We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Publicopoly Exposed

Click here to access article by Beau Hodai from In These Times.

This quite lengthy piece from a left-wing source provides much more information on ALEC than the article I posted yesterday. 

Believe it or not, but this is an abridged version of the original article posted on DBA Press website (I discovered that their links were a bit slow to appear.) I think that the people at the DBA Press website are doing excellent work to uncover the methods of government corruption, particularly at the state level, by corporations and influential people of the ruling class. 
DBA Press is an online news publication and archive which delivers in-depth reporting on private and public sector corruption.
They also show how others can obtain similar information for their states, and it would be great for activists in each state to obtain and publicize this information. Such information is an education in itself about how real government functions in the US as opposed to the fake version we receive in educational institutions and mainstream media.
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