In 2014 the Dutch artist Pharao created a song with Yara to promote the Basic Income in The Netherlands. It is still current. ‘Het Goeie Leven’ (The Good Life) is a song that was made to promote the universal basic income. Basic income is a hot topic in the world as more and more people […]
Dear UBI Advocates, We would like to invite and hope to see all UBI Advocates, together with their friends and networks, at the second ‘UBI-Talk on our Walk’ This is a Zoom based Basic Income March, facilitated by ‘Worldwide Meetings of UBI Advocates and UBI Networks’, organized by UBI Networks. Last year was the first […]
We are asking anyone to send in a video for the International Basic Income Week Videothon: Please take a short video (60 seconds) in any format, videos taken on smart phones are fine too, and send it to videothon@basicincomeweek.org to be uploaded to our youtube channel together with other videos around the world. We will […]
Citizens’ initiative on UBI aims to strengthen EU unity Many European countries are debating the idea of a basic income, and a citizens’ initiative has now called on the European Commission to present a proposal for unconditional basic income throughout the bloc. The idea is to reduce regional differences, while strengthening economic and social cohesion across the continent. If the initiative […]
Dear UBI Advocates, We would like to invite and hope to see all UBI Advocates, together with their friends and networks, at the ‘UBI-Talk on our Walk’ a Zoom based (due pandemic) Basic Income March, facilitated by ‘Worldwide Meetings of UBI Advocates and UBI Networks’, organized by UBI Networks, on 19th of September 2020, […]
2nd International Basic Income March, Saturday 19th September 2020 in: Please add your Basic Income March here: https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/2020-basic-income-march Then tab the orange “click to host” button to add your event. Read the instructions carefully! THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO DO WHEN FILLING OUT THE FORM IS TO SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE AND CHOOSE FOR […]
Critics say UBI is too expensive. That it would lead to enormous taxes. But if your government makes its own money, it doesn’t fund anything with taxes. Money is just a human invention (like videogame points or Reddit upvotes), and taxes make some of it disappear. Money is an unlimited resource. Money can be used […]
#countonbasicincome Say ‘Hello’ to rest of the world on TUESDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER 2018 and show your support for Universal Basic Income This 18th September post a picture of you in your local area with the hashtag #countonbasicincome You can do anything you like. Take a snap of you walking to work, draw a picture, make […]
Unconditional nation-wide Cash transfer programme, Iran How many people benefit: currently about 90% of Iranian population, > 72 Million How can a programme that benefits 90% of the population (and the environment) be unpopular? Interview with economist Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, research fellow @ Economic Research Forum An unconditional cash transfer programme was started in Iran in […]
From September 18 to 24, the 10th International Core Revenue Week is held in Quebec under the theme “Living decently, here and everywhere”. The basic income would enable every Quebecer to have an inalienable right to a decent life and encourage the full and complete participation of every individual in society because of its universal […]
The 10th International Basic Income Week is here and for this jubilee we are planning a special something: International Basic Income Week Videothon: Please take a short video of your event (in any format, videos taken on smart phones are fine too) and send it to bienoutreach@gmail.com to be stitched together with other videos around the world. […]
A series of audio files devoted to interviewing the biggest names in the Basic Income movement, hosted by Jim Pugh and Owen Poindexter Amira Jehia of Mein Grundeinkommen Sandhya and Jim spoke to Amira Jehia of Mein Grundeinkommen, a German organization that crowdfunds and raffles yearlong basic incomes to raise awareness around the issue.e stellen. Rutger […]
Interview with Karl Matthys, member of establishment committee Basic Income New Zealand (BINZ) Do you remember your first encounter with Basic Income? My interest goes back to late 90s. I became a Humanist first, it was through a link on a Humanist website that I became aware of BIEN and the works of Philippe van […]
Interview with Enno Schmidt, co-initiator of the Swiss Citizens’ Initiative Can you remember your first encounter with Basic Income? My first was in Heidelberg in a discussion where a young architect demanded an unconditional income and my first reaction was: „hey, he just needs money, why doesn’t he ask for help for himself, instead of making some […]
Cheng Furui is teaching at Hebei University of Economics and Business in China now. She is launching a new research focused on basic income. Can you remember how you first heard about Basic Income? Ten years ago, when I was doing my PhD in Tsinghua University, my supervisor Cui Zhiyuan introduced basic income to me. […]
Interview with Taku Fundira, member of SPII senior economy researcher, research manager and advocate for SADC BIG campaign and speaking for the whole Southern African region. Can you remember you very first encounter with Basic Income? Oh yes, I do – it was 2 years ago – I had just changed jobs, previously I was in […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
