Brave New Films was excited to host David Sirota last Monday evening to talk about his latest book, The Uprising: An Unauthrorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington. A great crowd from the Los Angeles progressive community came and sat in our courtyard to hear Sirota speak.

The talk started with Robert Greenwald saying a few words about how he had come to know Sirota and the importance of his work.  Then, Sirota discussed his book and described the “uprising” to which he refers in his title.  This uprising is a point where people are angry enough about the current state of the nation that they want to channel this anger in to a populist revolt, on either the right or the left. We are at a point where there is an uprising happening, but it is yet to be seen into which direction the country will move. Sirota encouraged people to think about how they can be most powerful in effecting change.

It was an interesting talk by an insightful person and the BNF staff was glad to be a part of Sirota'’s book tour.