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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).  For our June meeting we will finish 
 the book.\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\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/2024/05/19/18866417.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.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/19/18866417.php
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