[GPSCC-chat] Saturday, SFSU: CONFERENCE TO RESTORE THE REPUBLIC

[Brian Good]

Speakers include Lessig, Cobb, Uyger.  Free lunch.
http://www.rootstrikers.org/conference


THE CONFERENCE TO RESTORE THE REPUBLIC
 
Saturday, April 20, 2013
San Francisco State University
9:30-4:30
 
Free admission
Register to attend plus detailed information at rootstrikers.org/conference
 
AGENDA
 
9:00 – Registration
9:30 – Opening Remarks
9:45-11:15 – Public funding: Classic v. Matching v. Vouchers
11:15-11:30 – Break
11:30-1:00 – Voting rights; Is campaign finance reform a voting rights issue?
1:00-1:45 – Lunch break
1:45-3:15 – Corporate Personhood: Is its repeal a necessity?
3:15-3:30 – Break
3:30-4:30 – Keynote by Lawrence Lessig
4:30 -5:00 book signing and mixing
 
SPEAKERS
(More detail on registration link)
 
Lawrence Lessig – Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard U. and founder of Rootstrikers
Marge Baker – oversees People for the American Way’s policies and campaigns
David Cobb – National Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited and spokesman for Move to Amend.
Loni Hancock – State Senator and former member of the State Assembly
Jakada Imani – Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Trent Lange – Director of the California Clean Money Campaign
Adam Lioz – Lawyer with Demos focusing on political equality and democratic fairness.
Mark Meckler – Co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots.
Daniel G. Newman – President and Co-Founder of MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit, revealing money’s influence on politics.
Richard W. Painter – Professor at U. of Minnesota and from 2005-2007 he was Associate Counsel to the President.
Trevor Potter – Former commissioner and chairman of the FEC.  He is Stephen Colbert’s attorney.
Ann Ravel – Chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission.
Buddy Roemer – Governor of Louisiana from 1988-1992 and member of the US House of  Representatives from 1981 to 1988. 
Cenk Uygur – Host of the internet and talk radio show, the Young Turks.
 		 	   		  
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