Editorial

Editorial

Scott Walker Backs Down, Rescinds $500,000 Grant

by PRW Staff — September 7, 2013 - 8:47am
  • Topics: Democracy

    • Last week, CMD reported that a small GOP lobby shop tied to the Tea Party and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity group was awarded a $500,000 grant in a backdoor, sweetheart deal cooked up by ALEC leadership in the State Legislature and sanctioned by the Walker administration.

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    After Zimmerman, Let’s End Stand Your Ground

    by Lisa Graves — July 17, 2013 - 3:14pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed

    • In the wake of the jury verdict finding George Zimmerman not guilty in his killing of Trayvon Martin, many in the media have pushed the line that Florida's notorious "Stand Your Ground" (SYG) law played no role in the trial. They couldn't be more wrong.

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    Pete Peterson’s “Fix the Debt” Astroturf Supergroup Detailed in New Online Resource at PetersonPyramid.org

    by PRW Staff — February 21, 2013 - 7:47am
  • Topics: Corporations

    • Madison, WI -- One of the most hypocritical corporate PR campaigns in decades is advancing inside the beltway, attempting to convince the White House, Congress, and the American people that another cataclysmic economic crisis is around the corner that will destroy our economy unless urgent action is taken. Soon this astroturf supergroup may be coming to a state near you.

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    A New Year's Message to Our Readers

    by Lisa Graves — December 31, 2012 - 11:04am
  • Topics: Campaign Finance, Corporations, Democracy, Economy, Energy, Environment, Media, Politics

    • You helped make the world a better place this year. You helped expose corruption and thwart efforts to distort our democracy.

    1. You helped force 42 major corporations and 70 legislators to do something they did not want to do, leave the American Legislative Exchange Council.

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    ALEC Goes After the Center for Media and Democracy

    by Lisa Graves — August 29, 2012 - 7:26am
  • Topics: Activism, ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy

    • The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sent a message to hundreds of legislators and corporations across the country attacking the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the creator of ALECexposed.org. Among other things ALEC claimed, "CMD is an attack-dog, not a watch-dog."

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    Stop Censorship of the Internet!

    by Mary Bottari — January 18, 2012 - 6:17pm
  • Topics: Activism

    • Thousands of websites across America have gone dark this week in protest of supposed anti-piracy bills in Congress.

    I first noticed when I went to MichaelMoore.com to see how he was covering the Wisconsin protests, but his site was black with an eerie image of a mouse-controlled light that revealed the message "This site has gone dark today in protest of the U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate... We need to kill these bills to protect our right to free speech, privacy and prosperity."

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    Children Gardening in Sewage Sludge: Los Angeles Schools Alerted

    by Lisa Graves — October 11, 2011 - 7:00am
  • Topics: Sludge, Children, Corporations

    • This week, CMD's new Food Rights Network sent letters to thirteen schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that have "organic" school gardens adopted by Hollywood's Environmental Media Association (EMA). As we reported in May, EMA teamed up with sludge-marketing corporation Kellogg Garden Products, which sells products made from Los Angeles area industrial and human sewage sludge with the label "quality organics" and which used the gardens for photo ops with sludge products.

    Gardens in which kids grow vegetables and fruits were contaminated with sewage sludge as a result of EMA's partnership with Kellogg, which donated hundreds of cubic yards of sewage sludge products. EMA, which hosts its annual green carpet awards this Saturday, October 15th, has failed to take any steps to help remediate the children's "organic" gardens that were sludged.

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    ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection

    by Lisa Graves — July 20, 2011 - 7:57pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Right Wing, Corporations, Democracy, Energy

    • Hundreds of ALEC's model bills and resolutions bear traces of Koch DNA, raw ideas that were once at the fringes but that have been carved into "mainstream" policy through the wealth and will of Charles and David Koch.

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    ALEC Hotels

    by Eric Carlson — July 16, 2011 - 10:44am
  • Topics: Activism, Corporations, Democracy, Politics, Public Relations, Secrecy, U.S. Government

    • The American Legislative Exchange Council's Annual Meetings and Task Force Summits are held in some of the nation's top travel destinations, at swanky hotels where state legislators and corporate executives enjoy lavish accommodations and exclusive excursions. A registration form for ALEC's 21st Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida invited members to "come and experience endless sandy beaches, sunny days, beautiful sunsets and the cool gulf breezes," at the posh Hyatt Regency, which features more than 17 golf courses within 35 minutes of the hotel. In fact, a golf tournament and clinic sponsored by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was one of the event's top activities.

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    About ALEC Exposed

    by Lisa Graves — July 13, 2011 - 8:00am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations

    • The Center for Media and Democracy has obtained copies of more than 800 model bills approved by corporations through ALEC meetings, after one of the thousands of people with access shared them, and a whistleblower provided a copy to the Center. We have analyzed and marked-up those bills and made them available at ALEC Exposed. This article has been updated. For press inquiries, please contact Nikolina Lazic at 608-260-9713 or lisa@prwatch.org.

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