by Josh Martin | Jan 13, 2016 | News
From the video description:
“On April 4th 2015, Christina Lambrecht gave a very vibrant talk about Basic Income. She talks about UBI and their critics without arguments, GNP without happiness, lazy losers winning the lottery, and robots stealing our jobs. She also explains the criteria for the UBI as defined by BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network), and arguments from a historic perspective, the need for a Basic Income, arriving at the conclusion that it’s all about the zeitgeist…
Organized by:
TZM (The Zeitgeist Movement) is a sustainability advocacy organization. The movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, pollution, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be “symptoms” born out of an outdated social structure.
While intermediate reform steps are of interest to the movement, the defining goal is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible resource management, allocation and design through what would be considered the scientific method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions.”
Watch the video here.
by Liam Upton | Dec 29, 2014 | News
The new Basic Income newspaper, ‘L’inconditionnel‘ has been officially launched with two launch parties in Brussels and Paris, on the 9th and 12th of December, respectively.
The newspaper, which is free of charge, was funded via French crowd-funding site pickandboost.com where it made its goal of €12,000, enough for the first run of 60,000 copies. It aims to ‘explore the different facets of the idea of an Unconditional Basic Income’ through in-depth articles and interviews as well as art and literary writings.
The newspaper is currently available across France and Belgium and one location in Portugal. The paper will also be available online and in Switzerland.
For more information, see:
Language: French
Stanislas Jourdan, “Soirée de lancement de L’inconditionnel à Paris [Launch party for L’inconditionnel in Paris]”, L’inconditionnel, 5 December 2014
Language: French
Stanislas Jourdan, “Soirée de lancement de L’inconditionnel à Bruxelles [Launch party for L’inconditionnel in Brussels]”, L’inconditionnel, 2 December 2014
by Karl Widerquist | Jul 31, 2014 | News
Hoping to raise awareness on basic income and reach new people, the activists from France, Belgium and Switzerland have decided to work together on a project aiming at launching a newspaper called L’inconditionnel, (The Unconditional).
Initiated by Stanislas Jourdan & Barbara Garbarczyk, the project will evolve as a joint-venture between BIEN affiliates in France, Belgium and Switzerland. The project coordinators aim at printing more than 50,000 issues and will distribute them for free at all events planned during the Basic Income Week (September 15-21) in the three countries.
In order to finance the printings, they have started a crowdfunding campaign. “We would need at least 5,000 euros to print 25,000 newspapers of 12 pages. Ideally, we want 12,000€ in order to print more than 50,000 newspapers, 20 pages each. Our objective is definitely ambitious, said Stanislas Jourdan, but we are sure that basic income supporters will understand the impact this project could have for all of us. The more money we have, the more we can print issues, the more people we will reach.”
Organizers have asked people to support the project by participating to the crowdfunding campaign.
Stan Jourdan, editor
The newspaper will include articles, interviews, and graphics explaining how to finance basic income. “The point of the newspaper is to gather the best of what people need to know. Instead of flooding people with links on basic income, we hope this newspaper will provide all the essential informations to understand the idea and its consequences.” explained Barbara Garbarczyk.
“For now, we are working on a single publication newspaper,” Stanislas Jourdan said, “but of course further editions will be envisaged if the first issue is a success.”
For more information on the project, see the newspaper’s website: L’inconditionnel – journal sur le revenu de base.
by Yannick Vanderborght | May 23, 2014 | News
On May 25th, 2014, regional, federal and European elections will be held in Belgium. Within the framework of its electoral campaign, the youth section of the Flemish Green Party (Jong Groen) defends 5 key proposals. Among them is the introduction of a Europe-wide basic income: “every European should receive an unconditional monthly payment that shall help him/her to lead a decent life”.
For further information (in Dutch), click here.
by Karl Widerquist | May 14, 2014 | News
Werner Rätz, of Attac Germany’s working group enough for all, gave a lecture on 10 April in Brussels entitled, “UBI, Health, Degrowth.” According to Ratz, although the subjects of health and degrowth are closely linked to UBI, the UBI-movement has paid low attention to them up to now.
