Barb Sheppard

UBI is at odds with universal health, education and care services. The assumption that one size fits all reinforces quantitative means testing and negates the individual freedoms that Basic Income generates. UBI is about decommodifying time.

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Wealth, and the means to create it, is generated by everyone. Yet only a few benefit.

We all deserve more of the money that's being made every day. It's time for #ReGrowth

#LetsTryUBI

Very apt in view of the imposition of new rules for home educating families in The Children’s Well-being and School’s Bill (UK)

YouTube video by Lighthouse Bookshop Change Everything - An conversation with Natalie Bennett

Universal Basic Income would decommodify time and free people up to choose how best to use their energy and talents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ19...

‘Care-fuelled Leadership’: an artist’s perspective ‘Painful scarcity of funding and opportunities means that we are all in a Hunger Games-type competition, whether we like it or not—and that doesn’t feel…

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"I shouldn’t have to do five post-docs and amass years’ worth of self-funded, change-making social projects only to be rejected by the only organisation in the country that has the money to support my development."
#UBI NOW

YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber Michael Hudson On David Graeber's Against Economics!

We held a meeting with the economist Michael Hudson to discuss David Graeber's piece - Against Economics!.

For those who could not make it, you can see the full talk here.

youtu.be/_-rckzfdCNk

How We Can Stop the Next Viral Pandemic A new combo of climate and habitat crises, along with immune system stress, is driving more bat-borne viruses to afflict us

#OneHealth

"Bats have evolved unique immune system that lets them coexist with horde of otherwise harmful viruses. But when people destroy habitats & food & trigger changes in climate, the animals can no longer keep viruses in check"
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Wendell Berry is known for his message that small-scale farmers are important for taking care of the earth and binding communities together.

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there are already people who have UBI, they're the billionaires

they're the ones who get government handouts

if it's good enough for them, why not the rest of us? they sure didn't earn it lol

Reason 122 for a basic income is unpaid domestic work:

In response to the claim that a basic income would involve no 'reciprocity', giving income for nothing in return, a legitimate feminist retort would be that, traditionally, men have been free-riders on unpaid domestic work done mostly by women.

Green politics – from feminism to food waste: an interview with Natalie Bennett As a student with an interest in the environment, food sustainability and politics, I jumped at the chance to interview Natalie Bennett

Green politics – from feminism to food waste: an interview with Natalie Bennett

As a student with an interest in the environment, food sustainability and politics, I jumped at the chance to interview Natalie Bennett

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