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#Women Demand Guaranteed Livable Income

MayDay action 

On May 1, May Day - the international workers' day,  banners reading “#WomenDemand Guaranteed Livable Income” were dropped by women in different locations across British Columbia including Vancouver, Kelowna, Victoria, Prince George, and Nelson. 
The action was coordinated by the BC Women’s Alliance, organising groups and individuals across BC who are committed to economic justice.
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Our podcasts

New podcast A discussion with  authors Evelyn Forget and Hannah Owczar, whose excellent new book Radical Trust: Basic Income for Complicated Lives shares the voices of Canadians' "complicated lives" exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Canada can afford a basic income, as well as a complement of social services. They argue basic income could be a shift from paternalistic poverty interventions toward a public policy based on "the radical trust that each of us knows what we need to live better lives."
Podcast Principles for a basic income in Canada. Featuring Toni Pickard, (Queen's University Faculty of Law (ret'd); External Relations Coordinator, Kingston Action Group for a Basic Income Guarantee; Founding Coordinator, Coalition Canada: basic income – revenu de base. 
Podcast featuring Kathi Weeks (Associate Professor at the Women’s Studies programme of Duke University), discussing feminist arguments in favour of a basic income guarantee. 

May Day 2022

Did you spot the banners in Prince George, Kelowna, Nelson, Chase, Langley... ? 

May Day 2021

#womendemand Guaranteed Livable Income. Banner Cassiar Vancouver
#womendemand Guaranteed Livable Income. Banner Metrotown Burnaby
#womendemand Guaranteed Livable Income. Banner Burnaby
#womendemand Guaranteed Livable Income. Davis Bay, Sunshine Coast
#womendemand Guaranteed Livable Income. Banner Surrey
#womendemand Guaranteed Livable Income. Banner Vancouver City Hall
#womendemand guaranteed livable income. Banner Welcome to Vancouver
#womendemand guaranteed livable income. Banner Denman Island
#womendemand Guaranteed Livable Income. Banner Victoria Legislature
#womendemand guaranteed livable income. Banner Stanley Park
#womendemand guaranteed livable income. Banner Vancouver 7th and Fir
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