We have been batting this around for a while, and have come up with the following list:
Paul Scofield brilliantly plays Thomas More who stands up for his principals against the ultimate difficult boss, King Henry VIIII. In the end, he dies for his faith and his principals, but he gets to become the patron saint of lawyers.
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 - only 6 minutes, and it gives us some answers and maybe a way forward !
https://www.ted.com/talks/dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy
Watch 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-1fd1b811722f
What follows is the text for my 7m (or so) speech at the #UNRIG conference in New Orleans at the begin
Mr 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.
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 a host of Facebook and Twitter advertising that was purchased (estimated at $100,000 in paid advertising) but sources were never revealed - as you might expect.