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

by PRW Staff — August 1, 2012 - 10:06am
  • 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 - 9:42am
  • 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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    Mark Fiore on How a Bill Becomes a Law -- ALEC-Style

    by PRW Staff — July 25, 2012 - 11:08am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy

    • The brilliant Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist, Mark Fiore, does it again with another cartoon video skewering the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The video focuses on how a bill becomes a law ALEC-style. Warning: this is not School House Rock. This is Fiore's second video on ALEC. Previously he shined a light on the NRA's Stand Your Ground" legislation implicated in the Trayvon Martin slaying that ALEC deemed a model bill and helped get it passed in over two dozen states. Many folks may remember the original School House Rock! version of how a bill becomes a law.

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    Bonnie Raitt Rocks for CMD!

    by PRW Staff — July 24, 2012 - 6:00am
  • Topics: Activism

    • PRESS RELEASE July 24, 2012

    Benefit Reception at Madison's Overture Center August 20th

    Madison -- Legendary singer Bonnie Raitt and her special guest, civil rights icon Mavis Staples, will be performing live at Madison's Overture Center at 7:30 p.m. on August 20, 2012. Raitt has chosen the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) as the beneficiary of premium tickets combined with a special "meet and greet" reception backstage following her show.

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    Former Walker Aide’s Sentencing Postponed for a Second Time – “Cooperation in Other Matters” Still Required

    by PRW Staff — July 18, 2012 - 8:30am
  • Topics: Democracy, Wisconsin Protests

    • By Laura Stiegerwald

    Darlene Wink, former aide to Scott Walker during his term as Milwaukee County Executive and one of several individuals from that office facing charges in a secret "John Doe" investigation into criminal corruption and embezzlement, has had her sentencing hearing postponed for a second time to make sure she follows through on a promise to assist the District Attorney in other related John Doe prosecutions.

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    University of Wisconsin Launches Historic Challenge to Adidas over Sweatshop Conditions for College-Branded Apparel

    by PRW Staff — July 14, 2012 - 8:47am
  • Topics: Corporations, Human Rights, Labor

    • BREAKING NEWS: The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday filed a precedent-setting breach of contract claim against sportswear brand Adidas, after the company failed to comply with anti-sweatshop provisions requiring they provide certain benefits to workers who produce goods that bear the mark of the university. This is the first time a U.S. university has sought to enforce a global anti-sweatshop code of conduct in a U.S. court of law.

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    How a Right-Wing Group Is Infiltrating State News Coverage

    by PRW Staff — July 12, 2012 - 11:44am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Media

    • Editor's note: The Center for Media and Democracy is pleased to publish this important investigative work about a new and far-reaching effort to spin news about state legislation, which has been examined by Media Matters for America's Joe Strupp. CMD recently published two related stories, one on the Franklin Center's operations and one about ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. Media Matters' original story is available here.

    When Idaho state legislators proposed a seemingly uncontroversial bill to ban access to commercial tanning beds by minors earlier this year, IdahoReporter.com took up the issue with force.

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    CNN's "Dewey Defeats Truman" Moment

    by PRW Staff — June 28, 2012 - 8:49am
  • Topics: Health, Media

    • CNN jumped the gun this morning when it erroneously announced that the Supreme Court had struck down the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate -- appearing to side with the court's most vocal critics of the healthcare overhaul.

    At 10:11 EDT the CNN headline read "Mandate Struck Down" and opined "the ruling overturns requirement that Americans must buy health insurance. The decision will affect you, generations of Americans and this fall's presidential race."

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    CMD Asks Elections Board to Investigate Tea Party Group Supporting Walker

    by PRW Staff — June 14, 2012 - 1:46pm
  • Topics: Democracy, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 14, 2012

    CONTACT: Sara Jerving, sara@prwatch.org

    "Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama" Spent Tens of Thousands of Dollars on Ads Backing Walker in the Recall Election, But Did Not Comply with State Election Law

    The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has filed a complaint requesting that Wisconsin's elections board investigate a Tea Party-affiliated group from California that spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads supporting Governor Scott Walker in the June 5 recall election, but did not register as a political committee in the state or report its funding and spending, as required by Wisconsin election law.

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    Wisconsin Recall Roundup June 5, 2012

    by PRW Staff — June 5, 2012 - 9:56am
  • Topics: Tort Reform, Wisconsin Protests

    • Former Walker Aide Goes to Court, His Lawyer Admits to Leaking Info to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    According to WisPolitics, a lawyer for Governor Scott Walker's former deputy chief of staff, Timothy Russell, "acknowledged today that he released documents that resulted in a news story saying Scott Walker's administration had stonewalled the investigation of money stolen from a fund for veterans."

    Governor Walker has been adamant in saying that he has fully cooperated with the secret "John Doe" criminal investigation into his former staff and associates, but a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story published on May 31 cited a court document showing that the John Doe investigation was launched after Walker's Milwaukee County Executive's office was "unable or unwilling" to release requested documents to the Milwaukee District Attorney's office -- a damaging release on the eve of a recall.

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