Recordings & Information from
May 21, 2020 DWMC Webinar with Ann Ravel
The Impact of Dark Money and Social Media on Elections
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About Ann Ravel
Ms. Ravel is the former Chair of the Federal Elections Commission under Pres. Obama. She is currently a Candidate for the California State Senate in District 15 (San Jose Area).
Her campaign is having several online events that you can access for free and you can also support her campaign here.
References from Ann Ravel’s lecture
Ms. Ravel recommends the following organizations that are working on these issues:
Campaign Legal Center does a lot of important litigation nationwide. Contact them here.
Common Cause for national issues. commoncause.org
California Common Cause can be contacted here.
RepresentUS is a grassroots anti-corruption organization. Contact them here.
California Clean Money Campaign works specifically on CA issues. Contact them here.
To learn more about these issues, Ms. Ravel recommends the following books and articles:
Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the Radical Right (New York: Doubleday, 2016).
Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America?: What has gone wrong and what we can do about it. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 2020).
Joseph Stiglitz, The American Economy is rigged and what we can do about it. Scientific American (Nov., 2018). Available here.
Joseph Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How today’s divided society endangers our future. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012)