THEY DON'T WANT US TO VOTE!

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The system works, it’s just worked against us for too long. They don’t want young people to vote because if they did they would have to take them seriously. The establishment has marginalised, alienated and ignored us for too long. There is hope in the dark, we are powerful, creative and able. It’s time to use that power at the ballot box to revolutionise politics and recenter ourselves in society. The establishment knows this, fears and discourages us from doing so. It’s time for us people to Rize Up, use our power and create a new society in our own image. It’s a time for a radical change, a revolution, and only we can make that happen.

RIZE UP

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The system works, it’s just worked against us for too long. They don’t want young people to vote because if they did they would have to take them seriously. The establishment has marginalised, alienated and ignored us for too long. There is hope in the dark, we are powerful, creative and able. It’s time to use that power at the ballot box to revolutionise politics and recenter ourselves in society. The establishment knows this, fears and discourages us from doing so. It’s time for us people to Rize Up, use our power and create a new society in our own image. It’s a time for a radical change, a revolution, and only we can make that happen.

RUDIMENTAL
BIG NARSTIE
PRO GREEN
LADY LESHURR
EMELI SANDE
DOC BROWN
LILY ALLEN

What we do

Rize Up was founded in 2017 the day the snap election was called, in just six week we managed to organise the following…

  • We distributed over half a million flyers at clubs, raves, on high streets and in youth and community centres across the country
  • We worked with and helped fund youth groups across the UK to ensure the people we had speaking to young people were themselves young people from the same communities who were credible
  • We had street teams in 9 UK cities out and about talking to people about why they mattered and how together they could break the political system
  • We put on music and club nights with live performances from Old School legends like SkinnyMan and new school kings like Bossman Birdie
  • We took over @TwitterUK and got musicians like Lily Allen and Professor Green and viral stars like Rants’n’Bantz to spread our message
  • We opened voter registration hubs on 70 high streets across the UK
  • We took over KISS FM with voter registration skits playing every hour for the two days leading up to the registration deadline
  • We launched a music video with grime artist Big Narstie that was viewed over 5 million times online
  • Our social media reached over 20 million people in the UK
  • We were all over the radio, on TV and in every major newspaper
  • We helped young people produce their own content, music and art focusing on the importance of voting

We did all of the above in six weeks with a budget of just £60,000

In 2018 we were invited to run Rize Up in Austria to help register young people to vote against the Far right in the country’s elections. We renamed the campaign 0-5 after the Austrian student resistance to the Nazis who were wiped out before WW2. We worked with the country’s Hip-Hop community and our message was clear, beat them at the ballot box before they wipe us out again. The campaign was a huge success and drove up voter registration in marginalised groups by almost 10%.

We are collaborating with the following groups:

  • Lush to set up a national distribution network for flyers and registration materials
  • Livity to engage their networks of 6,000 young creatives
  • Manifest PR to promote our campaign and spread our message across the UK
  • The Media Trust to train young people to create engaging social media content on voter registration and working with their existing network of young creatives to produce digital content
  • Boomtown festival to mobilise the creative industry in Bristol
  • Shout Out UK to launch three original music tracks with grime, pop, drill and rap artists
  • Migrants Organise and Counterpoints Arts to engage with migrant communities to produce artwork and run registration events
  • Club promoters to run voter registration club nights
  • 89up to promote digital content to key communities
  • X Hype to engage their national network of youth ambassadors
  • Students at UCL to produce youth driven digital content
  • Ethical streetwear brand THTC to run competitions
  • And many more
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