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[Lawrence Lessig <p2p.lessig AT pobox.com>]

So this is some political spam, which you've earned by either (1) being
in my address book, or (2) having sent me a question, comment, or
criticism in the past. Consider this small request the price of our
contact.

A bunch of us have put together a p2p-politics.org site which I'd be
grateful if you could look at, and more importantly, pester the
campaigns about.

The idea of the site is to enable people to send clips -- both video
and audio -- about the candidate they support to people they know,
asking them to listen to or watch the ads sent before they vote. These
ads can come from the campaigns, or from anyone who wants to make an ad
for a campaign. And as this email does, the site permits people to ad
text to the message.

We were very successful in collecting ads supporting Kerry. Moveon.org
had a bunch licensed under a Creative Commons license we we could get
automatically. And the Kerry campaign then gave us a few more to
include.

But despite our repeated requests, through many channels, we've not yet
been able to get a reply from the Bush campaign.

So here's the request. If you go to the site (linked below) and think
it worthwhile, can you send a brief email to the Bush campaign (there's
a link on the site) or the Nader campaign (if that's your persuasion)?

If that's too much, then enjoy (or be frustrated by) the ads I've
selected here. They are all tied to a theme I've written about -- the
effect of this election on the next generation -- inspired, no doubt,
by my confronting my own next generation, now just 13 months old.

Again, I apologize for the intrusion, if this is what this is for you.
But if there is ever a time peers need to speak to peers, an election
like this is such a time.

Child's Pay:
http://www.archive.org/download/moveon_bushin30seconds_1911/1911.mpg

Michael J. Fox:
http://www.archive.org/download/MichaelJFox/MichaelJFox.mov

Scary Math:
http://www.archive.org/download/pollution_ad/pollution_ad.mov

(If they don't play, try grabbing QuickTime:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ -- it's free.)


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