File Under: SAY NO--- to right-wing public school system oppression. “Public employees, as well as our public school systems and our middle-class have been under attack--- even as many are unaware that the source of this campaign is carefully coordinated. Who’s behind this? They are called “ALEC”--- The American Legislative Exchange Council. (ALEC) was founded shortly after the Heritage Foundation to draft model state legislation to benefit business interests--- and brings together lobbyists from over 300 major corporations, with conservative legislators. As a result, ALEC bills are introduced over 1,000 times every year. These state laws benefit their sponsors bottom line: they undermine environmental regulations and deny climate change; support school privatization; undercut health care reform; defund unions and limit their political influence; restrain legislatures’ abilities to raise revenue through taxes; mandate strict election laws that disenfranchise voters; increase incarceration to benefit the private prison industry, and weaken gun laws, among many other subjects.”
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:27:51 +0000
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