Bristol Festival of Ideas invites Guy Standing to talk on ‘the Precariat and future cities’.
The date: 19 November 2015
The time: 18.00-19.00
The venue: Watershed, 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX
The ticket can be booked here.
Leeds Taking Soundings Readers’ Meetings
The date: Monday, November 16th (2015)
The time:6PM
The venue: Broadcasting Place AG10 (opposite the Fenton pub).
The contact: https://www.takingsoundings.org.uk/contact-us/
The organiser’s homepage said, ‘Paul Mason’s new book, Postcapitalism, has attracted a lot of attention, and deservedly so…..The Leeds Taking Soundings group wants to provide an opportunity to discuss what the book is about and how relevant it is.’
The book recommends the implemantation of an unconditional basic income as one of necessary measure during the transition to what the author called ‘PostCapitatalism’ from capitalism.
The minister of finance of the Iceland government has promised that every citizen will get a 30,000 Icelandic Krona (213 Euros) pay-out for the proposed Íslandsbanki bank sale.
Íslandsbanki is an Icelandic bank, to be state owned. According to the Reykjavik Grapevine News, Bjarni Benediktsson, the minister of finance, said at the national convention of the Independence party, ‘I am saying that the government take some decided portion, 5%, and simply hand it over to the people of this country’.
[Even if it would happen, it would be one-off payment, so not a basic income in any definition. However, historically the idea of an universal basic income has been often associated with the idea of socialization of banks. That’s why this news is reported here.]
The National Women’s Liberal Commission calls a party resolution for a pilot project of an unconditional basic income.
The National Women’s Liberal Commission is the women’s wing of the Liberal Party of Canada, which is currently in power.
The commission raises a party resolution to ‘advocate for a federal pilot of a basic income supplement in at least one Canadian town or city, in cooperation with the appropriate provincial and municipal government(s).’
The detail of the resolution can be read here.
Fianna Fáil, the largest opposition party in Ireland, has proposed to establish a commission which examines the introduction of an unconditional basic income in Ireland.
Willie O’Dea, the party’s social protection spokesperson, reveals that ‘Fianna Fáil commits to the establishment of a government commission to further investigate the feasibility of establishing a Basic Income system’, in the outline of the party’s priorities over a five-year term including reforms to social welfare and pensions system.
Its media coverage can be read here and here (the latter is negative).
The related news in the past in this site is: https://basicincome.org/news/2015/07/ireland-fianna-election-manifesto/
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