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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> 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. <br>
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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
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dZdlcsaArsaX-LKwfk7UezjbOnL5ejHVclPr7Un-uFg/edit?usp=sharing">"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dZdlcsaArsaX-LKwfk7UezjbOnL5ejHVclPr7Un-uFg/edit?usp=sharing"</a>;
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. <br>
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Best Wishes, <br>
Spencer <br>
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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. <br>
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On 4/16/2013 10:12 AM, Drew wrote:<br>
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<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial,
helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">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.<br>
<div>I may go.</div>
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Monday, April 15, 2013 10:52 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
[GPSCC-chat] Saturday, SFSU: CONFERENCE TO RESTORE
THE REPUBLIC<br>
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<pre>Speakers include Lessig, Cobb, Uyger. Free lunch.
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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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President and Chief Technology Officer
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