Feb 29th: Shut Down ALEC from Kontra on Vimeo.
Transcript.
Narrator:
Are you a legislator whose career needs a boost?
Do citizens whining about jobs and economic injustice keep you up at night?
Are you interested in turning your political office into cash?
Actor:
Today's political climate can be exhausting citizens demanding action on their problems.
Narrator:
Its harder than ever to talk to the people that matter the most, corporations.
ALEC gives you the tools to get your political career on track.
You get ready made legislation and contacts with lobbyists to ensure your future in office.
Actor:
Learn the skills you need to serve corporations. Such as bailouts, tax breaks, subsidies, and more.
Narrator:
Members that have used our services include Altria, Speaker John Boener, and Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
Actor:
So stop wasting your power on the common citizens. Get your political career on track with ALEC.
via Occupy Portland & Portland Action Lab:
"Occupy Portland calls for a day of non-violent direct action to reclaim our voices and challenge our society’s obsession with profit and greed by shutting down the corporations. We are rejecting a society that does not allow us control of our future. We will reclaim our ability to shape our world in a democratic, cooperative, just and sustainable direction.
We call on the Occupy Movement and everyone seeking freedom and justice to join us in this day of action.
There has been a theft by the 1% of our democratic ability to shape and form the society in which we live and our society is steered toward the destructive pursuit of consumption, profit and greed at the expense of all else.
We call on people to target corporations that are part of the American Legislative Exchange Council which is a prime example of the way corporations buy off legislators and craft legislation that serves the interests of corporations and not people. They used it to create the anti-labor legislation in Wisconsin and the racist bill SB 1070 in Arizona among so many others. They use ALEC to spread these corporate laws around the country.
In doing this we begin to recreate our democracy. In doing this we begin to create a society that is organized to meet human needs and sustain life.
On February 29th, we will reclaim our future from the 1%. We will shut down the corporations and recreate our democracy.
Join us! Leap into action! Reclaim our future! Shut down the corporations!
*This action received unanimous consensus from the Portland General Assembly on Sunday January 1st, 2012."