wulkes

Wow, thanks so much for doing this. I've never planned ahead of time for one of these before. Nervous!

You guys have been huge to me. When working at my college newspaper in 2007 when news broke of your ExxonMobil piece.(Performance? Action? What do you call it?) The gall and righteousness I saw in that, the manner of strategy and planning and bravery involved, I felt alive seeing it.

Nearly everyone in the newsroom thought it was a bad way to bring attention to an issue, and I was appalled at how anyone with a conscience or sense of humor could come to that conclusion. That said, it was a pretty bad school.

Recently I quit my job selling widgets and gizmos to start my own culture-jamming project/organization/Super PAC in Washington D.C., inspired in large part by the work you have done and the potential I see in activities like yours continuing in other forms and modes.

I've never done anything like this before, but I've never been happier doing anything else.

Is there any specific advice you could give to someone starting an activist organization with a very specific mission like yours? Rubber-meeting-road kind of advice? Books to read? People to get in touch with that can be gotten in touch with?

And is there any chance I could connect with you via email for any follow up questions?

Thanks Men!!

But, realistically, that's not possible. It just isn't. Looking at the situation from a relative legal timeframe, the Supreme Court passed Citizen's United like a week ago.

With ignorantly large sums of money rolling into candidate and party coffers now, and only more likely to come as we approach the 2016 election, cui bono?

Where's the leverage? Why are you opposed to a more sophisticated plan than demanding impossible change that isn't coming?

Neat! Thanks so much!!

Mr. Lessig, how do you respond to Dan Carlin's read of PACs devoted to repealing Citizen's United and their largely ineffective efforts at affecting campaign finance reform?

“But if you assume you’re not going to get a 180 degree flip-flop any time soon, what that means is that anybody you managed to, through tons of labor and expended effort , and lost opportunity costs and all that, what you manage to do is send a bunch of people to Washington who can’t change a broken system, because the highest court in the land says it isn’t broken.”

"Now that the Supreme Court has really basically shut the door to making changes to the way money impacts the system and gone so far as to have said 'what we think is a bug is instead an original feature in the design of the American political system.' if that's the case, how do you play to win?”