Hello there, We’re now working very hard on the documentary part of the Moneyocracy-project. It’ll be 90 min long and will include a wide range of interviewees who will drive us into the campaign finance system that the 2010 Supreme Court decision “Citizens United v.FEC” created. Here’s the list of the people included in our documentary:   Campaign Finance Expert, Former Commissioner & Chairman of Federal Election Commission and Attorney, Trevor Potter (@thetrevorpotter) Former FEC Data analyst and Senior Fellow at the Center for Responsive Politics, Bob Biersack (@rbiersack) Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, Adam Skaggs (@jadamskaggs) Co-founder of Creative Commons and law professor, Lawrence Lessig (@Lessig) Political Columnist Walter Shapiro (@waltershapiroPD) Managing Director at Civic Forum Strategies & Co-Founder of ProjectVirginia and Chairman of CivicForumPAC, Ford O’Connell (@FordOConnell) Co-Founder and Executive Director of Free Speech For People, John Bonifaz (@johnbonifaz) Reporter @HuffingtonPost covering campaign finance, Paul Blumenthal (@PaulBlu) Lawyer and policy advocate for Demos.org, Adam Lioz (@Demos_org) Chair of Political Science at the Baldwin-Wallace University (OH), Tom Sutton. Stay tuned for more, the release date and promotional material.  Thanks for your support!
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Hello there,

We’re now working very hard on the documentary part of the Moneyocracy-project.
It’ll be 90 min long and will include a wide range of interviewees who will drive us into the campaign finance system that the 2010 Supreme Court decision “Citizens United v.FEC” created. 

Here’s the list of the people included in our documentary:  

  • Campaign Finance Expert, Former Commissioner & Chairman of Federal Election Commission and Attorney, Trevor Potter (@thetrevorpotter)
  • Former FEC Data analyst and Senior Fellow at the Center for Responsive Politics, Bob Biersack (@rbiersack)
  • Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, Adam Skaggs (@jadamskaggs)
  • Co-founder of Creative Commons and law professor, Lawrence Lessig (@Lessig)
  • Political Columnist Walter Shapiro (@waltershapiroPD)
  • Managing Director at Civic Forum Strategies & Co-Founder of ProjectVirginia and Chairman of CivicForumPAC, Ford O’Connell (@FordOConnell)
  • Co-Founder and Executive Director of Free Speech For People, John Bonifaz (@johnbonifaz)
  • Reporter  covering campaign finance, Paul Blumenthal (@PaulBlu)
  • Lawyer and policy advocate for Demos.org, Adam Lioz (@Demos_org)
  • Chair of Political Science at the Baldwin-Wallace University (OH), Tom Sutton.

Stay tuned for more, the release date and promotional material.  
Thanks for your support!

And here it is! The first chapter of the Moneyocracy transmedia documentary project is now online on www.moneyocracy-project.com. Combining a comic experience, a serious game and a documentary, ROOM 501C4 immerses you into a secret organisation that prepares the next election cycle. Influence, money, secret, discover what made the 2012 U.S elections so special. ROOM 501c4 is an introduction to an upcoming documentary focusing on the place of money in politics & the U.S democracy. Super PACs, Citizens United v. FEC and donors disclosure are among the topics these two segment will try to explain.  Don’t hesitate to like our facebook page or follow or twitter account for more informations and updates.  
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And here it is! The first chapter of the Moneyocracy transmedia documentary project is now online on www.moneyocracy-project.com. Combining a comic experience, a serious game and a documentary, ROOM 501C4 immerses you into a secret organisation that prepares the next election cycle. Influence, money, secret, discover what made the 2012 U.S elections so special. 

ROOM 501c4 is an introduction to an upcoming documentary focusing on the place of money in politics & the U.S democracy. Super PACs, Citizens United v. FEC and donors disclosure are among the topics these two segment will try to explain. 

Don’t hesitate to like our facebook page or follow or twitter account for more informations and updates.  

