Lawrence Lessig on "Tweedism" – MIT – 09.19.14
Channel: Daniel Miller
Date: 28/10/2014

At the MIT Citizens Rising "Anti-Corruption" Symposium, Lawrence Lessig takes the audience on a powerful exploration of "Tweedism" in the United States today: a two-stage democracy responsive to the funders of the first stage of elections, the "Green Primary". Lessig discusses his plan, MAYDAY PAC, aimed at the realization of a congress "elected not by the tiniest fraction of the one percent... elected not by the Tweedies, but elected by the people". In a poignant narration of his journey to political reformer, Lessig concludes with a question for the audience – a question presented to him by the late polymath and fellow reformer Aaron Swartz.

This is part 2 of 4 of the official film from the Citizens Rising Symposium held in fall 2014 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://citizensrising.us/