Tentative Program

The Tenth Annual North America Basic Income Guarantee Congress

February 25 – 27, 2010

Sheraton New York Hotel

811 Seventh Avenue at 53rd Street., New York, NY

Thursday, February 24, 2010:

No formal events: an informal social meeting spot will be announced later.

Friday, February 25, 2010

8:00am-9:15	NA-BIG SESSION 1: Opening Speakers Moderator: Michael Howard Michael Howard, Welcome and Introduction Alfredo L. de Romaña, the University of Paris I (the Sorbonne), “The ‘Political Graduation’ of Basic Income Entitlement Schemes: Sharing Nature, or the economic equivalent of a piece of land for every citizen”
9:15-9:30	Break
9:30-11:00	NA-BIG SESSION 2. The Political Economy of Income Support, Part 1 Moderator: Dorothee Schulte-Basta Seán Healy and Brigid Reynolds, “Ireland: Basic Income and the new Charter on Shared Social Responsibility Jenna van Draanen “The Political Potential for Income Inequality Policy Change in Canada” Micheal Collins and Charles Clark “Modelling a Basic Income for Lesotho”
11:00-11:15	Break
11:15am-12:45pm	NA-BIG SESSION 3. The Political Economy of Income Support, Part 2 Moderator: Jason Burke Murphy Andrea Vick, Ernie Lightman, & Andrew Mitchell, “Exploring Disability and Income Security: The (In)Significance of a Basic Income” Yannick Vanderborght, “Social Europe and Minimum Income Schemes: Recent trends in anti-poverty policies within the European Union” Ingrid Van Niekirk, “Review of Social Assistance Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa”
12:45-3:00	Lunch Break: (the EEA will have sessions, 1:15-2:45; this break is an opportunity to attend one of those sessions or to take lunch).
3:00-4:30	NA-BIG SESSION 4. The Political Economy of Income Support, Part 3 Moderator: Ernie Lightman Jason Burke Murphy, “Little BIGs and Near BIGs – How can we assess less than perfect programs? How should we respond?” Buford Farris, “Politics as Personal and Local: Reflections from Bastrop, Texas” Dorothee Schulte-Basta, “The Closer It Gets - Boon and Bane of a Highly Sophisticated Debate on Basic Income”
4:30-4:45	Break
4:45-6:30	NA-BIG SESSION 5: Featured Speakers Moderator: Al Sheahen 4:45-5:35: Ovide Mercredi, Chief, Misipawistik Cree Nation, Former National Chief, Assembly of First Nations (Canada), “Paths to Economic Security for Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island” 5:40-6:30: Rob Rainer, Executive Director, Canada Without Poverty, “Anti-Poverty Strategies and Guaranteed Income: Reflections from Canada”

Details of a social event after the last session will be announced at the conference

Saturday, February 26, 2010

8:00am-9:00	NA-BIG SESSION 6: The Financial Cost of Eliminating Poverty Moderator: Gary Flomenhoff Micheal Collins and Robert Ryan, “Costing the Elimination of Poverty in Ireland: An economist’s empirical exercise” Chandra Pasma, “Punishing Costs: Budget Priorities and Guaranteed Income”
9-9:15	Break
9:15-10:45	NA-BIG SESSION 7: Exporting the Alaska Model: Can the Resource-Dividend Work Elsewhere? Part 1 Moderator: Jim Bryan Almaz Zelleke, “Basic Income and the Alaska Model” Angela Cummine, “‘A Citizens’ Stake in Sovereign Wealth: distribution options for a nation’s capital” Michael A. Lewis, “Risk And The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend”
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00am-12:30pm	NA-BIG SESSION 8: Exporting the Alaska Model: Can the Resource-Dividend Work Elsewhere? Part 2 Moderator: Karl Widerquist John Murney & James P. Mulvale, “Resource Revenues as a Source of Basic Income: Canadian Possibilities” Michael W. Howard, “A Cap on Carbon and a Basic Income: A Defensible Combination in the U.S.?” Gary Flomenhoff, “Creating sovereign wealth in a state with no resource wealth-The Case of Vermont”
12:30-2:00	Lunch break
2:00-3:30	NA-BIG SESSION 9: Exporting the Alaska Model: Can the Resource-Dividend Work Elsewhere? Part 3 Moderator: Michael Howard Alanna Hartzok, “A Global Resource Agency: can the Alaska model be applied on multinational or worldwide basis?” Jim Bryan and Sarah Lamarche, “The Political Requirements of a Resource-Based Basic Income Guarantee: Lessons from Alaska” Karl Widerquist, “Lessons from the Alaska Model”
3:30-3:45	Break
3:45-5:15	NA-BIG SESSION 10: Libertarianism and Basic Income Moderator: TBA Daniel D. Moseley, “Left-Libertarianism and Basic Income.” Daniel Layman, “Why There is No Lockean Right to a Basic Income” Nic Tideman, “The Morality and Justice of Redistributive Measures”
5:30-7:00	NA-BIG SESSION 11: Plenary Session: Left and Right Views on the Basic Income Guarantee Moderator: Almaz Zelleke Charles Murray, the American Enterprise Institute Stanley Aronowitz, the City University of New York

Details of a social event after the last session will be announced at the conference

Sunday, February 27, 2010

8:00am-9:30	NA-BIG SESSION 12: Creating an Equitable Economic System Moderator: Dan O’Sullivan Susmita Barua, “A Global Citizen’s Manifesto: Basic Income as Basic Human Right” Christian Roy, “Releasing the Spirit of the Gift from the Spell of Credit: Arnaud Dandieu’s Anti-Utilitarian Anthropological Model for Basic Income” Jeff Smith, “Land Equity: Public or private?”
9:30-9:45	Break
9:45-11:00	NA-BIG SESSION 13 Featured Speaker Moderator: Eri Noguchi Senator Eduardo Suplicy, The Brazilian Federal Senate
11:00-11:15	Break
11:15am-12:45pm	NA-BIG SESSION 14: Basic Income and the Global Recession Moderator: Micheal Collin Kelly Ernst and Gillian Steward, “Clues to Deepening Disparity: Continuing Impacts and Implications of the Economic Meltdown on Immigrants and Students” Dan O’Sullivan, “Jobs or Income Now” Charles M. A. Clark, “Basic Income as a way out of the Great Recession”
12:45-2:30	Lunch break
2:30-3:30	Organizational meetings of NA-BIG’s supporting networks: USBIG organizational meeting Moderator: Michael Howard BI-RG Canada organizational meeting Moderator: Jim Mulvale

After the last meeting, everyone is invited to reconvene in the hotel bar.