The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) is preparing its next Congress, to be held on July 1st and 2nd, 2010, at the University of Sao Paulo. Professors Lena Lavinas and Fabio Waltenberg have been appointed Executive Coordinators. They will be the focal point for four committees (funding, executive, academic, and communication), as well as the contact with BIEN’s Executive Committee. An e-mail account has been created (bien2010.brasil@gmail.com). A detailed call for papers will be released soon. The main theme of the congress is “Basic Income: An Instrument to Attain Justice and Peace”. The President of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, has already accepted the invitation to present the Opening Lecture of the Congress in the morning of July 1st 2010.