I just watched this 6.5 Minute TED Talk that pulls apart all the reasons that we become "disengaged" in the political process.
I think he has hit the nail on the head - he left me feeling a faint ray of hope - that we can use our power as voters to push for reforms of all of his points.
Please watch - only 6 minutes, and it gives us some answers and maybe a way forward !
https://www.ted.com/talks/dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy
Watch it on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMK4rbGJkNw Lots of coverage of the Summit here on the official website: https://unrigsummit.com/ Text of Larry's speech From: https://medium.com/@lessig/fix-democracy-first-1fd1b811722f
What follows is the text for my 7m (or so) speech at the #UNRIG conference in New Orleans at the begin
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<h1>Supporting Materials</h1>
<h3>For the presentation by Carla Miller at the "<u>Unrig the System</u>" Summit in New orleans:</h3>
<p>Seminar Title: <strong>Unrigging Local Politics: What to Do and How to Do It</strong><br />
Sat Feb 3, 2018, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM</p>
Mr McClintock has created the website www.cityethics.org as the basis for City Ethics Inc. - a non-profit established with the goal of making it easier to establish effective ethics programs in Cities and Counties Internationally.
<p><strong>Carla was interviewed for this article last week:</strong></p>
<p><span><a href="https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lobbying-is-completely-unregulated-…; target="_blank">Lobbying is completely unregulated in most SC cities, leaving room for possible corruption</a></span></p>
<p>We are seeing the first detailed evidence of the tampering that went on during the 2016 campaign for U.S. President. This is a whole new category of "nasty" that allows people without scruples to feed false information into the mix without any transparency. In this article, the NY Times lays out a host of Facebook and Twitter advertising that was purchased (estimated at $100,000 in paid advertising) but sources were never revealed - as you might expect.</p>
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<p>City Ethics was in its infancy stage in the early 2000's when I got a letter in the mail. (Yes, an actual handwritten letter.) "Do you need any help with research?" asked Rob. "Yes", was the immediate answer and the beginning of a wonderful partnership and friendship with Rob. His first project was the compilation of municipal ethics codes with the view towards synthesizing them into a Model Code. Not too many people could confront doing such an enormous project, but he did it.
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