Breaking the Sound Barrier
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Weekly Column Thursday, May 21, 2020
** “Stay at Home, Stay Alive, Organize, Organize”
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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
We’re between two historical epochs now: BC and AC — Before COVID-19 and After COVID-19. Established institutions, entrenched regimes and powerful corporations are well-positioned to navigate the uncharted waters of this in-between, “DC,” or “During COVID-19” time. Less equipped are the poor and working class, unable to gather safely, to protest, to rally for better conditions. The novel coronavirus has amplified the gross inequality that dominates our society. Just look at the disconnect between the stock market and the plight of workers. It seems with every announcement of historic job losses, the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 shoot upward. On Wall Street, they’re counting gains, while on Main Street, they’re digging graves.
“These are hard times,” Rev. William Barber II said Wednesday, appearing on the Democracy Now! news hour. “A lot of the pain is by choice. It didn’t have to be. It’s not because of the virus, per se. It is because of the pandemic of greed and lies and trickle-down economics that caused us to move in the wrong direction from the beginning.”
Reverend Barber went on, “Even before COVID hit, too many people in power were too comfortable with other people’s deaths. We have 140 million poor and low-income people in this country, 43% of the nation, 700 people dying a day from ... Read More → ([link removed])
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