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Indiana Workers Stand against the ALEC Agenda and the Anti-Labor Bill Called the "Right to Work" (for Less)

by Lisa Graves — January 5, 2012 - 9:20am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Right Wing, Front Groups, Corporations, Democracy, Economy, Energy, Labor, Lobbying

    • Thousands of Indiana workers rallied outside, and inside, their state capitol on Wednesday to speak out against Governor Mitch Daniels' renewed effort to force through so-called "right to work" legislation designed to undermine labor unions and workers' rights protected by collective bargaining.

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    Mitt Romney's "Super" Friends Take Aim Through the "Restore Our Future" Super PAC

    by Lisa Graves — January 5, 2012 - 1:01am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Front Groups, Election 2012, Third Party Technique, Corporations, Democracy

    • Editor's note: This quick snapshot about who is behind the pro-Romney "Super" PAC is a summary of CMD's recent analysis of the problems with Super PACs.

    In the Iowa caucus race, the pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC called "Restore Our Future" massively outspent the candidate's official presidential campaign on advertising. The Restore Our Future PAC spent over $3 million in ads, primarily negative ads against Newt Gingrich, who was the target of more than 1,200 negative ad spots from this PAC and others in the span of about a month.

    Op-Ed

    The Real "Winner" in Iowa: New "Super" Front Groups That Are Super Corrupting Our Democracy Thanks to "Citizens United"

    by Lisa Graves — January 4, 2012 - 9:01am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Front Groups, Election 2012, Third Party Technique, Corporations, Democracy, Media, Public Relations

    • Contrary to most press accounts, there was a decisive winner in the Iowa caucuses last night, and it was neither Rick Santorum nor Mitt Romney. The "winner" was the so-called "Super" PACs (political action committees), the mutant front groups for political candidates that were "created" in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that unleashed corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited money influencing elections.

    Op-Ed

    "Energy in Depth," "Counter-Insurgency" Tactics, and Astroturf "Energy Citizens"

    by Sara Jerving — January 4, 2012 - 8:14am
  • Topics: Corporations, Environment

    • The corporations pushing for expanded "hydraulic fracturing" ("fracking") for "natural gas" are putting big money into PR campaigns due to growing citizen concerns about this damaging drilling process. At a "Media and Stakeholder Relations: Hydraulic Fracturing Initiative 2011" meeting this winter, an industry representative went so far as to suggest that industry public relations agents download the U.S. Army/Marine Corps' "Counterinsurgency Field Manual." He noted that it would be helpful because the industry is "dealing with an insurgency."

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    Impunity Reigns and Death Threats Rise in Colombia

    by Sara Jerving — December 31, 2011 - 1:00pm
  • Topics: Corporations, Democracy, Economy, International

    • Truth telling in Colombia, a nation that bears the scars of politically motivated violence lasting half a century, has become increasingly difficult in response to new legislation intended to help heal the wounds of this Latin American nation, says one of the nation's renowned documentary film makers.

    Op-Ed

    When Medicare Isn't Medicare

    by Wendell Potter — December 27, 2011 - 10:31am
  • Topics: Corporations, Economy, Health

    • Let's say you have a Ford and decide to replace everything under the hood with Hyundai parts, including the engine and transmission. Could you still honestly market your car as a Ford?

    That question gets at the heart of the controversy over who is being more forthright about GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to "save" Medicare, Republicans or Democrats.

    If you overhaul the Medicare system like you did your Ford and tell the public it's still Medicare, are you doing so honestly?

    Guest Contributor

    Colvin on How to Choose a Constitutional Amendment

    by PRW Staff — December 22, 2011 - 8:45am
  • Topics: Corporations, Democracy, Election Protection, Politics, U.S. Government

    • This is a guest post by Greg Colvin, partner at the firm Adler and Colvin, originally published at OurFuture.org.

    There is a growing movement of people fed up with corporations-as-persons, money-as-speech, elections-for-sale in America. They are ready to amend the US Constitution as the only sure way to reverse the Supreme Court's decisions in Citizens United v. FEC and Buckley v. Valeo. But what's the best amendment? Sanders/Deutch or Udall/Sutton? Move To Amend or Free Speech for People?

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    Upcoming American Petroleum Institute 'Vote 4 Energy' TV Campaign Disrupted by Undercover Activists

    by PRW Staff — December 21, 2011 - 9:00am
  • Topics: Front Groups, Corporations, Public Relations

    • This report exposing the deceptive tactics of the American Petroleum Institute was originally posted at Greenpeace.

    Recently, Greenpeace got a rare look behind the curtain at how Big Oil stages citizen support for huge oil companies, when activists got inside a TV commercial shoot in Washington DC. The American Petroleum Institute(API), and their PR firm Edelman, were filming a new series of TV commercials that we learned API plans to air nationally on CNN starting in January. The ads, aimed at the 2012 elections, will aim to demonstrate authentic citizen support for the oil industry's agenda.

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    Spinning the Occupation

    by Anne Landman — December 20, 2011 - 10:04am
  • Topics: Activism, BanksterUSA, Corporations, Economy, Real Economy Project

    • As winter sets in and Occupy Wall Street (OWS) encampments contract, the three-month old movement continues to have a big impact on the campaign trail. President Obama as well as some GOP candidates have adopted OWS concerns and language, while big bank lobbyists and GOP spinmeisters work hard to hold the line, defending U.S. economic institutions and the American "free market" system against what they fear could be a broad-based populist uprising.

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    "Solidarity Sing-Along" Tests Wisconsin Capitol Protest Policy

    by Brendan Fischer — December 20, 2011 - 9:48am
  • Topics: Activism, Corporations, Democracy, Economy, Wisconsin Protests

    • Hundreds of "solidarity singers" congregated in the Wisconsin capitol Monday to sing politicized Christmas songs and challenge new Walker administration rules for protests in the building.

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