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After Student Protests, Sallie Mae Becomes 50th Corporation to Dump ALEC

by Brendan Fischer — September 9, 2013 - 8:34am
  • Topics: Activism, ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Education, Politics

    • Sallie Mae has dropped its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) after a student-led campaign demanding that the nation's largest student loan lender cut ties with the controversial organization. Sallie Mae is the 50th corporation to publicly drop its ALEC membership in the past year-and-a-half as the organization has come under increasing public scrutiny.

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    Wisconsin Workers "Fight For Fifteen"

    by Alex Oberley — August 31, 2013 - 6:06am
  • Topics: Activism, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economy, Human Rights, Labor, Real Economy Project, Social Justice

    • Wisconsin workers are joining the "Fight for Fifteen" -- better wages for those at the bottom of the U.S. payscale. Three cities in Wisconsin were among 58 across the United States where thousands of low-wage fast-food workers walked off their jobs to demand a living wage, safe working conditions, and the right to unionize without being penalized. The coordinated actions on August 29 constituted the largest fast food strike in U.S. history.

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    Stop the CEO March on Washington

    by PRW Staff — August 23, 2013 - 8:17am
  • Topics: Activism, ALEC Exposed

    • -- by Scott Klinger, Institute for Policy Studies

    Millions of people acting together can still beat millions of dollars.

    In these closing days of summer, a growing number of news stories have interrupted our final days at the beach and asked us to pause and remember the 50th Anniversary of the historic March on Washington that occurred on August 28, 1963.

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    ALEC in Chicago: 10 Photographs that Tell the Story

    by Harriet Rowan — August 21, 2013 - 7:07am
  • Topics: Activism, ALEC Exposed, Democracy

    • The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) had its 40th anniversary meeting in Chicago, Illinois, at the posh Palmer House (a Hilton Hotel) from August 7-9. ALEC claims that 1,200 people attended its meeting this year; the conventioneers included state legislators, corporate lobbyists, and right-wing operatives. ALEC was greeted by more than twice as many protestors, who came out to speak out against ALEC's regressive policies.

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    ALEC's Chicago Conference Incites Protest, Multiple Arrests

    by PRW Staff — August 7, 2013 - 12:25am
  • Topics: Activism, ALEC Exposed

    • -- by Ashlee Rezin, published from Progress Illinois

    Six people were arrested Monday when protesters descended upon the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago to push back against the impending visit of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), whose conservative agenda, activists say, promotes policies and legislation that protects corporate interests and disenfranchises workers and voters.

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    Hard-Hitting TV Ads Push to Overturn Citizens United

    by PRW Staff — July 30, 2013 - 7:02am
  • Topics: Activism, Campaign Finance

    • For many years now, the Center for Media and Democracy has joined with Public Citizen, Common Cause, People for the American Way, Move to Amend, Free Speech for the People, and other good government and grassroots groups in an effort to build momentum to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision with an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

    Through countless collective and individual efforts, we are on a roll. In total, 16 states and roughly 500 communities have asked Congress to initiate the process of overturning Citizens United by amending our constitution. The Nation magazine dubbed it the "most successful and uncovered" political movement in America.

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    State Capitols in North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Florida Rumble with Citizen Protest

    by Harriet Rowan — July 29, 2013 - 8:17am
  • Topics: Activism, Democracy, Politics

    • -- by Harriet Rowan and Alex Oberley

    Three State Capitols around the country are echoing with the songs and chants of people who feel scorned by their state government.

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    As ALEC Celebrates its 40th Birthday in Chicago, Protesters Prepare to Blow Out the Candles

    by Harriet Rowan — July 26, 2013 - 8:13am
  • Topics: Activism, ALEC Exposed

    • The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, the corporate "bill mill" which has advanced a potpourri of extreme anti-worker, anti-environment, and pro-gun legislation, is turning 40 years this year, and will hold its annual meeting in Chicago from August 7-9 in 2013. ALEC will be greeted in the Windy City by a broad coalition of good government groups, labor unions, as well as civil rights and religious groups, who will rally to say that 40 years of ALEC is nothing to celebrate.

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    Shareholders Push Firms to Cut Ties to ALEC; 49 Corporations Now Out

    by Rebekah Wilce — June 25, 2013 - 7:29am
  • Topics: Activism, ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Politics

    • Scores of investors working together through Ceres and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility are challenging companies that fund the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), reminding them that such support backs ALEC's anti-environmental agenda. In response, four corporations have confirmed that they have cut or are cutting ties with ALEC:

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    Environmental Groups Split on Illinois Fracking Bill

    by Nick Surgey — June 5, 2013 - 7:25am
  • Topics: Activism, Fracking, Environment

    • The Illinois legislature has passed a fracking regulatory bill, expected to be signed into law by the governor, hailed by some environmental groups as the "toughest in the country." But other groups are highly critical, both of the bill and of the way some big environmental groups worked with legislators and industry to pass it into law.

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