*[Enwl-eng] Coronavirus bailouts

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            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?

            Donate $1 monthly now
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            Donate $3 monthly now
            Donate another amount

            Make a one-time donation

            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:

              a.. build a bailouts tracker for unions, campaigners, and 
activists to use every day;
              b.. fund data journalists to make sense of government plans, 
and raise the alarm fast enough to influence politicians before they vote;
              c.. 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?

            Donate $1 monthly now
            Donate $2 monthly now
            Donate $3 monthly now
            Donate another amount

            Make a one-time donation

            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?

            Donate $1 monthly now
            Donate $2 monthly now
            Donate $3 monthly now
            Donate another amount

            Make a one-time donation

            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.


            Thanks for all that you do,
            Eoin and the team at SumOfUs


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            More information:

            How fresh economics can tackle coronavirus and climate change. 
The Guardian. 26 March 2020.
            Coronavirus Stimulus Package Spurs a Lobbying Gold Rush. The New 
York Times. 20 March 2020.
            Delay is deadly: what Covid-19 tells us about tackling the 
climate crisis. The Guardian. 24 March 2020.


      SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together 
to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, 
sustainable path for our global economy.


      From: Eoin Dubsky, SumOfUs
      Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 5:21 PM
      Subject: Coronavirus bailouts





 
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