On Wednesday, there will be a press confereance in New Orleans, the cite of ALEC's 2011 meeting, to discuss the effect that its bills have had on regular people. Please distribute and don't forget about our protest happening on Friday.
http://protestalec.org.
MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR PLANNING PURPOSES CONTACT: Brian Welsh
August 2, 2011 welsh.bt@gmail.com / 504-654-9366 or
Justin Greenberg
jgreenberg@pfaw.org / 202-467-2305
Americans Hurt by ALEC "Model Bills" Speak Out at ALEC Annual Meeting as Corporate Members & Politicians Vote on More State Legislation
Whistleblower findings document how ALEC is used by corporations to negatively impact family, community
On Wednesday, August 3, a teacher, a small business owner, a reverend and a disenfranchised voter will speak out at a press conference to unveil the real human toll of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)’s "model bills." ALEC is a vehicle by which corporations and politicians collaborate on blueprints of pro-corporate legislation to bring back to the states.
WHAT: A Press Conference to Give Voice to the Victims of the ALEC Agenda
WHEN: Wednesday, August 3, 10:00 AM CDT
WHO:
Lisa Graves, Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy (Moderator)
Nicole Schulte will discuss her experience with new Voter-ID laws in Wisconsin
Jim Randels, a New Orleans area English teacher, will discuss attacks on public education
Rev. Dr. Willie Gable Sr. will discuss the injustice of Louisiana’s new bill against health-care reform
Todd Landfried, Arizona Employers for Immigration Reform, will discuss the damage caused by draconian anti-immigrant measures
WHERE: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
Bayside B, 4th Floor
500 Canal Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
LIVE STREAM: The press conference will be live-streamed for remote viewers.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a vehicle through which global corporations and state politicians collaborate and vote behind closed doors to design legislation that benefits the huge corporations funding ALEC. These so-called "model bills" reach into almost every area of American life, and carry serious consequences for the American people byimposing voting restrictions, undermining environmental protections, scapegoating immigrants to profit from the private prison industry and defunding public education. Learn more here.
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I apologize for being so busy I haven't gotten around to posting a diary for days...but the wait will be worth it as I've been busy in the laboratory concocting a guaranteed pesticide to use on the Kochroaches! It won't be ready for New Orleans, so you RW trolls, need not worry and stay away ('Cause maybe I'll give it a test run there, so come on down!).
Lots and lots of breaking news and articles flying around the web about ALEC Exposed and dozens of researchers finding ALEC model legislation was used in their states to enact Right Wing, pro-business and free market ideologies across the country. Oh, are there some angry and now active folks out there starting to raise their voices and fists against this concerted sneak attack upon our democracy. Those here at DK have been aware for nearly a year now about the Kochroaches and their Roach Motel, ALEC...but others are just now finding out and trying to work through the same confusion many of us had a year ago.
Please continue to help us out by contributing to Protest ALEC.org at our site. You can donate directly through the PAYPAL button and use a credit or debit card to send your donation. We're scraping the bottoms of our pockets here putting this together and finding the money to send groups down and back for the protest. Anything helps and if any is left over...it will be used to fund the Protest ALEC demonstrations in Phoenix in December!
Keep supporting and writing about these bastages...and I promise you that within weeks ALEC and their benefactors Ol' Chucky and Davy Boy are going to get a huge dose of what they've been giving us for thirty years now. Difference is, we'll be here with our democracy intact and they'll be laying up somewhere, licking their wounds and trying to understand how we could possibly have put it all together!