Hi John,
As we leave the previous year and decade behind, and face the new, it seems so hard to see the world we want and so easy to feel despair.
But we shouldn’t despair because the world we want is there. It’s in our imaginations and in our everyday actions. It’s in our local communities and among the good people we know. It’s in the solidarity of our connections with others around the world, and it’s there in the campaign victories we’ve won together in the past and the campaigns that we’ll fight and win in the coming year and decade.
The world we want is in our network of local groups across the UK who campaign together in their local communities and are the lifeblood of our organisation - and the reason for hope. We have 39 local groups across the UK from Dundee to Brighton and from Cardiff to Cambridge. Working together is more important now than it has ever been.
If you’re looking for something to give you hope and to connect you with others working for the world that we all want, why not take the first step today?
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Or, if you’re under 30, then you might be interested in our youth activist network, set up to make sure that youth voices are a part of global movements against corporate power and inequality.
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Working together to make our movement bigger, better and stronger is one of the most positive and hopeful things we can do right now.
As well as our local groups, we also have an internationalist network. It’s made up of trade union branches, local faith groups, local branches of political parties and any others who take an internationalist view of the world and want to link to our campaigns. Are you a member of a local organisation who might be interested in becoming part of our internationalist network?
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We know from past experience that when we campaign and work together we can win - even when the odds are against us.
But to do that, we have to build the world we want from the ground up. We may look despair in the eye, but then we have to turn to hope, to solidarity and to action.
As journalist and author Gary Younge, who spoke at one of our most popular events last year, wrote in his final column for the Guardian last week: “Things look bleak. The propensity to despair is strong, but should not be indulged. Sing yourself up. Imagine a world in which you might thrive... And then fight for it.”
In solidarity – and in hope,
Liz Murray
Global Justice Now
PS If there isn’t a local group in your area but you’d be interested in finding out more about setting one up, then please reply to this email and we’ll be really happy let you know more.
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