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Montreal, Canada: Guaranteed Livable Income and Sustainable Futures public event
Picture credit to: Feminism in Canada (Youtube) Could a guaranteed livable income create healthy societies and save the planet? A grassroots group of Asian feminists address this question by organizing a panel of leading experts on basic income and...
Frankfurt, Germany: GLS Bank and Bündnis Grundeinkommen Hessen invite prof. Sascha Liebermann
On the 9th of October 2018, at 6 pm, professor Sascha Liebermann will speak at the GLS Bank in Frankfurt. The event is organized by the Bündnis Grundeinkommen Hessen (Hesse Basic Income Alliance) political party and is expected to last for around two hours. General...
Four Ontario Mayors asking the Federal Government to take over the Basic Income Pilot
Four Ontario mayors, with a letter addressed to Jean-Yves Duclos, who sits in the present Canadian federal cabinet as Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development, appeal to the Federal Government for assuming oversight over the Basic Income Pilot project in...
VIDEO: Release of the BIEN Congress 2018 plenary sessions video recordings
The plenary sessions of the BIEN Congress 2018 are now available to view, here (all). Individually, the recordings can also be watched in the following embedded links. Philip Alston, "Should We Frame Basic Income as a Human Right?" Louise Haagh, "The...
UN Secretary-General endorses UBI
The Secretary-General of the United Nations endorses UBI on 25th September 2018. António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, urged world leaders to consider Unconditional Basic Income in his speech at the General Assembly of the UN. After drawing the audience’s...
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Donut-D-Day Conference
On September 15th 2018, Donut-D-Day brought together various Dutch organizations and citizens committed to integrated systemic reforms to fight climate change, socioeconomic inequality, and unstable financial systems. The organizers used Kate Raworth's model of...
France: Benoît Hamon calls President Macron a “specialist in counterfeits”, when referring to basic income
Benoît Hamon Benoît Hamon, a former representative of the Socialist Party in France, and who ran for the French presidency in 2017 on ideas like legalizing cannabis, euthanasia, protecting “common goods” (water, air, biodiversity) in the Constitution and basic...
Ontario, Canada: Portrait series of people taking part in the cancelled Ontario Basic Income Pilot
Jessie Golem, a photographer from Hamilton, is one of the 4000 people who were taking part in the Ontario Basic Income Pilot, which was cancelled earlier this year. Golem has created a series of portraits called Humans of Basic Income, a collection of portraits...
United States: After Delay, Y Combinator Research Presses on with Basic Income Study
Sam Altman. Picture credit to: San Francisco Chronicle. Y Combinator (YC) Research will begin its basic income study in 2019 after regulatory hurdles slowed a pilot program in Oakland, California. The proposed study, entitled “Making Ends Meet,” will provide...
Ontario, Canada: Reactions to Ontario Basic Income Pilot Cancelation
Anonymous recipient of the Ontario basic income experiment. Photo credit: Jessie Golem, photographer responsible for the Humans of Basic Income project The Ontario Basic Income Pilot, started by a liberal government, was canceled on July 31st 2018, by the newly...
