Bay Area ALEC InfoShare OCT 15 2pm (pls forward)

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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is meeting Nov 30th, 2011 in Phoenix, AZ. 

There has been a call from Phoenix for a mass mobilization to respond and shut down ALEC's National Conference at the end of November.  ALEC itself is a tool for hundreds of corporations to use for the sole purpose of obtaining access to thousands of legislators and then exploiting that access to pass profit-making legislation. ALEC works like a think tank, devising legislation that benefits the corporate elite at the cost of the masses and then putting that model legislation in the hands of legislators along with gifts and incentives to urge their passing. Now more than 200 of ALEC’s model bills have become actual laws throughout the country over the past year.
The links between corporate greed, state oppression, and you have never been clearer.
(copied directly from the azresistsalec blog: http://azresistsalec.wordpress.com/)

JOIN US for a Bay Area InfoShare and Organizing Session to strategize solidarity actions and joining the coming mobilization against ALEC. 
 
THIS Saturday October 15, 2011 at 2pm
Niebyl Proctor Library
6501 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA

Please read the full call out here:   http://azresistsalec.wordpress.com/call-out-for-resistance-to-november-alec-conference-in-scottsdale-az/

Besides organizing logistics on how to get those who are interested to Phoenix in November, we also want to discuss solidarity actions in the Bay Area and what that might look like. 

We want to not only support Arizona and their call to action, but also build the resistance locally, knowing that ALEC affects communities all over the country. ALEC's influence is wide in scope, and touches everything from the border and prisons, workers rights and health care, to environmental policy. Resistance to ALEC could be a unifying force for all working in seemingly separate struggles.

Please feel free to come, share your thoughts, learn more, and help us plan what resisting ALEC in the Bay Area will look like.

Saturday Oct. 15, 2pm

Niebyl Proctor Library

      6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland CA

We will have some printed materials for the info session but as much reading as you can do beforehand, the better. If we are all on the same page about the basics, we can use the time we have in other ways.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Please forward to any who you think might be interested!

Thanks
CC

Additional Links:
azresistsalec.wordpress.com/
www.alecexposed.org/
alecwatch.org/report.html
http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home (ALEC's official site, see what they say about themselves)
http://azresistsalec.wordpress.com/more-info-on-alec/news-articles/
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/5/secretive_corporate_legislative_group_alec_holds

 

 
http://www.thenation.com/article/161978/alec-exposed

 

 
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed