Anna Edwards, "Streets of Basel paved with gold: 15 TONS of five cent coins are dumped on city's streets as protesters demand a basic minimum income for every Swiss household," The Mail Online, 4 October 2013: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2443812/Streets-Basel-paved-gold-15-TONS-cent-coins-dumped-citys-streets-protesters-demand-increased-minimum-wage.html. This story includes pictures of how the coins were assembled to be dropped during the demonstration in Bern.
VIDEO: "Swiss prepare to vote on basic income," Belfast Telegraph: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/video-swiss-prepare-to-vote-on-basic-income-29640651.html
NAMIBIA: Churches and other NGOs to use BIG for drought relief
Namibia is experiencing its worst drought in
decades. Hundreds of thousands of people are affected. Several
groups have decided to use the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) as a
model for distributing relief aid. The Lutheran World Federation
(LWF) initiated the effort, which will give a short-term monthly
grant of N$100 to 4 000 drought affected people. The cash will be
disbursed from mid-September 2013 until March 2014 when the next
(hopefully improved) crop is harvested. The LWF selected
four
communities, one in each of the hardest hit regions of Hardap,
Kunene, Omusati and Kavango.
The idea of using BIG as a method of distribution for disaster
relief aid has been discussed for years, but this is the
apparently first time it has been implement anywhere in the
world. The decision to use this method follows the successful
BIG pilot project conducted recently in Otjivero, Namibia.
BIG has several potential advantages of as a form of emergency
relief. It allows individuals to tailor their relief to their
needs. Food aid is good for people who need food, but not as
good for people who need medicine, seeds for next year, or money
to relocate. Direct food aid crowds out market provision of
food, but BIG attracts more companies to bring food into the
area. Donations can be more quickly turned into BIG than they
can be turned into almost any other form of aid. Experts will be
watching this project closely to determine whether BIG lives up
to this potential.
The cash response of the Churches received media attention
yesterday. The Bishops of the Lutheran Churches, the LWF Africa
Secretary and TARA informed the media about the joint drought
relief programme. The three major newspapers of Namibia reported
in detail about it, two on the front page.
People can donate to the project online via the following
link by entering the keyword "Appeal NAM 131":
http://www.lutheranworld.org/content/emergency-drought-angola-and-namibia
For more information about the project see these three
articles:
ENGLISH: Fifi Rhodes, "Cash for drought victims," New Era, September 3,
2013
http://www.newera.com.na/features/cash-drought-victims/
ENGLISH: Clemans Miyanicwe, "Lutherans give N$100 to the poor," the Namibian, September
3, 2013: http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=3150&page_type=story_detail
GERMAN: Catherine Sasman, "Lutherse gemeenskap staan saam teen
droogte," Voorgele deur Republikein, September 3, 2013
http://www.republikein.com.na/plaaslike-nuus/lutherse-gemeenskap-staan-saam-teen-droogte.210917
CANADA BICN announces: "the BIG Push"
Basic Income Canada Network (BICN--BIEN's affiliate in Canada) has announce the BIG Push, a new national campaign for a basic income guarantee in Canada. The campaign's web site is up and running. The BIG Push campaign embraces work to raise awareness about basic income, build public support and secure public commitments for an expanded system of basic income, building on several existing income security programs that are working fairly well. The website includes information how individuals can get involved with or donate to the effort.
For more information: Rob Rainer, Director, The BIG Push: rob.causeworth@gmail.com.
Or see the big push website: http://www.thebigpush.net/
EUROPEAN UNION Citizens' Initiative for Basic Income Collects 77,000 Signatures
The
European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) for Basic Income (BI) has so
far collected more than 77,000 signatures from all 28 member
countries of the European Union (EU). The ECI is a petition to
encourage cooperation between the Member States aiming to
explore BI as a tool to improve their respective social security
systems. If one million EU citizens, who are nationals of at
least one quarter of the Member States, sign the petition the
European Commission to propose a legislation to promote BI
within the member states. The initiative is a long way from its
goal of one million signatures, but so far, neither has any
other initiative since the treating creating the possibility
went into affect. The initiative has made great strides in
raising awareness of the issue across the EU.
A major push for the initiative is happening this week during
the International Week of the Basic Income, which is taking
place worldwide from 16 to 22 September 2013.
The Initiative's website is: http://basicincome2013.eu/
To support the initiative go to: https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/REQ-ECI-2012-000028/public/index.do
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