In recent months, Revenu de base Québec (RBQ) and the French Mouvement français pour un revenu de base (MFRB) have joined forces to design and prepare a program on basic income (BI) for the 2016 World social Forum (WSF2016). They have participated in meetings of three committees (Economy, Health and Cultural events), finding in all three a general interest in and support for BI. RBQ and MFRB have both been communicating with groups advocating for a BI elsewhere in the world as well. WSF events gather tens of thousands of participants. Typically, about 80% of them come from the host country. The entire Forum will be multilingual.

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