11.07.2014 - 21:52 [ Robert C. Koehler / Truthout ]

A Vital Civil Rights Movement to Confront the Corporate Ownership of Democracy

Pushing back against this possibility is MaydayPAC, founded by Harvard Law School professor, author and long-time activist Lawrence Lessig. He and his co-conspirators, urging people to „embrace the irony“ of raising money to fight big money, have devised a remarkable, multi-stage, long-term political action plan aimed at winning key congressional races in 2014 and 2016, revving up national momentum and producing, by 2017, national legislation reforming the way elections are funded.