{"id":1226,"date":"2017-04-11T19:58:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basicincome-europe.org\/ubie\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2017-04-12T00:32:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T22:32:11","slug":"ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"UBI-Europe springs forward \u2013 Meeting in London, March 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

After an inspirational series of meetings in London 24-26 March, the new board of Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) gets ready for a busy year ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our weekend of events themed \u2018Basic Income: not just a pretty idea\u2019<\/strong> in London was a big success. Over 60 members and friends of Unconditional Basic Income Europe from 12 countries attended throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n

\"Unconditional<\/p>\n

On Friday, 24th March, we had a tour of the City<\/strong> which focused on London\u2019s 1000-year working history, with a brief stop on the river\u2019s foreshore. That evening 11 activists from different parts of Europe reported on the situation of basic income in their respective countries<\/strong>. We are grateful to Father David Allen for providing St Clement\u2019s Church, Finsbury<\/a> for this meeting, and Drew from Let Me Look TV<\/a> for filming it.<\/p>\n

A full video recording of the meeting will be available soon.<\/p>\n

On Saturday 25 March we had a great conversation with four British trade unionists who have been working in support of basic income in the UK<\/strong>, with Kevin Brandstratter, Nikki Dancey and Martin Smith of the GMB union, and Becca Kirkpatrick from Unison. We explored the reasons for stronger UK union support for the idea while unions in other European countries have either ignored UBI or been openly hostile. Some of these reasons are structural – in several European countries trade unions share responsibility with the state for dispensing unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon we held workshops on several topics and projects for UBIE:<\/strong> A new European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI); UBIE external communications; Future Lab (a multimedia exhibition featuring UBI); UBI political parties around Europe; lobbying the EU. As always, meeting in real life renewed people\u2019s energy for carrying these projects forward.<\/p>\n

On Sunday 26 March during the General Assembly<\/strong> we looked at two practical tools for people to use back home, and which we hope to implement within UBIE: Introductions to developing a Theory of Change<\/a> and a Power Structure Analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The General Assembly also elected a new board for UBIE<\/a>. D\u00e1niel Feh\u00e9r from Hungary is now Chair, Lena Stark (Sweden) and Anja Askeland (Norway) are Vice-Chairs, Aur\u00e9lie Hampel from France is Board Secretary and Ulrich Schachtschneider from Germany is our new Treasurer.<\/p>\n

\"Members<\/a><\/p>\n

The meeting expressed its gratitude to the board members who stepped down this year: Barb Jacobson (UK) who was UBIE\u2019s Chair since the network\u2019s founding in 2014, Nicole Teke (France) who was Vice-Chair since 2016 and Quentin Fabri (Belgium), UBIE\u2019s first Treasurer. All three wished the new board well in taking UBI-Europe’s work forward.<\/p>\n

We are also very grateful to the GMB Union<\/a> for hosting these two days. We look forward to meeting the challenges and opportunities this year!<\/p>\n

The next meeting of UBIE<\/strong> will take place in Lisbon, 24 September<\/strong>, ahead of the BIEN Congress 2017 to be held 25-27 September<\/a>. More details to follow.<\/p>\n

N.B.: Many people put a great deal of time and energy into organising this meeting. Nevertheless, we had large expenses \u2013 and will have more in the future on our way to becoming a more effective activist and lobbying network. If you can, please consider a donation to UBIE \u2013 or even better, set up a regular contribution!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After an inspirational series of meetings in London 24-26 March, the new board of Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) gets ready for a busy year ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[340,304,336,344,338,342,346,40,348],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-board","tag-election","tag-general-assembly","tag-london","tag-meeting","tag-meetup","tag-trade-unions","tag-ubie","tag-unions","czr-hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nUBI-Europe springs forward \u2013 Meeting in London, March 2017 - European Basic Income Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UBI-Europe springs forward \u2013 Meeting in London, March 2017 - European Basic Income Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After an inspirational series of meetings in London 24-26 March, the new board of Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) gets ready for a busy year ahead.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"European Basic Income Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-04-11T17:58:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-11T22:32:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/board-walk-1024x767.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"767\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"UBI-Europe springs forward \u2013 Meeting in London, March 2017\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-11T17:58:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-11T22:32:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":540,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/01\\\/board-walk.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"board\",\"election\",\"general assembly\",\"london\",\"meeting\",\"meetup\",\"trade unions\",\"ubie\",\"unions\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/\",\"name\":\"UBI-Europe springs forward \u2013 Meeting in London, March 2017 - European Basic Income Network\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/01\\\/board-walk.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-11T17:58:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-11T22:32:11+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/01\\\/board-walk.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/01\\\/board-walk.jpg\",\"width\":3179,\"height\":2382},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UBI-Europe springs forward \u2013 Meeting in London, March 2017\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/\",\"name\":\"European Basic Income Network\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"European Basic Income Network\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/03\\\/eci-ubi-100.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/03\\\/eci-ubi-100.png\",\"width\":144,\"height\":110,\"caption\":\"European Basic Income Network\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/ubi_europe\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ubi-europe.net\\\/ubi\\\/author\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UBI-Europe springs forward \u2013 Meeting in London, March 2017 - European Basic Income Network","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"UBI-Europe springs forward \u2013 Meeting in London, March 2017 - European Basic Income Network","og_description":"After an inspirational series of meetings in London 24-26 March, the new board of Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) gets ready for a busy year ahead.","og_url":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/","og_site_name":"European Basic Income Network","article_published_time":"2017-04-11T17:58:53+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-04-11T22:32:11+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":767,"url":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/board-walk-1024x767.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"UBI-Europe springs forward \u2013 Meeting in London, March 2017","datePublished":"2017-04-11T17:58:53+00:00","dateModified":"2017-04-11T22:32:11+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/"},"wordCount":540,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/board-walk.jpg","keywords":["board","election","general assembly","london","meeting","meetup","trade unions","ubie","unions"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/","url":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/","name":"UBI-Europe springs forward \u2013 Meeting in London, March 2017 - European Basic Income Network","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/board-walk.jpg","datePublished":"2017-04-11T17:58:53+00:00","dateModified":"2017-04-11T22:32:11+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/board-walk.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/board-walk.jpg","width":3179,"height":2382},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/ubi-europe-springs-forward-meeting-in-london-march-2017\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UBI-Europe springs forward \u2013 Meeting in London, March 2017"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/","name":"European Basic Income Network","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/#organization","name":"European Basic Income Network","url":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/eci-ubi-100.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/eci-ubi-100.png","width":144,"height":110,"caption":"European Basic Income Network"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/ubi_europe"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/author\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}