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<p style="color: #777777;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;margin: 0;padding: 0 0 10px 0;">Volume 10, Number 11</p>
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<a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/827"><img src="http://mitworld.mit.edu/thumbs/video/browse/mitwstill01362poliscibosrevlessigcitizens30sep2010.jpg" alt="Video" width="140" height="105" /></a>
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<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"We don’t have a democracy where the Congress depends on people alone anymore. People have increasingly
been replaced by the funders ... The problem in this Congress is in plain sight. It is corruption,
alive and increasingly sickening.
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<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Lawrence Lessig</h3>
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<h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/827" style="color: #94353b;">Democracy after Citizens United</a></h2>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">September 30, 2010</p>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">In this new lecture series, co-sponsored by the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/polisci/index.html" target="NEWMITWIN">MIT Department of Political Science</a> and <a href="http://bostonreview.net/" target="NEWMITWIN">The Boston Review</a>, renowned legal scholar Lawrence Lessig
and his respondents debate the most effective response to the 2010 Citizens United ruling, which,
Lessig claims, poses an imminent danger to our democracy.</p>
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<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Lawrence Lessig</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Professor of Law, Harvard Law School<br>
Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University </p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Gabriel Lenz</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT </p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">John Bonifaz</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Legal Director, Voter Action<br>
Director, Free Speech for the People Campaign </p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Allison Hayward</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Vice President of Policy, Center for Competitive Politics<br>
Board Member, Office of Congressional Ethics </p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Stephen Ansolabehere</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Professor of Political Science, MIT<br>
Professor of Government, Harvard University </p>
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<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"Those of us progressives who thought only months ago that the arc of the last 40 years of American
politics might finally be bending -- well, it’s beginning to seem clear that we have failed again
at communicating a clear and coherent world view."</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Gara LaMarche</h3>
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<h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/829" style="color: #94353b;">Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy</a></h2>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">September 27, 2010</p>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Gara LaMarche believes the nation’s charitable organizations have lost “moral clarity,” growing more
concerned with “the fix, the intervention, than about reasons for doing or caring about what is right.”
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<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Gara LaMarche</h3>
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