In this session, one of the Bay Area’s most accomplished independent media makers, Lisa Rudman, Director of Audience Engagement at San Francisco Public Press, will engage with America’s leading progressive radio host, the bestselling author Thom Hartmann, who is also one of the most deeply knowledgeable analysts of our nation’s politics,to delve deeply into the roots of our current plunge into authoritarian governance. The topics covered with include the long-developing alliance between American oligarchs and the Supreme Court and the larger endgame to replace American democracy with plutocratic autocracy. What are the pathways to reclaim American democracy from the oligarchs, and what can popular movements do to change the game?