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...running because I want to empower the American people with the power to make laws,” Gravel said. “Power is lawmaking.” Gravel, a strong advocate of direct democracy, is the founding member of the National Initiative for Democracy, a non-profit corporation devoted to giving the American people the ability to make laws through propositions—similar to the current system used in states like California. When asked what he thought his chances were for winning the Democratic nomination, Gravel replied, “I’ve been a Democrat...
...public financing of campaigns. “Changing congress is the hardest political challenge that we as a nation face,” Lessig said in the video. Lessig, famous for bringing a 2003 case that unsuccessfully challenged prevailing U.S. copyright law, is the founder of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that allows copyright holders to provide some or all of the rights to their work online for free. “Lawrence Lessig is a great American and would make a great member of Congress,” Palfrey said in an interview last week...
...simple and cheap solution to a devastating problem. One artificial glacier costs just $7,000, compared to $34,000 for a cement water reservoir. Only local materials are needed, and the villagers themselves can build and maintain them. The seven glaciers he's built as head of a local non-profit managing the watershed program for the state of Jammu and Kashmir have won him widespread attention, as engineers from other mountainous regions in India and Afghanistan have visited to learn his methods...
...Zittrain said. “His focus on what he calls corruption couldn’t be better timed, given public sentiment this election cycle.” Lessig, famous for bringing a 2003 case that unsuccessfully challenged prevailing U.S. copyright law, is the founder of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that allows copyright holders to provide some or all of the rights to their work online for free. Last summer, Lessig surprised many of his longtime admirers by announcing that he would shift his scholarly focus from copyright and cyber law to the issue of political corruption...
...With the approval of then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, the Medical School’s non-profit subsidiary was striking the deals that laid the groundwork for skyrocketing revenues in the ensuing years...