Updated: March/April 2005

Tihe mauriora. Tihe maurimate. Tena koutou, e hoa ma. Haere mai.
(The living are active. The dead are remembered. Greetings to you friends, Welcome)

[ Note, this site contains a diverse array of opinions, ideas, information, and perspectives. The Universal Income Trust does not necessarily agree to all that is written or presented here. The information provided is for its potential to help illumine the visitor to the vastness, and the underlying currents of unity, to the fields of economic rights and Universal Income Systems. This Universal Income Website has been developed and is now managed by Patrick Danahey, who has researched and written the core articles here]

“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective--the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income. ”Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chaos or Community?, 1967

We are a nonprofit certified charitable educational Trust, dedicated to the promotion of economic rights, and formally established in February of 1998. We evolved from the works of people from the grass roots movement now called "UUI (Unconditional Universal Income) Action". That group itself, established in the early 1990s, derived much of its initial inspiration from the works of the Social Credit movement, the unique cultural spirit of the South Pacific, the achievements of the Aotearoa NZ government of Michael Joseph Savage, and, most importantly, the legal developments of the International Bill of Human Rights.

The Universal Income Trust has committed itself, in terms of Maoritaka, to attaining the purpose of respecting and implementing the dual heritage of the partners of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi).

The purpose of the Trust is to educate about the social, environmental, and economic benefits of universal income systems and how they would act as an integral part of any sustainable future. It unveils their inherent function, not as a panacea that can solve all social, economic and environmental problems; but rather, they are an essential tool empowering people to be able to effectively work through them.   For more detailed information on the structure and operations of the Trust, contact us below.

On this site you will find a growing and developing resource and educational library on the issues of "sustainable living" and the part universal income systems must necessarily play. As time goes on there will be more interactive type resources here for concept development to be used by educators to augment their classes and learners to perform their own independent explorations. This site also provides avenues for individuals and groups to network and contact each other about their concerns and events. 

The Site is structured around topics that represent the most "at risk areas" that are threatening the potential for people to live in harmony with their natural environment and themselves. These areas have been derived from the research by universities around the world as a part of peace education and global sustainability curriculums as well as the international conventions on global sustainability and human rights. Human rights violations specifically economic rights which include monetary and resource distribution issues have been found to be at the central core of these various problem areas. As a result of these violations, three principle threats to the world’s future have been identified: 

This then becomes the basis for the design of the website; the interlinking and dynamic interdependence of the following categories:

This should provide you with enough detail as to how this site is structured. It is quite unique to all the other sites that are promoting aspects of universal income systems such as BIEN, CI, and UBI.

If you are only familiar with concepts such as Basic Income, Guaranteed Annual Income, Citizens Income, Social Credit, or UBI you will want to pay special attention to the definitions of Universal Income Systems and such proposals as the Unconditional Universal Income. These systems have been derived from the recent developments that have been achieved via the international human rights conventions and the conventions on the environment and sustainable development. The people's achievements in effecting international human rights laws on countries that have ratified the International Bill of Human Rights has literally transformed the debate on all these systems and elevated it to an unprecedented level.

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