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DESCRIPTION:Green Sunday, October 11th, 4:45 pm\n\nDr. Larry Shoup will speak and lead 
 a discussion on:\n"The 2016 Presidential Campaign: Business as Usual or 
 Revolt of the Masses?"\n\nThe normal pattern for presidential campaigns is 
 that each of the two main political parties have at least one candidate 
 backed by plutocratic wealth, as measured by their campaign funding, 
 advisers from the Council on Foreign Relations and coverage from the most 
 powerful media. Given their advantages, the plutocratic supported 
 candidates usually soon outdistance their competition, then one of them 
 wins the November election and implements policies which increase the 
 wealth and power of the already too wealthy and too powerful capitalists 
 against the interests of the larger population.\n\nThe 2016 presidential 
 campaign has elements of the normal pattern in the persons of Hillary 
 Clinton and Jeb Bush, both well connected to the plutocracy. But the 
 presence in the mainstream party race and level of support given to 
 non-plutocratic candidates like Trump and Sanders indicates that this time 
 something different is going on, a kind of revolt of the masses. At this 
 Green Sunday we will explore this developing situation and assess the 
 prospects for a Green Party breakthrough in 
 2016.\n\n***************************************************\nLarry Shoup 
 was the Green Party candidate for California Secretary of State in 2002. He 
 is the author of five books, including Wall Street's Think Tank: the 
 Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics 
 (Monthly Review Press 
 2015).\n\n***************************************************\nSPONSOR: 
 Green Sundays are a series of free programs & discussions sponsored by the 
 Green Party of Alameda County. They are held on the 2nd Sunday of each 
 month. Please visit our website 
 https://acgreens.wordpress.com/green-sundays/\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/05/18778445.php
SUMMARY:The 2016 Presidential Campaign: Business as Usual or Revolt of the Masses?
LOCATION:LOCATION: Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. at 65th in North 
 Oakland\n\nDIRECTIONS: One block north of Alcatraz on the West side of 
 Telegraph, wheelchair accessible. Buses pass by regularly. Ashby BART is 
 approximately 7 blocks away. \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/05/18778445.php
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