Re: wanna go to this?

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 > From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)
 > Date: Sat,  8 May 2004 06:45:03 -0700
 >
 > http://www.codysbooks.com/calendar/calendar2.jsp
 > - Friday, May 21
 > - JOHN STAUBER
 > - returns with BANANA REPUBLICANS .

I'll probably go to this event before you (assuming I don't have a job).

http://www.codysbooks.com/calendar/calendar2.jsp
- Friday, May 21
- ROBERT REICH
- talks REASON: WHY LIBERALS WILL WIN THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA.
"Americans, former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton Robert Reich 
argues, tend to be socially moderate, if not liberal; certainly they are not '
radcons', or radical conservatives by inclination. In support of this assertion,
 Reich offers a series of public-opinion surveys showing that a majority of 
people favor a woman's right to choose, American conceived as a secular nation, 
environmental protection over short-term economic gain, and liberty and justice 
for all. Yet - and here's the rub - even though Americans 'have had enough of 
the radical conservatives - their intolerance, their mean-spiritedness, their 
moral righteousness, their arrogance toward the rest of the world' - Americans 
seem to have no problem putting such people in office. This, by Reich's account,
 is because the progressive or liberal wing of the Democratic Party has failed 
to provide any kind of agenda that speaks to the 'large, anxious middle and 
lower-middle class' and has instead stood by as others within the party have 
pushed it rightward toward an imagined center. 'Centrism is bogus', Reich 
thunders. 'The 'center' keeps shifting further right because Radcons stay put 
while Democrats keep meeting them halfway.' Thus Clinton's embracing an 
economic boom that benefited only a few; thus the Democrats' having so little 
vision that the only thing they could think of to do with the budget surplus of 
a few years back was to return the national debt early. Stuff and nonsense, 
Reich argues; it's time to unfurl the liberal flag and proudly own the name, 
recognizing that the largest political group in the country is not Republicans 
or Democrats or 'swing voters', but those who, out of apathy or disgust, just 
don't vote at all. That's the audience to court, Reich insists, for winning it 
will bring on a liberal restoration...Reich offers a persuasive, and spirited, 
view of the present political landscape and how it might be remade." - Kirkus 
Reviews . Robert B. Reich is University Professor at Brandeis University and 
Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis's Heller 
Graduate School. He has been, this semester, a visiting professor at Cal. He 
has served three national administrations; his writing has appeared in The New 
Yorker , The Atlantic Monthly , the New York Times , the Washington Post , and 
the Wall Street Journal . This is his ninth book, and we are enormously pleased 
to welcome him back. Note time: 4 PM at Telegraph Avenue