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***Best short animation explaining Basic Income (English narration)
2013 European Citizens' Initiative for Basic Income (Must be member of an EU state to sign - 1 million signatures needed by January 2014)
Business Insider - Universal Basic Income May 2013
Wonkblog: Thinking Utopian: How about a universal basic income? May 2013
UBI and gendered division of labour - May 2013
Guy Standing update on basic income pilot project in India May 2013
Guy Standing - The Guardian- Job security a thing of the past May 2013
UBI Pilot project in India a success:
Rupees In Your Pocket May 2013
FEASTA.org Universal Basic Income Overview
George Monbiot - The Spark of Hope 2013
Interview with Philippe Van Parijs 2013
CBC radio interview with Evelyn Forget Manitoba Mincome 2013
BINews: 1 minute case for basic income
Confessions of a Job Destroyer 2013
The Fraud of Jobs 2013
Hugh Segal - Vancouver Sun - End Poverty 2013
Towards an economy of the Ingrained Self 2013
Reddit discussion on basic income / citizen's wage - 2013 March
Reddit discussion - Could UBI go mainstream faster than we think? 2013 May
CRAPITALISM (iatrogenic vs. livable economics) - (youtube) Mar.2012
Positive Money UK - best short videos explaining money system!
Skidelsky Lecture - How much is enough? July 2012
Skidelsky video - employment and basic income July 2012
Guy Standing speaking on Justice and Basic Income - FutureLabEU
Guy Standing - "the Precariat is growing angry"
CCPA Report - Progressive Economics
Basic Income is Dead - Long Live Citizen's Dividend - Mar.2012
Alberto Cottica - Basic Income as Innovation Policy - Feb. 2012
Basic Income - An Idea to Bring Stability to our Economies - Dec.2011
How to win the war on poverty (Slate 2012)
A Permanent Fund For All (Progress. org 2012)
A basic income today? (Digital Journal 2012)
Occupy Wall Street Forum on Basic Income - 2011
BINews - OWS sparks BIG Interest -2011
RB Blog - Parsing the Data and Ideology 'we are the 99%'-2011
Favorites
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. advocates guaranteed income
in his 1968 book Chaos or Community.
Audio of MLK's speech on youtube -
*** Video: Best short animation explaining Basic Income (English narration)
Getting paid in our Jobless Future - James Hughes 2003
Embrace the End of Work - James Hughes 2004
The Coming Swarm Economy - Rick Falkvinge - 2011
Feeding the World is Easy - Colin Tudge (audio)
Economic Foundations and Environmental Progress (video 2010)
Is the Financial System One Giant Pyramid Scheme? - 2010
Bailout for the People Richard C. Cook - 2009
Extraordinary Discourse - weekly podcast 2011
Separating Survival from Work - Jim Smith 1996
In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell 1932
Operation Basic Income - Anonymous 2011
Anxiety Culture
Livable4All Channel on Youtube
General
"Basic Income" on Wiki
Basic Income Abundance Algorithm
Links from Citizen Policies
Guaranteed Minimum Income
What is a Citizen's Dividend
*PD Fernhout - Post-Scarcity Perambulations* (highly recommended)
Pilot Projects
India
Guy Standing update on basic income pilot project in India May 2013
UBI Pilot project in India a success: Rupees In Your Pocket May 2013
Namibia
Manitoba Mincome - A Town Without Poverty (article)
Manitoba Mincome (Evelyn Forget draft report EF)
Manitoba Mincome - Health Effects (Evelyn Forget 2011)
CBC radio interview with Evelyn Forget Manitoba Mincome 2013
Papers on the Negative Income Tax experiments in 1970s (U.S.)
Around the World
Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)
Global Basic Income
GBI progress
A Basic Income for All - Van Parijs
Citizen's Dividend
Basic Income Studies
2013 European Citizens' Initiative for Basic Income
(Must be member of an EU state to sign - 1 million signatures needed by January 2014)
The Time Has Come For Basic Income - Boiling Frogs 2013
Greece, Basic Income, and the European Left 2012
I have my own basic income - one man's story 2013
Canada
Canadian Social Research - Links
Citizens For Public Justice
Basic Income
Basic Income Canada
Citizen's Income - Toronto
Bob Needham's links page
Manitoba Mincome (draft report EF)
Manitoba Mincome - Health Effects (EF 2011)
Manitoba Mincome (legal checkpoint)
Manitoba Mincome (Etmanski 2011)
Manitoba Mincome - 1975 article
Family Allowance Program (history)
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
Hugh Segal on Poverty and Guaranteed Income (video)
Canadian Senator Hugh Segal speaks out against poverty Nov. 2012
Hugh Segal on Poverty and guaranteed income (youtube)
Hugh Segal - Towards Equality (Broadbent Institute 2012)
Croll - Segal guaranteed annual income
Senate Round Table on Guaranteed Income 2008
Rural Poverty Report 2007 - Canada
Canadian Green Party Platform
- GLI -2011
GLI discussed at Canadian Social Forum
Political Blog on BI - 2011
Robert Needham - historical contexts
Sudbury Star - A smart government would tackle poverty - 2011
Policy Options Article on Manitoba Mincome pilot project Sept 2011
A Town With No Poverty - 2011
Sask: Tackle Poverty with Income Guarantee July 2012
An End to the Welfare Trap? (WFP-MB 2012)
Hugh Segal - End Poverty - Lit Review
Is it time to chuck welfare? - Macleans
2013
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
The Politics of Resentment - Jacobin Magazine (2012)
May 2013 The Nation: Abundance and Basic Income
May 2013 A Republican Call for UBI
May 2013 Curious Utopias - Jacobin Magazine
