>User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.0 (1513) >Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 07:57:12 -0300 >Subject: NEW : BIEN News Flashes >From: philippe van parijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: NEWS 1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mime-version: 1.0 > > >Dear colleague, dear friend, > >Throughout Europe, basic income and related ideas are being discussed and >advocated more than ever. In order to support these developments more >effectively through the cross-national spreading of information, the Basic >Income European Network has decided to improve its channels of communication >as follows. > >1. E-MAIL. Instead of receiving the electronic version of BIEN's newsletter >as a Word attachment three times a year, all those on BIEN's current >e-mailing list (including yourself) will henceforth receive every second >month a shorter information package on recent events and publications >incorporated in the e-mail message itself. If anyone else wishes be included >(free of charge) on this list, (s)he should simply send the message >"Subscribe BIEN" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the same address if you wish to >be dropped from the list, or to inform us about a change of address, or to >provide us with the names and e-mail addresses of other scholars, activists, >journalists, policy makers, etc. who you think should be interested. The >first BIEN NEWS FLASH will be sent to you shortly. > >2. WEB SITE. All 33 previous newsletters (1988-1999) can be freely >downloaded from BIEN's web site (http://www.etes.ucl.ac.be/BIEN/bien.html). >BIEN's news flashes will be made available in the same way. The huge amount >of information thus accumulated over the years is also presented on the site >in a more organised format, including in the form of an annotated >bibliography, classified by language and date of publication. In addition, >the site offers up to date information on BIEN's next Congress (Berlin, 6-7 >October 2000), including a call for papers and a registration form. In the >coming months, we intend improving the site's user-friendliness. > >3. NEWSLETTER. Our hardcopy newsletter will henceforth be produced in a more >professional format, in collaboration with the London-based Citizen's Income >Research Group ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). It will be sent twice a year by >post, exclusively to paid-up members of BIEN. > >4. MEMBERSHIP. Electronic free-riding is perfectly welcome, indeed strongly >encouraged. But if you are able and willing to take the small trouble of >joining us as a full member of BIEN, this would be a very precious >expression of support. The membership fee until December 2000 is Euro 25. >The fee for life membership is Euro 100. Simply transfer this amount to >BIEN's account (001-2204356-10 at the CGER, Brussels) or send the equivalent >in any currency in a well-sealed envelope to BIEN's secretariat (Ph. Van >Parijs, Chaire Hoover, 3 Place Montesquieu, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, >[EMAIL PROTECTED]). An acknowledgement will be sent upon receipt. An >updated list of BIEN's first life members will appear at the end of each >News Flash. > >A network only lives through the active contribution of its members. Any >relevant publication by yourself or others, any relevant newspaper clip or >news item will be gratefully received at BIEN's secretariat, where they will >be kept in BIEN's archive. Do not assume that it will have reached us >through other channels. > >We are hoping to serve you better in this novel way and look forward to your >collaboration. > >BIEN's Executive Committee : >Ilona Ostner and Guy Standing (co-chair), Alexander de Roo (treasurer), >Claus Offe (conference organiser), Steven Quilley (recruitment officer), >Philippe Van Parijs (secretary) > > >basic income european network >chaire hoover d'éthique économique et sociale >université catholique de louvain >3 place montesquieu, B-1348 louvain-la-neuve, belgium >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >web site: http://www.etes.ucl.ac.be/BIEN/bien.html >
