Starting at 5pm eastern, I host Sunday's FireDogLake Book Salon with David Sirota, author of The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington.
David Sirota's book opens at YearlyKos at the Riviera in Las Vegas and ends with his visit to Chicago for YK2.0. In between, he provides lots of remarkable observations about Americans' rage against wealthy, privileged Insiders and their access to the levers of power and control. I literally learned something new on every single page.
The Uprising covers Ned Lamont's campaign, the problems with our bifurcated anti-war movement, Brian Schweitzer's and Jon Tester's Montana successes, Lou Dobbs Tonight, the Minutemen "patrolling" our Southern border, New York's Working Families Party and the fusion party movement, shareholder activism and its arcane rules, and permatemps' union organizing in the Pacific Northwest -- and how all are somehow inspired by the radical organizing principle of Saul Alinsky.
"A belief that if people have the power to act in the long run, they will, most of the time, reach the right decisions."
His book also raises disturbing questions about the alliances that may be necessary to achieve some of the narrowly shared goals of different movements within the Uprising.
Please stop by to join us for a chat today at FireDogLake.