A national movement to reform the United States Congress. See http://change-congress.org/ for more.
Get involved: http://www.fixcongressfirst.org
Get involved: ;http://www.fixcongressfirst.org/The right response to Citizens United: Fix Congress First
http://www.fixcongressfirst.org/The second in a series to make more understandable what we mean by Good Soul Corruption. As described in volume 1, all in this series will make the same point: Whether you believe the story we show is evidence that the Member sold out or not, you cannot deny that the story we show is the sort that destroys public trust in Congress. We will make trust possible again only when we make it impossible to believe "money buys results."
The beginning of a series to make more understandable what we mean by Good Soul Corruption. There will be a long series of these (at least until Congress adopts Citizen Funded Election). They're all going to make the same point: Whether you believe the story we show is evidence that the Member sold out or not, you cannot deny that the story we show is the sort that destroys public trust in Congress. We will make trust possible again only when we make it impossible to believe "money buys result...
Learn more: http://www.fixcongressfirst.org/An analysis of what's really accounts for the failures of this past year, and why regardless of your politics, you should be pushing for real change. ;Creative Commons-licensed images available through
09 April 2010: Lecture at Brown Democracy Matters event. This is a revision and update of the lecture given 27 March 2010, refining and extending the call for a convention. Please send comments to comments@lessig.org.
A shorter version of the outline of the "Institutional Corruption" project, building up (and slimming a lot) the launching lecture given October 8.
June 1, 2009: Keynote given at Campaign for America's Future Conference in DC. This is based upon the speech given at the Brennan Center Conference, but refines the "economy of influence" idea some more, and corrects the stupid Henderson/Hazelwood error.
