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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Moyers & Company" ALEC Documentary Launches This Weekend
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Bill Moyers will be examining the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) this weekend on his weekly television show "Moyers & Company." The show entitled "The United States of ALEC" will highlight the work of the Madison-based Center for Media and Democracy and its many allies in the effort to expose ALEC's inner workings. In July 2011, CMD launched its award winning "ALEC Exposed" project analyzing over 800 ALEC "model" bills and documenting over 1000 politicians and more than 700 companies that have been part of ALEC. On the same day, our partners at The Nation magazine launched a cover story and a package of articles by experts with additional analysis of ALEC's agenda.
ALEC brings together major American corporations and right-wing legislators to craft and vote on "model" bills behind closed doors. These bills include extreme gun laws, like ratifying Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, as well as pre-approving union-busting legislation, Arizona style anti-immigrant legislation and voter suppression laws that have sparked lawsuits across the nation. The bills are later introduced in state houses across the nation with no mention of their ALEC roots or the role global corporations had in voting on them or crafting them.
The organization's agenda is so extreme that in the last few months, 40 major U.S. companies, including Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Kraft, and General Motors, have severed ties with ALEC. This would not have been accomplished without CMD's continuing research and sustained campaigning by public interest groups including Common Cause, ColorofChange, People for the American Way, Progress Now, PCCC and the actions of many thousands of citizens, who mailed post-cards, signed petitions, sponsored teach-ins, and protested at ALEC conferences and at corporate headquarters.
Tune In! "Moyers & Company" airs at different times in different parts of the country. Click here to check the schedule by entering your zip code and your service provider. The show will air Sunday, September 30th at 6pm CDT in Madison on Wisconsin Public Television.
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/09/11769/moyers-company-alec-documentary-launches-weekend
highplainsdem
(49,028 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Moyers
not ALEC
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)glad he came back --his work is so important now
midnight
(26,624 posts)mystified as to were Walker's jacked up legislation was coming from... It was a professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison that blew the whistle....
"Founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich and other conservative activists frustrated by recent electoral setbacks, ALEC is a critical arm of the right-wing network of policy shops that, with infusions of corporate cash, has evolved to shape American politics. Inspired by Milton Friedmans call for conservatives to develop alternatives to existing policies [and] keep them alive and available, ALECs model legislation reflects long-term goals: downsizing government, removing regulations on corporations and making it harder to hold the economically and politically powerful to account."
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)Walker is piece of shit. No way do I want Tea Party Turds running the country.
midnight
(26,624 posts)Their language gives them away... For example... Right to work... It sounds innocent enough... Until you realize that ALEC means to allow you to work with no or little access to working rights... That is why it is so necessary to replace union workers with non union workers... Think of what our country went through under Reagan... Now they are gunning for our county, state, and federal workers unions...
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)operate under the burden of regulations enacted by legislators owned by those nasty unions. Get rid of those union and then you'll see how corporations can operate in a 'free' market place.
The 13 scariest words in the English language - I'm from a multi-national corporation and I'm here to protect your interests.
midnight
(26,624 posts)You take care of your workers and that is money in the bank...