Voices from the Margins

Help us make sure that alternative voices are heard in this General Election. 

OK. There’s a vote coming up that will make a huge difference either way. Let’s approach it with utter seriousness.
But it’s not the be-all and end-all of democracy. There is more…
The stuff that is even more serious is the kind of stories we tell about ourselves as a country, the values we hold central… How we talk to each other across our differences, and what we do as a result of talking together.
That’s real democracy.
So please, please, please, wherever you are in the country, whether you’re ‘safe’ or ‘marginal’, before 8 June please organise some open get-togethers to talk vision, values, priorities, stories, identities, solidarities… and what we can do together as citizens. Because it’s only by talking about that stuff together that we’ll know what we need our politicians to do with us, or for us.
If you can’t get together at a public event, share your own ideas online,and with friends and family.
Please: get people together, bridge divides, get people talking, get a taste for people power.
That’s the only way things will really change.

Al Barrett, Hodge Hill Church
Niall Cooper, Church Action on Poverty
April 2017
Help share Voices from the Margins – organise a simple get-together, or share your own story by video or in writing. Visit the website to find out more!
 

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PS Your money can help ensure Voices from the Margins get heard.
A donation from you today of £5 could enable us to share one person’s Voices from the Margins video with over 15,000 people.  £25 could enable one person’s story to be shared with up to 75,000 people.  £100 would cover the costs of sharing the voices from one local community conversation.  The more we raise, the louder the Voices from the Margins will be!
Real people. Real stories. Real democracy.
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