George McCalip

... is scheduled as the guest speaker for the 186th meeting of the Karl Hess Club, to convene on December 21, 2009.

George McCalip on "Fomenting Revolution for Fun and Profit."

Since March 2001, George McCalip has run HelpIGotATicket.com, a website about fighting traffic tickets. This pro bono site has helped many people beat their tickets.

Over the last few years, he and some bright legal minds have conceived a plan to end the "tickets for revenue scam" in California through a series of lawsuits.

McCalip believes that this is not about traffic tickets; it's the next American revolution.

About the Speaker:

George McCalip is the founder of the California Legal Rights Fund, an educational nonprofit charged with educating Californians about their rights.

In 1995 he fought a speeding case that led to the end of the Municipal Court system in California.

He's worked with microcomputers/PC's for over three decades, managing projects for IBM, HP, Intel, AST Sharp, Xerox, Minolta, Proficient Foods (Denny's), TRW, Western Digital, and the City of Philadelphia. He produced a successful multimedia catalog in 1992, before the World Wide Web. He managed the initial feasibility study of the Super Shuttle.

He formed the ad-hoc committee behind the successful campaign to bring the 1984 Olympic Velodrome to Cal State Dominguez Hill.