by USBIG | Jul 2, 2015 | News
The Fifteenth Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress will take place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada from Thursday, May 12 to Sunday, May 15, 2016. The congress is co-organized by the Basic Income Canada Network, the United States Basic Income Guarantee Network, Basic Income Manitoba, and the University of Manitoba. It will bring together social activists, policy advocates, researchers, government officials, and community members interested in the provision of an unconditional, universal, adequate basic income for all. A call for papers, presentations and posters for the Congress will be released in September 2015. Stay tuned for further details. Visit tourismwinnipeg.com for information about Winnipeg, Manitoba. Please direct inquiries to: nabigcongress2016@umanitoba.ca. For more information go to USBIG.net.
Event: Fifteenth Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress, May 12 – 15, 2016
Location: University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Dates: Thursday, May 12 – Sunday, May 15, 2016
Release of call for presentations: September 2015
Inquiries: nabigcongress2016@umanitoba.ca
More information: www.usbig.net
University of Manitoba
by USBIG | Dec 19, 2014 | News
The U.S. Basic Income Guarantee (USIBG) Network has released a list of forty participants for the Fourteenth Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress (a joint even of USBIG and the Basic Income Canada Network). The Congress will take place in New York City starting Thursday, February 26 – Sunday March 1, 2015. Most events will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA) at the New York Sheraton Hotel and Towers. The Congress will also involve free events including a public discussion at the Hunter School of Social Work on Thursday, February 26 and an activists meeting at the Brooklyn Commons on Sunday March 1.
Conference participants include:
- Alanna Hartzok, the Earth Rights institute, 2014 Democratic Nominee for Cognress
- Ann Withorn, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Boston, author of Serving the People: Social Services and Social Change
- Ashley Engel, University College Dublin
- Bill DiFazio, St. John’s University
- Brigid Reynolds, Social Justice Ireland
- Diane Dujon, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Diane Pagen, Rutgers University School of Social Work
- Eduardo Suplicy, former member of the Brazilian Federal Senate
- Eri Noguchi, the Association to Benefit Children
- Felix Coeln, the German Pirate Party
- Frances Fox Piven, the City University of New York
- Frederick H. (Harry) Pitts, University of Bath
- Ian Shlakman, 2014 Green Party Nominee for Congress
- James Green-Armytage, Bard College
- James Jennings, Tufts University
- Jim Bryan, Ryan/Bacardi Professor of Economics, Manhattanville College
- Jim Mulvale, Dean of the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba
- Jonathan Brun, Basic Income Canada Network
- Jude Thomas, Freelance writer
- Jurgen De Wispelaere, McGill University
- Karl Widerquist, SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University
- Marshall Brain, author of How Stuff Works and Manna
- Mary Bricker Jenkins, Professor of Social Work, Temple University, and US Welfare Rights Union leader
- Michael Lewis, Hunter School of Social Work
- Michael Howard, University of Maine
- Michaelann Berwitz, activist
- Mimi Abramovitz, Hunter College
- Oliver Heydorn, The Clifford Hugh Douglas Institute for the Study and Promotion of Social Credit
- Paul B. Siegel, the World Bank
- Peter Barnes, author of Who Owns the Sky?, With Liberty and Dividends For All, and Capitalism 3.0
- Preston Smith, activist
- Roy Morrison, Greater Boston Capital Partners
- Seán Healy, Social Justice Ireland
- Sid Frankel, University of Manitoba
- Stanley Aranowitz, the City University of New York
- Steve Pressman, Monmouth College
- Suezanne Bruce, activist
- Valerie J. Carter, University of Maine
- Willie Baptist, the Poverty Initiative
Calendar:
Thursday, February 26, 2015
7pm to 9pm: Public Discussion: “New Possibilities for the Basic Income Movement”
Hunter College, room to be announced
Friday, February 27, 2015
8am to 7pm: Sessions at the Sheraton Hotel, 811 7th Avenue, New York, NY
Evening: social event to be announced
Saturday, February 28, 2015
8am to 6:30pm: Sessions at the Sheraton Hotel, 811 7th Avenue, New York, NY
Evening: social event to be announced
Sunday, March 1, 2015
8am to 12:30pm: Sessions at the Sheraton Hotel, 811 7th Avenue, New York, NY
12:45-m-2:15: Lunch meeting: organizational meeting of the USBIG Network
6:30pm: Activists Meeting: “Are we ready to start an activists movement for BIG in the United States?” We’ll chip in for pizza and drinks, but we’ll share the food and drink unconditionally with everyone who comes—without means test or any requirement to make a reciprocal contribution. We will discuss this question without any more specific agenda. Karl Widerquist will moderate the discussion, but will not lead the discussion or any effort that might come out of it. Location: Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn, NY
The Brooklyn Commons
Everyone attending the events at the Sheraton must register with the EEA and pay their registration fee (all events outside the Sheraton are free and open to everyone). Anyone who registers as a USBIG participant can register for the EEA members’ price of $110 without paying the EEA’s membership fee—saving $65. All registered attendees of the NABIG Congress are welcome to attend any of the EEA’s events.
