by Karl Widerquist | Apr 27, 2013 | News
On April 10th a conference entitled ”The Future of Europe: a debate about solidarity, democracy, and integration” was held in Turin at Fondazione Einaudi. The conference, which focused also on the issue of Basic Income, was attended by Philippe Van Parijs, Universite Catholique de Louvain, and Guido Montani, Universita di Pavia. The event was moderated by Flavio Brugnoli, Director of Centro Studi sul Federalismo.
Info (in Italian): https://www.carloalberto.org/assets/events/ilfuturodelleuropa.pdf
https://www.bin-italia.org/
by Sandro Gobetti | Apr 25, 2013 | News
On April 13th a public meeting on Common Goods and the so-called Commissione Rodotà (a parliamentary commission established in 2007 to change the rules of the Italian civil code on the subject of public goods and chaired by Stefano Rodotà, Professor Emeritus of Civil Law) was held at Teatro Valle Occupato. The meeting is an important step to form a coalition of scholars, jurists, and activist aiming at protecting the commons against neoliberal governance. Basic income has been listed as a common good along with the access to water, culture and nature.
More info (in Italian) is available on line at: https://www.teatrovalleoccupato.it/linarrestabile-ascesa-dei-beni-comuni-assemblea-pubblica-sabato-13-aprile-ore-15-30
https://www.bin-italia.org/
by Sandro Gobetti | Apr 23, 2013 | News
On April 24th a lesson about Citizen’s Income will be held at the Faculty of Law of Università degli Studi di Perugia (University of Perugia). The lesson will be lectured by Giuseppe Bronzini who is a Judge in the Supreme Court of Cassation in Italy, and the coordinator of the scientific committee of BIN Italia. The event was organised by the University of Perugia, and specifically by Professor Tamar Pitch who is chair of Philosophy of Law.
https://www.bin-italia.org/
by Yannick Vanderborght | Apr 23, 2013 | News
Photo Exhibition, Verona
A photo exhibition on Namibia’s basic income experiment has been going on at the Library Frinzi in Verona from April 4th to 29th. On kick-off day, April 4th, there was a brief introduction of both the exhibition and Namibia’s basic income project. The experimentation undertaken in Namibia by BIGNAM (Basic Income Grant-Namibia) aims at granting every man and women a universal and unconditional basic income.
The photo exhibition, which is entitled ‘Basic Income and Right to Life – Signals from Namibia, Images of a Concrete Utopia’, depicts particular moments of daily life of Otjivero – Omitara (Namibia) community.
The exhibition was organized by Simone Michelangelo Muzzioli, a Ph.D student in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Verona, and it has been supported by PhD program in Sociology and Social Research of the University of Verona.
For further information about the exhibition it is possible to contact Simone Muzzioli (PhD student in Sociology and Social Research): simonemichelangelo.muzzioli@univr.it
More info (both in Italian and in English) is also available on line at: https://www.bin-italia.org/informa.php?ID_NEWS=473
Basic Income Network Italia – Associazione BIN Italia
Basic Income Namibia
by Sandro Gobetti | Apr 21, 2013 | News
On the 15th of April, 2013 more than 50,000 signatures gathered for the campaign to propose a popular initiative bill on guaranteed minimum income in Italy were delivered to the lower house of the Italian Parliament. A delegation of the 170 associations involved in the campaign met the newly elected President of the lower house, Laura Boldrini.
Before meeting the President of the lower house, the delegation met also some MPs of Partito Democratico (Democratic Party), SEL – Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (Left Ecology Freedom) and Movimento 5 Stelle (5 Star Movement) who came out of the Parliament to express their willingness to bring the discussion on a guaranteed minimum income into the lower house. In front of journalists and media photographers they grabbed the boxes containing the signatures as a symbolic gesture and declared to be in favour of a bill on guaranteed minimum income.
A few days before delivering the signatures, the associations involved in the campaign launched a call to the new elected MPs for approval of the guaranteed minimum income bill. The call highlighted the increasingly alarming conditions of precarious workers and unemployed in Italy and demanded that MPs who during the electoral campaign put on their agenda measures addressing citizens’ economic conditions to take a stance on this issue, back this proposal, and support the necessity of introducing a right to guaranteed income.
Article based on this report (in italian)
