{"article":{"id":234875,"heading":"VIDEO: How to Get Our Democracy Back","author":"Lawrence Lessig","created":"2010-02-09 15:09:04","modified":"2013-11-11 01:04:03","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:04:03","article":"<p>HOW TO GET OUR DEMOCRACY BACK:  <br>  <br> Lawrence Lessig says &ldquo;If We Want to Change, We Have to Change Congress&rdquo; <br><br> &ldquo;At the center of our government lies a bankrupt institution: Congress.&rdquo; <br><br> Lawrence Lessig is professor of law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the nonprofit Change Congress. His cover story in The Nation is titled How to Get Our Democracy Back. <br><br> to hear or read Lawrence Lessig on Democracy Now February 5, 2010, click on <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2010\/2\/5\/how_to_get_our_democracy_back\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2010\/2\/5\/how_to_get_our_democracy_back<\/a> <br><br> to read Lawrence Lessig&rsquo; article in The Nation, click on <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20100222\/lessig\/print\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20100222\/lessig\/print<\/a> <br><br>  <br>  <br> RELATED LINKS  <br>  <br> www.baselinescenario.com  <br>  <br> www.capitalismhitsthefan.com  <br>  <br> www.democracynow.org <br>  <br> \"The End of Illusion and the Beginning of the Future\"  <br>  <br>   <a href=\"http:\/\/portland.indymedia.org\/en\/2010\/01\/396923.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/portland.indymedia.org\/en\/2010\/01\/396923.shtml<\/a>  <br>  <br> \"The Cure is the Sickness\" by Jorg Goldberg  <br>  <br>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2004\/05\/20\/16816681.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2004\/05\/20\/16816681.php<\/a>  <br>  <br> \"Democracy is a Useful Fiction\" by Chris Hedges  <br>  <br>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2010\/01\/25\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2010\/01\/25<\/a>  <br>  <br> \"The Quiet Coup\" by Simon Johnson  <br>  <br>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/print\/200905\/imf-advice?x=36&amp;y=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/print\/200905\/imf-advice?x=36&amp;y=1<\/a>  <br>  <br> www.therealnews.com  <br>  <br> www.socialistproject.ca  <br>  <br> www.thomhartmann.com  <br>  <br> \"Ways Out of the Crisis\" by Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Joseph Stiglitz  <br>  <br>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofce.sciences-po.fr\/pdf\/dtravail\/WP2009-17.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ofce.sciences-po.fr\/pdf\/dtravail\/WP2009-17.pdf<\/a> <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"mbatko@yahoo.com","link":"http:\/\/www.freewebs.com\/mbtranslations\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"&quot;At the center of our government lies a bankrupt institution: Congress.&quot;","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2010\/02\/234875.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}