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Fighting GMO Labeling in California is Food Lobby’s “Highest Priority”

by PRW Staff — August 1, 2012 - 11:06am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Corporations, Food Rights Network, Lobbying

    • - by PRWatch guest contributor Michele Simon

    In case you had any doubt that California's Prop 37 -- which would require labeling of food containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) -- is a significant threat to industry, a top food lobby has now made it perfectly clear.

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    "Now Tell Him He Reminds You of George Washington"

    by PRW Staff — August 1, 2012 - 10:42am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy

    • The week the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was in Salt Lake City for its 39th annual meeting, award winning cartoonist Pat Bagley produced this gem in Utah's largest newspaper, The Salt Lake Tribune. The cartoon "A Legislator Walks Into a Bar" aptly characterizes the relationship between legislators, mega-corporations, and ALEC. State Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI) has put it bit more gently describing ALEC as a "dating service" for politicians and corporations.

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    Monsanto’s Quiet Coup: Will Congress Limit Scope and Time for GMO Reviews?

    by Jill Richardson — August 1, 2012 - 7:32am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Corporations, Food Rights Network, Politics

    • After a series of court defeats over the past few years, Monsanto and friends are trying to use Congress to make an end-run around the courts and current law. Lawsuits brought by opponents of genetically engineered (GE) crops resulted in the temporary removal of two products -- Roundup Ready Alfalfa and Roundup Ready Sugarbeets -- from the market. If the biotechnology industry and the legislators they support have their way, future GE crops will not suffer the same fate.

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    Dueling Right-Wing SuperPACs Battle for "the Future of the Party" in Texas

    by Will Dooling — July 31, 2012 - 7:34am
  • Topics: Election 2012, Politics

    • The close race to pick the GOP candidate for Texas' open U.S. Senate seat is attracting national attention, with establishment GOP funders battling it out with Tea Party Super PACs to tilt today's runoff election.

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    Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama Raises Funds Off Colorado Tragedy, Fleeces Contributors

    by Brendan Fischer — July 30, 2012 - 8:12am
  • Topics: Democracy

    • On July 20, hours after the horrific shooting in Aurora, Colorado, the Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama sent an email to supporters with the subject line "OUTRAGEOUS: Media Tries to Blame Tea Party for Colorado Shooting."

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    A Lot of White Space: Firms Drop Off ALEC's Meeting Brochure

    by Lisa Graves — July 30, 2012 - 7:00am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations

    • Salt Lake City -- A close look at the annual meeting brochure of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) shows that anti-corporate campaigners are having an impact on the secretive "bill mill" that brings politicians and corporate lobbyists together behind closed doors to craft, amend, and vote on "model" legislation.

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    Emails from ALEC Member Russell Pearce Show Anti-Immigrant Law May Have Been Racially Motivated

    by Laura Steigerwald — July 27, 2012 - 11:16am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Human Rights, Politics, Race / Ethnic Issues

    • The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arizona has asked the man behind the "show me your papers" anti-immigrant law in that state to show them his emails. An open records request to former Arizona state Senator Russell Pearce netted thousands of email records sent from Pearce's account that suggest Arizona's SB 1070, which was taken up as an American Legislative Exchange Council "model bill" but recently struck down in large part by the U.S. Supreme Court, was motivated by racism and xenophobia.

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    Special Report from Salt Lake: ALEC Exposed, ALEC Diminished

    by Lisa Graves — July 27, 2012 - 8:47am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations

    • SALT LAKE CITY -- American Legislative Exchange Council legislators, corporate lobbyists, and special interest group staffers awoke Thursday morning to bad news about ALEC delivered to every room at the "five diamond" Grand America hotel. Although the print edition of the Salt Lake Tribune's headline read "ALEC says it won't be threatened," the news story in the state's leading paper featured two prominent critiques of ALEC.

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    New Report on ALEC’s Influence in Utah

    by Harriet Rowan — July 26, 2012 - 4:49pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Ethics

    • As corporate lobbyists and state legislators from across the country meet in Salt Lake City for the 39th annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group of open government advocates has released a report called "ALEC in Utah: The Voice of Corporate Special Interests in the Halls of Utah's Legislature."

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    ALEC Down 30 Corporations: General Motors and Walgreens Cut Ties

    by Rebekah Wilce — July 26, 2012 - 12:08pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Politics

    • Two more large American companies, headquartered in the Midwest, have responded to their customers and cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC): General Motors (GM) and Walgreens. This brings the total to 30 corporations and four non-profits -- 34 total private sector members -- that have cut ties to the right-wing corporate bill mill.

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