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Lawrence Lessig, who is featured in this documentary, recently completed his ambitious $5M fundraising for the MayDay PAC on July 4. When they hit this fundrai
by pixelmonkey 12y ago
Lawrence Lessig, who is featured in this documentary, recently completed his ambitious $5M fundraising for the MayDay PAC on July 4.
When they hit this fundraising goal, he tweeted, "That's it. We did it. For US. For @aaronsw. Tears, and sleep, and endless thanks. #MayDayPAC" (https://twitter.com/lessig/status/485233905545400321 https://twitter.com/lessig/status/485233905545400321).
"For @aaronsw." Lessig says in the documentary that it was a conversation with @aaronsw a few years back that convinced him to move on from issues of copyright and into "root issues" in politics, like campaign finance and corruption.
MayDay may not succeed, but it has already raised $5M and Lessig has a good track record for achieving change, so one must assume something positive will come out of it.
Though I identify with your anger, I think you can channel it positively.
As RFK said,
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
- jacobolus 12y ago> Lessig has a good track record for achieving change Examples?
- jhart3333 12y agoReally? You're a seasoned follower of Hacker News and you don't know who Lawrence Lessig is and what he's done?
- wcarss 12y agoOne significant work was the founding of the Creative Commons in 2001, whose licenses provide an alternative to traditional "all right reserved" copyright schemes, now applied to hundreds of millions of works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/