Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law School professor and political activist, guests on The Daily Show with John Stewart to promote his latest book, Republic Lost.
“Practically every important issue in American politics today is tied to this ‘one issue,’ the root, the thing that feeds the other ills, and the thing that we must kill first.”
Lessig, 50, is best known for his contribution for a reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, radio frequency spectrum, especially in technology applications. With a Second Constitutional Convention, he has called for state-based activism to promote government reform.
On the subject of Occupy Wall Street, Lawrence Lessig comments that the movement has undersold it’s slogan. He says that based on funding campaigns, the slogan should be changed to ‘We are the 99.75%.’
Author Lawrence Lessig examons the way in which money link every issue that Americans — both liberal and conservative — care about.
