Members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meet in Charlotte today to continue the right-wing policy group's decades-old practice of crafting legislation behind closed doors rather than in view of the public. They are gathering in North Carolina -- a state where legislators pushed through a voter suppression bill based on ALEC model legislation that was vetoed by the governor last summer.
As a result of that veto, all eligible North Carolina voters still have access to the polls. But many other Americans have not been as lucky, and voter suppression bills -- backed by ALEC and corporate sponsors such as State Farm, AT&T, Johnson & Johnson and Amazon.com -- stand to disenfranchise as many as 5 million voters, with a disproportionate impact on African Americans, Latinos, the elderly, students, people with disabilities and the poor. Thirteen companies have dropped their association with ALEC since tens of thousands of ColorOfChange members began asking companies last December how they could justify bankrolling a group that suppresses the Black vote.
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Tue 17 Apr, 2012 ColorOfChange Applauds Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's Decision to End its Membership in ALECPhoto Credit: AP Photo/Carlos Osorio -
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Wed 11 Apr, 2012 ColorOfChange applauds Wendy's decision to end membership in ALEC
Media Coverage
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Fri 11 May, 2012 - The Grio Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, releases Mother's Day video message
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Thu 03 May, 2012 - Businessweek ALEC's Secrets Revealed; Corporations Flee
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Wed 02 May, 2012 - ThinkProgress Teachers’ Board Become Fifteenth Group To Drop ALEC
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Tue 01 May, 2012 - Nonprofit Quarterly ColorofChange.org and Advocacy: The ALEC Campaign
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Sun 29 Apr, 2012 - New York Times Only the Latest Way Banks Exploit the Poor
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Thu 26 Apr, 2012 - Huffington Post Conviction of Black Mayor Overturned by U.S. Court of Appeals in Case Closely Watched by Civil Rights Activists
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Tue 24 Apr, 2012 - Washington Post How ALEC became a political liability
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Mon 23 Apr, 2012 - ThinkProgress Procter & Gamble Becomes 13th Company To Drop ALEC
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Thu 19 Apr, 2012 - ThinkProgress KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut’s Owner Is The 12th Corporation To Drop ALEC
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Thu 19 Apr, 2012 - KCRW The American Legislative Exchange Council: Who Is ALEC?
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