Moyers: How Dollarocracy is Destroying America
The money and power behind this week’s election results confirm what everyone knows: democracy is under siege.
Read MoreThe money and power behind this week’s election results confirm what everyone knows: democracy is under siege.
Read MoreALEC’s model legislation reflects long-term goals: downsizing government, removing regulations on corporations and making it harder to hold the economically and politically powerful to account. Corporate donors retain veto power over the language, which is developed by the secretive task forces. The task forces cover issues from education to health policy. ALEC’s priorities for the 2011 session included bills to privatize education, break unions, deregulate major industries, pass voter ID laws and more.
Read MoreThis is proof positive that public process does matter and that people based movements can and do make a difference. If they can do it in Wisconsin we can do it in Coos County.
Read More30,000 students and public sector workers rallied at the Wisconsin State House in Madison Thursday to oppose Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s bid to eliminate almost all their collective bargaining rights and slash pay and benefits
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