A citizen-led group, exploring & advocating for Universal Basic Income in Stroud. Founders Adrian, Chloe, Emma & Will. Launch event Jan 23, more news to follow
Just taking a little moment to think about how a basic income was this wild, unimaginable concept when I started my working life, dismissed as an absolute pipe dream, and now here it is popping up everywhere in mainstream politics ❤️
Join our co-founder @JRWill26, former Shadow Chancellor @johnmcdonnellMP and others for this brilliant event.
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏰ 18:30
We hope to see you there!
RSVP 👇
https://t.co/HfTXlA34oc
Balraj Samrai joins Maddy Radcliff @WeAreTheMU, John McDonnell MP, Vicky Blake @UniversityLeeds@ucu & Jonathan Rhys Williams - Lawyer @GMB & @UBILabWales for what looks like an unmissable online event next month ⬇️
We're excited to announce a new panelist for our online event on 8th May, focusing on UBI and unions.
Balraj Samrai- Manchester’s Swing Ting party and record label founding member, musician, facilitator and youth worker.
Sign up link here- https://t.co/PXs1sOtjUr
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We are very excited to announce our next big event on UBI and unions!
Panel:
@johnmcdonnellMP
Vicky Blake/@zenscara- Leeds Uni UCU
Jonathan Rhys Williams/@JRWill26- Lawyer GMB, Co-founder of UBI Lab Wales.
Plus others
Union member or not, please join! https://t.co/RXGdvLBOxg
The Heavens Valley Action Group has a FB page where you can find out more, register your use of the paths, answer their call for stories, pictures, details of your relationship with the Heavens, what it means to you - you can follow them, Stroudie or not
https://t.co/Vf3TGUg1wn
Co-chair of the Lab, Dave Beck (@ThatSociologist) will be speaking about food poverty and UBI as a solution to it at the Pint of Science festival in South Manchester, 15th May.
Click here to get festival news in Manchester and the rest of the world- https://t.co/BAdukIIUpb
Thank you @AmplifyStroud for making this your focus piece! It was a real pleasure to talk about the light that the UBI movement is in these challenging times, and share even a small bit of all the good things happening in Stroud at the moment:)
Thank you to @AmplifyStroud for letting us make the case for UBI in general, and in Stroud in particular! Packed full of links and info if you’re curious about UBI or want to get involved in making change:)
https://t.co/EcdhGFWT0f
We are delighted to announce our speakers for our upcoming event!
Jonathan Tan, co-founder and CEO of @GreaterChangeUK
Frances Darlington-Pollock, CEO of @GMMayorsCharity
@markpdonovan, founder and Executive Director of the Denver Basic Income Project
https://t.co/AUaQ3JK7Kp
Re-sharing this for the Monday morning readers - New article about the failures of #UniversalCredit to provide adequate Social Security.
New space to evolve into #UniversalBasicIncome#UBI.
The article is open access, so its free for anyone to read. 👇
Want to join the Network, connect with others, attend events and work on projects to help make #BasicIncome a reality? ✊
Start your journey https://t.co/IhyB4mIYdD
Don't have the time, but still want to help?
Please consider donating to support us 👇 https://t.co/rPC867HAo3
We are talking about Universal Basic Income at the @PeoplesPowerhse#thisisthenorth today!
Amazing discussions are taking place here in Preston about how we can transform the North