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Through ALEC, Global Corporations Are Scheming to Rewrite YOUR Rights and Boost THEIR Revenue Through the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that govern your rights. These so-called "model bills" reach into almost every area of American life and often directly benefit huge corporations. Through ALEC, corporations have "a VOICE and a VOTE" on specific changes to the law that are then proposed in your state. DO YOU?

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SEE ALL of the "Model Bills" HERE Click here to download a zip file of ALL worker's and consumer's rights bills. In this section, ALEC corporations are: Keeping workers from exercising their rights under law, draining labor unions of resources, rolling-back minimum wage laws and workplace safety regulations, and limiting union political influence. Attacking consumer protection laws, encouraging the Banksters who crashed the economy, and supporting slumlords and predatory lenders. (visit the "Worker's and Consumer's Rights" section) Click here to download a zip file of ALL "tort reform" / corporate liability bills In this section, ALEC corporations are: Helping corporations escape responsibility for their wrongdoing and preventing Americans injured or killed by corporate conduct from receiving just compensation. (visit the "tort reform" section) Click here to download a zip file of ALL "privatizing and corporatizing education" bills. In this section, ALEC corporations are: Privatizing public education, crushing teacher's unions, and pushing American universities to the right, making education a commodity rather than a public good, and reversing America’s long history of promoting learning and civic virtue through public schools. (visit the "Education" section) Click here to download a zip file of ALL "Health, Big Pharma, and Social Welfare" bills. In this section, ALEC corporations are: Privatizing Medicare, deregulating health insurers, protecting negligent doctors, limiting Medical Assistance, and cutting holes in the safety net. (visit the "Health, Pharmaceuticals, and Social Welfare" section) Click here to download a zip file of ALL environmental bills. In this section, ALEC corporations are: Undermining federal environmental standards, eliminating the ability of local governments to manage land use and zoning, and giving corporate polluters free reign to contaminate air and water. (visit the "Environment" section) Click here to download a zip file of ALL "Democracy, Voting, and Federal Relations" bills. In this section, ALEC corporations are: Disenfranchising Americans, changing campaign finance laws to give corporations greater ability to spend money influencing politics, and thwarting federal government mandates. (visit the "Democracy and Federal Relations" section) Click here to download a zip file of ALL "Tax and Fiscal Policy" bills. In this section, ALEC corporations are: Creating Big Business tax giveaways, giving tax breaks to the rich, and eviscerating state legislatures' ability to raise revenue through tax increases. (visit the "Tax & Fiscal Policy" section) Click here for part eight of the bills exposed. Learn more about each subject area and view individual bills by using the navigation bar on the left, or scroll down for more information.

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Major Reports ALEC: The Voice of Corporate Special Interests In State Legislatures, People for the American Way (2011) Study on ALEC Member Campaign Contributions, Common Cause (2011) Beyond Dinner and a Movie: ALEC Actively Courts State Lawmakers, Follow the Money (2011) Climate Denial Report on ALEC, Exxon Funding for ALEC and Lewis Powell Memo Report, Greenpeace (2011) ALEC Report, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (2011) American Legislative Exchange Council and other related articles, SourceWatch (2011) Ghostwriting the Law for Corporate America, American Association for Justice (2010) A Case Study in How Corporations Get What they Want, Nieman Watchdog, (2008) Governing the Nation from the Statehouses, Progressive States Network (2006) The American Legislative Exchange Council’s Attack on Civil Liberties, Defenders of Wildlife (2004) Corporate America's Trojan Horse in the States, Defenders of Wildlife and the Natural Resources Defense Council (2002)

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