---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alnoor Ladha <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 3:25 AM Subject: Our Open Letter to the United Nations To: Dear family and friends, Today, the United Nations are going to ratify the Sustainable Development Goals. Although they sound laudable, they are actually a neoliberal fig leaf, a distraction really, to prevent us from the real work of rewriting the rules of the economy. They require a 12x increase in global GDP in 15 years in order to be achieved because they don't tackle inequality, wealth distribution, rampant consumption or perpetual growth. I would like to ask for your support in this campaign by signing onto our Open Letter to the United Nations <http://therules.org/petition/sdg-open-letter/>. It has been co-signed by Noam Chomsky, Eve Ensler, Chris Hedges, Naomi Klein, Thomas Pogge, Maude Barlow, Anuradha Mittal, David Graeber, and others. You can read the full article here <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alnoor-ladha/an-open-letter-to-the-uni_2_b_8197178.html?utm_hp_ref=impact&ir=Impact> . The hashtags we are using to build momentum around this letter are: #WhatTheyDontSayAboutPoverty #PovertyIsCreated Thank you for your support. In love and solidarity, A P.S. Our latest piece is out today on Occupy.com entitled, The SDGs: A Siren and a Lullaby for Our Times. <http://www.occupy.com/article/sustainable-development-goals-siren-and-lullaby-our-times> Please take a look when you get a second. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/