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Friend,
The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into a crisis that is
unlike anything we've experienced since World War II. It has challenged
nearly everything about how our society is organized.
The question we're asking now is what kind of society will we be when
this moment has passed?
The corporate media want us to believe that the best we can hope for is
a quick return to the way things were, with all its inequality, climate
destruction, and racial injustice.
Donald Trump is trying to use this moment to create something even
worse—a more xenophobic, closed-off, individualistic society with border
walls and corporate lawlessness.
But there's another possibility: just as the Great Depression led to the
New Deal and the greatest reduction in economic inequality in American
history, this crisis creates the opportunity to remake society for the
better.
Common Dreams is digging deep into the causes and consequences of this
crisis to uncover the ways our economy and democracy must change to
prevent this from happening again.
If you believe a better world is possible, will you make a donation to
Common Dreams and help fund our coverage of the pandemic?
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The corporate media are wrong: We don't have to just return to the way
things always were. We can learn from the failures of the past and
create a new world built upon evidence-based science, with universal
healthcare and true economic and racial justice.
But in order to create that world, we need a news media with the vision
and courage to challenge the status quo and hold the powerful
accountable.
The corporate model of for-profit, advertising-based journalism has led
us to this point by limiting the range of what's possible and papering
over the corruption and injustices that they profit from.
This is our moment. We must seize it. Our journalists are working day
and night through these arduous circumstances. Traffic to our website is
through the roof. Our work has never been more important.
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Jon Queally
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