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Monday, January 9, 2012

Schooling in the Ownership Society: ALEC's disturbing level of influence [Video]

Schooling in the Ownership Society: ALEC's disturbing level of influence [Video]:

ALEC's disturbing level of influence [Video]

Anna Scholl, ProgressVA, joins Thom Hartmann in exposing ALEC - the American Legislative Exchange Council. In case you dont know what ALEC is - it's a far-rightwing organization that brings together corporate CEOs and lobbyists with elected lawmakers to come up with custom-made legislation that benefits anti-public school "reformers", big polluters, job outsourcers, and banksters, and hurts unions, poor people, and voters. And apparently it's found a friend in the Virginia General Assembly, where since 2007, over 50 different pieces of