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

[Spencer Graves]

       Whether or not you attend the (free) conference Saturday, I 
encourage you to join Lessig's "rootstrikers.org" organization.  The 
"Los Gatos Rootstrikers" Meetup group usually meets the second Thursday 
of the month at Cafe Campbell, 360 East Campbell Avenue Campbell, CA.


       Szelena Gray, Campaign Coordinator for Rootstrikers, invited me 
to write a blog for them regarding using some kind of tax rebate or 
subsidy to support both political campaigns and investigative 
journalism.  A draft is available at 
"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dZdlcsaArsaX-LKwfk7UezjbOnL5ejHVclPr7Un-uFg/edit?usp=sharing"; 
comments welcomed.  I came to this, because Lessig is pushing 
"Citizen-funded elections", and I believe that could be easier to 
achieve and improve our democracy more than constitutional amendment(s) 
overturning Citizens United.


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer


p.s.  I also highly recommend Lessig.  I wrote much of the Wikipedia 
article on Lessig's "Free Culture" and made substantive contributions to 
the article on "Republic, Lost".  Based partly on an email exchange with 
him, I attended the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, 
April 5-7.


On 4/16/2013 10:12 AM, Drew wrote:
> I can highly recommend Lawrence Lessig.  He's a hero in the A2K 
> (Access To Knowledge) and Digital Rights movements and co-founder of 
> Creative Commons.  He was a mentor to digital rights activist Aaron 
> Swartz (matyred by our government in January this year). I just read 
> his book Republic, Lost and was intrigued by some of the very 
> practical ideas he's come up with to make progress on the severe 
> corruption of our present political system.  He is not a Green per se. 
> He's a recovering Reagan Republican and now is I'd say kind of in the 
> proximity of the Dems in political terms but as I say he's all over 
> the corruption aspect of the present system.
> I may go.
>
> Green is GO!
>
> Drew
> ~*~*~*~
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>     *From:* Brian Good <snug.bug at hotmail.com>
>     *To:* "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>     *Sent:* Monday, April 15, 2013 10:52 PM
>     *Subject:* [GPSCC-chat] Saturday, SFSU: CONFERENCE TO RESTORE THE
>     REPUBLIC
>
>     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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-- 
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
751 Emerson Ct.
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