New Links:
Basic Income Earth Network Congress - June 2008
New article: Richard Cook - Jan 2008
Africa should consider BIG - Jan 2008
Blogs
PEI-Can: Stephen Pate on need for GAI
BC- Can: Curious woman - annual guaranteed income
SK-Can: What is it about GAI the NDP doesn't understand
SK- Can: John Murney - strongly in favour of GAI
Ont-Can: Liberals need to advocate GAI
Can - GAI Debate
US -Jobs or Income NOW
US - Where's my mule?
US- Dr. Kings "where do we go from here?" GAI
Namibia Pilot Project
First grants given out - Jan. 08
Money raised for 2 yr BIG pilot project
Article: who can afford to volunteer?
Debate: retired professor doesn't like guaranteed income
(except his)
Around the World
Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)
Why unions should campaign for a Basic Income - Standing
Global Basic Income
A Basic Income for All - Van Parijs
Canada
Canadian Social Research - Links
Basic Income
Basic Income Canada
Citizen's Income - Toronto group
The Manitoba Mincome
History of Guaranteed Income in Canada
The Town Without Poverty
Canada still lacks national anti-poverty plan
UVIC Greens
Review/article on Money and the End of Work
Universal Basic Income - Sally Lerner
The Pictou Statement - Lee Lakeman
Canadian Senator Hugh Segal Basic Income article (2004) download as PDF (5 pages - 100 KB)
2005 Segal Article
Segal: Rural Poverty and Guaranteed Income
(item number 3 - Saskatoon)
Bank slams workfare (recommends a small kind of GAI)
Revolutionary Women - Anarchocyclist
GAI: Here's a solution, What's the problem?
"Dance of the Deficit" Real World of Wealth - Dobell
Bob Needham's links page
Jack Saturday Blog
Guaranteed Income, Guaranteed Dignity 2007
Economic Security Conference (Canada 2007)
Regina Leader-Post article 2007
South Africa
Basic Income Grant Coalition
South Africa Council of Churches
South Africans for a Basic Income Grant statement
Debate on BIG for South Africa
Namibia
BIG takes off
Ireland
Green Paper
Jobs won't end the poverty trap
Mind the Gap between Rich and Poor
Denmark
Debate on GAI in Denmark
Belgium
Vivant
Spain
Conference in Sevilla, 2007
Germany
Call for guaranteed income at G8 Protests 2007
New Zealand
Universal Basic Income
Universal Income Trust
A Universal Basic Income will work for Women
History of the Universal Basic Income
Australia
Basic Income Guaranteed Australia
Brazil
political popularity of the Basic Income
United States
US Basic Income Guarantee
The Basic Income Guarantee
The quest for a guaranteed income - Smith
Alaska Permanent Fund - importance of universality 2007
UK
Citizen's Income Trust (UK)
Japan
Basic Income gaining interest in Japan
General
Citizen's Dividend
Rethinking Redistribution
More links from Citizen Policies
Guaranteed Minimum Income overview
Rethinking Redistribution Policy Library
Guaranteed Income page on WhyWork
Collection of Historical writings
Historical Proponents
Thomas Paine
Henry George
Huey Long
Martin Luther King
Buckminster Fuller
Welfare is a Women's Issue by Johnnie Tillmon
Robert Theobald
Robert Theobald on New World
Automation
Helen Keller: Put your husband in the kitchen 1932
"is it too much to expect that our ingenuity can reorganize our economic system to take advantage of the machines which we have created?... if [men] are unable to accomplish the task, we women shall have to send them into the kitchen for a few lessons in common-sense economics."
Robotic Nation
Manna
Robots build houses
Getting Paid in our Jobless Future - Hughes
Send Humanity on Permanent Paid Vacation - Hughes
Books
SocieoEconomic Democracy
New book on Basic Income by Ailsa McKay
The Future of Social Security Policy: Women, Work and
A Citizens Basic Income
Ending Poverty: A Basic Income For All Canadians
by Francois Blais
Basic Income by Lerner, Clark & Needham, 1999
The Smug Minority by Pierre Perton, 1968
The 30,000 Solution by Robert Schutz
What's wrong with a Free Lunch? by Philip Van Parjis
The World's Wasted Wealth
Debates
On Homeless Nation
On Rabble.ca
Articles
Richard Cook articles:
2007 Guaranteed income and monetary reform
2007 Economic Democracy
2007 The morality of Economics
The mother tax
Article on Guaranteed Income in Monthly Review 2007
Carole Pateman - Democratizing Citizenship: (PDF, 30 pages)
Life, Liberty and a little bit of cash
Signs of life in Canada's GAI movement
Pondering GAI in Canada
Unconditional Basic Income in Canada -- Neeham
Thinking Out Loud (basic income in last paragraph)
Work is a Four Letter Word - Alan B.
Cash not food aid
Global Social Rights "an unconditional basic income could be a central instrument for honoring global social rights."
2007 Economists question fundamental assumptions
Chronic Stress and Coping with Denial
See also articles written by LIFE members
How Jobs Cause Poverty
World's Wasted Wealth
See section Taking the Time to do a Good Job
Critical Path
Audio
The World Owes You a Living - 6 CD audio collage challenging the work ethic and the harm that it has caused, also strongly advocating guaranteed income.
Changesurfer Radio - Interviews about Basic Income
Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 Massey lecture available on tape
(4 tape set is available at Victoria Public Library and could be requested elsewhere via an Inter Library Loan) This lecture speaks about poverty and the need for a guaranteed annual income. Also available as a book.
Video
Guy Standing on Working TV
(note: even though he is a founder and co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network, he does not appear to directly mention basic income in his 40 min. speech)
Videos of Guaranteed Livable/Basic Income speakers at an October conference in Vancouver. 2005
Ending Women's Poverty Forum: Sharon Yandle in segment six, talks about guaranteed livable income. 2004
Related Topics
Interviews with Jacque Fresco
(Future by Design)
Alaska Permanent Fund
7th Generation
BEarthright
The Geonomist
E.F. Schumacher
The Canadian Clearances: CBC Ideas
(See Jan. 4, 06) Challenges the idea of "productivity" and how small farmers are being pushed off the land. Available on CD.
Winston Churchill on Land Monopoly
Measuring Well-Being
Disenchanted Workers Union
Jobs vs. Life
Full Enjoyment not Full Employment
"we have no desire to work a single hour producing stupid, useless junk, and that all production needs to be re-examined from the standpoint of our real needs and desires"
The World Owes You a Living
A labyrinthian web site full of images, poems & writings that are a scathing and humourous critique of the scourge of the "job."
See links, what is productive, parasites, other essays.
Anxiety Culture
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