Cinqo and the Association for Basic Income in the Netherlands have released the song and accompanying music video ‘Het Goeie Leven’ (The Good Life) by Dutch artists Pharao and Yara.
For more see:
David Jenkins, “Het Goeie Leven (The Good Life)”, Basic Income UK: Towards an emancipatory welfare, 7th May 2014.
Het Goeie Leven (The Good Life)
On Wednesday the 9th of April, Room for Discussion fostered an economic debate on basic income with Guy Standing—a British professor in Development Studies at SOAS (University of London) and one of the founders of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) advocating a European petition on basic income.
Who: Guy Standing
What: A Universal Basic Income
When: Wednesday 9 April 2014, 12.30h-13.30h
Where: Amsterdamse Academische Club, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 235, Amsterdam
More information: https://roomfordiscussion.tumblr.com/post/81390901273
This essay praises some aspects of basic income, but argues that the proposal has disadvantages from the leftist point of view, including that it doesn’t move toward a leftist vision and that it is “nationalism in disguise.”
Language: Original in Dutch. Translated into English.
Dutch version: Bart de Baan, “Hoe bevrijdend is de ‘eis’ van een onvoorwaardelijk basisinkomen? [A Leftist critique on Basic Income].” Doorbraak.eu, 24, January 2014.
Translated into English as “A Leftist critique on Basic Income,” by Revolution News, February 1, 2014.
-Revolution News
Author’s summary, “We tend to think that simply giving people money makes them lazy. Yet a wealth of scientific research proves the contrary: free money helps. It is time for a radical reform of the welfare state.”
Rutger Bregman, “Why we should give free money to everyone,” de Correspondent, December 2013 (undated). Translated from Dutch by Tabitha Speelman.
A shorter version of this piece was republished in the Washington Post, December 29, 2013: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/free-money-might-be-the-best-way-to-end-poverty/2013/12/29/679c8344-5ec8-11e3-95c2-13623eb2b0e1_story.html
The most efficient way to spend money on the homeless might be to give it to them. Image: Getty Images via decorrespondent.nl
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
