The folks who brought the "first ever protest against an ALEC event in Cincinnati" are planning a follow-up protest, a march to the Marriott in New Orleans, on August 5th. ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group We Party Patriots has no love for and whom millions of America have come to understand is behind Right-Wing "model" legislation -- including Voter ID, union-busting and privatization -- appearing in legislatures around the country.
The group, Protest ALEC, links to an ALEC study guide which appears on William Cronon's website. Cronon, you may remember, is the University of Wisconsin professor whose emails the Wisconsin GOP demanded through a Freedom of Information Act request after Cronon published an opinion piece unfavorable to Scott Walker in the New York Times.
Protest ALEC characterizes ALEC as:
...a coordinating force behind the recent attempts to strip public workers of their human right to bargain collectively in Ohio and Wisconsin. In Indiana, the organization has provided model text for resolutions calling for an end to much federal environmental regulation. Throughout the Midwest, ALEC has promoted voter ID laws that will disproportionately impact student and lower income communities. In 2009, ALEC model legislation formed the basis for over 800 pieces of state legislation. Despite this high level of influence, ALEC has refused to publicly disclose its donors, elected members, the text of its model legislation, and where this has influenced state legislation.