Our World to Change!

FROM THE BOOK

“Every day the television news brings us another round of bad news. Record global temperatures and social inequality, wars and extinctions of species, cyclones and financial crises, unemployment and floods, elections won by demagogical and brutal politicians... We feel powerless; it is very tempting to give up on trying to change the situation, and to look inward, to our family, clan, tribe.

Yet society is fizzing with positive energy and creativity. Everywhere thousands of citizens' initiatives are reinventing food supplies, housing, transport, culture, democracy.

Everywhere collaborative practices and sharing are emerging, offering a glimpse of a future with much kinder, more sustainable and egalitarian lifestyles. We see unprecedentedly forceful demands, rooted in the hearts and minds of people all over the world, to be able to live healthy lives and equally clear aspirations to create democratic cities.

Racist and sexist projects cooked up by the authoritarian right-wing do not offer
any solution for the sufferings
of ordinary people. If such regressive visions seem so
seductive, isn't this because the left is incapable of sketching out a new alternative to the "American dream" of consumerism and growth?

We all know that the way the world is organized at present means we are heading for catastrophe, but can we manage to desire a different world and invent it together? This is the perspective Attac and Civic City adopt in sketching out credible and appealing alternative scenarios. But, dear readers, these scenarios can only become reality if we all take action together, in the squares and streets of our cities, in the places where we work and study, on social media... Starting from our own neighborhood, our company, our association, and growing to encompass social forums and international meetings, moving from the local to the global, we have the power to shape our future.

Let's seize that power!”