[Debatte-Grundeinkommen] BIEN NewsFlash 34, July 2005
Yannick Vanderborght
vanderborght at etes.ucl.ac.be
Fr Aug 5 14:56:33 CEST 2005
BIEN - BASIC INCOME EARTH NETWORK
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The Basic Income Earth Network was founded in 1986 as the Basic Income
European Network. It expanded its scope from Europe to the Earth in 2004.
It serves as a link between individuals and groups committed to or
interested in basic income, and fosters informed discussion on this topic
throughout the world.
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CONTENTS
1. Editorial
2. Events
*ERFURT (DE), 21-24 July 2005: German Social Forum.
*VIENNA (AT), 7-9 October 2005: Congress on basic income.
*VALENCIA (ES), 20 21 October 2005: Fifth Symposium on Basic Income.
*INTERNET: Global Income Foundation has launched a renovated website.
3. Glimpses of national debates
BELGIUM: RENEWED ATTENTION TO BASIC INCOME?
ISRAEL: SHARON AND NETANYAHU FOR A NEGATIVE INCOME TAX?
SPAIN: HEATED EXCHANGES ON BASIC INCOME IN THE NATIONAL PRESS
UNITED KINGDOM: GUERNSEY GREENS FOR BASIC INCOME
4. Publications
*English
*German
*Italian
*Slovenian
*Spanish
5. About the Basic Income Earth Network
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1. EDITORIAL
In the past two months, national debates in Belgium and in Spain have
pushed basic income towards the front-page of newspapers. In Belgium a new
introductory booklet on the idea, and in Spain the presentation of a bill
proposing the implementation of a basic income for all citizens, invited
the usual stream of opposition arguments against basic income. In both
countries, however, the national media gave ample attention to both
advocates and opponents of the idea. While some undoubtedly may grow tired
of repeating the same points all over again, perhaps the ensuing process of
constantly and tirelessly clarifying, revising or reformulating the main
arguments in favour of the basic income ideal ultimately benefits its
political feasibility. After all, what does not defeat us makes us
stronger. The growing numbers of basic income advocates, including BIEN's
core membership, continue to provide the network with the sort of
information that, via our NewsFlashes, can be used to strengthen these
arguments.
BIEN's Executive Committee
2. EVENTS
ERFURT (DE), 21-24 July 2005: German Social Forum.
In recent years, "social fora" have been held in various countries as
popular alternatives to Davos' World Economic Forum. Basic income has often
been one of the topics of discussion. This has been the case again in
Erfurt on Friday 22 July 2005, during the German social forum. The German
network "Netzwerk Grundeinkommen" organized one day of debate with social
scientists, representatives of trade-unions, and political actors, and
presented basic income as an alternative to current welfare reforms in Germany.
For further information, please contact Robert Ulmer (Robert.Ulmer at gmx.de).
VIENNA (AT), 7-9 October 2005: Basic Income Congress.
In collaboration with the German basic income network ("Netzwerk
Grundeinkommen"), as well as the German and Austrian sections of ATTAC, the
Austrian basic income network ("Netzwerk Grundeinkommen und sozialer
Zusammenhalt" - all details on national networks can be found at the end of
this NewsFlash) is organizing an international conference on basic income
in the Austrian capital Vienna, where BIEN held its Congress in 1996.
Plenary speakers will include, among others, Brazilian senator and co-chair
of BIEN Eduardo Suplicy and Philippe van Parijs (Louvain & Harvard).
Workshops (in German) will offer the possibility of discussing most aspects
of the basic income debate.
For further information, please visit http://www.grundeinkommen2005.org/ or
contact Margit Appel at "margit.appel at ksoe.at"
VALENCIA (ES), 20-21 October 2005: Fifth Symposium on Basic Income.
As already announced in NewsFlash 33, the Spanish Basic Income Network (Red
Renta Básica) is organizing the Fifth Symposium on Basic Income in Valencia
on 20-21 October 2005. The First Symposium was organized by the network in
June 2001, and the event has been held annually since then. All
specifications and rules for applying to the 12,000-euro grant offered by
Red Renta Básica are available at www.redrentabasica.org and
www.uv.es/rentabasica.
