The next meeting of the Basic Income Ireland network will take place on Wednesday April 2nd at 6.30pm in DIT Aungier St, Dublin. Room 3-029. All welcome. We plan to attend briefly to some organisational issues and then to have a discussion about BI and pensions.
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No fewer than 285,042 EU citizens signed the European Citizens Initiative (ECI) for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI). The collection of signatures officially ended on Tuesday January 14th @ 23.59pm.
You can read more about this, including the background, via the following link: http://socialjustice.ie/content/more-285000-people-call-eu-consider-basic-income Basic Income Ireland will be giving a presentation about basic income, followed by discussion, on Thursday, 23rd Jan at the Pembroke Hotel, Patrick St, Kilkenny. All are welcome to attend.
Time: 7.30pm Our last public presentation and discussion was in Nov 2013 at Celbridge, Co Kildare and was lively and informative. If you live in the Kilkenny area, please come along, give your views and learn more about this increasingly hot topic. Basic Income Ireland members were in Celbridge Community Library in Co Kildare on Saturday Nov 23rd. Our hosts were Cultivate Celbridge and Transition Town Maynooth, both groups concerned with community resilience. We had a presentation on basic income and a very engaged discussion afterwards for about an hour and a half. Most of the fifteen people present were positive about the concept and keen to explore it in more depth. Among many insights and points made was one about the connection between personal and community resilience. Basic income increases personal resilience and frees people’s talents and energies to work at projects that increase community resilience.
We are happy to visit other groups and locations for similar events. Please contact us here for further details. Also, some people asked about the Irish Green Paper on basic income. Click here to download it now. When Basic Income Ireland members do a presentation on basic income, we always get asked about costings. So that's why we have spent some time working on them, and you can see an example in our leaflet (available to download here). William Clegg, a members and supporter who lives in Canada, thinks it is important to emphasise other aspects of basic income also, and he wrote the following short piece below...
Our intrepid volunteers have produced a wonderful 2-page primer on Basic Income Ireland - what we do, why we do it and why it should matter to you.
Click here to download our Introduction to Basic Income Ireland leaflet (PDF, 500KB). And please remember to share it with your friends, family and Facebook contacts! Members of the Basic Income Ireland network will participate in a public event about basic income at the Public Library in Celbridge, Co Kildare, at 2pm on Saturday Nov 23rd.
The event will begin with a short presentation about the fundamentals of basic income and there will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. The event is being hosted jointly by Cultivate Celbridge and Transition Town Maynooth. Everyone is welcome to attend. The library is just off the main street (turn at AIB) and the bus from Dublin city centre is the number 67. Basic Income Ireland member Roisin Mulligan has been awarded the 2012 Basic Income Studies Essay prize for her paper “Universal Basic Income and Recognition Theory - A Tangible Step towards an Ideal.”
This prize is given for the best paper presented at the BIEN biennial congress and will be published in the Basic Income Studies publication. Click here to read the Roisin's paper. All of us in Basic Income Ireland are delighted with Roisin’s success. Summary: Paid work is a scarce resource. Basic income is one way to support people to share the paid work available and still have a decent income. It's also a way to show we value all the unpaid work that people do in communities and households. Victoria White comes at this subject from an unusual angle and advocates basic income as part of the response.
Read the full article here: http://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/victoria-white/we-need-to-stop-tax-system-incentivising-dual-income-families-240622.html The next general network meeting of Basic Income Ireland will take place on Thursday, 18th July at 6.30pm in the Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin 2.
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