2012 ANNUAL DINNER
& SILENT AUCTION

Saturday, March 31, 2012
5:30pm Cocktails (cash bar) 7:00pm Dinner

Fort Collins Marriott 350 E. Horsetooth Road

Before March 17: $75 per person/$750 per table
After March 17: $85 per person/$850 per table

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dinner@LarimerDems.org  970 689 6391

Keynote Speaker
JOHN NICHOLS

John Nichols is an American journalist and author. The political correspondent for The Nation magazine and associate editor of The Capital Times newspaper, he is the author or co-author of ten books, including a best-selling biography of former Vice President Dick Cheney, histories of American opposition to empire and the movements to hold presidents to account, and a series of books on media and democracy.

A frequent guest on MSNBC and programs hosted by Bill Moyers, he is a regular contributor to the BBC, RTE (Irish Radio), al Jazeera, NPR and other broadcast and cable media outlets. He has twice delivered the keynote address at congresses of the International Federation of Journalists and was a presenter at UNESCO's Global Forum on Freedom of Expression.

His most recent books include The "S" Word: A Short History of and American Tradition... Socialism (Verso), and (with Robert W. McChesney) The Death and Life of American Journalism (Nation Books), which received the 2010 Freedom Award from the Newspaper Guild and the 2010 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research. His upcoming book. Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest from Madison to Wall Street (Nation Books/Basic Books) will be published in February.

Of Nichols, author Gore Vidal says: "Of all the giant slayers now afoot in the great American desert, John Nichols’ sword is the sharpest."

UPRISING:
HOW WISCONSIN RENEWED THE POLITICS OF PROTEST, FROM MADISON TO WALL STREET
The protest movement in Wisconsin captivated the nation and paved the path for Occupy Wall Street. More than 100,000 public employees, teachers, students, and their allies descended on the capital in Madison, Wisconsin after Governor Scott Walker announced his plan to eliminate the right of public sector employees to unionize. The struggle (and the Democratic caucus’ escape to Indiana in order to prevent a quorum from being reached) elicited extensive national media coverage and debate—as well as enormous grassroots support for protestors. Uprising provides an anatomy of the event and its implications for the political future of the nation. As state legislatures across the US (in Ohio and New Hampshire, to name a few) take up union busting measures, Nichols shows how the Wisconsin case is a blueprint for progressives around America who’ve had enough. He also explores how Wisconsin protesters inspired and engaged with the Occupy Wall Street movement.