Below you will find links to folders of photographs I took at the 2024 BIEN Congress held at the University of Bath on August 29-31. Not all sessions are covered.
2024-08-29 BIEN Congress Day 1
2024-08-29 BIEN Congress Day 2
2024-08-29 BIEN Congress Day 3
Click on the links to view and download the photos that are all in .jpg format and under 10 MB in size.
Below you will find the full text of Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy’s planned address at the closing ceremony of 2024 BIEN Congress at the University of Bath, UK, on August 31, 2024. He was conscious that he had to respect the ten-minute time limit set by the organization of the Congress for his oral exposition, but for the record he considered that it would important to provide a fuller account of the long journey toward making UBI a reality in Brazil, where the 2025 Congress will be held.
To read the full text, click here.
To view and download 49 Photos, click here.
On 8 August 2024, the Basic Income Earth Network submitted input for the United Nations
Secretary-General’s report on the 2025 Review of the Peacebuilding Architecture, upon
invitation of the United Nations (UN) Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO). This proposal
was endorsed by over 125 affiliates and partner organisations from 46 countries who joined
their organisational commitment behind BIEN’s call for the consideration of basic income as
a peacebuilding instrument.
To read the full press release, click here.
The recent riots in English urban areas and in Northern Ireland were precipitated by racism,
extremist nationalism and religious bigotry. That’s what everybody sees, and everyone is
responding to. However, the unseen underlying cause of such attitudes and behaviour is
chronic economic insecurity, just as lurches to the far right in other countries have been due
to economic insecurity and the growth of the new mass class, the precariat, whose lives are
mired in insecurity, instability, precarity and debt. When people are insecure, it’s easy to
induce them to believe the lie that other vulnerable groups are to blame for their precarity.
To read the full release, click here.
BIEN2024 was August 29–31 in Bath (England).
More resources from the event forthcoming.
