Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, a Facebook page in German, obtained its 50,000th follower in the summer of 2011. The page was created by Daniel Häni and Benjamin Hohlmann in Basel, Switzerland. The popularity of this site is just a small sign of the extent to which the BIG movement is taking off in German-speaking countries from the grass roots to the highest levels. Five of the six major parties in Germany have Basic Income factions. Dozens of members of the German Parliament have endorsed Basic Income. The national German BIG network is a large and growing organization, which has regular events often in cooperation with Swiss and Austrian groups. The German BIG Network will host the 2012 BIEN Congress in Munich. German-speaking countries have something that few other countries have: local Basic Income groups with regular activities in many German cities. Daniel Häni and Enno Schmidt founded a Swiss group in 2006 in Basel. They produced the documentary “Basic Income. A Cultural Impulse” (released in 2008), which is the most popular movie about BI in Germany and Switzerland.
The Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen Facebook is online at:
https://www.facebook.com/bedingungsloses.grundeinkommen.
For information (in German) about the German BIG network, go to their website:
https://www.grundeinkommen.de/
An English (dubbed) version of “Basic Income. A Cultural Impulse” is online at:
https://dotsub.com/view/26520150-1acc-4fd0-9acd-169d95c9abe1
CORRECTION: The original version of this article misidentified the page as being created by the German BIG Network
FYI, i came here via the archive of the everyday BIG news: http://aktuelles.archiv-grundeinkommen.de/
^^ worth a look every now and then!