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Basic Income - An Idea to Bring Stability to our Economies - Dec.2011
Germany - Pirate Party with Basic Income Platform wins 15 seats - Dec.2011
A Basic Income Grant for paupers and vagabonds - NZ Dec.2011
Policy Options Article on Manitoba Mincome pilot project Sept 2011
A Town With No Poverty - 2011
Latin America: Income Security For All
Canadian Senator Hugh Segal on Poverty and guaranteed income (youtube)
The Economics of PROUT (video 2011)
Technological Unemployment - 2011
Through the eyes of a benefit advisor (UK)- 2011
Economic Growth Won't Save Us (IE) - 2011
What is Money - Podcast 2011
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 -
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
Links from Citizen Policies
Guaranteed Minimum Income
What is a Citizen's Dividend
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 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)
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
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)
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)
Germany
Pirate Party & Basic Income - 2011
Make way for the Pirates - 2011
Grundeinkommen
German translation of Martin Luther King Jr.
on Guaranteed Annual Income
European Anti-Poverty Network
(guaranteed adequate minimum income)
European Union - GLI
Belgium
Vivant
Spain
Basic Income in Spain Makes Sense -
Red Renta Basica
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
Namibia Basic Income Pilot Project -
Ethics and Effectiveness of Namibia pilot project
BIG takes off
First grants given out - Jan. 08
Money raised for 2 yr BIG pilot project
India
Pilot projects underway
New Zealand
Universal Income Trust
A Universal Basic Income will work for Women
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
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)
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
The World Owes You a Living - 6 CD audio collage challenging the work ethic and the harm that it has caused and advocating guaranteed income.
Changesurfer Radio - Interviews about Basic Income
Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 CBC Massey lecture available
Also available as a book.
C. L'Hirondelle interview on guaranteed livable income -2006
Video
Interviews with Jacque Fresco (Future by Design)
Green Party Leader Canada -
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Basic Income -
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 directly mention basic income in his 40 min. speech)
Women and Guaranteed income
Ending Women's Poverty Forum:
Sharon Yandle in segment six, talks about guaranteed livable income. 2004
Related Topics
E.F. Schumacher
The Canadian Clearances: CBC Ideas (no longer online - PDF catalogue - Jan. 4, 06)
Challenges the 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)
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
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.)
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!
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