INTERNET: Global Income Foundation renovates its website.
The Global Basic Income Foundation, founded in 2000, has recently launched
a new website. The site contains a brief overview of arguments that support
the introduction of a global basic income and a FAQ page which gives more
detailed answers to questions about ethical foundations and funding
possibilities. Other pages include facts on poverty and hunger, links to
information and other organisations advocating a global or national basic
income, and some information about the GBI Foundation itself.
The GBI Foundation argues for the introduction of a global basic income,
but also advocates for a national basic income in different countries. A
global basic income is not presented as a substitute for national social
security systems, certainly not in the short run, but as a necessary
addition. Apart from the ethical and economic arguments that are commonly
used to argue for a basic income, three specific arguments are given by the
GBI Foundation for the introduction of a global basic income: 1. humanity
as a whole has a responsibility to end extreme poverty and hunger; 2. the
need for a global framework of social security; 3. the advancement of
global awareness.
The introduction of a global basic income, the Foundation stresses, would
first have to be targeted at eradicating extreme poverty. Because this is
defined by the international community as having less than $1 a day to
spend, the Foundation advocates a global basic income of $1 a day as an
intermediate target. Such a basic income, however small for people in rich
countries, would greatly increase the income of the poorest 1.1 billion
people, and also of the 1.6 billion more who have less than $2 a day to spend.
A global basic income is advocated by the GBI Foundation as a right of
every human being. The plea is foremost based on ethical values - life,
freedom and justice - rather than on economic arguments. The introduction
of a basic income, however, is also argued for from a more pragmatic
perspective, as an important next step for humanity, which would not only
end extreme poverty, but also give the international community the
necessary cohesion and strength to tackle other global problems.
For further information, see www.globalincome.org
3. GLIMPSES OF NATIONAL DEBATES
BELGIUM: RENEWED ATTENTION TO BASIC INCOME?
On the occasion of the publication of "L'allocation universelle", an
introductory book on basic income by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick
Vanderborght (see NewsFlash 32), the Belgian media seem to be paying
renewed attention to the idea, at least in the French-speaking part of the
country. On Sunday June 12, 2005, both authors were invited to talk for one
hour about basic income in a live broadcast of the public radio RTBF. On
June 22, 2005, one of the main Francophone daily newspapers, "La Libre
Belgique", published a double-page debate on the topic. Van Parijs and
Vanderborght restated some of the arguments presented in their essay, and
tried to show their relevance in the Belgian context. Three intellectuals
were asked to give their opinion on the feasibility and desirability of the
proposal. Claudine Leleux (University of Brussels) argued in favour of
basic income and explained why she feels most attracted by a version of the
idea defended by Jean-Marc Ferry, a French but Brussels-based philosopher.
The two others were much more skeptical. Jean-Marie Harribey (University of
Bordeaux IV and member of the Scientific Council of ATTAC) criticized the
idea of disconnecting work and income, arguing that the left should rather
go for full employment. Paul Palsterman (scientific council of Belgium's
main trade-union CSC-ACV) argued that basic income proponents were too
skeptical about the remaining possibilities of collective action in the
field of welfare. Finally, on July 9, 2005, the picture of the front cover
of the popular weekly "Télé Moustique" featured a typical manager in his
three-piece suit, lounging on the beach. It ran as a title: "Tomorrow, paid
to do nothing?" While in a long piece a journalist presented the basic
income idea and the international debate, including a reference to the
Alaskan Permanent Fund Dividend, in a short interview unionist Paul
Palsterman restated again some of his main objections. "The BI proponents",
he said, "might be good science-fiction authors, but they are bad
philosophers."
ISRAEL: SHARON AND NETANYAHU FOR A NEGATIVE INCOME TAX?
On July 21, 2005, the "Globes Online" (Israel's business electronic
newspaper) reported that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had instructed
Minister of Finance Benjamin Netanyahu to formulate a so-called "negative
income tax" (NIT) proposal. If the cabinet approves Ariel Sharon'sdecision
on the matter at its meeting on August 7, 2005, the NIT would come into
effect no earlier than January 2007, since the Israel Tax Authority needs
18 months to prepare from the date of decision. As a matter of fact,
despite its name the Israelian NIT would rather look like the American
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), since it would only apply to low income
wage-earners with salaries below the tax threshold.
