Change-Congress
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Podcast Description
A national movement to reform the United States Congress. See http://change-congress.org/ for more.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoLawrence Lessig speaks at Campbell Law School: Presented by Common Cause N.C. | Get involved: http://www.fixcongressfirst.org | 7/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoOf/By/4 | Get Involved with Fix Congress First: http://www.fixcongressfirst.org | 6/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoChange Congress Chronicles vol. 4: Fix Congress First | Get involved: ;http://www.fixcongressfirst.org/The right response to Citizens United: Fix Congress First | 6/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoChange Congress Chronicles vol. 2: Lieberman/Bayh | 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." | 6/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoChange Congress Chronicles vol. 1: John Campbell | 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 results." | 6/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Video8 minutes on Obama's first year | 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 | 6/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoRebooting Democracy | 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. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoInstitutional Corruption Short Version | A shorter version of the outline of the "Institutional Corruption" project, building up (and slimming a lot) the launching lecture given October 8. | 5/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoChange V2 | 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. | 5/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoLouisian healthcare ad | Featuring breast-cancer survivor and Louisiana native Karen Gadbois, Change Congress takes the healthcare reform battle to Senator Mary Landrieu's front door. | 6/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoThe Strike to Change Congress | Join the strike to Change Congress. They can take money from the special interests or money from individuals like you and me, but not from both. Tell Congress, if they don't support refusing special interest money, they won't get any of our money. | 1/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Video4Conservatives | Why should conservatives support publicly funded elections? There are plenty of reasons. Take a look. | 1/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoChange Congress Retreat 2008 | Change Congress and our board of directors returned from our retreat last week and we wanted to say thank you to those of you who took the time to give us feedback. We hope you enjoy this special message from Josh Silver, one of our board members. | 12/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoDemocracy & Mistrust (II) | The second part of the Rosenthal Lectures at Northwestern Law School, October 21, 2008. This covers the remedies to the problems identified in part I. | 10/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoDemocracy & Mistrust (i) | The most extensive version of the trust/corruption/dependency talk I've given, this first lecture, given as the Rosenthal Lectures at Northwestern, October 20, 2008, sets out the problem in both science and government. | 10/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoFollow the Money | Lecture given at for a Stanford Reunion, October 10, 2008. | 10/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoA Declaration FOR Independence | The Sara Fine Lecture given at University of Pittsburgh, this advances the argument about corruption, and the need for independence to restore trust in government, linking it to the current financial crisis. | 9/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoThe Common Thread | What links the financial disasters of the last 8 years? A lack of effective regulatory oversight. What explains the lack of effective oversight? Follow the money. Then help us Change Congress. | 9/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | Video2GOPs: No We Can't! | A call on the Republicans to take leadership in the fight against earmarks. | 9/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | Video2DEMs: Yes You Can! | A call on the Democrats to take leadership in the fight to end the influence of lobbyi$t and PAC$ in Washington. | 9/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoChange CONGRESS in 20 minutes | The argument for the Change Congress movement, given at Tides Foundation MOMENTUM 08, San Francisco. | 8/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoNetroots Nation Keynote | July 19, 2008 Keynote at Netroots Nation. | 7/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoA Declaration FOR Independence | Lessig at the Democracy in Action Community Conference, June 27, 2008. | 6/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoFreePress/NCMR Keynote | The latest, and shortest, argument for CHANGE CONGRESS, given at FreePress' National Media Reform Conference, on June 6, 2008. | 6/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoC-C @ UCSB | My third C-C lecture at UCSB. I like this best. | 4/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoC-C @ Harvard | A version of the Change Congress talk, emphasizing more the role of geeks. | 4/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoChange Congress Launch Video | The video of the launch of Change Congress at the Press Club, March 20, 2008. | 3/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoChange Congress Launch - Slides | The launch of the Change Congress movement at the Press Club, Washington, DC, March 20, 2008. | 3/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoCoding Against Corruption | Speech at ETech on March 5, 2008, which described early work on Change Congress. | 3/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoCorruption (Alpha) | Lecture given at Stanford Law School, September 25, 2007, describing early work on the problem of corruption. | 9/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 30 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Thought Provoking and Intelligent.
I just finished listening to Corruption-The Alpha Version and I was mesmerized. I am going to listen to this podcast at least once more before I take on the others because there is so much information and so much to think about. I was recently informed that Civics/Government is no longer taught in the US school system. Perhaps that is part of the reason the US has veered so far off course. The material in this podcast should be a part of the curriculum in every Civics/Gov. class and should be required for every child in America. It's not too late for us adults to take a refresher course either. Give this a listen.
Variety Needed
Too much of Lawrence is not necessarily a bad thing. But, I would like to see others express their opinion and provide insight on ways of keeping Congress from being fixated on of the campaign money trough.
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