Hello guys! Jean Nicholas and I just wanted to share with you a couple of exciting news about the project. Indeed, we’re flying to New York next week to start shooting the last remaining shots for the i-doc and the documentary. We’ll be in the U.S from September 17th to October 22nd, filming in different locations such as New York, Boston (Harvard), Washington D.C, Michigan and Ohio where the last battle between Obama & Romney will take place.  Right before election day, the I-doc wil be released as the first part of the Moneyocracy project quickly followed by the documentary. Stay tuned for more on our blog and here on our Facebook page. Thanks again for your support!Gerald Holubowicz
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Hello guys! 
Jean Nicholas and I just wanted to share with you a couple of exciting news about the project. Indeed, we’re flying to New York next week to start shooting the last remaining shots for the i-doc and the documentary. 

We’ll be in the U.S from September 17th to October 22nd, filming in different locations such as New York, Boston (Harvard), Washington D.C, Michigan and Ohio where the last battle between Obama & Romney will take place. 

Right before election day, the I-doc wil be released as the first part of the Moneyocracy project quickly followed by the documentary. 

Stay tuned for more on our blog and here on our Facebook page. Thanks again for your support!

Gerald Holubowicz

thenationmagazine: Never mind the Super PACs: A new must-read investigative report in The Nation reveals how Big Business is buying the election with secret money.
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thenationmagazine:

Never mind the Super PACs: A new must-read investigative report in The Nation reveals how Big Business is buying the election with secret money.

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Source: thenationmagazine

According to OpenSecrets.org: Tracking Money In Politics latest analysis, conservative super PACs have outspent their liberal counterparts by more than $100 million. (*Note: This is a correction from something we posted last night, which noted a 10:1 spending imbalance. It’s more like 4:1.)
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According to OpenSecrets.org: Tracking Money In Politics latest analysis, conservative super PACs have outspent their liberal counterparts by more than $100 million. (*Note: This is a correction from something we posted last night, which noted a 10:1 spending imbalance. It’s more like 4:1.)

First glimpse of the Moneyocracy Documentary

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Here’s a very interesting piece wrote by Matt Bai in the New York Times magazine section. “How Much Has Citizens United Changed the Political Game?” Citizens United and a couple of related court decisions changed all of this in two essential ways (…) First, the Supreme Court wiped away much of the rigmarole about “express advocacy” and “electioneering.” Now any outside group can use corporate money to make a direct case for who deserves your vote and why, and they can do so right up to Election Day. The second change is that the old 527s have now been made effectively obsolete, replaced by the super PAC. The main difference between a super PAC and a social-welfare group, practically speaking, is that a super PAC has to disclose the identity of its donors, while social-welfare groups generally do not. Read more on the New York Times
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Here’s a very interesting piece wrote by Matt Bai in the New York Times magazine section.

“How Much Has Citizens United Changed the Political Game?”

Citizens United and a couple of related court decisions changed all of this in two essential ways (…) First, the Supreme Court wiped away much of the rigmarole about “express advocacy” and “electioneering.” Now any outside group can use corporate money to make a direct case for who deserves your vote and why, and they can do so right up to Election Day. The second change is that the old 527s have now been made effectively obsolete, replaced by the super PAC. The main difference between a super PAC and a social-welfare group, practically speaking, is that a super PAC has to disclose the identity of its donors, while social-welfare groups generally do not.

Read more on the New York Times

Our political system is pervasively corrupt due to our Supreme Court taking away campaign-contribution restrictions on the basis of the First Amendment.
Richard Posner is the most influential conservative judge outside the Supreme Court. He is a renowned member of the Chicago-based Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He is not only the nation’s most prolific jurist-academic, he is seen by some as the most influential judge outside of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet, he is against Citizens United v. FEC which he considered it encourages bribery.

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Numbers of the day: 

Only 0.26% of the Americans contributes to political campaign and only 0.05% max their $2500 limit…. 0.000063% of Americans gives 80% of the Super PACs money. More on the Rachel Maddow show

Super rich alienate nearly all Americans from campaign donation

Rachel Maddow relays the findings of a new study showing that vast minority of Americans contribute to political campaigns and an even tinier minority contributes five figures or more- and why would an average American bother to participate in a system where such a small number wield such disproportionate power?