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Testimonies
To celebrate BIEN’s thirtieth anniversary, a number of interviews were carried out with Executive Committee members and a variety of other people involved in the global Basic Income debate. The Executive Committee is planning to repeat the exercise at some point in the future.
Basic Income Interviews: Juon Kim
Juon Kim has been an organizer of Basic Income Youth Network in Korea since 2013. In March of this year, Juon ran for a proportionate candidate of Green Party Korea in the general election, representing the party’s UBI agenda. She’s currently a graduate student of cultural anthropology, and plans to write her MA thesis about basic income.
Basic Income Interviews: Jennifer Lawson
Jennifer Lawson studied philosophy and psychology at Stetson University and the University of North Florida. During graduate school, she suffered several psychotic breaks, and now lives on disability. She has been an advocate and activist for over twenty years.
Basic Income Interviews: Nina Šoštarič
Nina Šoštarič obtained her Master’s Degree in Philosophy with the thesis ‘Basic Income as a Step towards Environmental Justice’ from University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She is now a PhD student at University College Dublin in Ireland.
Basic Income Interviews: Harmony Hackney
Harmony Hackney describes herself as a “housewife and quasi-revolutionary who went to school for motorcycle repair, where she went $9k into debt to learn how to read the manual, and an Associate in Science in paralegal studies, where she went $15k in debt to learn how to read the manual.” In this Basic Income Interview, Harmony was asked how she learned of basic income and why she supports it.
Basic Income Interviews: Olufemi O Taiwo of UCLA and the Undercommons
Interview with Olufemi O Taiwo. Taiwo researches and teaches political philosophy and metaethics at the University of California Los Angeles. He is an organizer for the Undercommons, an ongoing public meeting space initiated by African-American graduate students “to find ways to achieve liberation from white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, settler colonialism, and all forms of structural violence.”
