Archive - Community Education Project - 2006
In February 2006, LIFE began our project -- Community Education to Make Poverty History -- to increase poverty education and to create social solidarity so we can make poverty history with a universal Guaranteed Livable Income.
We developed and sent educational outreach materials to local organizations in the greater Victoria area to invite them to book a LIFE presentation. Our presentations include an overview on local and global poverty, the roots of poverty and the economic rationale for poverty solutions via a guaranteed livable income.
Thank you to the Public Service Alliance of Canada for making this initiative possible through a grant of $1150 from their Social Justice Fund.
PSAC - BC lists other projects in BC which received grants from this Fund.
Project Update - October 2006
Below is a list of our community education presentations since January 2006. We have made 12 presentations reaching 425 people. We have distributed over 1000 pamphlets and post cards with facts about poverty and where to find more information about guaranteed livable income.
Download our GLI-Labour Perspective Pamphlet (325 KM)
This 3-panel pamphlet can be printed double-sided on standard letter-sized paper and contains quotes as to why a guaranteed income is needed from a labour point of view.
We may be available for presentations past November 2006, dependent on funding for such presentation related expenses such as printed material, transportation, postage and other related supplies. Everything else is provided through volunteer labour. (To read more on our funding situation, go HERE)
Events and Presentations
2006, November 1
UVIC Critical Research Stratgies Class
Presentation on anti-poverty historical events in BC, examples of grassroots organizing, and poverty solutions from a Participatory Action Research perspective 2006, October 19
Pt. Alberni - organized by Women for Water
Echo Centre Park Fieldhouse
Poverty facts; health impacts from poverty; technological progress as rationale for Guaranteed Livable Income.
2006, October 2
UVIC Participartory Action Research Class
Presentation on anti-poverty historical events in BC, examples of grassroots organizing, and poverty solutions from a Participatory Action Research perspective 2006, September 13
Greater Victoria Seniors
Society
Presentation on overview of local and global poverty facts; health impacts from poverty; history, current organizing and economic rationale for Guaranteed Livable Income.
2006, September 10
Saanich Penninsula - First Unitarian Church of Victoria 5575 W. Saanich Rd.
Photo: Marya Nijland of the Social Responsibility Council in front of the Livable Income For Everyone display which was in the foyer of the church for the month of September.
2006, August 26
Film and Discussion on Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign
Details...
2006, July 8 Workshop - Details
Money, Technology and the Work Ethic and GLI
Victoria - by registration only 2006, June 11
Capital Unitarian Church
Faith Perspectives on Guaranteed Livable Income; overview of local and global poverty; health impacts from poverty.
2006, June 8
South Island Health Coalition
Presenation on Poverty, Impacts on Health and GLI as a way to save health and lives
2006, May 17
Secondary school students - Victoria
Presentation on Poverty, Roots and Solutions with an overview of global and local poverty
2006, March 23
UVIC Critical Research Stratgies Class
Presentation on anti-poverty historical events in BC, examples of grassroots organizing, and poverty solutions from a Participatory Action Research perspective
2006, Jan. 30
Provided speaker for a showing of the film "Hide and Go Homeless"
organized by the UVIC Student Society
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"Trade unionists, as well as all those who count themselves as egalitarians and advocates of social solidarity, should support a basic income* as a right of a good society in which dignified work could flourish."
Guy Standing, Why unions should campaign for a basic income, European Trade Union Institute Review 04/2004.
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"There is growing support from a broad range of organisations in civil society, as well as in government, for the introduction of a Basic Income Grant (BIG), as an important mechanism to address the crisis of poverty facing the majority of South African families. Organisations from diverse sectors , including welfare, labour, religious, human rights, gender, childrens rights and NGO's have come to the conclusion that the enormity of this problem facing our country, requires a national initiative aimed at ensuring that no South African is allowed to sink into total destitution or poverty, and to provide a bridge allowing the poor to engage in meaningful economic activity. This has led organisations from these sectors to form a Coalition of "South Africans for a Basic Income Grant". Together these organisations represent millions of predominantly poor South Africans, from the rural and urban areas of South Africa."
Joint media statement, 3 July 2001, South Africans for a Basic Income Grant |
Such situations are very common cases that are being repeated every day in countries such as Brazil, Nigeria, India or Pakistan "of how lack of economic freedom, in the form of extreme poverty, can make a person prey to the violation of other kinds of freedom."
Towards a citizen's income The advancement of the battle in Brazil, Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy, 2000. (Senator Suplicy, authored a bill to institute guaranteed minimum income that was approved in Brazil)
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| * Guaranteed income is sometimes called "basic income". |
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