June 11, 2008 6:30 PM - 97 attended
JUNE 11: David Sirota @ Oakland DFA Meetup!
Are you coming tonight at 6:30?
This Wednesday night's "Uprising" meetup is almost full ? we have 104 RSVPs and have room for 120 people. If you would like a chair, please RVSP now:
This special Oakland DFA Meetup will feature nationally syndicated columnist David Sirota, author of the brand-new book "The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington."
You may have seen David Sirota on the "Colbert Report" and several other programs over the last few weeks. Tonight, join us to meetup and talk with him in person.
If you would like to come, please RSVP now at:
IMPORTANT: This special meetup will start at 6:30 p.m., but please come between 6-6:30 to meet David before the meetup (he'll be arriving sometime between 6-6:30 and then needs to leave around 8 p.m. to catch a flight).
Please RSVP now so that we can order enough pizza and make enough copies for you:
See you tonight!
United We Meetup,
Eden, Aaron, Janet S., Tara, Frances, Vince, Edwin, Joan, Janet F, and Norman
Your Oakland DFA Meetup Planning Team
P.S. our friends at the Oakland chapter of Drinking Liberally will be joining us on tonight. To find out more about Drinking Liberally Oakland, please go to:
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AliceWSirota is an interesting and dynamic speaker--almos
t TOO polished, with a slick audiovisual presentation and the ability to deliver an impassioned peroration on cue. If I had won one of the 5 copies of his book that were raffled off, I would probably be reading it now. I may read it, even so.
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Stan MooreMr. Sirota spent little time on global warming. Perhaps there is no data available that would show how the campaign to slow CO2 production is part of the Progressive upsurge. We must keep stating over and over again the fact that a really effective campaign to reduce global warming would INCREASE JOBS. Other than that the presentation was fantastic.
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Liberty C.+1 guestGreat presentation by David Sirota!!! Will certainly get his book The Uprising. Though on his mailing list for a few years, my respect for him greatly zoomed last night. Now there's a Patriot!!! Plus, on the inspirational side, finding out that there are DFA members who are really doing something (resolution re D. Feinstein) and not the usual "but what can I do?" that so many of us feel (and validly so).
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TangentIt was a thought-provoking presentation, especailly the part about working at the state and local levels (tyranny of the minority at the national level). I wish we had time to talk about working for Obama since he was made the nominee within the past month.
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Efrem Lipkin+1 guestIt was very good meeting. I think Sirota had a lot of useful things to say, though I found his uprising thesis a little questionable I think his idea of focusing on issues not parties is sound. He also made a very good if implicit case for reforming the structure of the Democratic Party. My complements to who ever had the idea of inviting him.
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Diana MalinTerrific speaker - energetic and inspiring. Issues pertinent to civic engagement - which is the core of DFA.
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keith BartonGreat speaker with good insights and presentation. Good choice for a meet-up. Maybe needed more time for discussion, but Sirota's schedule was short. I liked the schedule: start early, finish early.
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