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Basic Income Mini-Film Festival
Wednesday, Sep 16 Love watching documentaries? This event is for you! 💛 To kick off the BIG Conference, we’re inviting the public to a special basic income mini-film festival in Portland, OR. We’ll start with previews of several incredible BI/GI film projects, including Multnomah Mothers' Trust (a local Portland project), the Nest series, Workers of Art, and It's Basic.
Octopus's Garden
(to the tune of Octopus's Garden) I'd like to see The different me Who'd emerge from where he's hiding in his cave. And watch us all Pursue the worthy call To focus more on living than the grave. With UBI For every gal and guy Think of all the time we've wasted that we'd save. We would be so happy, you and me. No one there to tell us what to do. I want it too For you and you and you A taste of all the freedom that you crave.
So Go I
By Conrad Shaw on solidarity, self-interest, and music There's this song I really love. It's an aspirational hymn about the higher callings of compassion and, more pointedly, solidarity. It's called "So Go I" by Bryan Cahall. Before I go on about it any further, give it a listen: (lyrics below so you can hum or sing along once the cadence and the spirit inevitably hook you)
How to Build a Movement in Record Time
From small academic gatherings discussing a politically-obscure economic justice policy to thousands in the streets demanding UBI as a human right in a few short years.
How to Outsmart a Plague
beating coronavirus before it beats us People don’t know what to think about it, how scared to be, how to prepare, how bad it will get, how our government is handling it, how our government should be handling it, and more. Where on the spectrum of overblown seasonal sniffles to plague-like pandemic does this flu-like disease known technically as COVID-19 (caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus) reside?
Basic Income: FAQs
I thought it was about time we had our own Frequently Asked Questions section for our Basic Income publication. And here it is: Under a Basic Income system, every resident citizen will receive a regular payment of money, sufficient to meet their essential needs. This payment will, in all other respects, be unconditional. Yes.
Getting to the heart of Universal Basic Income
If we took all of the income the United States makes in a year and divided it by the total number of Americans, then every woman, man, and child would be making over $50,000. That’s over $200,000 for a family of four. If we wiped the slate clean and took all of the personal net wealth of the United States and divvied it up among every American with a heartbeat, each person would receive over $250,000 as a nest egg. Let’s take a second to think about those numbers.
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