[Josh Martin] Martin Bohmeyer, a 29-year-old web developer in Germany, has been living on a self-imposed basic income...
GERMANY: Michael Bohmeyer Starts Crowdfunding Organization to Finance Individual Basic Incomes
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Bundestag considers emergency basic income petition
Berlin: A petition supported by several basic income groups in Germany, and signed by over 176,000 people, was debated...
GERMANY: Basic Income party Bündnis Grundeinkommen prepares for participation in upcoming election
Bündnis Grundeinkommen gathering at Brandenburg gate. Credit to: Enno Schmidt and Bündnis Grundeinkommen The...
GERMANY: Bündnis Grundeinkommen prepares campaign launch in Berlin
Germany’s basic income party is preparing a campaign launch event, featuring a combination of talks and artistic performances, on July 29 in Berlin.
World premiere of Basic Income documentary Free Lunch Society
A new documentary on basic income — Free Lunch Society by Austrian director Christian Tod — premiered in Copenhagen’s Bremen Theatre on March 20, 2017, to a crowd numbering in the hundreds.
BERLIN, GERMANY: Panel debates Basic Income at tech conference
A tech conference held in October in Berlin, Germany, included a panel on universal basic income, which featured basic income popularizer Michael Bohmeyer (Mein Grundeinkommen) alongside three AI experts.
FRANCE: Basic Income session at World Forum for a Responsible Economy (Oct 10)
The theme of this year’s World Forum for a Responsible Economy is “Envisioning the economy of the future”. In keeping with this theme, one session–held on Monday, October 10 in Lille–will focus on basic income.
GERMANY: Mein Grundeinkommen to give away 50th basic income (Aug 23)
On August 23, 2016, the initiative Mein Grundeinkommen will be giving away crowdfunded, year-long “basic incomes” to at least seven individuals, including its fiftieth recipient.
GERMANY: The Topic of Basic Income will Determine Elections by 2021
Original article published in SPREEZEITUNG, January 11th, 2016, written by Ursula Pidun. Translation by Jessica Rafka....
GERMANY: Mein Grundeinkommen June 2016 update
On 18 May 2016, Mein Grundeinkommen raffled off four one-year basic incomes, with each winner receiving €1,000 per...
GERMANY: Campaign for Basic Income Referendum Collects 90k Signatures
The signatures will be presented to the German Parliament on May 30.
BRUSSELS: “Basic income: Paradise or Purgatory?” 2 June 2016
Only days ahead of the Swiss referendum on basic income we take on the very same topic. A guaranteed basic income for...
SWITZERLAND: Grundeinkommen für dich to give away crowdsourced basic income
Switzerland's Grundeinkommen für dich ("Basic income for you") is about to award the country's first crowdfunded basic...
UNITED STATES: My Basic Income to Hold First Drawing
Earlier this year, Basic Income News reported on the activities of the San Francisco-based My Basic Income team, which...
UNITED STATES: Big Milestone for America’s First Crowdfunded Basic Income
America’s first crowdfunded basic income campaign, created and managed by the San Francisco-based My Basic Income...
UNITED STATES: Big push as America’s first crowdfunded basic income project approaches first milestone
The first initiative to crowdfund basic income in the United States is quickly approaching its first milestone. By...
OPINION: Notes of Discussions in the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress of 2015
(This article originally appeared on Medium) Between the 26th of February and the 1st of March, 2015, and only with...
Michael Schmidt, “How to get 12 x 1000€ to live in Germany-No Hooks”
Schmidt’s post raises awareness for Michael Bohmeyer’s project to fund a few full basic incomes of 1,000 euros per month.
UNITED STATES: The Fourteenth Annual North America Basic Income Guarantee Congress
There is a community of Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) supporters in the United States. To prove it, a small...
Brooklyn, NY: Report from the meeting to create a political movement for basic income
Thirty-one people signed the attendance sheet at the first meeting of group of people attempting to start a political...