Basic Income Family Picnic is taking place on September 19, 2015, 13:00 – 18:00.
The venue is
A Városligeti
Budapest
Kós Károly sétány
1146 Hungary
The detail can be found here.
Manja Taylor, from the 8th International Basic Income Week, interviews Taku Fundira, advocate of SADC BIG campaign, South Africa. The interview can be read here.
The home page of the ‘International Basic Income Week‘ features the interview with Enno Schmidt, co-initiator of the Swiss Citizen’s Initiative.
The initiative collected about 126,000 signatures for demanding to include a basic income in the Swiss constitution. A national referendum on this will take place in 2016.
The interview was conducted in German and translated to English by Manja Taylor.
Following Jeremy Corbyn‘s election as the new leader of the Labour party on 12th September, John McDonnell was appointed shadow chancellor of the Exchequer. The shadow chancellor is an informal title referring to the lead economic spokesperson for the opposition in the British parliament.
McDonnell is a basic income supporter. He hosted a session for a Citizen’s Income of ‘The People’s Parliament’ on 4th March 2014, and spoke about ‘the importance of a Citizen’s Income to our current situation and of how its implementation might become politically feasible.’ He also gave a speech at the Citizen’s Income Trust conference held on 6th June 2014.
Credit picture CC Transition Heathrow
Citizen’s Income Trust in the UK has published a comic strip introductory leaflet (pdf) online. It is written by Seán Michael Wilson, and illustrated by Carl Thompson.
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)