by Sandro Gobetti | Nov 25, 2012 | News
A conference entitled “The Right to Work and the Right to Basic Income” has been held at the Council Chamber in the City Hall of Castel Madama, a municipality in the Province of Rome, Italy, on the 13th November 2012. The event included a series of speeches given by spokespersons of grassroots social organisations, members of unions and political parties. The Conference represented an occasion to release figures and statistical data on job losses, job cuts and workers’ resignation to finding a new job. Also, it included the screening of the video entitled Se potessi avere… [If I could have…] which highlights stories and accounts by unemployed, precarious workers and workers on redundancy payment in the municipality of Castel Madama.
The speakers included Maria Pia Pizzolante who is a spokesperson of TILT – a grassroots social organisation – Sandro Gobetti who is the coordinator of BIN Italia, Canio Calitri who is the General Secretary of the union FIOM-CGIL Lazio, and Paolo Cento who is a member of the political party SEL – Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (Left Ecology Freedom). The presence of organisations with different political background ensured a balanced conference where advocates for workers’ rights and proponents of basic income could share their views. The event has been organised by the political party SEL (Left Ecology Freedom)
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by Sandro Gobetti | Nov 24, 2012 | News
The political and cultural association Umbrialeft has organised a meeting entitled “Talk about Guaranteed Minimum Income”, that was held on the 10th November 2012 in Spoleto, Italy. The meeting was attended by Sandro Gobetti, coordinator of BIN Italia and Alessandra Massari who is the coordinator of the political party SEL – Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (Left Ecology Freedom) in Spoleto. The event has been coordinated by Stefano Vinti.
In recent years, in Italy, despite the misery of the Italian welfare state and social protection system an innovative and lively debate on these issues has developed. Although Italy is, along with Greece, the only European country lacking a universal income support scheme many scholars have managed to mix the different levels of the debate on basic income in an original and promising way. The proposal of a popular initiative bill on guaranteed income in Italy that has been launched in June 2012 (and that continues to gather great support) will end in December 2012. The objective is to collect at least fifty thousand signatures but much more can be done. Collecting thousands of signatures results in a very important political and social signal both for Italian society and politics. The campaign in favour of guaranteed minimum income represents therefore a great opportunity to boost a new era of social rights.
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by Sandro Gobetti | Oct 27, 2012 | News
A debate on Guaranteed Minimum Income and the proposal of a popular initiative bill on guaranteed minimum income will be held on Monday 15th of October 2012 at Parco della Cacciarella in Rome. The event will include the presentation of BIN Italia last book, Reddito minimo garantito, un progetto necessario possibile published by – Edizioni Gruppo Abele. The event is organised by the political party SEL – Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (Left Ecology Freedom).
It will be attended by Gianluca Peciola (who is in charge of welfare in SEL at local level), Claudio Di Berardino (who is a union representative from CGIL Roma e Lazio), Sandro Gobetti (BIN Italia Coordinator), and Massimiliano Smeriglio ( who is in charge of labour policies in SEL at national level). The debate will be coordinated by Marta Bonafoni (Radio Popolare Roma).
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by Sandro Gobetti | Jul 17, 2012 | News
A debate titled “Economics for the People or Economics for things? Labour Policies and Guaranteed Minimum Income” will be held on Thursday 19th of July 2012 in Albano Laziale within the Festival called ‘Festa Cambia Musica’. The debate starts at 6.30 pm, and it is introduced and presided by M. Zammataro, who is SEL (Left Ecology Freedom) coordinator in Lazio region. The debate will be attended by M. Smeriglio (who is in charge of labour policies in SEL at national level), S. Gobetti (BIN Italia Coordinator), and a union representative from FIOM CGIL Lazio (Engineering Industrial Union).
The debate, which will be held at Villa Doria, is organised by the political party SEL – Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (Left Ecology Freedom).
by Sandro Gobetti | Jul 12, 2012 | News
On Saturday 14th of July 2012 at 5.30 pm a training workshop titled “Our Welfare: guaranteed income in Italy and Europe” will be held in Foligno (Italy) within the summer festival of the political party SEL – Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (Left Ecology Freedom). The event will be hosted by Elisabetta Piccolotti (member of the National Committee of SEL and member of the local government of Foligno) and Ivano Bruschi (Councillor of the town council of Foligno). The event will be also attended by Titti Di Salvo (member of the National Committee of SEL, and spokeswoman for the Forum Environment, Economics, Labour), and Sandro Gobetti (BIN Italia – Basic Income Network Italia). During the event there will be the screening of the video ‘Reinventing the Welfare State: a European perspective’.
