Your Call 061108 The Uprising

What's the biggest movement you've never heard of in America? On the next Your Call we speak with David Sirota, author of The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street & Washington. Sirota traveled around the country listening to the people normally spoken for or spoken to: union members in rust belt cities, Minutemen on the California-Mexico border, and suburban homeowners watching their equity turn to smoke. The rise in inequality has got them angry, right and left. Does it amount to a new populist revolt or another silent majority too ready to be comforted by the status quo? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
David Sirota in San Francisco
Author of The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street & Washington. He is a columnist and former campaign adviser for Ned Lamont, who defeated Sen. Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Democratic primary and former chief spokesman for Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee. He is also the author of Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government--And How We Take It Back and The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want.

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