The Foundation for Government Accountability - a Florida-based lobbying group backed by the richest 1% - is working to get basic income experiments banned by state legislators across the U.S. As a well-known quote often wrongly attributed to Mahatma Ghandi says, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at
In 2024, the anti-UBI bill floodgates opened, starting with Iowa in January and followed in quick succession by West Virginia, South Dakota, Arizona and Arkansas in February. All of them introduced bills of their own to stop basic income pilots, all with similar language. At this point, it became clear that a lobbying organization of some kind was behind the bills, something like the American Legislative Exchange Council that writes bills for legislators to put their names on and pass into law. In my research to discover the group responsible, I found it's the Foundation for Government Accountability, which led down a rabbit hole of dark money and a slew of harmful bills desired by the 1% to reduce their taxes and reduce the power of the 99% to stand in their way.
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New book: Economic Offramp: How a Guaranteed Livable Income Can Get Us Off the Road to Destruction and Onto a Livable Future by C.A. Delle.
How a Guaranteed Livable Income (a.k.a. universal basic income ) can be a practical shift to a livable economy to help people and the environment.
About The book
There are a seemingly endless number of books, articles, and documentaries addressing the array of challenges confronting humanity and our ecosystem. This book shows how a guaranteed livable income (aka universal basic income) is a practical economic solution that embraces and enhances individual freedom, health, democracy, skills, problem-solving, innovation, and the environment. Through a blend of personal anecdotes, speculative economic analysis, and research, Economic Offramp delves into the many potential impacts of implementing such an initiative. It explores how this concept could shape various dimensions of our world - from society and communities to families and individuals. C.A. Delle extends an open invitation to become part of a movement that has the potential to steer us away from the path of destruction and towards a livable future.
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Happy to join forces with this movement and create a network that strongly demands the introduction of a Universal Basic Income as the main response to the systemic crisis that is affecting not only the art and cultural production sector but the whole ecosystem in which we move every day!
The ART FOR UBI campaign promoted by the Institute of Radical Imagination.
1/ Universal and Unconditional Basic Income is the best measure for the arts and cultural sector. Art workers claim a basic income, not for themselves, but for everyone.
2/ Do not call UBI any measures that do not equal a living wage: UBI has to be above the poverty threshold. To eliminate poverty, UBI must correspond to a region’s minimum wage.
3/ UBI frees up time, liberating us from the blackmail of precarious labor and from exploitative working conditions.
4/ UBI is given unconditionally and without caveats, regardless of social status, job performance, or ability. It goes against the meritocratic falsehoods that cover for class privilege.
5/ UBI is not a social safety net, nor is it welfare unemployment reform. It is the minimal recognition of the invisible labor that is essential to the reproduction of life, largely unacknowledged but essential, as society’s growing need for care proves.
6/ UBI states that waged labor is no longer the sole means for wealth redistribution. Time and time again, this model proves unsustainable.Wage is just another name for exploitation of workers, who always earn less than they give.
7/ Trans-feminist and decolonizing perspectives teach us to say NO to all the invisible and extractive modes of exploitation, especially within the precarious working conditions created by the art market.
8/ UBI affirms the right to intermittence, privacy and autonomy, the right to stay off-line and not to be available 24/7.
9/ UBI rejects the pyramid scheme of grants and of the nonprofit industrial complex, redistributing wealth equally and without unnecessary bureaucratic burdens. Bureaucracy is the vampire of art workers’ energies and time turning them into managers of themselves.
10/ By demanding UBI, art workers do not defend a guild or a category and depreciate the role that class and privilege play in current perceptions of art. UBI is universal because it is for everyone and makes creative agency available to everyone.
11/ Art’s health is directly connected to a healthy social fabric. To claim for UBI, being grounded in the ethics of mutual care, is art workers’ most powerful gesture of care towards society.
12/ Because UBI disrupts the logic of overproduction, it frees us from the current modes of capital production that are exploiting the planet. UBI is a cosmogenetic technique and a means to achieve climate justice.
13/ Where to find the money for the UBI? In and of itself UBI questions the actual tax systems in Europe and elsewhere. UBI empowers us to reimagine financial transactions, the extractivism of digital platforms, liquidity, and debt. No public service should be cut in order to finance UBI.
14/ UBI inspires many art collectives and communities to test various tools for more equal redistribution of resources and wealth. From self-managed mutual aid systems based on collettivising incomes, to solutions temporarily freeing cognitive workers from public and private constraints. We aim to join them.
