This blog shows how basic income has been dismissed both for being utopian and for being not utopian enough. The author, Peter Frase, is an editor at Jacobin and a Ph.D. student in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Peter Frase, “Curious Utopias,” Jacobin, May 14, 2013.
Karl Widerquist, Associate Professor at SFS-Q, Georgetown University, will give a public lecture entitled, “Basic Income Grant: A remedy for poverty and inequality in Namibia?” at 6:30pm on Tuesday, 24 September 2013 at the Windhoek Multipurpose Youth Centre, Auala Street, Windhoek, Namibia. The lecture is organized by the University of Namibia’s Department of Sociology and the Theological Institute for Advocacy and Research in Africa. Widerquist will speak on a related topic two days later at the Bank of Namibia’s Annual Symposium.
Karl Widerquist
Topic: Basic Income Grant: A remedy for poverty and inequality in Namibia?
Date: Time: Venue: Tuesday, 24 September 2013 18h30 Windhoek Multipurpose Youth Centre, Auala Street, Katutura (near Independence Arena)
Guest Speaker: Prof. Karl Widerquist
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Mateo Alaluf is a Professor of Sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels, Belgium. In this opinion piece (in French), he focuses on the renewed interest in basic income throughout Europe, and insists on the fact that basic income is a neo-liberal idea. According to Alaluf, in a basic income society wages would be lower, and retrenchment in existing social programmes would be much easier. He rather advocates the reinforcement of existing programmes, and the introduction of a so-called “maximum income”.
The opinion piece can be found here (in French): https://www.rtbf.be/info/opinions/detail_l-allocation-universelle-contre-la-protection-sociale?id=8018227
Basic Income Ireland
A new organisation called Basic Income Ireland, held its introductory meeting on Thursday March 7th, at National University of Ireland in Maynooth, 7-9pm. Erik Olin Wright, professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, was a featured speaker.
The next Basic Income Ireland general network meeting will take place at the Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2 on Thursday May, 2nd from 6.30 to 8.30pm. The general theme of the meeting will be ‘spreading the word’ about basic income. Everyone is welcome to attend.
More information about the first event is online at:
https://www.feasta.org/2013/02/15/basic-income-ireland-first-public-event/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=PGBot&utm_source=PGBot
More information about the second event is online at:
https://www.basicincomeireland.com/news–events.html
Basic Income Ireland is online at:
https://www.basicincomeireland.com/
Photo Exhibition, Verona
A photo exhibition on Namibia’s basic income experiment has been going on at the Library Frinzi in Verona from April 4th to 29th. On kick-off day, April 4th, there was a brief introduction of both the exhibition and Namibia’s basic income project. The experimentation undertaken in Namibia by BIGNAM (Basic Income Grant-Namibia) aims at granting every man and women a universal and unconditional basic income.
The photo exhibition, which is entitled ‘Basic Income and Right to Life – Signals from Namibia, Images of a Concrete Utopia’, depicts particular moments of daily life of Otjivero – Omitara (Namibia) community.
The exhibition was organized by Simone Michelangelo Muzzioli, a Ph.D student in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Verona, and it has been supported by PhD program in Sociology and Social Research of the University of Verona.
For further information about the exhibition it is possible to contact Simone Muzzioli (PhD student in Sociology and Social Research): simonemichelangelo.muzzioli@univr.it
More info (both in Italian and in English) is also available on line at: https://www.bin-italia.org/informa.php?ID_NEWS=473
Basic Income Namibia