May 2013 Is UBI really utopian? - Demos.org
Business Insider - Universal Basic Income May 2013
Wonkblog: Thinking Utopian: How about a universal basic income? May 2013
UBI and gendered division of labour - May 2013
UK
Citizen's Income Trust (UK)
Through the eyes of a benefit advisor 2011
Why Does Everyone Have To Work? Latent Existence 2013
Critique of the Living Wage Campaign - NewsFrames 2012
George Monbiot - The Spark of Hope 2013
France
Revenu de Base
( Réseau Français pour un revenu de base inconditionnel )
Ireland
Green Paper
Jobs won't end the poverty trap
Economic Growth Won't Save Us (IE) - 2011
Scotland
The Future of Social Security Policy: Women, Work and
A Citizens Basic Income (book on Basic Income by Ailsa McKay)
Citizen's Financial Rights - Ailsa McKay 2013
Germany
Interview with Katja Dahte - 2012
Make way for the Pirates - 2011
Pirate Party with Basic Income Platform wins 15 seats - Dec.2011
Grundeinkommen
German translation of Martin Luther King Jr. on Guaranteed Annual Income
Grudeninkommen TV
Götz Werner interview on Basic Income July 2012
European Anti-Poverty Network
(guaranteed adequate minimum income)
European Union - GLI
Netherlands
Basisinkomen
Basisinkomen blog
European Initiative NL
Basisinkomen - video
Denmark
BIEN Denmark
Finland
BIEN Finland
Sweden
BIEN Sweden
Switzerland
An Initiative to establish basic income
Belgium
Vivant
Belgium Network for Basic Income
(in English)
Spain
Basic Income in Spain Makes Sense -
Red Renta Basica
Italy
Basic Income Network Italia
Africa
Africa should consider BIG
South Africa
Basic Income Grant Coalition
South Africans for a Basic Income Grant statement
Debate on BIG for South Africa
South Africa: Govt can afford a basic income grant
Namibia
How a Basic Income Saved a Village (Spiegel)
Namibia Basic Income Pilot Project -
Ethics and Effectiveness of Namibia pilot project
BIG takes off (2007)
First grants given out - Jan. 08
Money raised for 2 yr BIG pilot project
India
Pilot projects underway
India's Basic Income Pilot Project update (2012
video)
New Zealand
Universal Income Trust
A Universal Basic Income will work for Women
A Basic Income Grant for paupers and vagabonds - NZ Dec.2011
Australia
Basic Income Guaranteed Australia
Allan McDonald's writings on National Dividend
Collection of Historical writings
Brazil
Basic Income For All
Bolsa Familia
Latin America Movement for Basic Income for All
Latin America: Income Security For All
Japan
Japan Basic Income Network -
Basic income: the economical philosophy and its feasibility in Japan -
BI will eliminate poverty in Japan -
New Party Nippon pledges Basic Income
Historical Proponents
Thomas Paine 1795
Henry George
Huey Long
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Buckminster Fuller
Welfare is a Women's Issue by Johnnie Tillmon -
Robert Theobald (wiki) Robert Theobald - 1965
Automation
Technological Unemployment - 2011
Robotic Nation - Marshal Brain
Manna - Marshal Brain
Getting paid in our Jobless Future - James Hughes
Embrace the End of Work - James Hughes
Thinking Out Loud (basic income in last paragraph)
Confessions of a Job Destroyer 2013
Meet the robots who will take your jobs G&M 2013
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."
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:
BAILOUT FOR THE PEOPLE
Guaranteed income and monetary reform
The morality of Economics
History of US economics
Canadian Bank slams workfare
Now is the time for a guaranteed income - Segal 2007
Handouts and turkeys won't solve problem
Guaranteed Income, Guaranteed Dignity
Regina Leader-Post a2007
GAI: Here's a solution, What's the problem?
Guaranteed Income - 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 section
Audio
Extraordinary Discourse Podast
Changesurfer Radio - Interviews about Basic Income
Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 CBC Massey lecture available
Also available as a book.
What is Money? - Podcast 2011
C. L'Hirondelle interview on guaranteed livable income -2006
The Pod Delusion - Universal Basic Income (40:24) by Steven Sumpter
Video
New playlists at Youtube/Livable4All
Interviews with Jacque Fresco (Future by Design)
Hugh Segal - Answers to 3 Questions - 2012
Green Party Leader Canada -
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Basic Income -
In Debt we Trust -
Women and Guaranteed income
Ending Women's Poverty Forum 2004 (Sharon Yandle segment 6)
Guy Standing on Working TV
Economics of PROUT 2011
Related Topics
E.F. Schumacher
How the Poor are being censored 2013
The Canadian Clearances: CBC Ideas (no longer online - PDF catalogue - Jan.4, 06)
Challenges idea of "productivity" and how small farmers are being pushed off the land.
Winston Churchill on Land Monopoly
Family Allowance (none) - US
South Park Episode 1303 Margaritaville
(comic lesson on banks and economics)
Star Trek - The economics of the future
Jobs vs. Life
Extend non-work domain into younger ages Guardian 2012
-- Are we ready for the 15 hour work week? John Quiggin Aeon Mag (2012)
What would a 15 hour work week look like? (Forbes 2012)
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.
We need to Re-Work Work 2012
Chronic Stress and Coping with Denial
Blog & Misc.
Jack Saturday
Can - GAI Debate
MLK - US -Jobs or Income NOW
UVIC Greens
Money and the End of Work
Revolutionary Women
Debate on Homeless Nation
Pondering GAI in Canada
Hope at Last!
Basic Income Abundance Algorithm
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