For further information see http://www.globes.co.il/
SPAIN: HEATED EXCHANGES ON BASIC INCOME IN THE NATIONAL PRESS
On June 15, 2005, the Spanish economic daily newspaper Expansión devoted
its cover article as well as its editorial and three or four additional
pages to the idea of a basic income or citizen's income ("renta básica de
ciudadanía"). This coincided with the bill presented by ERC (Esquerra
Republicana de Catalunya: a pro-independence, leftist and republican party)
and ICV (Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds: an eco-socialist and leftist
organisation), both in the tripartite Government of Catalonia, proposing
the implementation of a basic income for all citizens in Spain. Most of the
articles trumpeted the evils that, like biblical plagues, would descend on
the country if BI were to be introduced: "irrationality", "food for
indolence", "shock to the basic structures of the country", failure of the
"culture of effort and personal improvement", "perversion of any idea of
justice", "capital mistakes", "new religious faith","freedom-killing
proposal". Some of the Expansión columnists had previously written against
basic income. In its Revista de Libros (issue 50, 2001), for instance, one
of them predicted that "no political party ... has contemplated proposing
this subsidy, not even as a long term objective". Yet, not just one but the
three political parties forming the majority in the Spanish and Catalan
parliaments have already initiated serious study as a prelude to the legal
process of introducing BI.
On June 20, 2005, Expansión published a much shortened version of a reply
by Daniel Raventós, Professor at the University of Barcelona and chairman
of the Spanish Network Red Renta Basica. In his reply, entitled "A Defence
of the Basic Income of Citizenship", Raventós first stresses that most
objections to BI appearing in the pages of Expansión were actually
formulated more than two decades ago. Subsequently, he tries to tackle some
of the most common of these objections, including the idea that "people
would not work with a BI". He also addresses the economic aspects of the
discussion, referring to more detailed studies ("La Renta Básica de
ciudadanía" (Icaria, 2004), written by R. Pinilla; and "La Renda Bàsicade
Ciutadania. Una proposta viable per a Catalunya" (Mediterrànea, 2005)
written by J. Arcarons, À. Boso, J. A. Noguera and D. Raventós). "Are these
definitive studies?", Raventós asks at the end of his article. "They are
certainly not, but they do show that the best remedy against prejudice is
detailed and meticulous empirical analysis".
For further information, see Expansión's website at
http://www.expansiondirecto.com/
The full version of Raventos' reply can be found at
http://www.nodo50.org/redrentabasica/index.php
UNITED KINGDOM: GUERNSEY GREENS FOR BASIC INCOME
A small group of activists, The "Friends of the Earth Guernsey", has
published a statement advocating the introduction of a partial basic income
on the British island of Guernsey (30 miles west of the Normandy coast,
60,000 inhabitants). They argue that a basic income could not be
implemented in the short term, but that the principle should already be
applied on a smaller scale, for instance by recycling some ecotaxes as
ecobonuses, at least to recognize "every member of the community's equal
share of the island's ecological space". Referring to the Irish Green Paper
on basic income (2002), they present some key figures and try to estimate
the total cost of such a scheme. For further information, see
http://www.foeg.org.uk/etr.htm
4.PUBLICATIONS
*ENGLISH
STANDING, Guy (ed.) (2005). Promoting Income Security as a Right: Europe
and North America. London: Anthem Press, paperback, 601pp., ISBN: 1 84331
151 8 Price: £24.95.
