Tag Archives: Lawrence Lessig

Saving Democracy from activist judges

By Mark | February 3, 2010

It was announced today, in response to the recent Supreme Court ruling giving corporations unprecedented influence over the American elections, that Representatives John Conyers and Donna Edwards had introduced a Constitutional amendment to remedy the situation. The amendment, which is being called the Free Speech for People Amendment, reads as follows: Amendment XXVIII Section 1. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Other | Also tagged campaign funding, Constitutional amendments, corporate personhood, Donna Edwards, election finance reform, Fix Congress First, Free Speech for People Amendment, John Conyers, judicial activists, public funding of elections, Supreme Court | 99 Comments

Corporations given the green light to buy elections

By Mark | January 21, 2010

Last night, I posted a video here by Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig about the importance of getting corporate money out of politics. At the time, I agreed with the professor that corporations had way too much influence over American politics. Since I posted it, however, things have gotten considerably worse. This morning, the U.S. Supreme […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Free Speech, Observations, Politics | Also tagged Afghanistan, Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, banking reform, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, Chuck Schumer, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Constitutional amendments, corporations, corporations are not people, corporations are people too, defense contractors, election finance reform, Free Speech, get the money out of Washington, John Roberts, lobbying, McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, money in politics, Obama, personhood, public funding of elections, Supreme Court, the surge | 13 Comments

Lawrence Lessig on how to bring about real political change

By Mark | January 20, 2010

Harvard Professor and co-founder of Change Congress, Lawrence Lessig, decided to mark the occasion of Obama’s first year in office with a brief lecture on what went wrong, and why. If you have seven minutes, I’d recommend watching it. And he’s absolutely right… until we deal with the underlying problem – that our members of […]

Posted in Observations, Politics | Also tagged campaign finance reform, Change Congress, get the money out of Washington, money in politics | 11 Comments