[sudoroom] Fwd: Announcing our new website

[Matthew Senate]

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From: Lawrence Lessig <info at rootstrikers.org>
Date: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Subject: Announcing our new website
To: Matt Senate <mattsenate at berkeley.edu>


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Hello Rootstriker:
It has been a year since #Rootstrikers launched at the *National Conference
on Media Reform<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>
* in Boston, MA. Invoking Thoreau — "For every thousand hacking at the
branches of evil, there is one who is striking at the root." — I *challenged
those reformers<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>
* 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.
 *Today, we launch a new site to recruit more such #Rootstrikers* — more
souls devoted to teaching this message to everyone who will listen.

*Click here to visit our new site and explore our new tools to help this
movement grow.*<http://www.rootstrikers.org/?e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_site&n=4&recruiter_id=16438>
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.
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.
But in addition to them, *we also need citizen teachers*: 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.
 *The new Rootstrikers
website<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>
* will make it easier than ever to join and recruit others to this
campaign. We already have more than *35 cities with #Rootstrikers
Meetups<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>
,* almost a thousand who have *pledged to "do whatever it takes" to end the
"corrupting influence of money in
politics,"<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>
* and a growing library of videos by ordinary people spreading the message,
and urging others to join this campaign.
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. *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.*
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 — our new
online director, Neal Bastek, comes to us with several years of experience
advocating for a free and democratic Internet, 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.
*So here's the ask today: *

   1. *Check out our new
website<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>
   *;
   2. Think about whether you could be one of the 300k and join if you
   can; and
   3. Spread this call to others who you think could also join this
   movement for reform: *share on
Facebook<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>
   *, *tweet it*<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>,
   *email a friend<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>
   .*

Thank you again for your help so far. And thank you for your help to come.
@Lessig.
*Rootstrikers.org<http://www.rootstrikers.org/?e=d3fdbcb7ceb6c0fba5b9949599282bdf7acb3ce4&utm_source=rootstrikers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_site&n=12&recruiter_id=16438>
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