The publication of this volume was already announced in NewsFlash 28 (July
2004), but due to printing errrors that required the publishers to pulp the
first print run, it has just come out again. It consists in a broad
selection of the papers presented during BIEN's ninth international
congress (Geneva, 2002). Never before had such a large number of
contributions to a BIEN congress been published together. With no less than
34 chapters, the book offers an comprehensive picture of the many topics
discussed at both the plenary and parallel sessions as they relate to the
more developed countries. Starting with a detailed introductory chapter by
Guy Standing, director of the ILO's Programme on Socio-Economic Security
and master-mind of the congress, it argues that there should be
a guaranteed basic income as a citizenship right, paid to each individual,
regardless of marital status, work status, age or sex. Some chapters argue
that existing selective schemes for income protection are ineffectual,
costly and misleading; other chapters present alternative rationales and
philosophical justifications for moving towards a new form of universalism
based on citizenship economic rights. The chapters are organized into five
sections: "Basic Income as a Right" (with contributions by Anthony
Atkinson, Raymond Plant, Claus Offe, Roswitha Pioch and Ron Dore,
"Rationales for Basic Income" (with contributions by Rosamund Stock, Sibyl
Schwarzenbach, Michael Howard, Michael Krätke, Torsten Meireis, Alan Dyer
and Jørn Loftager, "Legitimizing Basic Income Politically" (with
contributions by Steven Shafarman, Stefan Liebig and Steffen Mau, Daniel
Raventós and David Casassas, Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn, José Noguera and
Daniel Raventós, Jan Otto Andersson and Olli Kangas, Nanna Kildal and
Stein Kuhnle, Sabine Stadler, Andrea Fumagalli, Pascale Vielle and Pierre
Walthery, "Building Towards Basic Income" (with contributions by Theresa
Funiciello, Michael Opielka, Erik Christensen, Christine le Clainche,
Gianluca Busilacchi, and "National and Regional Initiatives" (with
contributions by Luis Sanzo-González, Claude Gamel, Didier Balsan and
Josiane Vero, Karl Widerquist, Simon Wigley, Scott Goldsmith, Joel
Handler). The chapter by Scott Goldsmith, in the final section, gives an
informative account of the only existing basic income scheme on earth, the
Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend. But the whole volume gives a lively picture
of the current state of discussion in many "Northern" countries, from the
angle of several disciplines.
Editor's address: <GuyStanding at compuserve.com>. Publisher's website:
http://www.anthempress.com/
*GERMAN
LIEBERMANN, Sascha (2005). Freiheit statt Vollbeschäftigung: Grundeinkommen
als Ausweg aus der Krise. UtopieKreativ 176, June 2005, pp.525-533.
In this article entitled "Freedom Rather than Full Employment: A Basic
Income as a Way Out of the Crisis", Sascha Liebermann calls for political
freedom by means of an unconditional basic income for all citizens. He
considers the present reform debate in Germany to indicate that the
political community is in crisis. Instead of trying to find long-term
solutions aimed at increasing the citizens' autonomy, all participants in
this debate agree that more coercion and control are required. This
attitude, the author argues, may not only be found in labor market policy.
Even though the very idea of a democracy implies a reliance on responsible
citizens, the political climate is pervaded by mistrust in the citizens'
willingness to contribute their share to the common welfare.
Journal's website: http://www.rosalux.de/cms/index.php?id=6686
Author's address: S.Liebermann at freiheitstattvollbeschaeftigung.de
*ITALIAN
PERAZZOLI, Giovanni (2005). Una proposta minimalista: salario sociale per
tutti. MicroMega, Labirinto italiano 3/2005, pp. 126-137.
Taken in a comparative perspective, Italy remains something as an exception
in the field of social assistance. With no general minimum income scheme,
the Peninsula is often described as a true welfare laggard. Perazzoli (from
the "Istituto italiano per gli studi storici" in Naples) shares this point
of view, and makes a vigorous plea for the introduction of a minimum income
in Italy. Thus, despite its title ("A minimal proposal: a social wage for
all"), a few references to the works of Gorz, Van Parijs, Negri, and an
appraisal of BIEN, this paper does not constitute a defense of basic income
as such.
Journal's address: via Cristoforo Colombo 149, 00147 Roma, tel. 06.865147134.
*SLOVENIAN
VAN PARIJS, Philippe (2004). Brezplacno kosilo za vse? Predlog
univerzalnega temeljnega dohodka. Ljubljana: Zalozba Krtina , 2004, 171 p.,
ISBN 961-6174-71-1.
