ALEC Corporations: Boycott Them

Corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council write model legislation and pressure state legislatures to adopt it. These laws break unions, take away worker protections and environmental regulations, capture control of government for use of corporate interests at the expense of the public good. They include: AT&T, Kraft Foods, UPS, Walmart, Amazon.com, FedEx, Frito-Lay, HP, JC Penney, McDonalds, Microsoft, Miller Brewing Company, Outback Steakhouse, Sprint Nextel, Sony, Time Warner, United Airlines, Verizon, Visa, American Express, KFC/Taco Bell, Walgreens, and hundreds of others. Money you spend there will be used as weapons against democracy, against the middle class, against the environment, against civil liberties. Check the list before you buy. Shop at the smallest, most local places.

Banks Decide Where Money Can Be Used

This is frightening. Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and Bank of America have refused to process payments to an organization that said that it will release data revealing corruption in the financial industry. Banks and credit-card companies create our medium of exchange. Money is "legal tender for all debts, public and private." Financial services companies cannot be allowed, on their say-so, to select who may and may not transfer and receive money.