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Rebekah Wilce wrote a new diary post: Syngenta Celebrates Earth Day by Ladling on the Pesticides
This article was originally published by the Center for Media and Democracy at PRWatch.org. Herbicide manufacturer Syngenta had an interesting way of celebrating Earth Day this year, touting the joys of pesticides. The multinational conglomerate sent out a press release during the approach to Earth Day exclaiming that “modern farming is grounds for Earth Day celebration” because, it continues, [...] -
Rebekah Wilce wrote a new diary post: National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Cuts Ties to ALEC
This article was originally published by the Center for Media and Democracy at PRWatch.org. The national certifying body for teachers in the United States, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), participated in the Education Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) until April 2012. In an official statement sent to the Center for Media and [...] -
Rebekah Wilce wrote a new diary post: For-Profit Education Firm Kaplan is 14th Company to Dump ALEC
This article was originally published by the Center for Media and Democracy at PRWatch.org. Kaplan, a for-profit education, tutoring, and testing empire that is the largest division of the $4 billion Washington Post Company , recently told the Republic Report (RR) that Kaplan’s for-profit college division “was a member of ALEC for a one year period, which ended in August 2011.” Kaplan’s [...] -
Rebekah Wilce commented on the diary post Former ALEC Supporters Now Find Connection Toxic by Rebekah Wilce.
Alan, could you be more specific? Which foundation-funded outfits are you referring to?
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Rebekah Wilce wrote a new diary post: Former ALEC Supporters Now Find Connection Toxic
This article was originally published by the Center for Media and Democracy at PRWatch.org. With thousands of consumers expressing their concerns about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to corporations across America, even former supporters of ALEC are feeling the heat, and some are rushing to distance themselves from the organization. YUM! Brands (owners of KFC, Taco Bell and [...] -
Rebekah Wilce commented on the diary post ALEC Sends Out an SOS to Breitbart Bloggers by Rebekah Wilce.
Thank you all for your comments. Keep reading, and as KrisAinTX notes, keep writing — in blogs, in social media, in letters to the editor, in notes to legislators. Keep up the pressure and keep tracking ALEC no matter what develops, in public or behind closed doors.
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Rebekah Wilce wrote a new diary post: ALEC Sends Out an SOS to Breitbart Bloggers
This article was originally published by the Center for Media and Democracy at PRWatch.org. Shortly after issuing a press release announcing that it was disbanding its ” Public Safety and Elections Task Force ” after 30 years, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) held a training for the right-wing blogosphere. ALEC Director of External Relations Caitlyn Korb spoke yesterday at a Heritage [...] -
Rebekah Wilce commented on the diary post Mars and Arizona Public Service Dump ALEC by Rebekah Wilce.
Please feel free to magnify and expand, Phoenix Woman! This was just a quick post.
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Rebekah Wilce wrote a new diary post: Mars and Arizona Public Service Dump ALEC
This article was originally published by the Center for Media and Democracy at PRWatch.org. The seventh and eighth corporations to publicly state that they cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are candy-maker Mars and the Arizona Public Service Company (APS), Arizona’s largest electric utility. Mars had been an exhibitor at ALEC’s 2011 annual meeting in New Orleans. [...] -
Rebekah Wilce commented on the diary post BREAKING: Intuit Out of ALEC; Coke, Kraft, Pepsi, too, while Koch Stands Ground by Rebekah Wilce.
I’ll keep you posted, lmhotep. tjbs, would you email rebekah at prwatch dot org with any ideas you may have on that? I’d love to hear from you. Thanks for reading!
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Rebekah Wilce wrote a new diary post: BREAKING: Intuit Out of ALEC; Coke, Kraft, Pepsi, too, while Koch Stands Ground
This article was originally published by the Center for Media and Democracy at PRWatch.org. A stampede seems to be on the way as more and more groups break ties and dump ALEC. Intuit, Inc. (maker of Quicken and QuickBooks accounting software) told the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) that Intuit also decided not to renew its membership [...] -
Rebekah Wilce commented on the diary post Breaking News: Coca-Cola Dumps ALEC by Rebekah Wilce.
More great news coming soon!
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Rebekah Wilce commented on the diary post At urging of ColorOfChange, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo sever ties with ALEC by Rashad Robinson.
Excellent work, ColorOfChange! Keep the pressure on other ALEC corporations to join Coke and Pepsi and stand down. Read more about this most excellent victory here. See the long list of ALEC corporations here.
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Rebekah Wilce wrote a new diary post: Breaking News: Coca-Cola Dumps ALEC
This article was originally published by the Center for Media and Democracy at PRWatch.org. Public interest groups campaigning to convince Coca-Cola to break ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) scored a major victory yesterday when Coke announced it had ” elected to discontinue its membership with ” ALEC. According to a statement Coke made to the Washington Examiner , “Our involvement with [...] -
Rebekah Wilce commented on the diary post Death by Delay: Obama Team Stalls on Chemical Regulation by Rebekah Wilce.
Interesting point, Alternate ID. Keeping many narratives in the spotlight and many policy tools in the toolbox is essential to democracy and something I worry we are losing more and more quickly each day.
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Rebekah Wilce wrote a new diary post: Death by Delay: Obama Team Stalls on Chemical Regulation
This article was originally published by the Center for Media and Democracy at PRWatch.org. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has drafted a “chemicals of concern” list to restrict the use of certain chemicals and alert the public to their possible dangers. But the list remains secret and dormant because it’s stuck at the Obama administration’s Office of [...]
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Rebekah Wilce commented on the diary post Watercooler: Important Tech Update by Kelly Canfield.
Would it be possible to include Google Picasa in the list of approved sites? Daily Kos does, and it seems to work well.
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Rebekah Wilce wrote a new diary post: USDA to Serve Kids More “Pink Slime”
A product made by grinding up connective tissue from cows and beef scraps that used to be made into dog food is too disgusting to serve at McDonald’s, Burger King or Taco Bell , which have all dropped it due to public pressure, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) thinks it’s fine to serve in school lunches. The [...]
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Rebekah Wilce wrote a new diary post: Atrazine and the Roots of ALEC’s State Data Quality Act
The herbicide atrazine, one of the most heavily used herbicides in the United States has been found in almost 94 percent of U.S. groundwater and can harm human health in multiple ways. ALEC has promoted “model” legislation friendly to Syngenta, atrazine’s primary manufacturer, across the country. At least once, this legislation was introduced to ALEC by a lobbyist [...] -
Rebekah Wilce commented on the diary post Consumer Pressure Spurs Campbell’s to Announce Phase-Out of BPA by Rebekah Wilce.
Exactly, jest, it is telling.
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