A full Slovenian translation of Philippe Van Parijs's "What's Wrong with a
Free Lunch?" (Boston, Beacon Press, 2001) and of all the original comments
(by Anne Alstott, Brian Barry, Claus Offe, Edmund Phelps, Herbert Simon,
and others), supplemented by comments by a number of prominent Slovenian
intellectuals (Joze Mencinger, Sreco Dragos, Tanja Rener, Janez Sustersic,
Milan Zver).
Publisher's address: Hrenova 16, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, krtina at siol.net,
www.zalozbakrtina.si/kontakt.htm
*SPANISH
REY PEREZ, José Luis (2005). El derecho al trabajo y la propuesta del
ingreso básico: perspectivas desde la crisis del estado de bienestar.
Doctoral dissertation (dir.: Francisco Javier Ansuátegui Roig), Universdad
Carlos III de Madrid, Instituto Universitario de Derechos Humanos
"Bartolomé de las Casas", February 2005, 594p.
This dissertation by José Luis Perez (Universidad Pontificia Comillas de
Madrid & Universdad Carlos III de Madrid) was successfully defended on June
15, 2005. It analyses the crisis of the Welfare State not as a financial
break but as the break of a system of guarantees designed to satisfy the
social rights. In fact, the main aspect of Social State is the recognition
of the social, economic and cultural rights. In this sense, the Welfare
State is a specific historical model of Social State. After World War II,
the main institution of the welfare systems was the right to work. That
right was interpreted as the right to have a job, because in those years
labour market worked as a guarantee to social recognition.
This dissertation is an argument in favour of a new perception of 'right to
work', understood as the right to social inclusion. To reach this goal, it
demands a new concept of work, wider than the one market considers now.
Therefore, work is identified with all activity carried out by human beings
in which they combine their intelligence with their physical strength,
their creativity with their capabilities, and it always implies interaction
with other people. The full employment was the central guarantee to the
right to social insertion during the development of the Welfare State.
Nowadays, this guarantee is not attained due to the crisis of the labour
market. This study expresses the need for the distinction between rights
and duties on the one hand, and guarantees on the other. The guarantees are
those institutions which make the content of rights real and effective. The
key element of guarantees is the effectiveness; therefore, effectiveness is
not an element of the concept of human rights.
As labour market cannot be a guarantee to the right to social inclusion,
this dissertation analyses basic income as a possible new guarantee to this
right. The dissertation is structured in four chapters that have been the
four key points of the research. In the first one, it is studied the
differences between Social and Welfare State and the origin, evolution and
crisis of this one. The second chapter studies the right to work as the
central guarantee of the welfare state. It is distinguished this right from
the freedom to work and the labour rights arguing for an interpretation of
the right to work as the right to social inclusion. The third chapter talks
about basic income and the discussions about it, studying the normative and
pragmatic arguments offered to support it. Finally, the last chapter tries
to translate in legal terms what has been studied from philosophical,
political and sociological perspectives in the previous chapters to
conclude that the basic income can be interpreted as a new guarantee to the
right to work understood as the right to social insertion.
For further information and a longer version of the English abstract,
please contact the author at jlrey at der.upco.es
BERTOMEU, María Julia, DOMENECH, Antoni, and RAVENTOS, Daniel (2005). La
propuesta de la Renta Básica de Ciudadanía. El Dipló (Le Monde
Diplomatique, edición argentia), issue 73, July 2005, and Le Monde
Diplomatique edición chilena, issue 54, July 2005.
This introductory article starts with a useful clarification of the
relevant differences between basic income and conditional assistance
benefits. It discusses possibilities of financing the reform, and analyzes
basic income as a way to counter neo-liberal attacks on the welfare state.
