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----- Original message -----
From: "Stewart Brand" <serv...@longnow.org>
To: joh...@fastmail.us
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:06:27 -0500
Subject: [SALT] Lawrence Lessig next TUESDAY Jan. 17 (for forwarding)

A dazzlingly incisive presenter, Lawrence Lessig specializes in
identifying
deep systemic problems in public process (such as copyright malfunction
and
Congressional dysfunction) and then showing how they can be cured.
Currently
he is focusing on the corruption of Congress by the practice of private
funding for public elections through campaign contributions.

He writes: "The dependency of modern campaign finance is the single most
important cause of the bankruptcy of Congress. Fixing this bankruptcy is
the
single most important reform effort that Americans face just now." As he
did
with helping fix copyright problems via Creative Commons, he has a plan
for
reforming elections to reestablish Congressional trust and
effectiveness.
(Public trust in Congress is currently at 12%.) His new book on the
subject
is titled Republic, Lost.

Since I'll be in Lincoln, Nebraska, Tuesday evening, Danny Hillis will
host
the evening and run the Q & A. (Danny also has been exploring ways to
upgrade the American democratic process.) This will be the 100th SALT
talk.
_"How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It," Lawrence Lessig,
Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,_ San Francisco, _7pm,
Tuesday, January 17_. The show starts promptly at 7:30pm.

This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking
(SALT)
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