Just watched some video at the American Monetary Institute (AMI) from the recent Monetary Reform Conference. Dennis Kucinich gave the keynote. I agree with most everything he says, and he knows his stuff. Here's a quote:
What else is this war, but a transfer of the wealth of this nation upward, to the arms manufacturers, to the Halliburtons.
He refers to Henry George twice in his talk, and to Progress and Poverty in particular. Here's another good quote (at minute 15:30):
In 1901, the person who was the best Mayor of Cleveland, Tom L. Johnson, a friend of or, rather, a disciple of Henry George, wrote, "I believe in public ownership of all public service facilities: the waterworks, the parks, and schools (and on and on), because if you do not own them they will, in time, own you. They will corrupt your institutions, rule your politics, and, finally, destroy your liberty."
He knows some good Latin, like novus ordo seclorum, "a new order follows" (5:30) and, from the Canterbury Tales, radix malorum est cupiditas, "money is the root of all evil" (27:33) (I checked the accuracy of the latter Latin phrase at The Route of All Evil. Ah, the internet, how I love thy ways.). Probably it's his Catholic upbringing.
This page on Tom L. Johnson says he was buried next to Henry George in Brooklyn. A quick look on findagrave.com shows that they're buried at Green-Wood Cemetary, a scarce 30 minutes from here by bike. Maybe it'd be a nice thing to do on a Sunday before I leave for Philadelphia.
I also watched the video of Dave Kelley's talk. He was Kucinich's "Issue Consultant", according to the recent issue of GroundSwell I got in the mail (that's where I found out about AMI and its conference). Kelley mentions When Corporations Rule the World, by David C. Korten, as a must-read, as well as Wealth and Democracy. Maybe I'll check them out.