I won’t dance if I can’t join your revolution…

You might think that things couldn’t get any worse after finding out politicians claiming to represent us are using taxpayers’ money to build houses for ducks rather than homes for people and a government preferring to attack each other than attack the recession. With Big Brother back on our screens, it’s like going from one reality show to another.

But in the real world, people are getting sacked, evicted and left on the scrapheap of the recession. And young people are getting hit the hardest, with unemployment rates much higher than other age group in “last to join, first to leave” jobs. These aren’t just passing concerns but “permanent scars” even going as far as damaging their physical and mental health.

So rather than choose which sides to take in the political football games going on in Westminster village, isn’t it time to stop agonising and start organising? To choose to campaign to fight the recession where we are, whether that’s neighbourhoods, our campuses or our workplaces?

You may have set up an online group because you were getting ripped off. You may have invited people to a campaign session so people can live better off. You may have written to your MP to support the campaign you care about the most. You may have pitched up your tent to prevent the world turning to toast.

You may have stayed at a shelter to help the homeless. You may have gone down the beach to clean up the mess. You may have taken part in a flashmob to show people how exploitation of young people at work just isn’t right. You may have marched through the streets to reclaim the night.

You may have been a street captain spreading hope not hate, you may have interviewed the wild and wonderful to instigate debate. You may have got into a bath of baked beans to raise money for comic relief…Or you may not have got involved with any of these.

Whether you’ve been involved in organizing before or not, you’re might be curious about how to campaign and who knows even fired up about an issue you’d like to campaign on. There is no right or wrong way on how to turn an issue you care about into a campaign — just look at the examples above and you can see all the different and exciting ways people have gone about it.

So just imagine if you could bring together people who are campaigning in their communities, people that are getting their voice heard in the media and those using new and creative tools to put this in action.

Just imagine if you could work with each other to develop exciting ways to campaign, finding out how others are organising and creating the spaces where activists with different skills involved in different groups can affect real change together.