Terreiro do Paço, Lisboa. Credit to: Like3ZA. The 17th Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress, happening in Lisbon from September 25-27th, has now a posted schedule and a registration link. There will be plenary and parallel sessions each day, with a total of 45 sessions over the course of the Congress. Parallel sessions will last for two hours each,
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At the end of 2016, the year in which BIEN turned 30, Life Members recount their personal journeys with BIEN and the basic income movement.
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Earlier in the year, Basic Income News reporter Scott Jacobsen spoke to Basic Income News reporter Kate McFarland about her background and influences. This is a continuation of Part One. You mentioned valuing clarity of writing, for readers to have correct inferences. Any advice for BI writers? That is, those that want clear writing and to avoid the statistical probability of
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How has BIEN changed in the past 30 years? What have been its biggest challenges, most difficult times, and greatest successes? And what’s next?
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This fall, BIEN celebrated 30th anniversary of its founding. Some of its founders convened for a conference at Université catholique de Louvain for the occasion. Watch the videos here.
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As previously reported, the 2016 BIEN Congress was held in Seoul, South Korea from July 7-9. The General Assembly (GA) was held on the last day of the congress, at which several important decisions were made, including the following: 1) BIEN now a legally chartered institution At the 2014 congress, the GA mandated the Executive Committee (EC) of BIEN to
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On December 11, anti-poverty activist and scholar Jason Burke Murphy appeared on the popular David Pakman Show to discuss basic income and how to implement it in the United States. Murphy is assistant professor at Elms College. He serves on the National Committee of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network and the BIEN Executive Committee. The conversation touched on the
» Read moreThis opinion piece comes from several of BIEN’s life members, who have proposed an amendment to BIEN’s statutes to alter the definition of basic income in the statutes. This proposal will be on the agenda at the next BIEN General Assembly meeting in Seoul, Korea in 2016. The members who have proposed it invite discussion of it. The proposal in
» Read more[July 26, 2013 – The Basic Income Canada Network / Reseau Canadien Pour Le Revenu Garanti] The Basic Income Canada Network / Reseau Canadien Pour Le Revenu Garanti (BICN) has announced some of the keynote speakers for the Fifteenth Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). BIEN has held a Congress every second year since 1986. The 2014 congress
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