Want to make 2013 GetUp's best year ever?
It's an election year. A year with much of what we've fought tirelessly to progress - climate policy, renewable energy, marriage equality, asylum seeker reform, forest protections, poker machine reform, preventing coal and CSG expansion - at stake.
2013 will be a year where the imperative to come together and do what we do best - hold power to account and advance progressive issues - is more critical than ever. It's our chance to create solutions for the future that don't repeat the mistakes of the past; a year we can be proud to tell our grandchildren about.
If you're not convinced and need a quick reminder about how great our movement can be when it works together, take 3 minutes now to watch the below video for a beautiful summary, by GetUp members, of some of the amazing things you helped achieve in 2012:
https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/2012/thanks-for-2012/getup-in-2012
Herb Alpert, in 2012, more than 600,000 GetUp members banded together, chipping-in and turning out when it would have been easy to stay home. We didn't pick the easy fights. You went up against the most powerful forces in Australia; politicians from all parties, powerful lobby groups and some of the wealthiest corporations in this country.
Some people are saying the writing is already on the wall, but our movement wouldn't exist if we believed that. This year will see a tightly fought election, and the outcome - in the house and the Senate - is up for grabs. There's so much more at stake than who is elected. This is a year when public debate on the issues we most care about will be at its peak and together, we can change the tenor and outcomes of this election.
At the last two federal elections, GetUp members have run the largest independent campaigns Australia has ever seen. We've had more than 15,000 volunteers on the ground, distributed over 2 million issue scorecards, run successful High Court and Federal Court actions that gave over 169,000 Australians the chance to vote, and run the most effective issue advertising in Australia.
That's because we understand that politics is too important to be left to politicians, it takes all of us. So let's stride into 2013, bigger and better than ever, fighting to advance the issues we care about and defend the ground we've already gained. Together, we can make 2013 our best year ever.Click here to watch what our movement is made of.
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