*[Enwl-eng] The future is being decided now!
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Hi,
The last few weeks have been unbelievable. Everywhere people are mourning loved ones lost to COVID-19. Families are struggling with school closures. Workers are scared that their jobs won’t return after the crisis.
But we’re learning things, too. The critical importance of health and care staff. The enormous potential for innovation by scientists looking for a vaccine. The resourcefulness of communities coming together to support one another.
The final chapters in the story of COVID-19 won’t be written for some time, but the decisions we make in the next few weeks will determine what they are. Do we allow more people to fall into poverty, or get serious about universal basic income? How do we make sure our recovery protects our climate as well as our economies?
WeMove Europe is ready to play our part in calling for the right kind of recovery from COVID-19: one that puts people, communities and our planet at its heart. Will you chip in, to support our campaign for a fairer, cleaner recovery from COVID-19? It only takes a minute.
Here’s how the WeMove Europe community is already campaigning for a responsible recovery from coronavirus:
- Pressuring European governments to make the biggest investment in sustainable technology and infrastructure ever, so 2020 is the year we turn our economies green
- Campaigning for the medicines that can help treat COVID-19 to be made affordable for everyone
- Telling Europe’s leaders to sign up to coronabonds, so that all countries - not just the richest economies - can borrow affordable money to help them to recover from the crisis
- Calling on Europe’s leaders to create an Unconditional Basic Income, to make sure no-one falls further into poverty because of COVID-19
People power has never been more important. As governments scramble to respond, we have a unique chance to make the case for big change, because the last few weeks have proved it’s possible: in just days, we saw homelessness reduced to almost zero in some cities, prototype vaccines developed in weeks not months, and whole hospitals built overnight.
The WeMove Europe staff team is small, and we’re working alongside our members to plan the best way to help shape the COVID-19 recovery. The campaigns above are just the start. There’s so much more we could do to protect public services and the planet, and build a thriving Europe that can take a vital role in the world after the crisis ends.
WeMove doesn’t take donations from big corporations, or governments. We rely on small donations from our members to do our work. Can you chip in, so we can make our COVID-19 recovery campaign our strongest yet?
The opportunity to set the stage for the generations to come doesn’t come along very often. But when it does, the potential is huge. After World War Two, people worked together to build the United Nations, lay the foundations of the European Union and create international laws that protected people from genocide and war crimes in the future.
Now, we have our chance to set the tone for the decades ahead. We can push back against dangerous climate change, and tackle inequality. We can use this moment to reverse the rise of the far-right, because COVID-19 is proving that communities survive when they stand together.
Can you make a small donation to our COVID-19 Campaign Fund, so we can take our campaigns to the next level?
Thanks for everything you do,
David, Jörg, and the entire WeMove Europe
PS: We’ve already been thinking of ideas for how we could ramp up our campaigns for a responsible COVID-19 recovery - here are just a few:
- Gather a group of citizens to meet with European decision makers in webinars, so the people in charge know what the crisis means for the rest of us when they are making choices for the future
- Show-stopping media tactics, like hologram projections on EU buildings, to help shape the media landscape
- Buying ads in newspapers read all over Europe, to make sure everyone knows about the message of our campaigns
We can’t make these tactics happen without your help - can you chip in?
WeMove.EU is a citizens’ movement, campaigning for a better Europe; for a European Union committed to social and economic justice, environmental sustainability and citizen-led democracy. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere.
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