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Resources & Learning October 1, 2024

Top 10 Ethics Movies

We have been batting this around for a while, and have come up with the following list:The Top Ten BEST ETHICS Movies of all time1. Man for All SeasonsPaul Scofield brilliantly plays Thomas More who stands up for his principals against the ultimate difficult boss, King Henry VIIII. In the end, he d…

Resources & Learning July 23, 2019

Barriers to Civic Engagement -- a TED Talk from Dave Meslin

I just watched this 6.5 Minute TED Talk that pulls apart all the reasons that we become "disengaged" in the political process.I think he has hit the nail on the head - he left me feeling a faint ray of hope - that we can use our power as voters to push for reforms of all of his points.Please watch …

February 22, 2018

Larry Lessig's 7 minute plenary speech at the #UNRIG conference in New Orleans

Fix Democracy, FirstWatch it on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMK4rbGJkNw Lots of coverage of the Summit here on the official website: https://unrigsummit.com/ Text of Larry's speech From: https://medium.com/@lessig/fix-democracy-first-1fd1b811722fWhat follows is the text for my 7…

January 30, 2018

Carla Miller - President, City Ethics

Brief Bio: Carla Miller is a global government ethics advisor, former U.S. Federal Prosecutor and founder of CityEthics, a non-governmental organization that provides ethics advisory services to local governments. She has extensive national and international experience in creating anti-corruption …

January 30, 2018

Don McClintock

Executive Director, CityEthics.orgMr McClintock has created the website www.cityethics.org as the basis for City Ethics Inc. - a non-profit established with the goal of making it easier to establish effective ethics programs in Cities and Counties Internationally.Mr. McClintock has a distinguished …

Campaign Finance & Pay-to-Play September 10, 2017

A new way to influence elections without transparency

We are seeing the first detailed evidence of the tampering that went on during the 2016 campaign for U.S. President. This is a whole new category of "nasty" that allows people without scruples to feed false information into the mix without any transparency. In this article, the NY Times lays out …

June 21, 2017

OECD Session with Greek Translation

Μυστικά SECRETS Χρυσό Κύκλο Golden Circle Simon Sinek discusses the Golden Circle. A look into the belief and value driven system of the world's most inspiring people. How they look at their reasons for making powerful contributions to the society and times that they live in. Ο Simon Sinek συ…

Conflicts of Interest February 26, 2016

Appearance Is All We Have

A front-page article in Monday's New York Times quotes Prayuth Chan-ocha, the general who currently rules Thailand, and who declared a net worth of $4 million (nearly half in cash) on an annual army salary of $40,000, as saying in a televised speech, "Do not judge people based on your perceptions."…

Resources & Learning February 23, 2016

Announcing the Book "The Regulation of Local Lobbying"

At last, I have put up online a final version of what has turned out to be a separate book, The Regulation of Local Lobbying. This free 342-page resource has three parts. The first part explains what local lobbying is, how it differs from lobbying at the state and, especially, the federal levels, a…

Conflicts of Interest January 18, 2016

Efforts to Influence Through the News Media as Lobbying

One of the news media's biggest problems is failing to look at the big picture and, instead, focusing on specific events and issues. This is especially true when it comes to government ethics, where the news media generally considers, and calls for, ethics reforms on a piecemeal basis. An article o…

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