[Toru Yamamori]
Pete Higgins has opened an e-petition on “Replace the Benefit System with a Universal Basic Income for all” in HM Government. If it would collect more than 100,000 signatures until its closing date March 30, 2015, this petition could be discussed in the House of Commons. There are 233 signatures at this stage.
To read the original site for the petition, see:
https://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/71633
[Toru Yamamori]
Recent poll shows Podemos (We Can) is most supported party in Spain. Podemos was a newly emerged political party in January 2014 out of Indignados, the anti-austerity movement similar to the Occupy Wall Street. The party endorses BIG and got five seats in European Parliament Election in May 2014. According to the poll released November 1st by the Spanish newspaper El Pais, The party got 27.7%, ahead to the opposition Socialist Party 26.2% and to the ruling party Popular Party 20.7%.
Podemos -from the Volunteer via Newshub
For more information, see:
Mike Pope, “Podemos is the most popular political party in spain” The News Hub Beta, November 2, 2014.
Julian Toyer, “Poll lead for newcomer shakes up Spain’s political system” Reuters, November 2, 2014.
To read more on Podemos and BIG, see:
Karl Widerquist, “SPAIN: New political party that endorses big takes five seats in european parliament” Basic Income News, June 1, 2014.
[Toru Yamamori]
Henvel and Cohen interviewed Edward Snowden on October 6 in Moscow. In the interview Snowden endorses a basic income. The interview now online and also will be published in the November 17 edition of the Nation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, “Edward Snowden: A ‘Nation’ interview.” Nation, November 17, 2014.
[Toru Yamamori]
In his post, Dvorsky argues that technological unemployment has been increasing and inevitable, and that it makes a basic income absolutely inevitable for a bright future.
George Dvorsky, “How Universal Basic Income Will Save Us From the Robot Uprising.” io9:We Come From The Future, November 4, 2014.
[Toru Yamamori]
In his post, Christensen inform that a science fiction published in 1967 referred to a basic income. Philip Jose Farmer’s novel Riders of the Purple Wage predicted what will follow after the implementation of a basic income. The novel won Hugo Award.
Bill Christensen, “Time For A Universal Basic Income?.” Science Fiction in the News, October 30, 2014.
