In a moment, I’m going to ask you to make a small monthly gift to
jumpstart a game-changing new campaign. But first, let me explain
why.
Right now behind closed doors, governments are planning
eye-watering bailouts that will shape what our global economy looks
like after coronavirus.
But regular people’s voices aren’t in the room, and
corporate lobbyists are. If we don’t seize the moment,
we’ll just see bailouts for cruise lines and airplane
manufacturers -- like the financial crash all over
again.
In this lockdown, influencing politicians is going to be harder
than ever. But you know that the mega-corporations and their
lobbyists are finding a way. So you and I need to as
well.
That's why we need your help -- a few coins a month, from as many
people as possible, to build the kind of sustained campaigning we
will need through this crisis. We CAN emerge from this with
a bold, people-powered economy, but we can only do that with you,
Vladimir.
Can you chip in to help make sure these bailouts work for
the people and planet -- not corporate greed?
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The coronavirus pandemic is horrific, but we have a moment for
action that we can’t let slip. That’s why we’re standing ready to
build a massive campaign coalition with partners around the
world.
With your support, we can:
- build a bailouts tracker for unions,
campaigners, and activists to use every day;
- fund data journalists to make sense of government
plans, and raise the alarm fast enough to influence
politicians before they vote;
- amplify great policy proposals from progressive
academics, unions, and politicians with online videos and
memes.
But we’re a people-powered campaigning organization and without
enough consistent support, we can’t commit the kind of resources
this is going to take. It will be a long, hard fight, and we need to
know enough of us are in it for the long haul.
Can you chip in regularly to help ensure that the bailout
billions fuel system change, not greed and climate
change?
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We’re still fighting to support workers on the frontlines of the
coronavirus pandemic, and to stop Big Pharma and other healthcare
businesses cashing in on the crisis. But SumOfUs is also
about looking to the future -- and campaigning for fairer
economies and trade rules, that value people and planet over
corporate profits and greed. This is our fight, and I’m so glad to
be in it with you.
Right now, we don’t know when this global crisis will
end. The pandemic is spreading now in countries with barely
functioning healthcare systems, and will cause unthinkable hardship
before it has passed.
If multinational corporations would pay their fair share
of taxes, then more countries could recover from the crisis
on their own means. That’s just one of the conditions that could be
attached to bailouts for businesses -- something they should all be
doing already anyway. But it’s going to take a hundred battles like
that to get the change we need -- can you help?
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The author and activist Naomi Klein just put out a video about
this historic moment, and she ends it with a reflection on something
economist Milton Friedman once said: “Only a crisis — actual or
perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the
actions that are taken depend on ideas that are lying around. That,
I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to
existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the
politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.”
Until the politically impossible becomes politically
inevitable.
