Politische Erklärung / Brief von UP EINS

Das Original findet ihr unter dem Link ganz unten auf dieser Seite. The original document of the letter can be found at the bottom of the page, what’s below has been slightly edited

Thanks to all those for setting up this space to be heard from and corresponded with. At this stage in the movement I see that we are somehow finally freeing ourselves from notions of good & bad, right & wrong and getting more in touch with reality, perspectives and some of the universal basic needs. Namely, clean drinking water, air, nature, freedom, movement, physical well-being, care, integrity, shelter, safety, connection, community, creativity, effectiveness, to name a few. You may notice that highways, arbitrary violence, money, police & forced separation are not on that list.

I feel angry about my allegations, repression feels horrible, and for being in defence of those needs that are intrinsic part of ourselves, and part of those that lock me up as well. I feel scared too, by societys illusions of justice, based on a system of reward and punishment driven by fear. Is it really what the world at large still wants? When will we wake up to our interdependence that gives us true quality of life?
But it is up to us to first check our beliefs, our thoughts, words & actions and if they are lining up with what we truly want. It is up to us to confront & question those that prevent the meeting of our basic needs, and it is up to us to take the risks involved in achieving them.
My thoughts & absolute best wishes go out to all those loving & fighting. Those that go beyond the victim, villain, hero triangulations and those that create win win scenarios that put all on the path to what makes us happy. If we remember that toxic projects can still collapse, that the forest still can grow back, it may actually happen. However it ends we can find ourselves privileged from having shared and grown from this experience, I feel it.

Stay wild, stay free!

 

Politische_Erklärung-UP1 Ella did not agree to have their identifying feature such as handwriting shared online but so it happened