>Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 02:00:17 -0400 (EDT) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ow-watch-digest) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: ow-watch-digest V2 #129 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk > > >ow-watch-digest Saturday, July 3 1999 Volume 02 : Number 129 > > > >OW-WATCH-L From Tim Rouke > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:31:56 -0400 >From: Sherrie Tingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: OW-WATCH-L From Tim Rouke > >- ---------- >From: tim rourke[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >Hi! > >Workfare-mincome is a fairly new list that was started by people >concerned about the perversion of social welfare into forced labor that is >generally called workfare. The exact focus of the list continues to evolve >but most subscribers are interested in strategies that can stop workfare, >which means considering what the alternative to workfare is. > >Social programs seem to go through three stages; >1) The punitive stage of workfare, work houses, and work tests. >2) The welfare entitlement stage that gives people something to survive on, >but still sees unemployment as temporary. Assistance usually inadequate >and comes with demeaning means tests. >3) The highest stage of evolution, of simply giving people enough to live >on and letting them do as they please with their own time. In different >countries it is called Mincome, Citizen's income, Guaranteed Annual Income >(GAI), and Basic Income. > >The question is then how to stop the regression to workfare and engineer >the progression to mincome? Many subjects touch on it, from Community Work >against Institutionalised Poverty, to Labor and Civil Liberties Law, to the >techniques and aims of Public Opinion Polling. It is a moderated list, but >no submission will be refused unless it is clearly out in orbit. > >This is no longer a list for people who have nothing better to do with >their time and who want to have pointless debates. It is for serious >anti-poverty activists who want to exchange useful information and >experience about how to effectively combat workfare in their own >communities, and to turn it into adequate incomes for all people. > >The list is fairly international, with eight countries represented, but the >bulk of subscribers presently are in Ontario, Canada. > >Try this list out. Unsubbing is even easier that subbing. > >To s*bscribe go to > > http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/Workfare-Mincome > >or e-mail the moderator at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >Information about Ow-Watch-L at: >http://www.welfarewatch.toronto.on.ca/wrkfrw/welcome.html >Visit the Workfare Watch Project Website at: >http://www.welfarewatch.toronto.on.ca/ > >------------------------------ > >End of ow-watch-digest V2 #129 >****************************** >
