by BIEN | Feb 20, 2016 | News
Language : Italian
Italy : Minimum Income and Dignity Income.
On his website, LIBERA « Associazioni, nomi è numeri contro le mafie » presents a list of cities whose assemblies have voted délibérations wich support campaigns for the « Reddito Minimo » (Minimum Income) and « Reddito di Dignita » (Dignity Income ). Several other initiatives are also reported.
The Libera website gives access to the full deliberations and decisions texts voted in several italian cities assemblies. These texts make clear the motivations for legal and socioeconomic background and purposes of their provisions. (for example : cities of Bologna, Caltanisetta, Fabriano, Maierato,…).
The « Global Journal » locates « Libera » inside the 100 best non profit association of its world classification, as the sole/ most important one in Italy.
https://www.libera.it/flex/cm/se/search.php/L/IT/ST/1?frmSearchText=reddito+di+dignita&x=9&y=10
by Sandro Gobetti | Feb 11, 2016 | News
Ten thousand signatures in 120 days: this is the goal of the campaign for the guaranteed minimum income that draws on a wide network of social forces intended to reach those in the Italian region Campania. The maximum amount of money being petitioned for is 7,000 euro per year, equivalent to 583 euro per month. Among the requirements the petition calls for are criteria of age, residence in Campania at least one year, registration of unemployment, and a personal income tax statement of less than 7500 euro.
For more details, or to sign the peition, see the campaign website at: www.redditominimocampania.org
Source: Comitato Reddito, Campagna per il reddito minimo garantito in Campania. Il Manifesto. 11 November 2015
by Sandro Gobetti | Nov 28, 2015 | News
Several initiatives took place throughout Italy on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, held on October 17 this year. A public event in Rome tackled the theme of “Equal social dignity”.
A common document was signed by a number of civil society organizations and activist groups, including Basic Income Network Italy (BIN Italy), BIEN’s Italian chapter. One of the key points was “adequate legislation for income and dignity” as a way to counter new forms of poverty and precariousness. Three draft bills in favor of a guaranteed minimum income deposited in parliament in this legislature have not yet reached the stage of parliamentary debate.
BIN Italy’s President Luca Santini was among the many speakers at the event.
Click here for more information (in Italian).
by Sandro Gobetti | Nov 25, 2015 | News
On June 30 this year, the Italian campaign “100 days for a dignity income” ended with a public meeting in Rome, with the participation of representatives from civil society organizations and activist groups behind the campaign, and several MPs. Basic Income Network Italy (BIN Italy), BIEN’s Italian chapter, was among the campaign organizers.
70,000 signatures were collected to ask the Italian parliament to debate and approve a national law for a guaranteed minimum income (GMI). Two proposals for a GMI have been submitted to parliament. Neither has reached the stage of being debated by MPs. As part of the campaign, hundreds of public events, debates, workshops and flash mobs took place throughout the country.
The speakers for the final event were: Don Luigi Ciotti, president of Libera; Giuseppe De Marzo, Miseria Ladra; Sandro Gobetti, BIN Italy; Alessandro Di Battista, M5S MP; Nunzia Catalfo, M5S MP; Arturo Scotto, Sel MP; Loredana De Petris, SEL MP; Stefano Iandiorio, CILAP; Riccardo Laterza, Rete della Conoscenza; Filippo Miraglia, Arci; Elena Monticelli, Act!; Mapi Pizzolante, Tilt.
Source: BIN Italy, Roma 30 giugno alla Camera dei Deputati per un reddito di dignità [Rome, June 30, Meeting at the House of Commons for a ‘dignity income’], no date.
For more information about the campaign see the following stories published by BIN Italy:
https://www.bin-italia.org/informa.php?ID_NEWS=621
https://www.bin-italia.org/informa.php?ID_NEWS=659
https://www.bin-italia.org/informa.php?ID_NEWS=633
https://www.bin-italia.org/informa.php?ID_NEWS=631
https://www.bin-italia.org/informa.php?ID_NEWS=629
https://www.bin-italia.org/informa.php?ID_NEWS=627
by Sandro Gobetti | Nov 24, 2015 | News
On March 26 this year, representatives of the Basic Income Network Italy (BIN Italy) were heard by the Labour Commission of the Italian Senate, one of the houses of parliament, about the possibility of introducing a national guaranteed minimum income (GMI). The Commission has been discussing this issue for some time, as various draft bills in favor of a GMI have been promoted by different parties – the label “citizenship’s income” is used in some of these proposals. BIN Italy, BIEN’s Italian chapter, was asked to provide legal, technical, political and social reasons in support of a GMI.
BIN Italy argued for a GMI that is individual, given to all residents, linked to other forms of indirect income, and accessible to all those who are entitled to it. According to BIN Italy, the GMI should provide for an acceptable minimum threshold, as requested by EU regulations. It should encourage individual autonomy and freedom of choice in one’s own personal and professional path.
Read BIN Italy’s report delivered to the Italian Senate’s Labour Commission here.
Source: BIN Italy, “Roma 26 marzo il BIN Italia in audizione al Senato per reddito garantito [Rome, March 26, BIN Italy in Senate hearing for guaranteed income]”, BIN Informa, No date.
