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USBIG NewsFlash Volume 19, no. 119, June 2018
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USBIG NewsFlash Volume 19, no. 119, June 2018


Be sure to check out our new website at usbig.net!
UPCOMING BIEN ELECTIONS
 
The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) is holding elections this summer for numerous positions. If you are interested in running for a position, please check the eligibility criteria on the BIEN election webpage

Potential candidates can ask for more info from the chair (
louise.haagh@york.ac.uk). It's very easy for members to stand.

You need to notify the Secretary 
<bien@basicincome.org> and the General manager <info@citizensincome.org> of your intention to stand and there is no nomination process. All positions are up for election this year, and members are welcome to stand for any position. 

Positions are open until July 25th. 
 
NABIG CONGRESS RECAP
 
US basic income organizations discuss future cooperation
 
At the
NABIG Congress in Hamilton, Ontario, May 25-27, 2018, representatives of four national basic income organizations met in a round table session and discussed ways that they could cooperate, complement one another’s strengths, and share resources. Representing USBIG, I joined Jim Pugh (the Universal Income Project), Garrett Hour (Basic Income America), and Ian Schlakman (Basic Income Action). We all agreed to advertise one another’s organizations, and encourage cross membership. Here are some of the complementary benefits that readers can get by belonging to all of these.
            The Universal Income Project is based in San Francisco, and has been responsible for organizing create-a-thons, generating ideas for how to promote basic income. It became an advocacy organization in 2016, and has been building bridges to people and organizations that share common values with basic income supporters. UIP organized a conference in California in 2017 with 40 organizations and over 200 people on progressive work in the state, making sure that basic income was a part of the conversation. UIP has also sought to broaden the narrative from a narrow focus on automation to broader themes including poverty, precarious work, and valorizing care.  And they have resisted federal work requirements for SNAP benefits.  One important resource they offer is the
Basic Income Podcast series.
            Basic Income America started in Portland, Oregon, in 2017, by young people seeing the need for radical changes, and its goal has been to saturate social media on multiple platforms with basic income messages.  BIA faced initial challenges in attracting volunteers due to a decentralized model, but has now assembled a dedicated group to begin the next push by the end of June, 2018. The group has had some success on related issues, such as expanding municipal broadband in Portland. If social media is your focus, check out Basic Income America.
            Basic Income Action originated as an activist spin-off of the USBIG Network in 2015, focused on forming basic income local chapters and lobbying for basic income at national and state levels. Chapters have been formed in several cities or regions, with New York City, Seattle, and Minnesota being the most active, and others formed in D.C., Michigan, the San Francisco Bay area, and New Orleans. If you want to start a local chapter, or learn what
existing chapters are doing, check out the Basic Income Action website.
            The
USBIG Network, founded in 1999, is the oldest of these organizations, beginning with the mission of promoting discussion of basic income guarantees.  USBIG incorporated as a non-profit organization about a year ago[check date], which has enabled it to take donations and receive grants. The major work of USBIG has been organizing, together with the Basic Income Canada Network, the annual North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress, alternating every other year between the US and Canada, and bringing together scholars, activists, and policy makers. In addition, USBIG publishes a monthly newsflash, and maintains a website that includes among other things a Discussion Paper Series, with many papers from past congresses, a bibliography of books and articles on basic income, and links to other resources.
A grant from the
Economic Security Project has enabled USBIG to upgrade the website, which is now featuring a regular blog series, as well as a news feed from Basic Income News. USBIG has invited other organizations to submit content for the Newsflash and the blog series, and to encourage their members to subscribe. USBIG also hopes that other organizations will participate in the planning of future congresses, so that they truly reflect the diversity of the basic income movement in the US. Such participation may also enable locating the US congresses in other parts of the country in addition to the East coast.  
            It was interesting to discover that all four organizations are almost entirely volunteer driven, but they have quite different, complementary missions. So it is useful for anyone interested in basic income to join all four: USBIG to get the Newsflash and access to current research and news, BIAction to get involved at a local level to promote basic income policies, BIAmerica to spread the idea on a variety of social media platforms, and UIP to follow its work on the state level in California, and explore best practices in forming coalitions and promoting policy. 
 
Michael Howard
Coordinator, USBIG
 
NEWS
 

United States: the district of Columbia releases a basic income policy analysis

Read more here »





 

Cryptocurrencies and Basic Income: What is SwiftDemand?

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United States: Presidential candidate Andrew Yang speaks on Merion West

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NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
 

France: The Gironde region’s path to a basic income experiment

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Canada: Basic income would cost $76B per year

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Mexico: Universal Basic Income stages of implementation

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Spain: Red Renta Básica offers two scholarships for the Interuniversity Postgraduate course in Analysis of Capitalism and Transformative Policies

Read more here »
EVENTS
 
 
FROM THE WEB
 

Scott Santens: “It’s Time for Technology to Serve all Humankind with Unconditional Basic Income”

Read more here »
AUDIO / VISUAL

BBC UBI Radio Programme

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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Italy, Rome 28th of May: The strength of basic income. Technological innovation, new welfare and experiments all around the world

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ACADEMIC LITERATURE
 

Political Quarterly special issue on Tony Atkinson’s Participation Income

Read more here »
OPINIONS & REVIEWS
 

Economic Security for All: Questions about Chris Hughes’ Guaranteed Income Proposal

Read more here »

Karl Widerquist’s Speaking Engagements Summer-Fall 2018

Read more here »
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The USBIG NewsFlash is both the newsletter of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) Network and the U.S. edition of the Basic Income Earth Network’s NewsFlash. The USBIG Network promotes the discussion of the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) in the United States. BIG is a policy that would unconditionally guarantee at least a subsistence-level income for everyone. 

For questions, contact the editor, Josh Martin: joshedwardmartin@gmail.com.

This NewsFlash can also be downloaded as a PDF document on our website www.usbig.net.
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