From Larry
After lots of thinking and advice, I have decided it does not make sense for the Change Congress movement for me to a run for Congress in CA12. We would have just over 30 days to introduce a district to me and to an idea. That would not be enough time to convince them to turn away from an extremely popular politician with 30 years of public service. And while anyone within the district would understand that, outside the district, the lesson would be that a "Change Congress" message has no salience or support. That would, in my view, harm the movement more than it would help.
So thank you to everyone who helped here. All the remaining funds in the campaign will be given to Change Congress (as soon as the paper work for that organization gets settled). And I would urge everyone who signed up here to signup there.
— Larry Lessig, February 25, 2008
This site hosts this video to explain the launch of two exploratory projects — first, a Change Congress movement, and second, my own decision whether to run as a Democrat for Congress in the California 12th.
I have decided I want to give as much energy as I can to the Change Congress movement. I will decide in the next week or so whether it makes sense to advance that movement by running for Congress.
Many friends have weighed in on that decision — both strongly in favor and strongly opposed. Many more have joined draftlessig.org and a Facebook group asking me to consider it.
Watch or listen and you will understand some of my reasoning. Feel free to send your thoughts or advice to lessig@lessig08.org (though please excuse any slowness in my response).
— Larry Lessig, February 19, 2008
About this site
This is a beta site we've set up to announce these two projects. With your help, over the coming days and weeks we hope to expand it and build a community around these ideas. Please share your email so we can stay in touch:
About Larry Lessig: Lawrence Lessig (Wikipedia.org)
Previous videos
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This is the short version of an interview I did on the topic of "Corruption" for DR2 Deadline News, October 4th, 2007.
This is my last lecture on "Free Culture", given at Stanford University on January 31st, 2008. At the end of this video, I lay out the beginning of the "Change Congress" movement.
