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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?
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.
We know that many of you can’t afford to donate like you would have in the past. But if you can donate and believe that a better world is possible, please give what you can.
Donate to Common Dreams today. Every bit counts to keep our news coverage going, and we need to reach goal of $60,000 by May 1.
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