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How a Guaranteed Income Can Actually Solve Inequality
Poverty in America disproportionately affects women and people of color, and that is precisely what hinders political action to address it—even when solutions abound. By Sonali Kolhatkar An ongoing study conducted in Stockton, California, examines how the lives of low-income Americans can improve if they are simply given money—a modest,… »
January 6, 2021
In the past few months, I have written 13 articles on social issues that have arisen from what I call the culture of the “White-West.” Then, January 6th happened. The Hill published an article a few days later titled “Pelosi says rioters chose their ‘whiteness’ over democracy,” and… »
Basic Income at the WSF: “Ensuring subsistence is the material basis for our liberation”.
Within the World Social Forum 2021, a panel took place on 25 January with the title RBUI, gaining freedom by ensuring subsistence. The speakers were Eduardo Suplicy, Sergio Mesquita and the author of the paper reproduced below, Juana Pérez Montero. The slogan of the Forum Another world is… »
Promote first ever PSA for UBI
Fund for Humanity has led the creation of this amazing ad / PSA. Starting today, Jan. 14th at 3pm ET and for the next six weeks, the PSA will launch on air on websites like CNN, Wall Street Journal, and Vice as well as be promoted by key social… »
10D: The first of the human rights must be the right to subsistence, and is yet to be developed
On December 10, when the 72nd anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights is celebrated, the right to subsistence of each person remains to be truly developed because it is a Right. To do this, we propose the implementation of a Universal and Unconditional Basic Income for all Humanity. By… »
72nd Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
December 10, 2020 is the 72nd anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The document is a powerful, and hopeful, testimony to the belief that all people on our planet should have access to fundamental human rights, including protection under the law, freedom… »
Revising Our Moral Values: A Society Not Based on Work
By Flavio Del Santo In memory of David Graeber (1961-2020), whose untimely death deprived contemporary anarchist ideology of one of its finest thinkers Why do we (and should we) work? We are today going through a global pandemic which inevitably conditions some of the structures of our society. The places… »
Letter of Support to the 5th Latin-American Humanist Forum
This 5th Latin American Humanist Forum may be the most important forum in a generation. It arrives in the middle of a planetary pandemic that is affecting billions of people and paralyzing everything from transport to the economy to the possibility of gathering together. We need to recall that… »
Glasgow City Council Requests Funding for Universal Basic Income Trial
At the end of October, the Glasgow city council voted in favor of a proposal to request from the governments of the United Kingdom and of Scotland to fund a pilot scheme for a Universal Basic Income (UBI). The proposal was put forward by the town treasurer, Ricky Bell, with… »
German Catholic Workers throw support behind Europe-wide push for unconditional basic income
By: Cameron Doody – In light of the pandemic, “it is more than clear that we need an unconditional basic income in Europe” “In view of the effects of the pandemic measures, it is more… »