, and with organisations working to promote positive development, investment and environmental sustainability in those countries<\/em>” and Operation Noah<\/em>, a Christian-based climate-change campaign.<\/p>\n

I went to hear her speak at a rally and seminar organised by ‘Just Share<\/em>‘, “a coalition of churches and development agencies seeking to engage with the City of London on issues of global economic injustice.<\/em>” Just Share is based at a city church (St Mary-le-Bow of bells fame) and the rally was held bang in the middle of the city, at Bank, in front of the Royal Exchange<\/em>, with the Bank of England<\/strong> to one side and the Mansion House<\/em> across the road. Speaking along with her was Larry Elliott<\/em>, economics editor of The Guardian<\/em> for the last 11 or so years.<\/p>\n


\nListening to Ann Pettifor speaking at Royal Exchange.
\nLarry Elliott waits to speak at right.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m not an economist, but as I understand it, Pettifor argued that our present ‘Credit Crisis’ is a symptom of a deeper structural problem in our economy, the creation of money by the banks in a way that is no longer linked to reserves and production, but entirely dependent on trust. Once people lose faith in the banks, we have a problem.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t entirely sure about the link that she made with this and the traditional Christian teaching against usury, which seems to me something rather different. But I have to admit that I haven’t read her book on the subject that might make things more clear.<\/p>\n

What I think she also argued was that the current model has allowed the exponential growth of money – and as we know, exponential growth of anything can only ever be a short-term process in a finite world.<\/p>\n

More pictures from the event – and also information about Ann Pettifor’s book in Just Shares Take on The Bank<\/em><\/a> in My London Diary<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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