The NYC Climate Convergence will hose a conference entitled, “Building a Broader Climate Movement: Universal Basic Income and the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy,” at 7:00pm, Thursday, September 11, 2014, in The Commons Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217.
This is a free build-up event for the NYC Climate Convergence (www.convergeforclimate.org), a series of events and actions that will take place 9/19-9/21. See the website for registration and details.
Convergenceforclimate.org
Since the economic collapse of 2007-2008, calls for a universal basic income (or “Social Security for All”) have resurfaced in major outlets for the first time since the 1970s. While many of the voices calling for a UBI have come from outside established social movement groups, the UBI has tremendous potential to link the disparate movements of the left. It also may present a way of beginning to address perhaps the most urgent problem of our time–climate change.
Speakers:
Alyssa Battistoni is PhD student in political science at Yale University and an editor at Jacobin magazine.
Benjamin Kunkel is a founding editor of n+1 magazine and the author of Utopia or Bust. His play Buzz will be staged this fall in Brooklyn.
Michael Lewis is a social worker and sociologist on the faculty of the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. He’s interested in quantitative methods, public policy, and poverty and is the co-author of Economics for Social Workers and co-editor of The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee. Other articles he’s written have appeared in a number of peer-review journals.
Time & Date: 7:00pm, Thursday, September 11, 2014
Location: The Commons Brooklyn
388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217
Host: NYC Climate Convergence
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/283099725223819/
