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I Googled “Evil” And It Took Me to Google

December 5, 2013 David Swanson, www.warisacrime.org ,
Google may have been, until now, the Obama of hip internet monopolies. No matter how many nations the President bombs, people still put Obama peace-sign stickers on their cars. No matter how many radical rightwing initiatives Google funds, people still think it's a "progressive corporation" -- How could it not be? It's making progress! Google is funding Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society, the American Conservative Union, and the political arm of the Heritage Foundation. And there's more really bad news: Google is funding ALEC, the powerful, secretive, and destructive lobbying force from which many companies concerned with their public images are fleeing.

Arrests, Street Closures During Massive ALEC Protest in Chicago

August 10, 2013 The Teamsters www.teamsternation.blogspot.com
Thousands of citizens, union members, environmentalists and faith groups are right now marching in the streets of Chicago to protest ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, meeting at the Palmer House in the Loop. The size of the crowd forced police to close Monroe Street, a major artery, and moments ago we learned they arrested several protesters. The massive demonstration follows a 10,000-person Moral Monday protest in Asheville, N.C., two days ago. Angry North Carolinians denounced the Legislature's passage of ALEC's agenda. Politicians beholden to corporations and billionaires raised taxes on the middle class, outsourced public education, cut education spending, slashed unemployment benefits and restricted voting for citizens not likely to vote for them.

VIDEO: Weekly Acronym TV Resistance Report 003

August 10, 2013 Acronym TV, www.youtube.com , ,
Welcome to the third weekly installment of the Resistance Report. A full 30-minute episode, produced in conjunction with PopularResistance.org. Stories covered this week in the Resistance Report include Obama's terror alert, the Detroit bankruptcy, protestors spoiling ALEC 40th Birthday, and more. Please support the show by sharing this far and wide on your email & social networks using the has tag, #ResistanceReport.

VIDEO: How NRA And ALEC Helped To Kill Trayvon Martin

July 16, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.youtube.com ,
In the case of stand your ground and every single other piece of gun legislation in Florida, the NRA wrote the law, and worked with ALEC to grease it through the legislature and get it passed into law in 2005, and the rate of legally justifiable homicides in Florida has tripled since then, no doubt leading more people to buy guns, no doubt leading to more profits for gun makers, and more innocent dead people. Once the Stand your ground law was enacted in Florida, ALEC worked to get it passed in 16 additional states, using language in each case that is almost identical to that of the Florida law. The homicidal irony here is that NRA lobbyist who crafted the original stand your ground law, Marion Hammer, when speaking to reporter Paul Flemming, thought the law did NOT apply in the Zimmerman case.
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