| (Note: David will be live blogging from 10:30 to 11:05 a.m. today. Our discussion will take place in the comments section.)
On May 1, Phillip and I were contacted by David Sirota who was hoping that on The Albany Project we would promote his new book, The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington. When talking about the book, David mentioned that there was a chapter in The Uprising (Chapter four, for those of you who are in possession of the book).
 As promised, I will join with members of The Albany Project community in welcoming David Sirota to TAP. David can be best summed up as a writer. This is his second book after debuting with Hostile Takeover in 2006. He also writes a weekly column that reaches 1.6 million readers in the western United States. He has his own blog and recently authored a piece for the New York Times Magazine.
The reason David is here though is to promote The Uprising. The book received advanced praise from Matt Taibbi and Naomi Klein, as well as Joe Trippi. It centers around the populist movements on the left and right, from the Working Families Party and the successes of the WFP in New York to the Minuteman Project operating in the southwestern United States. David's introduction is comedic, yet intelligent. It tells the story of the moment where he discovered that these movements, while on different sides of the spectrum, are interwoven along the lines of said populist revolt. The place was the first YearlyKos convention and he was in a drunken state. I will leave it at that.
I have made it through a good portion of the book and it will not disappoint. As a lover of books and an owner of Hostile Takeover, this is by far the better of the two. Sirota brings the progressive populist movement and the conservative populist movement together to explain the whole populist movement, its meaning and its many parts.
As a final reminder, David will be in New York City for several events. Here is the full rundown from my earlier posts on David's appearances.
Sirota's tour will see him visit New York City for a few different events. From 7 to 9 p.m. Friday (May 30) at The Riverside Church (490 Riverside Drive), David will be one of the panelists in a discussion entitled, The Underground Uprising: Alternate Routes to Social Justice in the 21st Century. Joining David will be Bertha Lewis from New York ACORN and Leslie Lowe of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.
After making a couple of stops in Pennsylvania, David will return to New York City on June 2 for a couple of events. First, at 6:30 p.m. David and Air America's Sam Seder will be at an event with Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century. That event will take place at Red Sky, located at 47 E. 29th Street.
Later in the day, Sirota will be a guest on Lizz Winstead's Shoot the Messenger from 9 to 10 p.m. The studio is at 45 Bleecker Street and if you want to attend the live show, you can get your tickets here.
Finally, David will wrap up his swing through New York City with another panel discussion from 7 to 8 p.m. June 3 at The Strand Bookstore. David will be joined by New York State Senator Eric Schneiderman, Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor, Joel Barkin of the Progressive States Network and Andrea Batista Schlesinger of the Drum Major Institute. The Working Families Party, Progressive States and DMI are all sponsoring the panel discussion.
Let's have a great discussion and please join me in welcoming David to our community. |
