What do you do when neo-liberal capitalism launches unprecedented attack on the welfare state making the life of millions of us a misery, rubbing us of our hard earned cash to line the pockets of the rich, destroying the very pillars of the civil society built by the working class through years of determined struggle and the official opposition fails to stand up to the challenge? Well you start organising in local communities to fight back! Hence the launch of Forest Unity. We had a great time on Sat 29th Jun at the very well attended inaugural party supported by local bands, artists, and local people and activists. After the election of 3 UKIP concillors in the Forest of Dean due largely to protest votes and lack of strong official opposition to the austerity and cuts, the local activists are determied to fill the gap to show there is an alternative. The message of Forest Unity is that positive change in the current climate can only come about by united effort of people against the austerity measures that take from all of us to give to those responsible for worse economic crisis since the '30s. The Tory and UKIP policies that pit poor against poor, unemployed against employed, native against immigrants, public against private sector, young against the old.... can bring nothing but disaster to local communities.
Read more about Forest Unity, its aims and activities at http://forestunity.wordpress.com/ or see ouor Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ForestUnity?fref=ts