FIRST SIGNATURES:
Individuals
Emanuele Braga / Macao, Milan; Institute of Radical Imagination
Marco Bravalle / Sale Docks, Venice; Institute of Radical Imagination
Gabriella Riccio / L’Asilo, Naples ; Institute of Radical Imagination
Ilenia Caleo / Campo Innocente; Incommon – Università IUAV Venezia
Anna Rispoli / Artist
Maddalena Fragnito / Macao, Milan; Phd at Coventry University
Andrea Fumagalli / Effimera; University of Pavia
Nicola Capone / Philosopher; L’Asilo, Naples
Luigi Coppola / Artist
Giuseppe Micciarelli / L’Asilo, Naples, University of Salerno
Julio Linares / Economist and Anthropologist; JoinCircles.net
Dena Beard / The Lab, San Francisco
Manuel Borja-Villel / Museum Director, Madrid
Salvo Torre / Professor, member of POE Politics, Ontologies, Ecologies
Sara Buraya Boned / L’Internationale; Institute Of Radical Imagination
Kuba Szreder / Curator and theorist, Warsaw
Dmitry Vilensky / Chto Delat
Charles Esche / Director of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Franco Bifo Berardi / Philosopher
Gregory Sholette / Artist
Zeyno Pekunlu / Artist, Institute of Radical Imagination
Anna Daneri / Forum dell’arte contemporanea italiana
Massimo Mollona / Goldsmiths’ University of London, Institute of Radical Imagination
Jerszy Seymour / Artist and Designer; Sandberg Institute
Marco Assennato / Maître de conférences in filosofia, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Paris-Malaquais
Roberto Ciccarelli / Philosopher and journalist
Sandro Mezzadra / Philosopher
Geert Lovink / Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
Alisa Del Re / senior professor Ateneo Patavino
Andrea Gropplero / Film Director
Giuseppe Allegri / Activist
Elena Lasala Palomar / Institute of Radical Imagination
Nicolas Martino / Philosopher
Ilaria Bussoni / Editor and curator
Danilo Correale / Artist
Annalisa Sacchi / Incommon – Università IUAV Venezia
Giada Cipollone / Incommon – Università IUAV Venezia
Stefano Tomassini / Incommon – Università IUAV Venezia
Piersandra Di Matteo / Incommon – Università IUAV Venezia
Elena Blesa Cabéz / Researcher, Barcelona; Institute of Radical Imagination
Jesús Carrillo / Senior Lecturer at the Department of History and Theory of Art Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Institute of Radical Imagination
Pablo García Bachiller / Arquitecto; Institute of Radical Imagination
Theo Prodromidis / Artist; Institute of Radical Imagination
Mabel Tapia / Art Researcher Madrid-Paris
Chiara Colasurdo / Labour Lawyer
Organizations
Institute of Radical Imagination
Il Campo Innocente
Macao
Sale Docks
Chto Delat
L’Asilo
Euronomade
Dirty Art Department Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Dirty Art Foundation
Effimera
OperaViva Magazine
Basic Income Network – Italia
Community and Research for Circles UBI
Forum d’arte contemporanea
Global Project
Dinamopress
Sherwood
AWI Art Workers Italy
Maestranze dello Spettacolo Veneto
Autonomedia New York City
#ARTforUBImanifesto
You can sign ART FOR UBI (Manifesto) on change.org
We strongly invite you support the EU Citizen’s Initiative to Start Unconditional Basic Incomes (UBI) throughout Europe
Imagine if on the Star Trek ship Enterprise, they optionally chose not to clothe or feed part of the crew because of their mental health, because maybe they have bad genetics, or didn't receive adequate cultivation as children, or experienced trauma and abuse. And this was collectively masked as "those crew members just don't want to work hard, that's why they deserve to suffer arbitrarily". That is what living on Earth is like currently. We think we live in the future but we are still basic AF as a society. We have the resources, we have the tools, we now have the technology, to help everyone live a decent life on this planet, not because they "deserve it" measured by some slanted metric, but because they ACTUALLY DESERVE IT, as their birthright as fellow humans. Every time I drive past the makeshift tent cities in the Bay Area my heart sinks, and I know the current setup is wrong. This unnecessary suffering can be alleviated. Let's stop living in the past and fucking do it already. Let's stop making ego and fear based excuses for why we can't. We can create a world together that loves itself, functionally as a system. The seeds are already planted, let's all help water them together, tell a friend about Universal Basic Income and let's get this to be one of the most talked about topics in the world, and manifest the next iteration of human society 🌍💖☀ #oneworldonelove #basicincome #universalbasicincome #ubi #blockchain #globalautomaticdividend #startrek #2018 #timetochange #newsystem #spaceshipEarth #homelessness #streetpeople #bethybrotherskeeper #levelup #SiliconValley
