by Liam Upton | Apr 29, 2015 | News
The Facebook page of BIEN affiliate Basic Income Ireland, has just passed 18,000 likes.
The page is now more popular than any political party in Ireland except one, including the two parties currently in government. It also now has more likes than leading campaign groups the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the Simon Community and a similar amount of likes as Oxfam Ireland.
Ireland has also recently seen the creation of its first local group, Basic Income Waterford.
For more information, see:
Basic Income Ireland
by Liam Upton | Apr 28, 2015 | News
Peter Frase, “Ours to Master”, Jacobin, 5 April 2015
by Liam Upton | Apr 27, 2015 | News
BIEN’s affiliate in Canada, the Basic Income Canada Network (also known by its French name Réseau canadien pour le revenu garanti) has just launched its new Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/BasicIncomeCanada.
This is the network’s first Facebook page and is part of a re-launching of BICN which has been ongoing since 2014. The re-launch has involved a new logo, a donations appeal, which has raised over $7,000, a call for volunteers and will also include a new website, to be launched this summer. The new website will also include tools for local chapters.
For more information, see:
Basic Income Canada Network
by Liam Upton | Apr 26, 2015 | News
The speaker begins talking about Basic Income around 56:01
“David Graeber, Resistance In A Time of Total Bureaucratization”