The article is available online at
http://www.nodo50.org/redrentabasica/textos/index.php?x=418
5. ABOUT THE BASIC INCOME EARTH NETWORK
5.1. BIEN's executive committee
Co-chair:
Eduardo SUPLICY esuplicy at senado.gov.br, Federal Senator, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Guy STANDING guystanding at compuserve.com, director of the Social and
Economic Security Programme, International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland
Regional co-ordinators:
Eri NOGUCHI en16 at columbia.edu, Columbia University, New York, USA
Ingrid VAN NIEKERK ivanniekerk at epri.org.za, Economic Policy Research
Institute, Cape Town, South Africa
Secretary:
David CASASSAS casassas at eco.ub.es, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain
Newsletter editor:
Yannick VANDERBORGHT vanderborght at etes.ucl.ac.be, Université catholique de
Louvain, Belgium
Website manager:
Jurgen DE WISPELAERE jurgen.dewispelaere at ucd.ie, University College Dublin,
Ireland
Women's Officer and Fund Raiser:
Louise HAAGH, lh11 at york.ac.uk , Department of Politics, University of York,
United Kingdom
Treasurer:
Karl WIDERQUIST Karl at Widerquist.com, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UnitedKingdom
5.2. BIEN's international board
Chair: Philippe Van Parijs
Former members of BIEN's Executive Committee:
Alexander de Roo
Edwin Morley-Fletcher
José Noguera
Claus Offe
Ilona Ostner
Steven Quilley
Robert J. van der Veen
Walter Van Trier
Lieselotte Wohlgenannt
Representatives of national networks:
Ruben Lo Vuolo for the Red Argentina de Ingreso Ciudadano (AR)
Margit Appel for the Netzwerk Grundeinkommen und sozialer Zusammenhalt (AT)
N for the Rede Brasileira de Renda Básica de Ciudadania (BR)
Jørg Gaugler for the Borgerlønsbevægelsen (DK)
Katrin Mohr, Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn, and Wolfram Otto for the Netzwerk
Grundeinkommen (DE)
John Baker for BIEN Ireland (IE)
Loek Groot for the Vereniging Basisinkomen (NL)
Daniel Raventos for the Red Renta Básica (ES)
Bridget Dommen for BIEN Switzerland (CH)
Malcolm Torry for the Citizen's Income Trust (UK)
Michael Lewis for USBIG (US)
5.3. Recognised national networks
ARGENTINA: Red Argentina de Ingreso Ciudadano
Founded in March 2004
www.ingresociudadano.org
President: Ruben Lo Vuolo
redaic at ingresociudadano.or
AUSTRIA: Netzwerk Grundeinkommen und sozialer Zusammenhalt
Founded in October 2002
www.grundeinkommen.at
Coordinator: Margit Appel redaktion at ksoe.at
BRAZIL: Rede Brasileira de Renda Básica de Ciudadania
Founded in September 2004
Provisional co-ordinator: Eduardo Suplicy
eduardo.suplicy at senador.gov.br
DENMARK: Borgerlønsbevægelsen
Founded in January 2000
www.borgerloen.dk
President: Jørg Gaugler
per at borgerloen.dk
GERMANY: Netzwerk Grundeinkommen
Founded in July 2004
www.grundeinkommen.de
Spokespersons: Ronald Blaschke, Katja Kipping, Katrin Mohr,
Guenther Soelken, Robert Ulmer, Birgit Zenker, kontakt at grundeinkommen.de
Contact persons: Katrin Mohr (kmohr at gwdg.de), Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn
(strengmann at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de), and Wolfram Otto (wolframotto at web.de).
IRELAND: BIEN Ireland
Founded in March 1995
Coordinator: John Baker
John.Baker at ucd.ie
Equality Studies Centre
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel.: +353-1-716 7104, Fax: +353-1-716 1171
NETHERLANDS: Vereniging Basinkomen
Founded in October 1987 (initially as "Werklplaats Basisinkomen")
www.basisinkomen.nl / E-mail: info at basisinkomen.nl
Coordinator: Guido den Broeder
Igor Stravinskisingel 50
3069MA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 10-4559538 or +31 70-3859268
SPAIN: Red Renta Basica
Founded in February 2001
www.redrentabasica.org
President: Daniel Raventos
presidencia at redrentabasica.org or danielraventos at ub.edu
Universitat de Barcelona,
Facultat d'Economiques
Departament de Teoria Sociologica i Metodologia de les Ciencies SocialsAvda.
