The Guaranteed Income Works national tour is underway! Following its debut at the Tribeca Festival in June, the new documentary, It’s Basic, is starting a 50-city national tour to show how guaranteed income can end poverty in the United States. In July, the tour included stops in Long Beach, CA and Saint Paul, MN.
Watch the It’s Basic trailer
The UBI Piloters Network is proud to announce its launch in collaboration with the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), the University of Bath, and the University of Freiburg’s Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS). The network unites researchers, policymakers, activists, and civil society actors interested or engaging in trialling Unconditional Basic Income (UBI). Read More
The 22nd annual BIEN Congress, taking place in South Korea this year from August 23rd to 26th, is coming soon.
Conducted synchronously offline and online, the event will be held at Ewha Womans University ECC, Seoul, South Korea.
You can check the finalized version of the program here.
The link for the registration is here.
Guy Standing, BIEN Co-Founder, has a new article published in Prospect, August/September 2023 issue.
“The royal family has made millions from the exploitation of the seabed—a resource that belongs to us all. Is it time for people and planet to be put ahead of profit?”
To read the article click here.
The podcast was part of a series, The Morality of Everyday Things
“After having previously said over and over that we’ll “do UBI properly at some point”, the time has come, and what better way to approach this question than including the man who quite literally wrote the book on it, Guy Standing. A professor in Economics at SOAS, who spent many years at the International Labour Organization and founded the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), this episode is really more about Guy than us – with us questioning him on what drives the moral imperative for everyone receiving basic income.”
To listen to the podcast, click here.
The 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27-29 August 2025
Linkedin, Instagram, X – biencongress25 (at) gmail [dot] com
BIEN2024 was August 29–31 (Pictures and more coming soon)