*[Enwl-eng] Twitter protest for European basic income
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This petition was launched on our YouMove platform by the Unconditional Basic Income Europe. We think it may interest you.
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We have mobilised massively all over Europe in support for the European basic income. Our leaders meet tomorrow. We want to give one more push ahead of that meeting to make sure they hear our demands. |
Hi,
You, Pope Francis, Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez. What do you have in common?
You’ve all called for some form of basic income. The idea of a European basic income has gained huge support. Over 160,000 people have signed our petition, and hundreds of us have chipped in what we could to make our demand more visible. We're now running advertisements on Politico, the EU institutions’ most-read newspaper. All this to reach EU leaders.
They meet tomorrow to agree on a common EU response to the coronacrisis, but they still haven’t put an emergency basic income on the agenda. We want to give one more push ahead of that meeting to make sure they hear us.
With all institutions closed, decision-makers are following social media more carefully than ever before -- so that’s where we’re going. Ahead of the meeting we will tweet them to make sure they know a European basic income needs to be on their agenda.
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There’s already growing momentum in many countries showing the EU the direction to go. The Spanish government is moving towards a basic income scheme, the US has launched a one-off programme similar to basic income, France is discussing it, and even the pope is calling for a version of it! [1]
As the economic situation gets worse, the EU needs to respond as quickly as possible with bold solutions. We have mobilised behind the idea of a European basic income in almost unprecedented numbers. This is a voice nobody should ignore. Let’s make sure the leaders hear us!
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Thank you for your engagement,
David, Marta (Warsaw), Mika (Bordeaux)
and the entire WeMove team
PS: This time we are targeting EU’s top decision-makers, including the head of the European Council, Charles Michel. It is him who sets the agenda of the Council meeting tomorrow, so let's use our power to influence him. Join and tweet!
References:
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/16/coronavirus-crisis-could-pave-the-way-to-a-universal-basic-income.html
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