The Old Redneck lives in a rural Virginia county where the Potomac River joins the Chesapeake Bay. A few days ago at our county Democratic Party meeting, I talked briefly about ALEC and why they are a threat to the nation.
The chairman of the county NAACP asked me to speak to their meeting tonight about ALEC.
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So I did.
I spent the last few days researching ALEC. Of course, my research was from totally biased sources :-) -- such as:
ALEC Exposed
People For the American Way
The Nation
Common Dreams
I printed each of the above articles from online then went to the library copier and reproduced a dozen copies of each article.
I talked for 30 minutes about ALEC. Basically my talk was this:
-- Every single bit of social, labor, educational progress that this nation has made in the past century is in danger of being destroyed.
-- By the Republican Party.
-- And here is one of the shadowy, unknown organizations that is doing the GOP's dirty work.
Only about 18 people were at the meeting -- HOWEVER -- each of them left with a handful of material exposing ALEC and the Republican's plans to destroy the middle class. Two of the folks in the audience were ministers at local African-American churches and I had long conversations with each of them. I was been invited to speak to four groups about ALEC -- two unions, two church groups.
I've also been invited to come back to the local NAACP and talk to them about whatever -- my next topic will be economic, war on the middle class, shrinking paychecks, accumulation of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer.
So -- I spoke to a handful of people in a little backwater, rural county in Virginia.
"Never doubt that a small group of dedicated people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
So -- Kossacks -- read up on ALEC, the war on the middle class, growing wealth inequality; read "Winner-Take-All Politics;" DailyKos; and lots of other progessive material -- then -- TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT IT.
We really can win this thing.