Political Workshop


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This project is aimed at closing the gap between the „political class“ and the „ordinary citizen“ as well as the apparently opposing ideas of freedom and public spirit, efficiency and philanthropy, ecology and economy.

It strives to be a platform for all who want to contribute to human society, be it on a local, national or global level. Thus it obviously opposes some conventional ways of using power.

The major part of this site is written in our native German language: German Version.

At this time we have only translated our proposal for the internet tool to support decision-making which you find here: Woki.


News:

Find the BIG Pilot Assessment Report on the webpage of BIG Coalition Namibia about a basic income grant payed for two years to all inhabitants of one Namibian settlement (2008-2009).

Mai 2010: Seminar 'How to reach a target of 80% of personal transport at distances less than 5km be made on bicycle / by foot?' in Erfurt, Germany.
http://citizenseminars.eu European Citizens' Seminars e.V.

We want to use the European Parliament elections 2014 to put forward the concept of an unconditional basic income by forming a joint list of all supporters of that idea. Here is our program.


Contact:

Eric Manneschmidt
Højskolevej 4
6340 Kruså
Denmark
Email: politik-werkstattATgmx.net
(please replace AT with @)

Here we give our links to all websites we refer to and that have English versions. We take no responsibility for their content:

1. democracy
http://european-referendum.org democracy international - network for referendums in Europe

2. BIG / GLI - (unconditional) basic income (grant) / guaranteed livable income
http://www.globalincome.org basic income worldwide (GBI - Global Basic Income Foundation, The Netherlands)
http://livableincome.org again (LIFE - Livable Income For Everyone, Canada)
http://www.progress.org/dividend/cdking.html Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. about Basic Income in his book "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?"
http://bignam.org in Namibia
http://www.vivanteurope.org in Europe
http://pacificcoast.net/~swag/swcproject05.htm Women's Economic Justice Project (Canada)
http://www.vivant.be VIVANT - LIVING (Belgium)
http://freiheitstattvollbeschaeftigung.de/en/index.htm Freedom, Not Full Employment (Germany)

3. tobacco control
http://ebutt.ca E-BUTT: Education-Bringing Youth Tobacco Truths (Canada)
http://www.tabakkontrolle.de/pdf/German_Tobacco_Indust_Report_03_06.pdf "German Tobacco Industry's Succesful Effords to Maintain Scientific and Political Respectability to Prevent Regulation of Secondhand Smoke" (University of California)
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/campaign/global/FCTCreport1.pdf "Golden Leaf - Barren Harvest. The Costs of Tobacco Farming" (Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, Washington, DC)
http://www.aerzteinitiative.at/ethics07Starkey.html "The Moral Imperative to Fight Secondhand Smoke" (by Robert Starkey on GLOBALink)

4. money
http://www.jamesrobertson.com/book/creatingnewmoney.pdf Joseph Huber and James Robertson: "CREATING NEW MONEY - A monetary reform for the information age" (about 100 pages)
http://www.soziologie.uni-halle.de/huber/publikationen.html#a1 Different papers by Prof. Joseph Huber on monetary reform in English and German