Open Culture. Rootstrikers. Rootstrikers. Who We Are. Rootstrikers began in April 2011 as a project of Fix Congress First, an organization founded by Lawrence Lessig and Joe Trippi.
You can read more about our mission here. In addition to our network of activists and volunteers, we are: Lawrence Lessig | Founder Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Rootstrikers. Rootstrikers, or sometimes Root strikers, is a self-described nonpartisan grassroots activist organization created by Harvard law school professor Lawrence Lessig[1][2] and political activist Joe Trippi (a Democratic campaign worker and consultant) for the purpose of fighting political corruption in the United States and reducing the role of special interest money in elections.[3] According to Lessig, who has called for a Second Constitutional Convention,[3] the idea is not to hack at the branches of the problem but rather focus on its root,[4][5] which Lessig views as a corrupt campaign finance system, and hence he named the organization rootstrikers.[6][7] The name "Rootstrikers" is based on a quote from the first chapter of Henry David Thoreau's book Walden:[1][9] "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root".
Positions[edit] In his 2012 book One Way Forward, Lessig proposes what he termed the Anti-Corruption Pledge.