[Mitworld] Lawrence Lessig on Democracy after Citizens United, Gara LaMarche on Philanthropy

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 11 |  October 29, 2010

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Democracy after Citizens United
September 30, 2010

In this new lecture series, co-sponsored by the MIT Department of Political Science and The Boston Review, 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.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/827

Speakers:
Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University

Gabriel Lenz
Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT

John Bonifaz
Legal Director, Voter Action

Director, Free Speech for the People Campaign

Allison Hayward
Vice President of Policy, Center for Competitive Politics

Board Member, Office of Congressional Ethics

Stephen Ansolabehere
Professor of Political Science, MIT

Professor of Government, Harvard University


Event Host:
Department of Political Science

"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been replaced by the funders ...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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-Lawrence Lessig

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Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
September 27, 2010

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.” 


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/829

Speaker:
Gara LaMarche
President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies


Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"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."
-Gara LaMarche

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In The Pipeline:

Crowds and Clouds: Data, Sheep, and Collaboration in the Works of Aaron Koblin

Presented By:
Office of the Arts 
Abramowitz Memorial Lecture Series

Speaker:
Aaron Koblin
Abramowitz Artist in Residence
MIT

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