Diagonal 690, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Tel.: +34.93.402.90.51, Fax: +34.93.322.65.54
SWITZERLAND: BIEN Switzerland
Founded in September 2002
President: Pierre Hrold c/o Jean-Daniel Jimenez
jean-da.jimenez at bluewin.ch
39, rue Louis-Favre 1201 Geneva
Tel.: +41 22 733 41 09 or +41 78 847 47 56
UNITED KINGDOM: Citizen's Income Trust
Founded in 1984 (initially as "Basic Income Research Group")
www.citizensincome.org
Director: Malcolm Torry info at citizensincome.org
Citizens Income Trust, P.O. Box 26586, London SE3 7WY, United Kingdom.
Tel.: 44-20-8305 1222 Fax: 44-20-8305 1802
UNITED STATES: U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG)
Founded in December 1999
www.usbig.net
Coordinator: Karl Widerquist Karl at Widerquist.com
5.4. BIEN's life members and BIENEFACTORS
All life members of the Basic Income European Network, many of whom were
non-Europeans, have automatically become life members of the Basic Income
Earth Network.
To join them, just send your name and address (postal and electronic) to
David Casassas casassas at eco.ub.es, secretary of BIEN, and transfer EUR 100
to BIEN's account 001 2204356 10 at FORTIS BANK (IBAN: BE41 0012 2043
5610), 10 Rond-Point Schuman, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium. An acknowledgement
will be sent upon receipt.
BIEN Life-members can become "BIENEFACTORS" by giving another 100Euros or
more to the Network. The funds collected will facilitate the participation
of promising BI advocates coming from developing countries or from
disadvantaged groups.
BIENEFACTORS:
Joel Handler (US), Philippe Van Parijs (BE)
BIEN's Life Members:
James Meade (+), Gunnar Adler-Karlsson (SE), Maria Ozanira da Silva (BR),
Ronald Dore (UK), Alexander de Roo (NL), Edouard Dommen (CH), Philippe Van
Parijs (BE), P.J. Verberne (NL), Tony Walter (UK), Philippe Grosjean (BE),
Malcolm Torry (UK), Wouter van Ginneken (CH), Andrew Williams (UK), Roland
Duchâtelet (BE), Manfred Fuellsack (AT), Anne-Marie Prieels (BE), Philippe
Desguin (BE), Joel Handler (US), Sally Lerner (CA), David Macarov (IL),
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Ikkala (FI), Luis Moreno (ES), Rafael Pinilla (ES), Graham Taylor (UK), W.
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Molgaard Nielsen (DK), Fernanda Rodrigues (PT), Helmut Pelzer (DE), Rod
Dobell (CA), Walter Van Trier (BE), Loek Groot (NL), Andrea Fumagalli (IT),
Bernard Berteloot (FR), Jean-Pierre Mon (FR), Angelika Krebs (DE), Ahmet
Insel (FR), Alberto Barbeito (AR), Rubén Lo Vuolo (AR), Manos Matsaganis
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Luis Rey Pérez (ES), Jose Antonio Noguera (ES), Esther Brunner (CH), Irv
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Sean Healy (IE), Maire Mullarney (IE), Patrick Lovesse (CH), Jean-Paul
Zoyem (FR), GianCarlo Moiso (IT), Martino Rossi (CH), Pierre Herold (CH),
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Strenmann-Kuhn (DE), Anne Glenda Miller (UK), Lowell Manning (NZ), Dimitris
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Nollen (BE), Vriend(inn)en Basisinkomen (NL), Christophe Guené (BE), Alain
Massot (CA), Marcel Bertrand Paradis (CA), NN (Geneve, CH), Marc
Vandenberghe (BE), Gianluca Busilacchi (IT), Robert F. Clark (US), Theresa
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(CH), Jos Janssen (NL), Collectif Charles Fourier (+), Bruce Ackerman (US),
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Brütsch (CH), Phil Harvey (US), Toru Yamamori (JP), René Keersemaker(NL),
Manuel Franzmann (DE), Ovidio Carlos de Brito (BR), Bernard De Crum (NL),
Katja Kipping (DE), Jan Beaufort (DE), Christopher Mueller (DE), Bradley
Nelson (US) [153].
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