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DESCRIPTION:For our May meeting we will be reading The Persuaders: At the Front Lines 
 of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand 
 Giridharadas  (Amazon, Penguin)\nAn insider account of activists, 
 politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, 
 bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to 
 a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria 
 Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take 
 All and award-winning former New York Times columnist\n“Anand 
 Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America—by 
 refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and 
 rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds.” —Robert B. 
 Reich, best-selling author of The System\n\nThe lifeblood of any free 
 society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change 
 things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is 
 putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly 
 write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates 
 are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. 
 Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. 
 Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the 
 skeptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled 
 sellouts.\n\nIn The Persuaders, Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these 
 movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion 
 persuasion in an age of polarization. We meet a leader of Black Lives 
 Matter; a trailblazer in the feminist resistance to Trumpism; white parents 
 at a seminar on raising adopted children of color; Bernie Sanders and 
 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; a team of door knockers with an uncanny formula 
 for changing minds on immigration; an ex-cult member turned QAnon 
 deprogrammer; and, hovering menacingly offstage, Russian operatives 
 clandestinely stoking Americans’ fatalism about one another.\n\nAs the 
 book’s subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while 
 calling in those who don’t agree with them but just might one day, they 
 point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.\n\nStrike Debt 
 Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and 
 radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included (in 
 chronological order) Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the 
 People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 
 21st Century, The Deficit Myth,  Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos 
 blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the 
 Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to 
 Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of 
 Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything  A History of the World in Seven 
 Cheap Things, Beyond Money, Less is More,  Cannibal 
 Capitalism,  Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America, End 
 Times, Jackson Rising Redux , The Feminist Subversion of the 
 Economy, How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems that Shape our 
 World, and Wealth Supremacy.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/04/21/18865224.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Persuaders
LOCATION:Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online 
 invite.\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/04/21/18865224.php
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