by Karl Widerquist | Jul 13, 2013 | News
The Fifteenth International Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network will take place in Montreal, Quebec on June 26-29, 2014. The Basic Income Canada Network (known in French as Reseau Canadien Pour Le Revenu Garanti) will host the Congress. The theme of the Congress will be “Re-Democratizing the Economy.” More details about the Congress will be released gradually over the coming months. United then, conference organizers recommend, “Save the date.”
More details of the Congress soon appear on the BICN website.
by Karl Widerquist | Jan 22, 2013 | News
The registration is open for the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress, May 9 – 11th, 2013, in New York City.
This event is co-organized by the Basic Income Canada Network and the United States Basic Income Guarantee Network.
Featured speakers for this year’s NABIG Congress include:
Sheri Berman, Barnard College, author of The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century Jurgen De Wispelaere, McGill University, co-editor of The Ethics of Stakeholding. Carole Pateman, UCLA and Cardiff University, co-author of Basic Income Worldwide: Horizons of Reform David Casassas, University of Barcelona, co-editor of Basic Income in the Age of Great Inequalities James Riccio, MDRC, co-author of “Toward Reduced Poverty Across Generations: Early Findings from New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program” Darrick Hamilton, The New School, co-author of “Can ‘Baby Bonds’ Eliminate the Racial Wealth Gap in Putative Post-Racial America?”
Registration for the congress through our host the Eastern Economics Association is now open at https://eeaorg.myshopify.com/
Scroll down to the bottom of the registration options for the USBIG rates, which are US$155 for those employed by an academic institution, and US$95 for all others. The registration deadline is March 15th, 2013.
Registration for hotel rooms at the congress venue, the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, 811 Seventh Avenue (at 53rd Street), is now open at
https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=1206292897&key=31548
The EEA negotiated group rate is available through April 7th, 2013, but is subject to availability, so early booking is advised.
Further information on the Congress can be found at
https://www.usbig.net/index.php
(Please note that the deadline for paper proposals has passed.)
by Citizens' Income Trust | Jan 7, 2013 | Opinion
BIEN now stands for ‘Basic Income Earth Network’. Once every two years BIEN holds a congress, and this year’s showed just how appropriate the name now is and how inappropriate it would be to still call it the ‘Basic Income European Network’. There were participants from South Africa, Namibia, India, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Canada, Latin America, and numerous European countries. Over three hundred in all gathered for forty-eight hours of plenary sessions, workshops and panels: often six different workshops and panels at one time, with three or four speakers each, to enable all of the papers to be delivered and discussed.
The congress was titled ‘Pathways to a Basic Income’. There was a sort of pattern to the timetable. Friday’s sessions were largely on the current state of the debate, Saturday on routes towards implementation of a Citizen’s Income, and Sunday on a Citizen’s Income’s relationships with such vital themes as ecology, rights, justice, and democracy: but nothing is that tidy, and each day contained a wide diversity of presentations and discussions touching on all of those areas.
The high point was a set of presentations by Guy Standing and representatives of India’s Self Employed Workers Association on the Indian Universal Cash Transfers pilot project and on some of the interim results. Of all of the sessions that I attended this one got by far the longest applause. The other high point, though a rather lower key presentation, was the significant story of Iran’s Citizen’s Income told by Hamid Tabatabai during one of the panel sessions.
The Congress was a quite inspiring mixture of the visionary and the realistic, of the broad-brush and the detailed, of the theoretical and the practical, and Germany’s Netzwerk Grundeinkommen (Basic Income Network) is to be congratulated on organising such a highly successful event.
by Yannick Vanderborght | Dec 6, 2012 | News
The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) has named the Basic Income Canada Network as the host of the 15th BEIN Congress, which will take place in Ottawa, Ontario in the spring or summer of 2014. Kelly Ernst, of Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership, will chair the Local Organizing Committee (LOC). Other members of the LOC include Jurgen de Wispelaere, Kizzy Paris, Jenna van Draanen, Linda Lalonde, Myron Frankman, Tim Rourke, and Sharon Murphy. The LOC will name a date and a venue for the conference within the next six months and release a call for submissions sometime in 2013. For more information about the organizational efforts that will bring congress into being in a little more than 18 months, contact: Kelly Ernst <kernst@chumir.ca>
by Yannick Vanderborght | Nov 9, 2012 | News
This 75-minute is from a session at the BIEN Congress in Munich in September 2012. Presenters include Almaz Zelleke, BIEN New York, James Mulvale, BIEN Executive Committee Canada and Wouter van Ginneken, Divonne-les-Bains, France. It was posted on YouTube by Friedel Hans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IKbzInMUnc
