'New Hampshire Rebellion' Kicks Off Fight Against Money in Politics

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/11-0



Author, academic and political activist Lawrence Lessig on Feb. 26, 2009 in New York City.

'New Hampshire Rebellion' Kicks Off Fight Against Money in Politics
- Jacob Chamberlain, staff writer
Published on Saturday, January 11, 2014 by Common Dreams

Staging what they have dubbed "the New Hampshire Rebellion," a group lead by Harvard intellectual and activist Lawrence Lessig set out for a 185 mile journey across the "live free or die" state on Saturday, calling attention to what they see as one of the most important issues in U.S. politics today—the dire need for campaign finance reform.

"On Saturday, we begin a walk across the state of New Hampshire, to launch a campaign to bring about an end to the system of corruption that we believe infects DC. This is the New Hampshire Rebellion," states Lessig in a recent op-ed.

The march will pay homage to a similar attempt by famed activist Dorris Haddock, or "Granny D," who, fifteen years ago at the age of 88, marched across the United States from Los Angeles to Washington DC with a sign reading “Campaign Finance Reform” across her chest.

"Haddock is credited with helping to galvanize public will around the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act," Al Jazeera America reports, "which was signed into law in 2002." However, two months after Haddock passed away at the age of 100, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of big donors, and the politicians who use them, in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, "which undid many of the limits put in place on campaign finance and heralded a new era in unprecedented spending by special interests and corporations."

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1. This is the heart of what's wrong... money.

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2. Just like Bernie says....