My name is David Segal, and I have worked literally almost every day for the last 20 years in the trenches of the progressive movement. I’ve knocked on doors and walked on picket lines. I’ve served as an organizer, a city councilor, a state legislator, a candidate for Congress, and a co-founder of organizations including Demand Progress.
And I can tell you that Common Dreams is
absolutely indispensable for any grassroots activist working to make bottom-up progressive change.
Grassroots organizers like me don’t often get invited to appear on cable news. When we’re quoted in a major newspaper, it’s usually because we elbowed our way in just to get a few words included.
Common Dreams lifts up the voices that the corporate media ignores. They provide vital daily coverage of issues that the corporate media won’t touch, from the climate emergency and America’s forever wars to the corruption of our politics by big money.
And if Common Dreams ever went away, it would be a devastating blow to every campaign and movement we all care so much about.
Common Dreams relies on small donations to power their work, and they don’t take a dime of corporate advertising. That’s as it should be, and it’s an essential part of what makes them different.
