{"id":7723,"date":"2021-05-19T12:13:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T10:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2021-05-19T12:13:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T10:13:16","slug":"press-release-for-a-universal-basic-income-grant-now-ubignow-ubignow-peoples-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/press-release-for-a-universal-basic-income-grant-now-ubignow-ubignow-peoples-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Press release: For a Universal Basic Income Grant Now (#UBIGNOW): #UBIGNOW People\u2019s Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 18th of February, the Climate Justice Charter Movement, South African Food Sovereignty Campaign and allies released a package of documents, prepared by leading heterodox economists and political economists regarding the importance of a universal basic income grant\/guarantee\/dividend for South Africa. This transformative policy proposal document, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/UBIG_Policy-Approach-and-Proposals_FEB2021.pdf\"><em>#UBIGNOW Policy Approach and Proposals<\/em><\/a> sought to indicate how a crucial democratic systemic reform such as a UBIG can help bring about transformative change in our society. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Press-Release_UBIGNow_19May2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 18th of February, the Climate Justice Charter Movement, South African Food Sovereignty Campaign and allies released a package of documents, prepared by leading heterodox economists and political economists regarding the importance of a universal basic income grant\/guarantee\/dividend for South Africa. This transformative policy proposal document, titled #UBIGNOW Policy Approach and Proposals sought to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/press-release-for-a-universal-basic-income-grant-now-ubignow-ubignow-peoples-assembly\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7725,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions\/7725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}