Mein Grundeinkommen starts a Facebook and twitter campain during Basic Income Week. The goal is that until the next raffle 5,000 users have their profile picture “to be an unconditional human being” provided with our logo and the phrase, to spread the idea and to show that basic income allows you to be a dignified human being Help us and set […]
International Basic Income Week has given occasion to Marcus Vinicius Brancaglione, President of ReCivitas, to write a letter making a case for “social dividends. Without relying on the grace, blessing or good will of anyone”. The basic income is not government largesse, it is natural law ReCivitas’ work includes two Basic Income projects: the BIG […]
Reflecting the growing demand for unconditional basic income [1] worldwide, this year’s International Basic Income Week looks to having the largest participation ever in its 8-year history. People in 27 countries across all continents [2] will be holding events and raising the profile of unconditional basic income across the globe between 14-20 September this year. […]
Scott Santens, moderator of the Basic Income community on reddit, 1st American to crowdfund his own basic income, New Orleans Can you remember you very first encounter with Basic Income? Mine was an article about Manitoba/Canadathat I read about 2011, when it first came out – I was amazed by it, put it away as […]
The Basic Income Korean Network (BIKN) are happy to bring good news about the Korean online campaign during the 8th International Basic Income Week. We will organize the “basic income online campaign” from September 16th to 20th, 2015. This campaign will be about the demonstrations of personal endorsement of unconditional basic income. In the campaign, we also […]
International Basic Income Week 2015 has begun early! www.basicincomeweek.org spoke to one of the hosts of the very first event heralding the 8th International Week: Interview with Eefke Meijerink, local Social Democratic Party leader and member of city council Zwolle, Netherlands With your „Stadsgesprek Zwolle“ on Wednesday you were the first event for the 8th International […]
Interview with Lieselotte Wohlgenannt, Social Scientist at Catholic Social Academy Austria (KSOE), and coAuthor of Den öko-sozialen Umbau beginnen: Grundeinkommen (Start the eco-social reconstruction: Basic Income) Can you remember your very first encounter with Basic Income? It was in the early 80s, when our former director of the Catholic Social Academy Austria and my coauthor, P. Dr Herwig […]
Another Thunderclap is coming for Basic Income Week. Connect your social media frends to let them know and spread the safety net for life! https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/31086-8th-int-l-basic-income-week
Can you remember you very first encounter with Basic Income? That was back in 1995. Hans Peter Stihl, owner of a big chainsaw company and president of the German Federation of Entrepreneurs, spoke approvingly about the „Bürgergeld“ (Citizen’s Income). I was a union secretay at that time and wrote an essay about entrepreneurs not […]
Interview with Sepp Kusstatscher Can you still remember your first encounter with the idea of Basic Income? Very well. A book fell into my hands in 1989, written by Lieselotte Wohlgenannt and Herwig Büchele: Den öko-sozialen Umbau beginnen: Grundeinkommen ( To start the eco-social reconstruction: Basic Income) They both clearly exposed that the ecological and social […]
Can you remember your first encounter with Basic Income? Yes, it was in the late 90s. I tried to make an appointment with a Saxon Politician and we discovered that both our diaries were completely full up. We were both politically active, busy human beings, with the only difference that she was receiving parliamentary allowance, […]
basicincomeweek.org is talking with the people who brought International Basic Income Week to life and who have made it into the international event it is today. This interview is with Klaus Sambor, Attac Austria Can you remember your first encounter with Basic Income? My wife Ulli and me were part of an NGO for […]
International Basic Income Week from 2008 until today: How did it all start? basicincomeweek.org is finding out what is happening with Basic Income initiatives around the world, regarding International Basic Income Week and beyond. We are talking with the people who brought International Basic Income Week to life and who have made it into the […]
The Austrian basic income alliance Runder Tisch – Grundeinkommen (RTG) recently announced the programme for the 8th International Basic Income Week, September 14–20, 2015, with 45 events – more than double in comparison to 2014 – in 22 cities and towns all over Austria: film screenings on TV and in 18 cinemas with subsequent discussions with experts […]
Call to Action Campaign for the 8th international Basic Income Week ( 14-21 September 2015 ) to add a color #basicincome hashtag banner to the bottom of your Facebook profile photo and Twitter. Basic Income community let us all come together worldwide to do what we can to spread the idea of a basic income. […]
