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Basic income
Marcelo ESTRAVIZ
Tuesday, 4 February 2003 18:41:55
The experience of basic income is being carried out in Brazil, at a regional level (some cities and states) and now with Lula it will become a national experience. Although it is a really low value (something as 20 dollars or less), it is interesting to see that it produces important changes for the miserable people.
I don't know about similar experiences in the world, but I imagine that they should exist. Today I am going towards a crisis of identity (laughs) because I always worked in social projects that did everything, except to give money directly to the poor. And every time more I see that this is the first to be done, as a human right of survival. I don't say that they should stop to exist other social actions, but my crisis consists in that: why doing theater courses, if there is hunger? It is not necessary that we begin a discussion about the importance of each thing, as I know that it exists.
Here in Brazil we are beginning the management of Lula with the project * hunger zero * as an absolute priority. At the beginning I didn't like that too much, I looked at it like a political discourse. Along the time (and this is the point about my crisis of identity) I see that this is absolutely sensed. All of us we should fight in this war that is not on Iraq and it is against hunger.
I am reordering all my projects, all my ideas and energy for that, and I would like that all the Brazilian people would do the same thing, as well as all the citizens of the world. Now, I like this idea about just one priority, and that starting from that, some projects could be developed, among them the income as an universal right.
My crisis (sorry for bother you about that) it is that I am surprised about life going up and down. 10 years ago, I lived in Barcelona and it was very close to friends of a center of anarchists, called Can Bardina. I was a squatter and all that was funny for me, but I see today that while I use to go boozing and to have good time, they discussed very seriously about that matter, that they use to call * Community Capitalism * and their discussion about an Universal rent called civic or basic income. You can see about it in their site <www.bardina.org> (it is in several languages, as it should be!)
And, how the Parliament can be involved in all that? well... I don't know... :)
hugs from the south,
Marcelo Estraviz
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