For updated information on featured speakers, registration, and accommodations as more becomes available, visit the USBIG website: www.usbig.net. For more information about the Eastern Economics Association Annual Meeting, visit the EEA website: https://www.quinnipiac.edu/eea/41st-annual-conference/.
Essential information:
Conference dates: Thursday, February 26 – Sunday, March 1, 2015
Locations: New York and Brooklyn, NY: The Sheraton Hotel and Towers, 811 7th Avenue, New York, NY, Hunter College, and the Brooklyn Commons
Organizing committee: Karl Widerquist <Karl@Widerquist.com> (organizer), Ann Withorn <withorn.ann@gmail.com>, Shawn Cassiman <scassiman1@udayton.edu>, and Jurgen De Wispelaere <jurgen.dewispelaere@gmail.com>
Website: USBIG.net.
The Brooklyn Commons
by USBIG | Nov 9, 2014 | News
Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist, co-chair of BIEN, Associate Professor at SFS-Q, Georgetown University, and author of Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A theory of freedom as the power to say no, will speak about basic income in five cities in the United Kingdom this November 14-18. The dates of his talks are:
Friday, November 14, 2014, 6pm, London School of Economics Development Society, 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 2HD
Saturday November 15, 2014 2:15pm, Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Rd, Croydon CR0 1BD
Sunday, Oxford Wine Bar, South Parade, Oxford, UK, details to be announced
Monday, November 17th, 5:00pm – 7:00pm: “Basic Income: Can it save us?”. Speakers: Karl Widerquist (Georgetown University), Malcolm Torry (Director, Citizen’s Income Trust). Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Tuesday November 18, Centre for Citizenship, Globalization and Governance, the University of Southampton.
by USBIG | Oct 24, 2014 | News
Scott Santens
Scott Santens, advocate for basic income and moderator of the Basic Income community on Reddit, on Monday announced his intention to crowdfund his own poverty level basic income through his writing and advocacy with the use of Patreon, a Kickstarter-like site meant to enable fans of content creators to support their freely distributed works. According to Patreon, content creators there currently receive over $1 million each month from over 125,000 patrons.
As stated in his announcement in the Basic Income community on Reddit, his intent is to free himself to focus on helping build the movement full-time, and to inspire others to join him in doing the same. He further states that if his goal of $1,000 per month is reached, that anything earned above it, he will “pledge to others setting the same goal and pledging to do the same in return for others” and he is calling this goal, “The BIG Patreon Creator Pledge.”
To learn more, his crowdfunding page on Patreon can be found at: https://www.patreon.com/scottsantens
Scott Santens, “The BIG Patreon Creator Pledge“, Reddit, 13 October 2014.
Patreon, “Creators on Patreon Receive Over 1,000,000 per Month From Patrons“, Patreon, 11 October 2014.
by USBIG | Oct 24, 2014 | Research
In this article, Scott Santens describes our current welfare system across the entire socioeconomic spectrum, and stresses the need for an improved safety net that exists as a basic income floor everyone can count on and no one can fall beneath.
Scott Santens, “Breaking Down Without a Spare – America’s lopsided welfare system of counterproductive public assistance“, Medium, 13 October 2014.
Breaking down without a spare -Photo by Jeremy Brooks — Flickr, via Medium.com
