In April, 2006 the Women's Economic Justice Report on Guaranteed Livable Income was released at a public meeting in Victoria BC.
To request a hard copy of the report, (printed on 100% recycled newsprint by Horizons Publications)
Email: swag@pacificcoast.net or
Phone:(250)-383-7322.
Download WEJ Report as a PDF file that can be opened with Acrobat Reader (468 Kb)
or read the report using the table of contents below.
IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION:
In a review of the Women's Economic Justice report on July 22, 2006 in the Vancouver Sun, Daphne Bramham infers that the Report recommends that there should not be a GLI for people new to Canada. She got it backwards. Women were concerned that people new to Canada might not be able to access the GLI and that they absolutely should be able to. She misunderstood one of the points in under the Concerns section of the report.
Read her review here...
Women's Economic Justice Report on Guaranteed Livable Income
A project of the Women's Livable Income Working Group c/o the Victoria Status of Women Action Group (SWAG).
Report prepared by Project Coordinator Cindy L'Hirondelle.
Hard copy released April 2006, Digital version released June 2006
Note: This is not a quantitative research project or survey. The report documents discussions that formed a sort of grassroots women's think tank to examine the benefits, particularly to women, of a Guaranteed Livable Income. The project intended to look beyond current, and almost universally dominant, proposed solutions to poverty -- economic growth, jobs, daycare and welfare. Read more about the rationale, goals and background on the project.
Request for Feedback before October 30, 2006
Please send your comments about this report to help us all move forward with solutions to poverty, especially women's poverty. It is very important that we hear from you; your comments will become part of our final report which will be shared with women's, social justice and Guaranteed Livable Income groups locally, nationally and globally. Please email us at swag@pacificcoast.net.
Acknowledgments:
Thank you to Status of Women Canada BC/Yukon Region
for providing funding for this project
And to all the women who shared their experiences, insights, time and knowledge to create this report to help advance the movement for a guaranteed livable income
Introduction
Benefits of a Guaranteed Livable Income
Health
Food
Women
Nature
Choice
Time
Equality
Family
Children
Communities
Politics
Spirituality
Peace
How would your life have been affected by a GLI ?
Introduction to the Costs of Poverty
(of not having a Guaranteed Livable Income)
Costs of Poverty
Health
Social Breakdown
Poverty Industry
The Costs of Jobs to solve poverty
Costs to Nature
Costs to Community/Democracy
Urban Migration
Inequality
Complementary to a Guaranteed Livable Income
Concerns: What could go wrong?
Barriers: What are the barriers to achieving GLI?
Other Ideas
Strategies: What are strategies for organizing
Coordinator's Findings
For more information, to request a presentation, hard copies of reports or a GLI Reader, contact us by phone: 250-383-7322 or email: swag@pacificcoast.net