IYI<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Lawrence Lessig</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@rootstrikers.org">info@rootstrikers.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:09 AM<br>Subject: Announcing our new website<br>To: Matt Senate <<a href="mailto:mattsenate@berkeley.edu">mattsenate@berkeley.edu</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin:1em 0;padding:0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Lucida Grande,Arial,sans-serif;color:#212121;line-height:130%">Hello Rootstriker: </div>
<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin:1em 0;padding:0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Lucida Grande,Arial,sans-serif;color:#212121;line-height:130%">It has been a year since
#Rootstrikers launched at the <strong><a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fconference.freepress.net%2F&utm_campaign=new_site&n=2&e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email" style="color:#c00" target="_blank">National Conference on Media Reform</a></strong>
in Boston, MA. Invoking Thoreau — "For every thousand hacking at the
branches of evil, there is one who is striking at the root." — I
<strong><a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded%26v%3DqtqTJVyuAmI&utm_campaign=new_site&n=3&e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email" style="color:#c00" target="_blank">challenged those reformers</a></strong> to join
us in this more fundamental fight. And in the almost 100 talks since,
I have worked as hard as I can to get everyone I can to see the
corrupting influence of money in politics, and how that corrupting
root feeds practically every other problem in America today. I am a
#Rootstriker. Teaching this is my job. </div>
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<strong>Today, we launch a new site to recruit more such
#Rootstrikers</strong> — more souls devoted to teaching this message
to everyone who will listen. <br><br><a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/?e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_site&n=4&recruiter_id=16438" style="color:#c00" target="_blank"><strong>Click here to visit our new site and
explore our new tools to help this movement grow.</strong></a>
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<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin:1em 0;padding:0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Lucida Grande,Arial,sans-serif;color:#212121;line-height:130%">If there are a "thousand hacking"
for every "one striking," then there are at least 300,000
#Rootstrikers in America today. We want to recruit them all, and help
them spread this message of reform. </div>
<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin:1em 0;padding:0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Lucida Grande,Arial,sans-serif;color:#212121;line-height:130%">I'm not just talking about people
who are willing to receive our emails or follow our Tweets. Or even
people willing to donate money to fund our work. Those people are
important too. We can't exist without their feedback. Our servers go
dark without their financial support. </div>
<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin:1em 0;padding:0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Lucida Grande,Arial,sans-serif;color:#212121;line-height:130%">But in addition to
them, <strong>we also need citizen teachers</strong>: 300,000 who will
work with us to teach something about this corruption and the crisis
it is building. These teachers will draw upon their own experience.
They will build upon the teaching of others. And they will make it
their cause — as much as they can — to spread this message and the
understanding it takes. Not full time. Not even all the time. But
enough to get enough of the rest of America to understand what's at
stake, and build the will — finally — to do something about it. </div>
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<strong>The <a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Frootstrikers.org%2F&utm_campaign=new_site&n=5&e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email" style="color:#c00" target="_blank">new Rootstrikers website</a></strong> will make
it easier than ever to join and recruit others to this campaign. We
already have more than <strong><a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meetup.com%2FRootstrikers%2F&utm_campaign=new_site&n=6&e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email" style="color:#c00" target="_blank">35 cities with #Rootstrikers
Meetups</a>,</strong> almost a thousand who have <strong><a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftheanticorruptionpledge.org%2F&utm_campaign=new_site&n=7&e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email" style="color:#c00" target="_blank">pledged to "do whatever it takes" to end the
"corrupting influence of money in politics,"</a></strong> and a
growing library of videos by ordinary people spreading the message,
and urging others to join this campaign. </div>
<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin:1em 0;padding:0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Lucida Grande,Arial,sans-serif;color:#212121;line-height:130%">In the weeks ahead, we will make
the materials to spread this message even more accessible, and invite
you to post your own to our growing library of resources. There's a
way to tell this story so that farmers get it. And bankers. And office
workers. And retired folks. And students. And police officers. And
soldiers. And mothers. But the way to connect these different souls is
for different people to try. <strong>That's the project we launch
today: The effort to translate this understanding into the stories
that matter to every group in America, so that enough will join us to
make this change happen.</strong> </div>
<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin:1em 0;padding:0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Lucida Grande,Arial,sans-serif;color:#212121;line-height:130%">As we begin this next phase, we
will keep you in the loop. You will hear from me about our strategy
for lasting reform, but you will also hear more from others about how
we're deploying it. We have a tiny staff — <span>our new online
director, Neal Bastek, comes to us with several years of experience
advocating for a free and democratic Internet</span>, and our campaign
director, Szelena Gray, who has spent many years in social rights
activism — but to strengthen and expand this campaign at the
grassroots, we also need you. </div>
<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin:1em 0;padding:0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Lucida Grande,Arial,sans-serif;color:#212121;line-height:130%"><strong>So here's the ask
today: </strong></div>
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<li>
<strong><a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Frootstrikers.org%2F&utm_campaign=new_site&n=8&e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email" style="color:#c00" target="_blank">Check out our new website</a></strong>; </li>
<li>Think about whether you could be one of the 300k and join if you
can; and </li>
<li>Spread this call to others who you think could also join this
movement for reform: <strong><a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsharer.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.rootstrikers.org%252F%26t%3DRootstrikers&utm_campaign=new_site&n=9&e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email" style="color:#c00" target="_blank">share on Facebook</a></strong>, <a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fintent%2Ftweet%3Ftext%3DThere%27s%2520too%2520much%2520money%2520in%2520politics.%2520Join%2520%2523rootstrikers%2520to%2520restore%2520our%2520democracy%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Frootstrikers.org%252F&utm_campaign=new_site&n=10&e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email" style="color:#c00" target="_blank"><strong>tweet it</strong></a>, <strong><a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/r?u=mailto%3A%3Fsubject%3DToo%2520much%2520money%2520in%2520politics%26body%3DI%2520just%2520joined%2520Rootstrikers%3A%2520http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rootstrikers.org%2F&utm_campaign=new_site&n=11&e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email" style="color:#c00" target="_blank">email a friend</a>.</strong> </li>
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<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin:1em 0;padding:0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Lucida Grande,Arial,sans-serif;color:#212121;line-height:130%">Thank you again for your help so
far. And thank you for your help to come. </div>
<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin:1em 0;padding:0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Lucida Grande,Arial,sans-serif;color:#212121;line-height:130%">@Lessig.<br><strong><a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/?e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_site&n=12&recruiter_id=16438" style="color:#c00" target="_blank">Rootstrikers.org</a></strong> </div>
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