From: USi Organising <organise@usilive.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:27 PM
Subject: We need your help
To: Michel Bauwens <michel@p2pfoundation.net>
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We face a crucial historical moment: the post-war social consensus is being ripped up, and we’re seeing the rich and powerful re-engineering society to suit themselves. Progress has been halted: the rich are retreating into ever-more opulent and well-protected ghettoes.
The crisis of globalised capitalism is affecting people in similar ways around the world: working conditions are getting worse, authoritarian repression is growing, health, education and welfare are being eroded, there are wars over resources and geopolitical power blocs.
The mainstream media tells us this is inevitable, and feeds us stories of conflict and division. There is a definite, deliberate agenda here: the rich and powerful people who control the world want us to feel disempowered, discouraged and disengaged. They want us to blame immigrants and foreigners and anyone different to us for our problems. They want us to vote for one of the mainstream parties every few years, and spend the rest of our lives shopping and watching television.
Our problem is this: we don’t control the world we live in. Our world is shaped by banks and big corporations and increasingly unaccountable politicians, and a nexus of corruption that ties them all together. This is a problem we share with 99% of humanity. And people everywhere are rejecting this undemocratic model, and fighting for change.
And when we fight, we win – especially when we stand together and support each other.
At USi we’re reporting the stories of workers and communities in struggle, and asking you to show your support. We need a vibrant, alternative media that tells the stories of our political struggles, and we need a campaigning platform that links these struggles together.
So don’t let the pessimism of the mainstream media get you down! Read and share the stories on our website and social media streams, and help to build a vibrant, alternative media.
Here’s how you can help us:
- Visit our website every day, as well as our Facebook and Twitter feeds, and read the union and social movement stories we tell
- Share the stories on our site on the social networks you use, or print them off and put them on your noticeboard or in your union newsletter
- Write for us – tell us about a struggle you’re involved in, so we can help spread the world
- Get your union branch, co-op or student society to affiliate to us. We need the political and financial support
- Sign up as a supporter for just £1 a month
- Tell us more about you. We want to link people up with each other, to help build a horizontal network of activists. Tell us where you are, what sector you work in, and what you’re interested in.
Get involved! By linking our struggles, we make ourselves stronger.
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