(2015/07/10) Making progress on our biggest problem (Money in Politics)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 July 2015
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Edition #937
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
00:00:30 Ch. 2: Act 1: We're Mayday. And we have a plan - @maydayus - Air Date: 3-13-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: Le mystère de contre jour - David Ari Leon
00:03:13 Ch. 4: Act 2: Who's really running the country? - @dccommonsense - AIr Date: 3-29-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: Oligarchy - The Haymarket Squares
00:08:26 Ch. 6: Act 3: The Koch brothers raise money to rival both GOP and Democratic parties - Economic Update w/ @profwolff - Air Date: 2-8-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: The System - Abscondo
00:15:35 Ch. 8: Act 4: How Is Wolf PAC Achieving Its Latest Win? - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-27-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: A Real Hero (feat. Electric Youth) - College
00:24:46 Ch. 10: Act 5: One Man Completely Changed the Money-In-Politcs Debate - @RedactedTonight w/ @LeeCamp - Air Date: 04-06-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: A Change Is Gonna Come - Ben Sollee
00:30:33 Ch. 12: Act 6: Koch Brothers Shopping For 2016 Republican Candidates - Majority Report (@majorityfm) - Air Date: 05-29-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: Those Were the Days / Goodbye - Single - Mary Hopkin
00:39:32 Ch. 14: Act 7: #Leaders4Reform w/@MAYDAYUS — Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 15: Song 7: Time for Action - the Very Best Of - Secret Affair
00:42:17 Ch. 16: Act 8: Billionaires Unite To Bribe Their Way To Even More Power - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 06-16-15
Voicemails
00:57:26 Ch. 17: For the birds - The Chloe Sanctuary at chloesanctuary.org - Don Scott
01:01:33 Ch. 18: My Brag on homoeopathic wellness - Sunny from St. Paul, MN
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
01:09:13 Ch. 19: Final comments on the power of the ancient philosophy of Stoicism
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism Update!
S.1538 - Fair Elections Now Act
Follow-up/new Action: #Leaders4Reform w/@MAYDAYUS
Leave a message for Congress: Citizen Recording Studio
Build a bigger #Leaders4Reform coalition: Call your representatives
Sources/additional glimmers of hope:
"The 'Super PAC to End Super PACs' Makes a Strategic Retreat” at Bloomberg Politics
"We tried. We learned. We’re trying something new: Mayday.US, v2” by Lawrence Lessig
"Frodo Baggins for President” by Lawrence Lessig
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:13.7 | Now welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast with clips today from Mayday.us |
| 0:18.5 | Common Sense with Dan Carlin, Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolfe, the young Turks |
| 0:23.3 | were acted tonight with comedian Lee Camp and the majority were bored. |
| 0:27.1 | You might not realize this, but you're part of an experiment. |
| 0:34.0 | We are all part of an incredible unlikely experiment called the United States of America. |
| 0:39.4 | An experiment in a representative democracy. |
| 0:42.3 | But when experiments are run, things don't always go as planned. |
| 0:45.1 | It did America's experiment. |
| 0:46.5 | Things have gone awry. |
| 0:49.2 | Our democracy has been taken from us. |
| 0:51.2 | Our republic has been corrupted by special interests. |
| 0:54.6 | That's whack. |
| 0:55.6 | But we're not even going to explain that. |
| 0:57.2 | Because you get it. |
| 0:58.2 | Everyone gets it. |
| 0:59.2 | Our government is broken. |
| 1:00.7 | What we all want to know is how do we fix it? |
| 1:03.0 | Well, we're Mayday, and we have a plan. |
| 1:07.8 | We've launched a series of highly targeted experiments to discover exactly what it takes |
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