The 11th North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress will take place

May 3-5, 2012 at the University of Toronto, on the theme of:

Putting Equality Back on the Agenda: Basic Income and Other Approaches to Economic Security for All.

ANCHORAGE (US), 22 April 2011: Workshop on Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend

Several scholars, journalists and public policy experts will gather at the University Alaska-Anchorage to discuss the future of Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend and whether it provides a model worthy of imitation in other places. Participants include Scott Goldsmith, of the University of Alaska; Michael Howard, of the University of Maine; Karl Widerquist, of Georgetown University-Qatar; Gary Flomenhoff, of the University of Vermont; Gregg Erickson, of Erickson & Associates and of the Alaska Budget Report; Angela Cummine, of Oxford University; Cliff Groh, principal legislative staff member on the legislation that created the Permanent Fund Dividend and author of The Permanent Fund Dividend Story; Charles Wohlforth, author of The Fate of Nature, The Whale and the Supercomputer, and Saving for the Future: My Life and the Alaska Permanent Fund. For more information about the Workshop, contact Scott Goldsmith or Karl Widerquist.

Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers
New York, NY, February 25 – 27, 2011

The Tenth Annual North American Basic Income Conference: Models for Social Transformation will take place in New York City on Friday, February 25 through Sunday February 27, 2011. This conference will be a joint event of the USBIG Network, and BI/AU Canada. It will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA). Attendees at the USBIG conference are welcome to attend any of the EEA’s events.

The North American Basic Income Conference was originally ‘the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network Conference,’ and was organized by the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) Network. It expanded in 2010 to become a joint event of the USBIG Network and the Basic Income / Allocation Universelle Canada (BI/AU Canada). Since then, it has been a North American Conference held on alternate years in the United States and Canada.

Scholars, activists, and others are invited to propose papers, and organize panel discussions on BIG or topics related to poverty and the distribution of property. All points of view are welcome. Proposals from any discipline are welcomed. Anyone interested in making a presentation or organizing a panel should submit a proposal to the chair of the organizing committee: Karl Widerquist: Karl {at} Widerquist.com.

Additional information can be found at the USBIG Website.

BIEN Canada will be co-organising a major conference in collaboration with the US Basic Income Guarantee network (USBIG). on 15-16 April 2010 at the Unversity of Montréal, hosted by the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM).

This first collaboration between the US and Canadian chapters of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) on Basic Income at a Time of Economic Upheaval: A Path to Justice and Stability? aims to compare the prospects and challenges faced by the BIG proposal in the context of both Canada and the US, two countries that share many similarties and yet are profoundly different in terms of their economic, social and political background.

For more information visit the conference site at http://bigmontreal.wordpress.com/.