Diane

About Diane Pagen

Diane was born in Queens, New York, and has lived in all the boroughs of NYC except for Staten Island. She is a social worker, a social policy researcher and writer, and has taught social welfare policy to first year graduate social work students. Diane is working on analysis of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grants and educating people on the diversion of these block grants by state welfare bureaucracies, a phenomenon that is aggravating poverty nationally.She loves to read and to write, to go to Scandinavia House, and watch crime series and political thrillers such as Wallender and Baron Noir. She enjoys gardening, and reading and writing, as well as discussing politics with her students, her friends, her dates and just about anyone who can talk. Of late she does not get to do much of these fun things because she is busy protesting the Covid19 vaccine mandates and its violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but hopes to go back to them once the mandates are defeated. She is an activist for a Universal Basic Income and part of Basic Income NYC, a bunch of people who get together to spread Basic Income to others. She supports Andrew Yang for the U.S. Presidency in 2020. Diane is a graduate of the Universidad de Puerto Rico, where she studied for five years and graduated with honors, and has a Master of Social Work from Fordham University (2004). Thanks to the UPR, she has learned to speak Spanish. She has also lived in Spain and in France, and wants to retire to Colombia if the US continues to fall into the toilet. She is working on a bunch of things including a book chapter for a book about UBI coming out in 2020. Diane lives in Brooklyn.

NYC educators removed from DOE Schools STILL not rehired nor paid

photo credit: NYCforyourself This month marks two years since hundreds of New York City educators and many other workers like firefighters and EMT were arbitrarily terminated for refusing to bow to the Health Commissioner and Mayor’s coercion and take a Covid19 shot. I am one of them. In the six months leading up [...]

By |2024-02-29T18:51:15-05:00February 26th, 2024|Covid19, Politicians, all types|0 Comments

John Neely Kennedy and the sad persistence of (North) American ignorance

There wouldn't even be an excuse for such ignorance of a neighboring country if it were to come from an ordinary citizen. But when it comes from a citizen who's paid $190+K a year and is supposedly qualified to represent the rest of us, that's a problem.

Petition delivered to NYC Department of Health Commissioner, March 2022

"We also condemn the Department of Health for prioritizing Covid-19 (a disease whose fatality was grossly exaggerated to stoke fear and increase Covid vaccination) for the past two years to the near total neglect of every other health issue and disease"

By |2024-02-27T11:29:02-05:00October 11th, 2022|Covid19, Featured, Politicians, all types|0 Comments

What You`ve Lost

During the school year 2020-2022, Department of Education employees worked remotely for an entire year once the Covid19 shutdown reached NYC, then they worked inside the schools when many other employees chose to remain remote. We were praised as heroes for rising to the challenges of Covid and getting the work done for City kids. [...]

A chat about International Basic Income Week and UBI activism

Juhl Media presents a live talk with Michael Lewis, Diane Pagen and Karl Widerquist, Income movement leaders in conversation with Ching Juhl filmmaker. They will discuss about Universal Basic Income, Income Movement March 2020, and Income Movement's Bike Parade, New York City, on Saturday, September 19th, 2020. https://www.incomemovement.com/ https://twitter.com/income_movement View this interview in YouTube [...]

By |2020-09-23T08:39:50-04:00September 15th, 2020|Universal Basic Income|0 Comments
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