[dvlug] Lawrence Lessig

[Grant Bowman]

This is a message that's made me do some thinking recently. What do you
think?
Fyi, -- Grant

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From: Lawrence Lessig <info at rootstrikers.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:39 PM
Subject: Help us start a movement.
To: Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com>


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 Grant --

[image: tumblr_inline_mkonjzKIJ71qz4rgp.jpg]Yesterday, TED released my TED
talk<http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FLesterland&utm_campaign=ted_sotu&n=2&e=37d2600f1f628dd0f737d78c36e1684181d50042&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email>—
"We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim." At the same time,
they
released an eBook<http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FLestlerlandBook&utm_campaign=ted_sotu&n=3&e=37d2600f1f628dd0f737d78c36e1684181d50042&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email>that
I wrote to accompany the talk, "Lesterland: The Corruption of Congress
and How to End It." If you've seen me speak recently, you'll recognize the
roots in both. I worked incredibly hard to produce both, ("way too hard" my
three year old tells me), and I am very eager to share them both with you
today.

At our #Rootstrikers
conference<http://www.rootstrikers.org/conference?e=37d2600f1f628dd0f737d78c36e1684181d50042&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ted_sotu&n=4&recruiter_id=83071>on
the 20th in San Francisco, we'll talk about the next steps that this
movement needs — with not just us Lefties, but also with many from the
Right (including the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots) as well. But
right now, I would be grateful if you would just watch the talk, and share
it. Both the talk and the book are freely licensed. In San Francisco, we
will be releasing the code to encourage others to take it, and remix it.
Now, please just consume — and if you like them, or think it would help,
please share them both with your friends.

It has been a long road to this place. In the past five years, I've given
hundreds of talks across the country — almost 100 last year alone,
traveling 149,000 miles, and spending 107 nights away from my kids. But
slowly, and finally, I think we're making progress. And with your help, I
believe that we can kickstart the kind of movement — cross partisan,
citizen based — that this fight will take.

I hope you can make it to San Francisco. But whether you can or not, I am
really hopeful you will give me the 20 minutes it will take to watch this
video, and share it broadly.

Watch the talk.<http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FLesterland&utm_campaign=ted_sotu&n=5&e=37d2600f1f628dd0f737d78c36e1684181d50042&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email>

Read the eBook.<http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FLestlerlandBook&utm_campaign=ted_sotu&n=6&e=37d2600f1f628dd0f737d78c36e1684181d50042&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email>

*And thanks for everything you do.*

*- Lessig*

PS — If you haven't already, click
here<http://www.rootstrikers.org/conference?e=37d2600f1f628dd0f737d78c36e1684181d50042&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ted_sotu&n=7&recruiter_id=83071>to
register for the conference.
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a new generation of activists taking on the fight against corruption,
founded by Lawrence Lessig and housed in the 501(c)(3) organization Fund
for the Republic.

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