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Our Collective Survival is on the chopping block. Artificial Intelligence is scaling at an unprecedented rate becoming an everyday part of our lives. The data and impact is clear: while inflation and corporate greed continues to make ordinary families struggle to pay for their essential needs, AI is taking this to a whole new level at deadly costs.
We can and must speak out to ensure our system puts people over tech.
We need an economy that works for everyone.
This year, we are sounding the alarm to our communities about the ways in which AI is wreaking havoc on our communities and leaving people behind. It's not a problem we can face 10 years from now, it's here NOW and this year we must do the work of starting critical conversations with our communities, and demonstrate why basic income must be a part of the solution.
We're on the brink of massive economic upheaval already leaving millions of Americans behind. The system is excluding us.
Universal Basic Income is a means to a healthier, more innovative, and just society. $1,000 per month for every adult in America.
March with us! We owe us.
Our economy is leaving millions behind. Join the people powered movement to send the message that our society and economy needs to evolve to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
The NYC Basic Income March will begin in Harlem and finish in the South Bronx. We will march with and hear from leaders including the Andy Stern, Congressional Candidate James Felton Keith, and Hawk Newsome, Chairman of Black Lives Matter.
There are also 27 other marches happening around the world. Join us or start your own!
Get involved. Get inspired. Together, we can make historic change.
The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity and Income Movement are supplying the critical resources necessary for the success of the 6th Annual Basic Income Week. Both organizations believe that activists, pilot administrators, artists and other organizers must have deep and meaningful support in order to engage local communities. Thank you sponsors!
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Mass Adoption of Artificial Intelligence is taking our jobs and wreaking havoc on our communities, we must fight back.
This year, we’re connecting with our communities to raise awareness about AI through canvassing, meetings with local elected officials, and host citizen assemblies.
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According to the Impact of AI on workers in the US Report by the US National Science Foundation and Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity, in less than 3 years approximately 25% of all jobs across all industries and occupations will be disrupted by AI. Basic income, a policy to provide recurring cash not tied to someone's employment is CRUCIAL to preventing this harm. We need basic income now. People need money to survive, and if stable employment becomes more and more out of reach for our families, our communities are going to suffer even more deeply.
And it’s not just our jobs AI is taking, there's 50 Million square feet of planned developments for AI Data centers, yet we have not helped the 771,480 people experiencing homelessness in the country, a 2024 figure by HUD and in 2025 that number we know has worsened. Tech Giants are hijacking our communities, and our resources to grow their AI footprint and we're footing the bill.
Corporations are cutting jobs to save billions so they can make huge investments into prioritizing Data over People. The investment of Data for AI takes our energy, our drinking water, our land, our taxpayer money, and our job opportunities that we NEED to feed our families and survive.
We cannot afford to wait until it’s too late.
The Basic Income Week of Action is a national week of our communities
organizing and engaging on the ground to build that resistance and defense.
We must change the narrative that PEOPLE and our PLANET matter more than Tech.
In spring 2020, a global pandemic sent the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts, spiraling into chaos. City leaders, overwhelmed by the high costs of feeding a city and humbled by their own lack of expertise to do so efficiently, came together in a desperate moment with a simple but inspired idea: give people money and let them spend it however they see fit. RAISING THE FLOOR is a moving narrative of the beginning of CHELSEA EATS, the largest basic income pilot in American history: one that gave 2000 individuals and families direct payments of up to $400 a month with no strings attached.
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Income Movement founder Stacey Rutland sat down with some very special guests as a part of our virtual Fireside Chat Series for the 2021 Week of Basic Income. These were 20-minute, one-on-one conversations with key leaders in policy, grassroots organizing, coalition building, and thought leadership.
Organizers are foundational to the basic income march. In 2021, they collaborated to put together a video promotion for the march. Listen to this official invitation from our event organizers to get inspired and excited for the 2022 March!
Income Movement organizes and sponsors the Basic Income Week of Action in the US, as well as many other events and grassroots actions.
Help us build the movement for basic income.
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