Guaranteed Livable Income and Sustainable Futures

(La version française suit.)

Join us for the second annual panel discussion in Montreal on guaranteed livable income, hosted by the Asian Women for Equality Society on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Today’s globalized economic system relies on our labour, and leaves many of us in poverty. Oil extraction, mining, and ‘fast fashion’ are among the industries that benefit the 1 per cent at the expense of the 99 per cent, and simultaneously promote overconsumption that has contributed to climate change and to the destruction of whole ecosystems. It is a system that exploits the the vulnerable, and deepens inequalities based on sex, race, and class.

Activist Cindy L’Hirondelle argues that a Guaranteed Livable Income challenges the neoliberal assumption that people ought to work to survive, and allows us to carry out life-sustaining dignified work. She describes guaranteed income as being “necessary to our physical and social…