Basic Income New Zealand

Te Utu Tika Hei Oranga i Aotearoa

We are heading to the 15th International Basic Income Week. Social media appearance is here https://basicincomeweek.org/downloads2022/

2022 Annual General Meeting of Te Utu Tika Hei Oranga i Aotearoa - Basic Income New Zealand

Venue: Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology Rotorua Mokoia Drive, Tihiotonga, Rotorua

Date & Time: In person and by Zoom at 11:00 AM on Sunday 16 October 2022

I hereby give formal notice that the 2022 Annual General Meeting of Te Utu Tika Hei Oranga i Aotearoa - Basic Income New Zealand will be held Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology Rotorua, Mokoia Drive, Rotorua in person and by Zoom at 11:00 AM on Sunday 16 October 2022.

If you require a copy of the AGM papers prior to the meeting please RSVP by email to binzcontact@gmail.com with the words "AGM 2022" included in the subject line by Sunday 9th October.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83541836115?pwd=Z0VXdENnUTVVTUFKaTRVR3JVVWU4UT09

Meeting ID: 835 4183 6115 Pass code: 932321

Please note that you will have to be financially up-to-date in this financial year to be able to vote at this AGM with a Koha of at least $10.

Naku iti noa,

Andrew Casey, Secretary BINZ.

 

There will feedback from BIEN 22, the international Basic Income Conference being held 26-28 September in Brisbane.

Te Rangikaheke Kiripatea, Bella Moke and Iain Middleton are presenting papers at this international meeting.

We will give notice of other speakers later.

There will be a shared lunch after the speakers and before the formal AGM. Attendees of our AGM are warmly welcomed to join us for a meal in the evening.

Also: Our committee meets once a month by Zoom. Anyone interested is welcome to join or observe. Just email: binzcontact@gmail.com for the link info.

BIEN 2022 Conference, Brisbane 26-28 September

Hybrid event (mix of online and face-to-face).

Registration is open until Monday 19 September: https://www.bien2022.com/registration

 

A letter from Sarath Davala, Chair and Hilde Latour Vice-Chair:

Dear friends of BIEN,

The much-awaited BIEN Congress is here - 26th to 28th of September. This annual global event is the largest gathering of scholars, activists, and students studying basic income. BIEN has been organising international Congresses since 1986, and this one is the 21st BIEN Congress.

It is a hybrid Congress allowing people to participate both online and physically in Brisbane, Australia. It’s been three years since we’ve had a physical Congress. The last physical Congress was in 2019 in Hyderabad, India attended by over 350 delegates from over 45 countries.

The three-day action-packed Congress in Brisbane is a rare opportunity to listen to the cutting edge research on both theoretical and policy questions.

We are living in times of great crises and great opportunities. We are living in a century that makes us feel that the human civilization is on the brink of extinction. In the same breath, it also makes us feel that we are inaugurating a new era full of opportunity and the promise of abundance and prosperity. This unique moment is aptly expressed in the theme of this year’s Congress: Crisis and Transformation.

BIEN is proud to present its 21st Congress that has an impressive array of star speakers: Feminist Scholar Kathi Weeks, Belgian Philosopher Philippe van Parijs, the relentless crusader of basic income in the US and a prolific writer Scott Santens, the man who catapulted basic income discussion into mainstream electoral politics in the US Andrew Yang, and many more from all over the world.

Come, join us and listen to and interact with some of the finest minds working on Basic Income.

Highlights of the Congress

BIEN2022’s headline theme of Crisis & Transformation invites Congress participants to interrogate the role basic income can play in addressing the major ecological, health and economic crises we confront.

Australia is among the many countries to have experienced catastrophic bushfires, floods and droughts in recent years. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic ripped through our society, and economic inequality and insecurity continue to grow. Natural disasters and the pandemic forced national and state governments to introduce radical policy interventions, including in the area of income support. These interventions proved temporary. But could they hold important lessons for basic income researchers and advocates?

BIEN2022 comprises over 200 papers, panels and roundtables presented by leading thinkers, researchers, policymakers and activists from around the world. Highlights include: Kathi Weeks on Work Futures & Post-Productivism, Philippe van Parijs on Climate on Covid, Putin: Dawn or dusk for UBI?, and contributions from leading UBI advocate Scott Santens and artist and activist Jessie Golem.

Experts from the World Bank, ILO, CEPAL and ODI will examine the potential of Emergency Basic Income in light of the of the pandemic experience. Other international speakers include, Annie Miller, Almaz Zelleke, Yanu Prasetyo, Sarath Davala, Ugo Gentilini, Hyosang Ahn, Hilde Latour, Karl Widerquist, Toru Yamamori, Louise Haagh, Neil Howard and many more.

BIEN2022 includes sessions on basic income and health, analysis of experiments in South Korea, Brazil, North America and Europe, as well as film screenings.

The full conference programme is available here. https://www.bien2022.com/programme

For those traveling to Brisbane, location and accommodation information is available

at https://www.bien2022.com/location

To register for BIEN2022, please visit https://www.bien2022.com/registration

For Congress updates follow us at https://twitter.com/bien2022

New book by Guy Standing to be published 5th October 2022

The Blue Commons - Rescuing the Economy of the Sea

Professor Standing's popular books include:

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class 2011

A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens 2014

The Corruption of Capitalism:

Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not 2016

Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen 2017

Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth 2019

Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now 2020

 

The Blue Commons-Rescuing the Economy of the Sea

An exposé of the plunder of the world's oceans, and the devastating environmental and economic impact that is having across the globe

The sea provides more than half the oxygen we breathe, food for billions of people and livelihoods for hundreds of millions. But giant corporations are plundering the world's oceans, aided by global finance and complicit states, following the neoliberal maxim of Blue Growth. The situation is dire: rampant exploitation and corruption now drive all aspects of the ocean economy, destroying communities, intensifying inequalities, and driving fish populations and other ocean life towards extinction.

The Blue Commons is an urgent call for change, from a campaigning economist responsible for some of the most innovative solutions to inequality of recent times. From large nations bullying smaller nations into giving up eco-friendly fishing policies to the profiteering by the Crown Estate in commandeering much of the British seabed, the scale of the global problem is synthesised here for the first time, as well as a toolkit for all of us to rise up and tackle it.

The oceans have been left out of calls for a Green New Deal but must be at the centre of the fight against climate change. How do we do it? By building a Blue Commons alternative: a transformative worldview and new set of proposals that prioritise the historic rights of local communities, the wellbeing of all people and, with it, the health of our oceans.


 

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