Join Me This Thursday for Special Presentation - The Dawn of a New Politics

Submitted by Simon Rosenberg on 1/10/10

I hope you will join me this Thursday, January 14th for a special presentation, “The Dawn of a New Politics." This hour long presentation takes an in-depth look at big changes happening here at home and abroad which are making the politics of the 21st century very different from the century that just past. Among the subjects we will take a deep dive into:

Accelerating changes in global technology and media. Twitter, Facebook, DVRs and the rise of cable TV, smartbooks, notebooks, web video and satellite TV, Droids, Nexuses and iphones, Smartphones, Kindles, Tablet PCs. A new media and technology age is emerging globally, putting ever more powerful tools in the hands of every day people. It is radically transforming the way people across the world and here at home communicate, advocate, organize, govern and do just about everything else we do;

Extraordinary demographic changes taking place here at home. Huge waves of immigration. The rise of the Millennial generation, the largest in US history. America now on a path to be a "minority majority" nation by 2042. The demographic changes playing out in the US today are among the most consequential in all of American history, which among other things is forcing each political party to forge new and very different electoral coalitions and electoral maps;

Globalization and the "rise of the rest." Twenty years of globalization and economic liberalization has helped bring about what Fareed Zakaria has called "the rise of the rest." This process has brought about a degree of modernity, education, affluence and access to information to billions of people in developing nations inconceivable even a decade ago, a development with profound implications for America and the world.

This powerful presentation will take a look at all these issues and more, and if you have the time there will be time left for thirty minutes of spirited discussion at the end. For those wanting to make sense of all the political news of the last few weeks this presentation will offer some very relevant context.

This presentation of “The Dawn of a New Politics” is free and open to the public, so feel free to bring friends and colleagues along. And for those who cannot make it in person, the presentation will be webcast live, in high-definition, for any one in the world to see, starting at 12:15 pm ET. Feel free to forward this invitation on to any one you think might be interested--the more the merrier, in-person or on-line. For those who may have seen earlier versions of "Dawn," this new one is substantially retooled, and will be fresh to anyone who has not seen it in the last six months or so.

To RSVP for lunch and the in person showing of “Dawn,” please contact Jessica Singleton at jsingleton@ndn.org. To watch live, just follow this link (www.ndn.org/livecast) at 12:15pm and sit back, watch and listen. NDN is located at 729 15th, St, NW between H and New York, just a block or so from the White House and Treasury. The presentation will take place in our event space on the 1st floor.

For additional reading on the arguments in this presentation, click on the various links below.

Thanks my friends and Happy New Year to you all.