by Vito Laterza | Oct 17, 2015 | News
Guy Standing, honorary president of BIEN, noted author, and leading advocate of basic income was interviewed on National Public Radio (US) on September 20, 2015. You can listen to the broadcast here.
He will give several talks on basic income in the next few weeks. Here are the details:
October 18, 18.00: talk on the precariat and basic income, Warsaw, Poland, organised by Krytyka Polityczna/Political Critique. Organiser: Slawomir Sierakowski (sierakowski@krytykapolityczna.pl)
October 29, 19.00: “The precariat: Towards a new progressive politics” (including basic income), Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria, organised by Netzwerk Grundeinkommen, the Austrian Basic Income Network. More information here. Organiser: Roland Atzmüller (Roland.Atzmueller@jku.at)
October 30, 18.30: “The precariat: Towards a new progressive politics” (including basic income), University of Vienna, Austria, organised by Netzwerk Grundeinkommen (the Austrian Basic Income Network), with the Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst (IWK), and the Institut für Politikwissenschaft, University of Vienna. More information here. Organiser: Karl Reitter (k.reitter@gmx.net)
November 10, 19.00: public lecture on “A charter of rights for the precariat in the 21st century?”, Barcelona, Spain, organised by the Observatory for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (DESC) and the Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB). More information here. Contact: (taquilles@cccb.org)
by Josh Martin | Aug 29, 2015 | News
The 8th International Basic Income Week will take place September 14-20, For more information, click here. The Austrian basic income alliance Runder Tisch – Grundeinkommen (RTG) recently announced the programme for the 8th International Basic Income Week, September 14–20, 2015, with 45 events – more than double in comparison to 2014 – in 22 cities and towns all over Austria: film screenings on TV and in 18 cinemas with subsequent discussions with experts and audience, street actions, panel discussions, performances, book presentations, radio programmes and other kinds of activities. RTG especially points to the participation of members of the Austrian trade union federation ÖGB and social workers in the debate about Unconditional Basic Income.
Programme for Austria:
Map: https://www.pro-grundeinkommen.at/WdGE2015
Calendar: https://www.pro-grundeinkommen.at/WdGE2015/Flyer_WdGE2015.html
facebook: https://facebook.com/RTbGE/events
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c1jv4f9ZBs
Christoff Lammer contributed to this report.
by Stanislas Jourdan | Aug 10, 2015 | News
Well-known Austrian entrepreneur Josef Zotter believes basic income would empower innovation and relieve people from existential fears.
In a recent interview with the newspaper Der Standard, in which he was accompanied by the Finance Minister of Austria, the founder of the chocolate manufacturer Zotter expressed again his support for unconditional basic income.
With basic income, “people can rest and recover their freedom. Thus basic income would also unleash innovation.” and relieve people from their “existential fears.”
According to Zotter, an unconditional basic income would also solve the pension issue. “Then we no longer have to talk about whether someone retires with 62 or 65 years.” he said.
Asked on whether he supported the idea, the Conservative Austrian minister of finance, Hans Jörg Schelling, fiercely rejected Zotter’s basic income proposal: “Of course I’m against it. Most Austrians are highly satisfied with their jobs. Performance must be rewarded.” he said.
Like German entrepreneur and basic income supporter Götz Werner, Zotter suggests increasing taxes on consumption instead of other taxes in order to ensure international competitiveness of Austrian business.
Zotter had already expressed his support for basic income in the second edition of his biography, ‘Kopfstand mit frischen Fischen – Mein Weg aus der Krise’. Zotter, born in 1961, produces hand-scooped organic fair trade chocolate. The company currently employs 160 people in the city of Riegersburg.
With contribution from Christof Lammer
Credit picture: CC salzburger.land
by Karl Widerquist | Oct 25, 2014 | News
Manuel Rubey, photo by Manfred Werner
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Franz Adrian Wenzl, photo by Manfred Werner
During or around the Seventh Basic Income week, several prominent Austrians endorsed Basic Income. Singer, actor and cabaret artist Manuel Rubey, who played the leading role in the movie “Falco – Verdammt, wir leben noch!” (2007), unconditionally supports the idea of introducing basic income.
Franz Adrian Wenzl, band member of KREISKY, says that unconditional basic income is one of his favorite utopian ideas, which will hopefully also be put in practice. Kurt Palm, author of “Bad F-cking” (a bizarre thriller, which is set in an Austrian village that attracts tourists due to its fancy name), demands the introduction of unconditional basic income. Writer Franzobel was already involved in the Basic Income Conference in Vienna in 2005. He also supported our European Citizen Initiative “Unconditional Basic Income”. He has one word for the Seventh Basic Income Week on Facebook: “Like!”
Kurt Palm, photo by Manfred Werner
More about these endorsements can be found online in German at: https://www.pro-grundeinkommen.at/?p=2033
Franzobel, photo by Harald Krichel
by Karl Widerquist | Sep 8, 2013 | News
The Sixth International Week of the Basic Income will take place 16 to 22 September 2013. For its 6th edition, the week of basic income will focus on raising awareness on the European Citizens Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income. Proponents of Unconditional Basic Income in 22 Member States of the European Union have joined their forces to make this week of basic income a major event.
Web sites organizing a Week of the Basic Income are:
Germany, Switzerland, Austria (German language)
www.woche-des-grundeinkommens.eu
Netherlands, Belgium (Dutch language)
week-van-het-basisinkomen.nl
France, Belgium, Switzerland (French):
semaine.revenudebase.info
