Friday, September 19th, Citizens Rising: A Republic Held Hostage and the Plan to Take It Back

Just a reminder that you're invited to attend the MIT Anti-corruption Symposium, Citizens Rising: A Republic Held Hostage and the Plan to Take It Back, to be held on Friday, September 19th, 2014, 6-9PM at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Kresge Auditorium.

This symposium is being sponsored by the MIT student chapter of The High Impact Network (THINK), an organization promoting effective altruism. The primary goals of the event are to educate the public about the corrupting influence that money has on our representative democracy, and to inspire civic engagement by offering examples of, and opportunities for, participation in meaningful reform efforts.

We seek to answer the all too common question: “What am I going to do about it?”

The conference’s featured speakers are Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig and Princeton University Professor Martin Gilens.

And participating organizations include Common Cause, Democracy Matters, Represent.Us, Move to Amend, and NH Rebellion. Through speaker presentations, an interactive Q&A, and collaborative interactions with different organizations, all seeking the common goal of ending our current system of legalized political corruption, Citizens Rising will educate, inspire intelligent dialogue that critically analyzes existing reform proposals, and provide a platform for expressing innovative solutions.

Collaboration across a spectrum of organizations will be needed to realize an unstoppable anti-corruption movement. Join us on Friday, September 19th and let’s make it a reality.

To learn more information and to register for this free event, please visit the conference’s website.

If you would like to interact with the organizers via social media, please visit our Facebook and Twitter accounts.

And please forward this invitation far and wide.

Thanks.

-Demand Progress and Rootstrikers

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