Sunday, September 25, 2016

CORPORATION VS. PEOPLE ~SumOfUs


de:Katherine Tu, SumOfUs.org us@sumofus.org
responder a:us@sumofus.org
para:Paulo Augusto Lacaz <sccbesme.humanidade@gmail.com>
data:24 de setembro de 2016 10:44
assunto:Corporations vs. people
enviado por:list.sumofus.org
assinado por:list.sumofus.org




Paulo,

Water to drink, or water for mining?

Taxes used to pay for schools and hospitals, or tax dodging to keep corporate profits high?

Trade to close the gap between rich and poor nations, or which makes it even wider?

Budget busting bailouts for banks, or defending jobs and livelihoods for everybody?

The answers to these questions are obvious to most of us: human beings matter much more than sky high corporate profits.

But when you hear some CEOs and politicians talk, it can sound like these most obvious priorities are being turned on their head.

We built SumOfUs because we know it doesn't have to be that way. Human beings created corporations, and human beings can change them.

We can push politicians to make a firm stand on tax dodging. We can call halt on trade deals that make inequality worse, not better. We can shine a light on the murky world of lobbyists.

All of those things -- and many more -- are what the 10 million SumOfUs action takers have been doing since we launched five years ago.


We work hard to keep our costs down and our technology free for our members to use. 

Can you become a SumOfUs Core Member to help cover the costs of running SumOfUs in the years to come?


When SumOfUs started in 2011, we weren't sure what to expect.

Would people share our worries about corporations misusing their power?

 Would they agree that it would take people power to push the balance back in favour of people trying to get by, instead of wealthy business leaders and their politician friends?

The answer was better than we could have imagined.

There are now over10 million of us standing together to keep a check on corporate power.

We are part of a huge, global movement to push back on dangerous trade deals.

We are making huge inroads in cleaning up the palm oil supply chain. We are fighting hard to save the bees, and it’s starting to work.

Our costs aren't high.

The tools we need to do our jobs are laptops, internet connections, and the occasional trip to meet together to make plans for our work together in the future.

 Many of our staff team work from home, so we don't have to pay for expensive offices.

But we can't do what we do for free.

Even more important: the more we can depend on regular donations, the more time we can spend running and winning campaigns.

Can you chip in whatever you can afford each month so we can carry on keeping a check on corporations?



Thanks for all that you do,
Kat, Hannah, and the team at SumOfUs


SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.

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