by Toru Yamamori | Apr 17, 2015 | News
Kozo Yamamoto, a MP from the Liberal Democratic Party (the main ruling party), mentions to BIG as he was interviewed by an internet news. The Net IB News published the interview with Mr Yamamoto on 6 February 2015. The interview is about how far he has been influential for so-called ‘Abenomix’, the current government’s flag ship economic policy which is a mixture of financial easing and deregulations, and what is to be done next. In its 6th page, Mr Yamamoto briefly referred to ‘a basic income’. Although its usage rather loose and not exclusively unconditional BI, it is one of rare cases of mentioning BI among MPs from LDP. The interview is in Japanese:
https://www.data-max.co.jp/politics_and_society/2015/02/29918/0206_ymh_06/
by Toru Yamamori | Apr 16, 2015 | News
Marlen Vargas Del Razo questions a view that prostitution is ‘actual Sexual Freedom and Expression’ and asks us to discuss on how sexual expression would change ‘in a world where a living income is made a human right’. The podcast is at:
https://www.marlenvargasdelrazo.com/prostitution-and-living-income/
by Toru Yamamori | Apr 16, 2015 | News
Seisyu Makino, a MP from the Democratic Party of Japan (the biggest opposition party), has made his endorsement of BIG public through his blog posts: On his post on 5th February 2015 entitled ‘towards rebirth of the world economy which was collapsed’, he argued in favor of an unconditional basic income. Having had comments from readers, he went further on his posts on 12th and 20th March both entitled ‘towards “the statement for abolishing poverty”’, he introduces several plans how to finance BI, and gave a quick overview what is going on for it in the world. All his posts are in Japanese:
https://www.seishu.org/20150205.html
https://www.seishu.org/20150312.html
https://www.seishu.org/20150320.html
by Toru Yamamori | Apr 16, 2015 | News
Pat Kane argues: “A basic income may be the way to support those displaced by robots and automation to develop their machine-resistant skills. It might also need a collective revaluing of those caring and creative skills in the first place. Which small nation can you think of that might be capable of such a patient and sustained revaluing? Right, first time.”
Pat Kane, “Terminal Redundancy in Digital Age”. The Scotsman, 26 January 2015.
by Toru Yamamori | Apr 15, 2015 | News
Liz Ely argues that although BIG ‘by itself would end gender inequality or prevent violence against women’, first ‘it could prevent financial abuse’; secondly ‘it could support women to leave abusive relationship’; and thirdly ‘it could prevent commercial sexual exploitation’. She is a feminist comedian and activist based in Edinburgh.
Liz Ely, “Three ways a citizen’s income could help prevent men’s violence against women,” A blog from Zero Tolerance. 3 Feb 2015.
