… there are 350+ donors on ActBlue, (if you’re wondering: the official count is off; it’s too long, since it doesn’t show what we raised for the Draft committee) and hundreds more volunteers have signed up and raring to go, if Prof. Lessig takes the plunge. The goal: get him 1,000+ supporters in a week … Read more
Lawrence Lessig makes two announcements. And sets up Lessig ’08. Watch the video. Then get over to ActBlue and be part of the grassroots movement to convince him to run for Congress by contributing. Join us in the DRAFT LESSIG Challenge: let’s get 1,000 people to give money or pledge their time to show him … Read more
The DRAFT LESSIG movement — to encourage Prof. Lawrence Lessig to run for the U.S. Congress from California — is off to a quick start. Then again, if it’s going to happen, it has to happen fast: the special election is April 8. The Facebook group we set up a few days ago now has … Read more
It’s high time we had our first true Free Culture candidate for public office. Who better than the movement’s founder and hero? I have no reason to believe he’d actually do it, but I think we should send a message to Lawrence Lessig that we’ve got his back if he were to run for the … Read more