About 300 protesters from New Orleans and several other states gathered in New Orleans with the goal of keeping up the pressure on both corporate and legislative members of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. Ever since a whistle blower exposed over 800 pieces of legislation written collaboratively by ALEC’s corporate and legislative members behind closed doors over a 30-year period, ALEC has been getting more attention than ever. Over one hundred articles have appeared in national publications since the ALECExposed web site went on line, from The Nation to Bloomberg News to Huffington Post and Ms. Magazine.
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Adam Stant, one of the organizers of the protest against ALEC that took place in Cincinnati in April, talked about what has happened since Cincinnati. As a result of the protests in Cincinnati, a whistle blower, a member of ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) exposed over 800 pieces of model legislation that is now available to professional and citizen journalists at the web site, ALECExposed.com to compare legislation introduced by ALEC members in state legislatures all across the country to model legislation written by a collaboration of ALEC corporate and state legislative members. “The spotlight is on them and is not going to turn away,” Stant said. Stant pointed out the unusual language used to name the pieces of model legislation that ALEC makes available to its legislative members. The titles of the legislation in the repository of model legislation include The Full Employment Act, which ends unemployment insurance as it has existed for decades, The Civil Rights Act that ends affirmative action and other bills that use what can only be referred to as Orwellian language to name the bills that come out of ALEC.
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