by Sandro Gobetti | Aug 10, 2012 | News
A large number of associations, grassroots organisations, social activists and committees have launched a campaign to propose a popular initiative bill on guaranteed minimum income in Italy. The campaign has been launched in July 2012 and will end in December 2012. During this time 50,000 signatures need to be collected.
The organisations of the campaign reckon that it is time to include the issue of guaranteed minimum income in the national political agenda. Figures produced and released by the Italian National Statistics and Research Agencies tell about a country that is on the brink of social disaster, a social ‘default’ that is increasingly showing the need for a new redistributive policy, and therefore, the importance of implementing a guaranteed minimum income. “In order to recognise human dignity it is necessary to determine an economic threshold under which nobody should live. The issue of Guaranteed Minimum Income can no longer be postponed.”
So far, the campaign has sparked great social and political participation. Many public events have been organised throughout Italy during which the collection of signatures is taking place, and more and more associations and organisations are joining the campaign.
The campaign has an official website where it is possible to get information about the popular initiative bill, updates of the organizations joining the campaign, and the places where it is possible to sign the petition. The website also gathers material related to the campaign, and to the issue of basic income in Italy and Europe. The website is entirely in Italian.
The official website of the campaign is:
www.redditogarantito.it
Info about organizations joining the campaign is online at:
https://www.redditogarantito.it/#!/adesioni
Info about where it is possible to sign the initiative is online at:
https://www.redditogarantito.it/#!/dove-firmare
The Basic Income Network (BIN) Italia, which is one of the first supporters of this campaign, has info on its website in Italian and several other languages:
https://www.bin-italia.org/
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’.
by Sandro Gobetti | Jul 5, 2012 | News
On Wednesday 11th of July a meeting on “Labour Counter Reform, Precarity, and Other Ways of Existence” will be held within L’Altra Festa at Città dell’Altra Economia in Rome. L’Altra Festa is a two weeks social and political happening organised by the Left Federation. The meeting will start at 6 pm, and will be attended by several organisations and activists involved in issues such as labour, precarity, and basic income. In particular, participants will include: Giuseppe Allegri e Roberto Ciccarelli (authors of “La Furia dei cervelli” – “The Fury of the Brains”), Fabio De Mattia (NIDIL-CGIL Roma e Lazio – one of the main unions in Italy dealing with precarity), Silvia Lombardo (author of “La Ballata dei Precari” – “The Ballade of Precarious Workers”), Arianna Ussi (Coord. Precari Scuola – a grassroot organisation of precarious school teachers), Roberta Turi (FIOM-CGIL ROMA – Engineering Industrial Union), Riccardo Faranda (labour law solicitor), Luca Santini (BIN Italia), Giovani Non Più, Precariamente, and Quinto Stato.
by Sandro Gobetti | Jun 11, 2012 | News
“Against precarity, basic income!” is the title of the debate that was held in Rome on June 2 in the “Festival 2012: Rome European metropolitan city” organized by SEL (Left, Ecology and Freedom) at the Terme of Caracalla. The program of the debate that began at 2 saw the partecipation of: Canio Calitri (Fiom of Rome and Lazio), Sandro Gobetti (Bin Italy), Maria Pia Pizzolante (Tilt), Mark Furfaro (national member of SEL), Beppe Allegri (Quinto Stato), Paul Picariello (Regional Youth Forum SEL), Papi Bronzini (magistrate and author of the book “Basic Income in Italy and Europe), Massimiliano Smeriglio, (Minister of Labour, Province of Rome).
