Unconditional Basic Income Europe BASIC INCOME TEA Gender Equality under Corona – 17 May | Join us for a UBI tea talk on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment! | Did you manage to watch last Sunday the third edition of "Basic Income Tea"? Together with Isabel Franco of Podemos and Julen Bollain of Red Renta Basica, we looked at the Spanish state's response to the Corona-crisis. In particular, we discussed the policy package announced in the past weeks, the Minimum Living Income. If you missed it, make sure you watch the recording here. Please also share it with your friends on the social network of your choice! This Sunday, 17 May at 5pm CEST , we will address "Basic Income, Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment ". In this edition, we will ask why this crisis is having more economic and health impacts on women and how it is strengthening the burdens of gender-based violence and unpaid care work. Register here to join the discussion! With her guests Gabriela Cabaña (Anthropologist, PhD researcher at the London School of Economics and member of the Chilean Network of Basic Income), Nicole Teke (UBI advocate, member of MFRB, former UBIE Vice-Chair), and Martin Jordö (Journalist, Economic Spokesperson of the Swedish Feminist Party), UBIE Vice-Chair Alessandra Bianchi will analyse the political response so far, and ask which policies should be implemented in order to efficiently address these difficulties. |
Want to meet other basic income advocates, share your thoughts via live chat, and be able to put your questions to our guests? Then please register here until Saturday, 16 May, so we can send you the connection details for the video conferencing tool (Zoom)! If you just want to listen and enjoy, you can also watch the live stream on the UBIE website and on our social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube) starting Sunday, 17 May, 5 pm CEST. | Looking forward to see you, Alessandra Bianchi UBIE Vice-Chair | Sign and share the petition for UBI as urgent response to the pandemic! | Thanks to your incredible work, our petition to make Unconditional Basic Income possible everywhere in Europe as an urgent response to the Corona crisis, has now almost 180.000 signatures! This is a huge success and shows how strong European citizens feel about this proposal. Let's continue strengthening this message: Sign the petition and share it with as many people as possible! | Thank you, Finland! Whatever its limitations, the Basic Income experiment in Finland provides food for thought and action to all those who believe basic income is the way to go – writes UBIE co-founder Philippe Van Parijs in Social Europe. Read more... | Finish pilot results from KELA The final report on Finland's basic income experiment has been released by KELA: Small employment effects, better perceived economic security and mental wellbeing among the findings. Read more... | UBI support varies across EU According to a recently published FEPS study, more people support basic income than oppose it in 10 of the 14 largest EU member states. Read more... | 71% of Europeans want UBI Over 2/3 of respondents agreed that EU member states should pay all citizens a basic income, regardless of their employment status in a Bertelsmann survey conducted in March. Read more... | UBIE volunteers invest huge amounts of their time, energy and money into promoting basic income. With your help, we can strengthen our financial foundation in order to professionalise our work and accelerate the UBI journey. | Stay in touch – follow us on: | Unconditional Basic Income Europe asbl Rue de Pavie 17 1000 Brussels Belgium Belgian public registry number: 633895889 Legal representative: Leire Rincón (Chair) contact@ubie.org | |