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Lawrence Lessig delivered a keynote presentation at the Coffee Party national convention on September 25, 2010. These are his slides.
Transcript of Lawrence Lessig's Keynote at the Coffee Party National Convention
a Convention
25 Sept 2010
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Confronting America’s Childhood Obesity EpidemicHow the Health Care Reform Law Will Help Prevent and Reduce Obesity
Ellen-Marie Whelan, Lesley Russell, and Sonia Sekhar May 2010
Childhood Obesity Epidemic
1980: 3x
>2: 1/3
has costs:
Confronting America’s Childhood Obesity Epidemic
type 2 diabetes
all old people
1/2 kids
“$147 billion annually in direct
care costs”
why?
“genetic”
FAT
consensus:
eat 2 much
notenough
/\
40%?
“market”
not quite so
tariffs
+$1B
-$3B
sugar costs:2x-3x
cost: 2-3 timessubsidized$74B
cost:negative
1 + 1 =
radicalshift
costs:
+17%
-5.4% -35%
radicalshift
howfoodmade:
cost: 2-3 timesb/c
cheap
cattle factoryprofitable
b/c stomachscan’t digest corn
plentiful
all b/c
cost: 2-3 timescheap
dear
why suchanti-free-market
silliness?
Who are weto say?
know:
campaignca$h
“During the 2004 election cycle, two Florida sugar
companies gave a total of $925,000 to election
coffers.”
million$
if b/c $:
campaign $distortsmarketdistorts
food productiondistorts
e.g.
why?
simpleprinciple
o v e r s i g h t
o v e r $ i g h t
everymajor
instrument
bondsstockssavings
s u p e r v i s e d
aka
“regulated”
(1) public(2) transparent
(3) s/t anti-fraud requirements
1990s
“innovation”
deregulationderegulation
newinstruments
“private”
(1) public(2) transparent
(3) s/t anti-fraud requirements/\
exchangeOTC
1980
exchangeOTC
2008
shadowbanking
e n c o u r a g e d
eventhat wasn’te n o u g h
deregulation
reregulation
gov’tguarantee
b a i l o u t
they gotit
producing:
socialized risk,privatized benefit
insanelys t u p i d
y?
Who are weto say?
know:
0
75
150
225
300
1999 2006
Campaign Contributions
4x 6x
financial sector
securities sector
e.g.
how?
environmentalimpact/risk
studies?
9 years,10,000 pages
Text?
17 pages
exempted
“shocked”
yet...
Congress hadrequired
approval w/i30 days
y?
Who are weto say?
know:
endle$$campaign
ca$h
e.g.
2 years
$110m
y?
Who are weto say?
know:
endle$$campaign
ca$h
e.g.
but what about HCR ?
CHANGEd DC?
@ezra
“the Obama administration succeeded at neutralizing
every single industry”
Right.
If, by “neutralizing,” Ezra means “bribing and accommodating
them to such an extreme degree that they ended up affirmatively
supporting a bill that lavishes them with massive benefits,” then
he’s absolutely right.
The way this bill has been shaped is the ultimate
expression — and bolstering — of how Washington has long
worked. One can find reasonable excuses for why it had to be done that way, but one cannot reasonably deny
that it was.
same as it ever
was...
all thesecases
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MembersSpecialInterests
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every-bodyh ereknows
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economyMembers
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economySpecialInterests
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only way
every-bodyh ereknows
only way
CIT IZENFUNDEDELECTIONS
every-bodyh ereknows
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HOPE
public campaign/common cause
everybodyknows:
somebelieve:
alone
cannever
win
too muchto lose
too muchto offer
/\
(DC ≠ US)
persuadeUS
friend-2-friend
peer-2-peer
focus:
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this
here
today
e.g.
we need to:
identify
debate
w/ civility
how makedemocracyw o r k
asmore & more
see
maybe:
“mock”
real
real
intended:
when insiderslose touch
outsidersreach in
2/3ds ⇨ convention
History
17th A
(Elected Senate)
need amovement:
citizensmovement
citizens w/
different goals
recognize:
citizensw/ different
goals
notthe
enemy
this system
economyLobbyists
Members Interests
Lobbyists
enemy
alliescan b
diverse
US & Stalin
commonenemy
defeated
not theenemy
despiteextremes
passion
strategy
commonenemy
commongoals/\
commonenemy
drawtogether
if win
remember:
“progressives”
liberal/\
reformers
right & left
reformers
unitedthese
commonview
gov’thad been
corrupted
specialinterest
guildedinterest
democracyhad beens o l d
1912
70%
15 pts
we mustbuild
neo-progressive movement
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@now
recognizesdifferences
ends
commonmeans
democracy
commonenemy
corruption
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Representative Democracy
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The FundersThe People
“The Funders”are not
“The People”
“The Funders”are not
“The People”
“The Funders”are not
“The People”
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Arnold Hiatt
loyal Democrat
1996: #2
30
Mayflower_Hotel_DC_Front_Entrance.JPGmayflower
FDR
1939
“convince a reluctant
nation to wage a war to save
democracy.”
u2
“convince a reluctant
nation to wage a war to save
democracy.”
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against:
[silence]
“Clinton’s response effectively slashed Hiatt to pieces, humiliating him in
front of the group.”
14 yearsl a t e r
r e c o g n i z e
Arnold Hiattright
“convince a reluctant
nation to wage a war to save
democracy.”
“convince a reluctant
nation to wage a war to save
democracy.”
“a great civil war”
Nov. 19, 1863:
(as in “CIVIL”)
“testing whether that
nation, or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure.”
“us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us”
“task”?
“that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
“that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
“that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
“that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
of/by/4
“the People”
“the Funders”/\
join us.
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Flickr Photos - credits
Obama photos - Joe Crimmings Capitol - cow tools
EAT - David GallagherMoney - tobym
Corn syrup - nafmo Wall St - f-l-e-x
old woman - meldclinton - sskennel
Mayflower - TimothyJ
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