by Yannick Vanderborght | Dec 27, 2011 | News
The German Basic Income Network (Netzwerk Grundeinkommen) has extended its website to include some English material. It hopes to offer more material in English step-by-step. So far, the English text includes a definition of Basic Income; the structure, work and aims of the German network; an overview about models and approaches to Basic Security and Basic Income in Germany and France; and materials of the symposium, held in October 2011 in Vienna.
– Joerg Drescher
Link:
https://www.grundeinkommen.de/services/english-page
by Yannick Vanderborght | Dec 26, 2011 | Opinion
European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) invite the Commission, within the framework of its powers, to submit any appropriate proposal on matters where citizens consider that a legal act of the European Union is required for the purpose of implementing the European Treaties. It is necessary that the ECI has received the support of at least one million eligible signatories coming from at least 7 of all Member States.
The ECI only offers a very limited possibility of direct participation of citizens in order to influence the European Union politics, but the ECI gives the chance, to force the EU-Commission to deal with the topic mentioned in the ECI. This is very important considering the basic legal and social situation of the EU. Decisions of the EU-Parliament, where Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) was mentioned as one possibility to prevent poverty which should be checked, have not been taken into account by the European Commission until now, the interests of citizens have been ignored.
Therefore the participants of the Vienna UBI-Symposium in Oct. 2011 (press release and fact sheets) have decided to start an ECI concerning UBI in the year 2012. With this ECI the EU-Commission is requested by the signatories to use up all its means and possibilities to speed up the introduction of a universal, individual, unconditional basic income to ensure people an existence in dignity and with participation in society.
With this ECI we hope that the discussion process concerning a UBI will be enhanced Europe-wide and that the networking between organizations and initiatives for Basic Income will be enforced.
More information to the ECI concerning UBI will be given at the 14th BIEN Congress (Munich, Germany, 14-16 September, 2012).
Ronald Blaschke, Berlin/Dresden, Netzwerk Grundeinkommen (Germany)
www.grundeinkommen.de
Klaus Sambor, Vienna, Attac basic income group (Austria)
https://community.attac.at/grundeinkommen.html
by Karl Widerquist | Dec 24, 2011 | News
This session at the International Reciprocal Trade Association at the Aventura Spa Resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico featured Richard Cook discussing, in part, a proposal for a worldwide BIG to be administered by the UN and IMF. Cook argued that a Basic Income Guarantee is necessary not only for humanitarian, social, and political reasons, but it is also needed to inject consumer purchasing power into a world economy where it has collapsed due to a fatally flawed monetary system. For more information see:
www.richardccook.com
by Yannick Vanderborght | Dec 23, 2011 | News
Pertti Koistinen (Professor of Work and Labor Market Policies) from the UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE, Finland announces a call for contributions to the project. To find out the feasibility of basic income as a social policy reform and an alternative to the failure of prevailing social security systems to prevent working age population from poverty and safeguard the basic social rights for all citizens Koistinen and fellow organizers look for cooperation and volunteers throughout of Europe.
Felix Coeln – BI News
For more info about Basic Income Research Project go to:
https://www.transform-network.net/en/home/article/basic-income-research-project-call-for-contributors.html
by Karl Widerquist | Dec 23, 2011 | News
A discussion of BIG on the Occupy Wall Street Website, go is online at:
https://occupywallst.org/forum/basic-income-guarantee-for-the-us/
