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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
LASAGNA AND LAWRENCE LESSIG
The Coalition for Open Democracy is excited to announce that Lawrence Lessig, professor of ethics at Harvard University and passionate advocate of campaign finance reform, has agreed to be our guest speaker on Friday, September 6 in Concord.
Join us for a fascinating presentation by Professor Lessig, on a topic of fundamental importance, getting big money out of politics, to be held at the IBEW Hall, 48 Airport Road, Concord on September 6, 2013 at 6pm - 8pm.
Lasagna dinner will be served. Tickets are $30, and can be purchased by visiting our website.
Do you know who Lawrence Lessig is? You can view his TED talk online. He is the author of Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It and One Way Forward: The Outsider's Guide to Fixing the Republic. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
In 2008, Lessig founded Rootstrikers, an organization of activists campaigning against the corrupting influence of money in politics. Before rejoining the Harvard faculty he taught at Stanford Law School and the University of Chicago.