This Month’s Book and Film Recommendations Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacyby Talia LavinHachette Books (October 13, 2020) 288 pagesCulture Warlords is the story of how Lavin, a frequent target of extremist trolls (including those…
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LJDC General Meeting – December
The LJDC Monthly MeetingSunday, December 13, 20202 – 4:30 pm Our Holiday Zoom Meeting will start off at 2pm with: O San Diego, Where Are Thou? Imagining and re-imagining the Future. The Key Challenges facing the next Mayor and City Council.Presented…
LJDC November Book and Movie Recommendations
How Democracies Dieby Steven Levitsky and Daniel ZiblattCrown, January 16, 2018 ) 320 pagesDonald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt…
LJDC General Meeting – November 2020
The LJDC Monthly MeetingSunday, November 8, 20202 – 4:30 pm The Program for the November 8th Zoom Meeting will be a Discussion of the Election results, followed by the nomination and election of the Executive Board Members for 2021. Follow the…
LJDC October Book Recommendation
This Month’s Book RecommendationsOn Corruption in America: And What Is at Stakeby Sarah ChayesKnopf (August 11, 2020) 432 pagesNow, bringing to bear all of her knowledge, grasp, sense of history and observation, Sarah Chayes writes in her new book, that…
LJDC General Meeting – October
La Jolla Democratic Club Newsletter October 2020 The LJDC Monthly MeetingSunday, October 11, 20202 – 4:30 pm Program and Speaker: Jeanne Brown, former president of the San Diego League of Women Voters, will give a PowerPoint presentation on all of…
LJDC General Meeting – September
September 2020 The LJDC Monthly MeetingSunday, September 13, 20202 – 4:30 pm Our speaker for our next LJDC Zoom meeting is Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, chairman of the San Diego County Democratic Party and the California State Young Democrats.Mr. Rodriquez-Kennedy has held…
LJDC September Book Recommendations
This Month’s Book Recommendations Caste: The Origins of Our Discontentsby Isabel WilkersonRandom House (August 4, 2020) 496 pagesIn this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive,…
LJDC August Book Recommendations
This Month’s Book Recommendations Marchby John LewisTop Shelf Productions (September 6, 2016 ) 128 pages Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has…
LJDC General Meeting – August
La Jolla Democratic Club Newsletter August 2020 PROGRAM:Former S.D. City Attorney Mike Aguirre will speak on the move to create a Publicly-owned gas & electric utilities in San Diego to replace San Diego Gas & Electric investor-owned utilities, and his…
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