Lecturers for Obama!
Here's a 20 minute lecture from law professor and internet studies scholar Lawrence Lessig in support of Barack Obama. I like it very much, but I know I'm perhaps more tolerant of this format than most of the electorate.
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If Obama gets in the White House, people will still have to work very hard to stop the war and bring other needed changes. I hope people will be realistic about that.
ReplyDeleteYou're exactly right. It's going to take a lot of very hard work. It's also going to take a lot of people to do that work, and that's why I find Obama so appealing. He's showing us he can mobilize a massive group of people and that's exactly what we're going to need to stop a war.
ReplyDeleteOne hopes there will also be some lumpenlecturers mobilizing against the influx of military ("national service")recruiters on campuses as Obama vows to expand the already bloated military and swap imperial service for tuition wavers.
ReplyDeleteI confess some initial discomfort with Obama's national service proposals, but it's clear these are very popular with many students on campus who crave ways to contribute directly to solving national problems. Obama's national service proposals so far are explicity not military and focus on expanding AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and the pool of volunteers available to nonprofits. These could all be good things. And all of them are being proposed as voluntary.
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