People, Not Leaders, Drive Change - David Sirota

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/11/David_Sirota_The_American_Populist_Revolt

Author David Sirota argues that the power to change society lies ultimately with the people themselves - not with their leaders.

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David Sirota discusses The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street & Washington.

Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged.

Ordinary Americans on both the right and left had had it with corrupt politicians of both parties and are organizing to change the status quo.

In his invigorating new book, David Sirota investigates whether this uprising can be transformed into a unified, lasting political movement.

Sirota, the author of Hostile Takeover, is, Naomi Klein writes, "...a clearheaded and principled hell-raiser for economic justice" - Cody's Books

David Sirota has taught management at Cornell, Yale, MIT, and Wharton Business School and was a study director at the University of Michigan's Institute of Social Research. His work has been featured in Fortune and The New York Times.

Sirota holds a doctorate in social psychology from the University of Michigan.

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[algid]

He recognizes that it's not a case of "if you don't do it, nobody will". Listen to this man... "somebody will, somebody is" working against your interests.

[Mon4ch0]

Fora TV should upload all videos on youtube, I tend to look only youtube videos and not to go to the link where the whole video is.

Think about it please.

Greetings

[RONHOSEN]

ronhosen good video,well delivered,U.S. may be too large for grassroots success but keep trying and avoid trival but hot issues.

[tooloud2]

There wont be any change,no nothing will change. Here is why. The people of this once great nation think that all they have to do to solve the crisis they endure is to vote for something that claims change. Job done! That was a close one. Now lets all just go back to sleep and expect "it" to take care of itself. No nothing will change. The sheeple don't have the courage to force change. They feel they have done their part to conclude a solution. Wake up America, we're running out of time. Peace

[xcheesyxbaconx]

Looks like Marxism is coming back ;)

[mikezephyr]

so... there's hope in the proles?

fuck yes.

[sruti4u]

I totally agree he has very valid points.

[pertiman]

Politicians don't have power, anyway. It´s somebody else. Watch the movie "Zeitgeist", you can find it for free on the web.

[vedicastrol]

Barry blew his grassroots movement under the bus honey, with his vote for FISA.

The real grass-roots movement is for Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente

[ochairball]

This just proves out Obama's grassroots movement. We, the people are acting to make change. This guy is just blowing in the wind.