Speaker: Robert Scheer (The Great American Stickup)

Author Event/Special Presentation

Robert Scheer: The Great American Stickup. How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street.

About the presentation: The great banking meltdown of 2008 has largely been described by bankers, politicians and the mass media as unexpected in its severity and the result of complex investment instruments that are exceedingly difficult if not impossible to penetrate.

In The Great American Stick-Up, Scheer revisits those years of business lobbying when the politicians of both parties rolled over for the banks, in order to show that this fiasco could have been anticipated and that there are culprits responsible that should be named and who continue to wield enormous power over our lives.

Robert Scheer, has been covering power and corruption for two decades as a reporter and columnist for the Los Angeles Times and as a founder of Truthdig.com. He argues that there is nothing murky or even surprising about the meltdown.

Suggested donation: $12 - $20 General, $5 Students with current ID

Tickets at door or call 925-933-7850

Wheel chair accessible

A book sale and signing will follow the presentation.

Cosponsored by the Social Action Committee of the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church