VIDEO: “We need unconditional basic income” by German group “Enough for All”

Enough for All, an Attac Germany working group, has created a four-minute explainer video that presents several arguments for a universal basic income.

In English:

In German:

Enough for All has years of experience publicizing and promoting the idea of basic income.

Members of the group helped to form BIEN’s German affiliate, Netzwerk Grundeinkommen (founded in July 2004), and organized the first three German-language basic income conferences, held in Vienna (2005), Basel (2007) and Berlin (2008).

One ongoing project of Enough for All is its traveling exhibition “Basic Income for Beginners”, which was originally developed to display at the conferences. The exhibition includes 25 cloth banners with information about basic income, such as the non-randomly selected example below (see the previous link for the rest).

The “Basic Income for Beginners” exhibition has now been displayed in more than 50 cities.

From 2012 to 2014, Enough for All helped to run the (now closed) European Citizens’ Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income.

Attac Germany members Dagmar Paternoga and Werner Raetz are regularly available to deliver lectures on basic income.

Attac is an international organization with chapters in 40 countries and over 1000 local groups. It opposes “neo-liberal globalization” and supports “the regulation of financial markets, the closure of tax havens, the introduction of global taxes to finance global public goods, the cancellation of the debt of developing countries, fair trade, and the implementation of limits to free trade and capital flows” (see its overview). National Attac working groups, such as Enough for All, are permitted to develop their own agendas without consultation or confirmation from the international organization.

“Enough for All” information provided by Iris Schmidt

Article reviewed by Genevieve Shanahan