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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Workshop: Basic income in
</SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Europe</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><st1:date Month="8" Day="3"
Year="2008"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Sunday, August
3rd, 2008</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">ATTAC
European</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Summer</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, Saarbruecken<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><st1:time Hour="17"
Minute="0"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">5 - 6:30
PM</SPAN></st1:time><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, <A
href="http://www.european-summer-university.eu/pages/de/programm-workspace/programmkalender.php?overview%5B%5D=loc_d&loc%5B%5D=17"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Room:
2.16, House: A22</SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">http://www.european-summer-university.eu<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">A basic income is a proposed system of social
security, that periodically provides each person with a sum of money that is
sufficient to live on. A basic income is entirely unconditional. Furthermore,
there is no means test; the richest as well as the poorest person would receive
it. It could help to solve the policy dilemmas of poverty and unemployment, and
serve ideals associated with both the feminist and global movements. It may seem
wildly utopian in a world in which a child under five dies of malnutrition every
two seconds, but there are existing experiences with a basic income called
“social cash” in </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Namibia</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">. We are going to talk about the
idea in general as well as a european-wide and a global vision.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Speakers: Avji Sirmoglu
(</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Switzerland</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">), Thomas Löding
(</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Germany</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Working language: English,
German<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">****************************************************************<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">European</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Summer</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Another </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Europe</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> for another World! <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">For years Attac has been organising big
educational events during summer in many countries: to learn together and from
each other, have discussions, exchange points of view, develop new strategies,
meet different people and have fun together - that is a proven and successful
concept. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">In Summer 2008 for the first time there will be
an </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">European</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Attac</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Summer</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">! This offers to us a great
opportunity to learn at a European level from each other und to develop
strategies for a different </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Europe</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, a different World. The
</SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">European</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Summer</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> is an important step to develop the
capabilities of social movements in </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Europe</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><BR><BR>The summer university will take
place between the 1st to 6th August 2008 and will be staged at the
</SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> of </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Saarbruecken</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, where we will have an optimal
infrastructure at our disposal. <BR><BR></SPAN>Already almost all European
groups of Attac declared that they will participate in the European Summer
University 2008! Confirmed so far are: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France,
Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
<BR><BR>The concept of ESU 2008 foresees around 1,000 participants – likely
working languages will be German, English and French. It is planned that the
events will partially be translated simultaneously. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">During the coming months the
guideline for order of events and programme will be developed in a joint
European process. We are looking forward to receiving your support, your ideas
and suggestions! <BR><BR>The ESU 2008 should make an important contribution
towards better communication, net-working and cooperation amongst the national
Attac sections for a strong movement critical about globalisation in the whole
of Europe. <BR><BR>Another Europe is possible! </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><A
href="http://www.european-summer-university.eu/">http://www.european-summer-university.eu/</A></P><o:p><FONT
face=Arial size=2>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><BR>***************************************<BR>Thomas
Loeding<BR>Allensteiner Weg 2<BR>37083 Goettingen</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Tel. 0551/9955145<BR>Mobil:
0176/21772983<BR>E-Mail: <A
href="mailto:thomas.loeding@gmx.de">thomas.loeding@gmx.de</A><BR>***************************************</FONT></o:p></P><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>