Rules Change: Resetting the Playing Field for Corporations, People and Democracy

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Creating action ideas for capitalism and the common good

May 3-5, 2013 / Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst

“Rules Change: Resetting the Playing Field for Corporations, People and Democracy,” is a three day gathering May 3-5 organized by the UMass Donahue Institute at the request of U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Mass., and four other non-profit policy groups. McGovern will be a special guest at the event.

"Rules Change" is for people concerned about inadequate oversight of large public corporations and financial institutions, and big-money domination of Washington politics. This gathering will provide a forum for seeking common ground on:

• • Rules change citizens can inspire in policies and governance and

  • Behavior changes they can make in their communities and marketplaces.

We’ll provide a forum for the latest thought and action plans, including the potential to permit limiting, via constitutional amendment, some corporate political campaign spending.

"Rules Change" is planned as a deliberative process to forge a consensus on action steps that will adjust the rules of the game, not completely change the game. We hope to produce an unemotional, rational consideration of benefits and losses of each proposed rule change, including a rethinking of what we mean by global "competition."