MAIN POINTS
(Note: main points are taken from interviews)

1. Create (non-coercive) ways for people to find activities
of interest and places to volunteer

2. Workshops on co-operatives and gardening; green consumption and ecology; health and nutrition

3. Support and encourage diversity of small local businesses/co-ops

4. Encourage informal community helpers;
informal & formal counseling

5. Initiatives to help people transition to unstructured time
(deinstitutionalize our minds)

6. Community-based preventative health care and treatment;
explore traditional healing methods

7. Less institutionalized response to problems and more long-term
community supports instead

8. Community resources for parents: respite, retreat homes
for parents in crisis; mentoring

9. Supports for women during transition to GLI in case of backlash

COMPLEMENTARY QUOTES

For people who maybe come from several generations of poverty and don't have a view of a way out, I think that maybe there need to be ways to show they do have something to contribute. -Samantha

I worked and worked and worked, and burnt out and had a job suddenly disappear. All I did was work. I know first-hand, people might go into shock initially. There needs to be some kind of educational component. -Valerie

When people receive [GLI], the community still should support each other so people won't be isolated. Women still could be taken advantage of. If they are with a man who might take their money and use it for drinking, the family would still be shattered. Of course, this happens even with wealthy people. We need to be aware of   and take control of it, and get out of that relationship. It shouldn't mean you get your GLI, and you are on your own. -Perpetua

GLI would immediately lift millions out of poverty.   That's got to be good, but blind consumerism is not.   Not that only the poor have a responsibility to be conscious consumers - we all do.   It would be nice if, with that first cheque, there's a list of local food producers, fair trade organizations, etc. -Valerie

The maximum wage is also very important. There is a limited amount of resources, how much am I entitled to, we all need think like that if we are going to survive. GLI would have to go hand in hand with an educational campaign, people don't understand how the products they buy and use are damaging to the environment. GLI will give people the power to buy, but at the same time, it is important to help people understand the impact of products. -Janine