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Comcast Looms Large in Paid Sick Days Fight in Philly

by Brendan Fischer — April 10, 2013 - 1:28pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Politics

    • Philadelphia is the latest front in the battle over workers' rights, with a coalition of paid sick day advocates urging city council members to override a veto by Democratic Mayor Michael Nutter against a bill passed last month that would allow almost 180,000 workers to take a sick day without losing pay or their jobs. As has been the case around the country, corporate interests associated with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have lined up in opposition to the legislation.

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    Efforts to Deliver "Kill Shot" to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC

    by Brendan Fischer — April 3, 2013 - 9:02am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Health, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • By Brendan Fischer and Mary Bottari

    In a victory for working families, New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to require businesses offer paid sick days to workers. Community activists and labor leaders struck a deal with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to allow a vote on a paid sick leave ordinance that would cover almost 1 million people. But workers in more than 700 other large American cities must choose between spreading their illness and getting paid.

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    Join CMD at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver!

    by PRW Staff — April 3, 2013 - 8:47am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations

    • If you are going to the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) in Denver, CO on April 5-7, 2013, please join the Center for Media and Democracy for a special session "Exposing ALEC: How Corporate Special Interests Control State Legislatures." The workshop will be on Saturday, April 6 from 2:00 - 3:30 pm in the Plaza Ballroom E.

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    Machine Guns on the Vegas Strip? In Nevada, ALEC/NRA Bill Introduced to Stop Cities from Banning Machine Guns

    by Brendan Fischer — March 22, 2013 - 6:04am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Politics

    • A Nevada politician has introduced a bill that would bar the city of Las Vegas from enacting tougher gun laws than the state as a whole, including language that would specifically protect "machine guns" from being barred on the Las Vegas strip if the legislature did not bar machine guns across Nevada -- and it is tied to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

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    Sen. Sanders and Rep. Deutch Press for New Democracy Amendment

    by Brendan Fischer — March 20, 2013 - 8:50am
  • Topics: Election 2012, U.S. Congress, Campaign Finance, Corporations, Democracy, Ethics, Politics, U.S. Government

    • Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) have introduced a new constitutional amendment to overturn the damage done by Citizens United, Buckley v. Valeo, and other judicial decisions that have diluted the role of ordinary people in American democracy.

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    WellPoint and Bristol-Myers Squibb Cut Ties to ALEC, Making 44 Corporations Out

    by Rebekah Wilce — March 18, 2013 - 10:12am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Politics

    • Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), a New York pharmaceutical company with $17.6 billion in annual revenue, and WellPoint, an Indiana health insurance company with $61.7 billion in annual revenue, are cutting ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

    This brings the tally to at least 44 corporations that have cut ties to ALEC in the past year.

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    Community-Owned Internet, Long Targeted by ALEC and Big Telecom, Under Fire in Georgia

    by Brendan Fischer — March 7, 2013 - 8:17am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Lobbying, Politics

    • Members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the Georgia Legislature are pushing a bill to thwart locally-owned internet in underserved communities, an industry-sponsored effort that effectively reinforces the digital divide. (UPDATE: HB 282 failed on a 94-70 vote on March 7.) If Georgia had passed the bill it would have been the twentieth state to eliminate community control over internet access.

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    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Fix the Debt

    by Mary Bottari — March 6, 2013 - 8:30am
  • Topics: Corporations, Economy, Real Economy Project

    • As sequester cuts start to bite a little harder, the Fix the Debt gang is pushing for a "grand bargain," deep cuts to earned benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare in exchange for some vague promises about "tax reform."

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    Conversation with "Fix the Debt," Help Count the Pinocchios

    by Lisa Graves — February 28, 2013 - 12:21pm
  • Topics: Astroturf, Corporate Campaigns, Crisis Management, Front Groups, Corporations, Democracy, Economy, Media, Public Relations, Real Economy Project, U.S. Government

    • Last week, the Center for Media and Democracy and The Nation magazine worked together to publish a package in The Nation and a new online wiki resource on Pete Peterson and the Campaign to Fix the Debt, an entity we consider an "astroturf supergroup" with a huge budget working hard to create the fantasy that Americans care more about national debt and deficits than jobs and the economy. Fix the Debt is currently exploiting the "sequester" debate in Congress to encourage steep cuts to incredibly popular social programs like Medicare and Social Security.

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    Democracy Now! Interviews Lisa Graves and John Nichols About Exposing "Fix the Debt" Campaign

    by PRW Staff — February 27, 2013 - 9:42am
  • Topics: Corporations, Economy

    • Democracy Now! spoke with John Nichols of The Nation and Lisa Graves of the Center for Media and Democracy about their joint efforts to expose Pete Peterson's "Campaign to Fix the Debt" as an astroturf supergroup spending millions to convince Congress that a job-killing austerity package is the way to go in the middle of an economic downturn.

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