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All Out Against Ice In Dublin Rally
Protest the proposed opening of an ICE detention facility in Dublin. Register for the event to get further parking and participation information.
Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Resto
August 17, 1:00 - 3:30 In Person
Our July meeting will feature our speaker Professor M. Steven Fish who will speak to us about his 2024 book Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Restoring Democracy's Edge.
Professor M. Steven Fish
We are honored and humbled to welcome Professor M. Steven Fish, a comparative political scientist who specializes in democracy and authoritarianism, religion and politics, and constitutional systems and national legislatures from the University of California Berkeley. He will speak to us about his 2024 book Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Restoring Democracy's Edge.
Professor Fish writes and comments extensively on international affairs and the rising challenges to democracy in the United States and around the world. He appears on BBC, CNN, and other major networks, and has published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The American Interest, The Daily Beast, Slate, and Foreign Policy. He has served as an expert consultant to U.S. federal agencies and international organizations such as the European Commission for Democracy through Law.
His previous publications include Are Muslims Distinctive? A Look at the Evidence (2011), Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (2005), and Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution (1995).
The Authoritarian Playbook
June General Meeting - The Authoritarian Playbook
Note- we did not video record this meeting.
Our featured speaker was Professor Amy Below, a professor at California State University, East Bay who is a teacher-scholar of international relations and comparative politics. with a regional emphasis of the Americas.
Professor Below discussed techniques authoritarians have used to gain power in other countries - shifting the power from the people to one ruler or set of rulers. She compared the various tactics strongmen use to gain and retain power to what is currently occurring in our country. Her presentation slides can be found here. A presentation about safety at rallies followed Professor Below's talk.