Basic Income documentary “Kann Mann Frau” released with English subtitles

Basic Income documentary “Kann Mann Frau” released with English subtitles

by | Nov 11, 2017 | News

Gabriele Von Moers, a German filmmaker, has released her movie Kann Mann Frau [Can Man Woman] with English subtitles. The release has also been accompaigned by a short two-minute trailer. This film is a first part of a larger 90-minute documentary focused on basic income, opening with Götz Werner words at the Basic Income Earth Network Congress in Munich.

At her website, Gabriele describes how she thinks emancipation firstly describes women independence from men as an economical issue. Jobs for an income, as she sees it, is a masculine version of society, and it need not be like that. To acknowledge that already constitutes an alternative to the encompassing pressure in every-day life. Basic income would then be a way forward in that direction.

 

Kann Mann Frau // Can Man Woman – Film (42 min)

Neil Howard, “Basic Income and the Anti-Slavery Movement”

Neil Howard, “Basic Income and the Anti-Slavery Movement”

by | Apr 3, 2015 | News

Howard’s post is framed in the modern slavery debate, where a world opposed to slavery still has failed to eradicate it. He argues that a basic income could help fight slavery through its emancipatory nature by citing the recent pilot project in India that freed many of the poorest people from needing to work with moneylenders to make ends meet. Basic income empowers people to say no to bad jobs and say yes to the good ones thanks to economic security.

Neil Howard, “Basic Income and the Anti-Slavery Movement”, Open Democracy, 12 March 2015.