May 10: Book event: David Sirota's Hostile Takeover

This is from MoveOn, it looks interesting:

Campaign '06: The Year of the Hostile Takeover?

Join David Sirota, PLAN, and DMI in a conversation about why our middle class is disappearing and who is responsible.

May 10, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

1199 SEIU Serkasky-Davis Conference Center
330 West 42nd Street (bt.8th and 9th Aves)
(42nd St from N, R, W, 1, 2, 9, A, C, E)

Panelists:
David Sirota, author, “Hostile Takeover”
Dr. Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law and author of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke.
Howard Wolfson, Glover Park Group
Adriano Espaillat, New York State Assembly

Moderated by Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Executive Director of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy

Please RSVP to dmi@drummajorinstitute.org or 212.909.9663.


Author David Sirota, a veteran political strategist and Capitol Hill operative, has released a new book called "Hostile Takeover" showing how political corruption is creating policies that are intensifying America's middle-class squeeze. Now, with corruption scandals dominating the news and with wages stagnating, pensions being slashed, and health care costs skyrocketing, America is at a boiling point - just in time for the 2006 elections. Will the hostile takeover of America's government by Big Money interests take center stage in the upcoming campaign season? And what are the particularly odious policies that could be economic wedge issues in the upcoming campaign?