The Uprising (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | David Sirota | knygos.lt

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An All-Access Pass to the Populist
Insurrection Brewing Across the Country
Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A warwithout end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary Americans on both the Right and Left are tired of being disenfranchised by corrupt politicians of both parties and are organizing to change the status quo. In his invigorating newbook, David Sirota investigates whether this uprising can be transformed into a unified, lasting political movement.
Throughout the course of American history, uprisings like the one we are seeing nowhave given birth to powerful movements to end wars, protect workers, and expand civil rights, so the prospect of today's uprising turning into a full-fledged populist movement terrifies Wall Street andWashington. In "The Uprising," Sirota takes us far from the national media spotlight into the trenches where real change is happening-from the headquarters of the most powerful third party inAmerica to the bowels of the U.S. Senate; from the auditorium of an ExxonMobil shareholder meeting to the quasi-military staging area of a vigilante force on the Mexican border. This is vital, on-the-ground reporting thatimmerses us in the tumultuous give-and-take of politics at its most personal.
Sirota also offers a biting critique of our politics. He shows how the uprising is, at its core, a reaction to faux"bipartisanship" in the nation's capital-the "bipartisanship" whereby Republican and Democratic lawmakers join together in putting the agenda of corporateinterests above all those of ordinary citizens.
Ultimately, Sirota reminds us that the Declaration of Independence, "America's original uprising manifesto," says thatgovernments "derive their powers from the consent of the governed." Irreverent and insightful, "The Uprising" shows how the governed have stopped consenting and have started takingaction. "From the Hardcover edition."