New Links
(see also frequent updates on LIFE's Twitter page)
April 2010 Basic Income Conference Montreal
New political blog with GAI
INCOME SECURITY FOR ALL
Universalizing Transition Rights - United Professionals - 2008
(found again) Getting paid in our Jobless Future - Hughes
Embrace the End of Work - Hughes
Around the World
Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)
Global Basic Income
A Basic Income for All - Van Parijs
Citizen's Dividend
Basic Income Studies
Canada
Canadian Social Research - Links
Citizens For Public Justice
Basic Income
Basic Income Canada
Citizen's Income - Toronto
Bob Needham's links page
The Manitoba Mincome
Family Allowance - 1944-
History of Guaranteed Income in Canada
Canada still lacks national anti-poverty plan
Universal Basic Income - Sally Lerner
The Pictou Statement - Lee Lakeman
Canadian Senator Hugh Segal on Rural Poverty
Croll - Segal guaranteed annual income
Senate Round Table on Guaranteed Income 2008
Rural Poverty Report - Canada
Canadian Green Party Platform
- GLI -2008
GLI discussed at Canadian Social Forum
See also Canadian Reports
United States
US Basic Income Guarantee
The Basic Income Guarantee
Alaska Permanent Fund
Letter to Obama urges Basic Income
Richard C. Cook Blog
BAILOUT FOR THE PEOPLE
UK
Citizen's Income Trust (UK)
Africa
Africa should consider BIG
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
First grants given out - Jan. 08
Money raised for 2 yr BIG pilot project
Ireland
Green Paper
Jobs won't end the poverty trap
Scotland
The Future of Social Security Policy: Women, Work and
A Citizens Basic Income (book on Basic Income by Ailsa McKay)
Denmark
Debate on GAI in Denmark
Belgium
Vivant
Spain
Conference in Sevilla, 2007
Article - Spain - 2008
Red Renta Basica - english
Germany
Berlin Congress 2008
Workshop - English
German translation of Martin Luther King Jr.
on Guaranteed Annual Income
European Anti-Poverty Network
(guaranteed adequate minimum income)
European Union - GLI
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
Allan McDonald's writings on National Dividend
(and his other papers on Democracy at Risk)
Collection of Historical writings
Brazil
Basic Income For All - New
Bolsa Familia - New
Japan
new links to be added
General
"Basic Income" on Wiki
Rethinking Redistribution
Links from Citizen Policies
Guaranteed Minimum Income on Answers.com
Historical Proponents
Thomas Paine 1795
Henry George
The Geonomist
Huey Long
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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 - Marshal Brain
Manna - Marshal Brain
Dr. James Hughes articles
Getting Paid in our Jobless Future (link coming)
Send Humanity on Permanent Paid Vacation (link coming)
Thinking Out Loud (basic income in last paragraph)
Blogs
Stephen Pate on need for GAI
Can- What is it about GAI the NDP doesn't understand
Can - GAI Debate
US -Jobs or Income NOW
US - Where's my mule?
UVIC Greens
Review/article on Money and the End of Work
Jack Saturday Blog
Revolutionary Women
Debate on Homeless Nation
Retired professor doesn't like guaranteed income
(except his)
Pondering GAI in Canada
Legal Checkpoint on Mincome
Hope at Last!
Books
SocieoEconomic Democracy
Basic Income by Lerner, Clark & Needham, 1999
Ending Poverty: A Basic Income for All Canadians - 2002
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
Articles
Richard Cook articles:
BAILOUT FOR THE PEOPLE
2007 Guaranteed income and monetary reform
2007 The morality of Economics
History of US economics - Jan 2008
Canadian Bank slams workfare (recommends kind of GAI)
Now is the time for a guaranteed income - Segal - 2007
Handouts and turkeys won't solve problem - Stuchbery
Guaranteed Income, Guaranteed Dignity
Regina Leader-Post article 2007
Why unions should campaign for a Basic Income
- Standing (see second small link near top of page)
GAI: Here's a solution, What's the problem?
Guaranteed Income in Monthly Review
Life, Liberty and a little bit of cash
Unconditional Basic Income in Canada
Cash not food aid
Economists question fundamental assumptions
See also articles written by LIFE members
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 CBC Massey lecture available
(4 tapes available at Victoria Public Library- request elsewhere via Inter Library Loan) Topic on poverty and the need for a guaranteed annual income. Also available as a book.
Video
Interviews with Jacque Fresco (Future by Design)
South Park Episode 1303 Margaritaville - Quick and comic lesson on banks and economics - Video
Video: Dave Bagler contest speech:Canada's Next Great Prime Minister
Video: Green Party Leader Canada
Video: Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Basic Income
DVD In Debt we Trust
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)
Video: Women and Guaranteed income
Ending Women's Poverty Forum: Sharon Yandle in segment six, talks about guaranteed livable income. 2004
(see also new links at top of page)
Related Topics
7th Generation
BEarthright
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
The mother tax
Family Allowance - Canada
Family Allowance - Norway
Family Allowance (none) - US
Jobs vs. Life
Nowtopia
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"
Work is a Four Letter Word - Alan B.
Chronic Stress and Coping with Denial
Disenchanted Workers Union
The World Owes You a Living
A labyrinthian site full of images, poems & writings and scathing and humourous critiques of the scourge of the "job."
See links, what is productive, parasites, other essays.
Anxiety Culture
See section Taking the Time to do a Good Job
Critical Path
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