Apr 22, 2013
By Bob Sloan As many have begun to write, ALEC is pursuing privatization of everything “public” in America. Perhaps a better description for their actions is “profitizing”, a term VLTP has used for nearly two years to describe efforts by the conservative Koch-funded cabal of think tanks and corporations to turn tax dollars into profits [...]
Apr 16, 2013
From By SCOTT SHANE at NY Times. This new report identified by the NY Times, lays blame for deliberate torture following 9/11 at the foot of former George W. Bush and key members of his administration. Many readers and those who follow our work at VLTP may question how this kind of activity involving torture could in any [...]
Apr 11, 2013
From an article published by Nick Surgey at PRWatch: “ALEC Who?” ALEC Has an Identity Crisis“ The American Legislative Exchange Council is trying to change their image and in accomplishing that they would rather toss away the acronym “ALEC” – they’ve been known by and operating under for forty years now – than change their activities. [...]
Dec 26, 2012
From article written by Bob Sloan and published on Policy Mic… Fact: 282 bills were passed in Michigan during the lame duck session. 42% of all the bills passed in the last two years were in this last lame duck session, with 180 votes taken on the last day of the 2012 session alone. Fact: In the session [...]
Nov 7, 2012
Last summer, a cousin who is a stockbroker, sent me a link from a group called Social Funds. (http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/3592.html As I’ve followed the corporate defections from ALEC and Heartland, Walden Management kept coming up in the conversation. I’ve not found a great deal about them that is not in the Social Funds article linked to [...]
Nov 5, 2012
On Saturday, 11/3, a new grass roots organization had an impact in the city of Charlotte (NC) by running an event in uptown Charlotte, on a busy corner next to an early voting station. The overall message of the event was to inform the public about just who their politicians are working for. Naturally this [...]
Oct 31, 2012
It’s called “Corporatocracy” and as I’ve written for more than two years now, it is alive, well and on the rise. Corporate involvement in government controls, regulations and programs has become dominant over the past two decades – and in the past four years it has increased exponentially following the election of America’s first African-American [...]
Sep 4, 2012
Dear Readers, With the DNC happening in Charlotte, along with all the related protests, time is lacking to do the research to post for you. Please bear with me and we will get the volume of our content back up to normal. Today I attended the Southern Workers Assembly–a meeting of unions from around the [...]
Aug 8, 2012
From an article published at PRWatch by Rebekah Wilce Continuing and unrelenting pursuit of ALEC and their corporate members by activist and labor groups, having huge impact upon the ultra right organization. Thirty plus companies, four foundations and more than 50 legislators have already left ALEC – an organization operating under the banner of being a “Charity”, [...]
Aug 6, 2012
I’m an active Occupier, and a big question among Occupiers is about voting. Should people vote at all and thus support our decrepit two-party system? Don’t Republicans and Democrats both line up at the same trough? Don’t the corporations already “own” both parties by virtue of their money and their willingness to corrupt others with [...]
