Amidst a movement to overturn "Stand Your Ground" gun laws after the
Trayvon Martin shooting, we look at the American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC), a corporate-funded group that
worked with the National Rifle Association to pass the measures across
the country. On Wednesday, the fast-food giant Wendy’s became the sixth
corporation to publicly cut ties with the secretive right-wing group for
backing the laws. Over the past week McDonald’s, Kraft Foods,
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Intuit have all announced that they have decided to
not renew their membership with ALEC. We speak with Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which runs "ALEC
Exposed," a website that published more than 800 "model" bills and
resolutions secretly voted on by corporations and politicians. "We’ve
seen ALEC, which is really a corporate bill
mill, push legislation on all sorts of issues to make it harder for
Americans to get justice, to make it harder for Americans to vote, to
make it harder for Americans to have their day in court if they or their
loved one is killed or injured by a corporation or corporate greed — by
a bad drug or product," Graves says. She notes many of the draft bills
outline the privatization of Social Security, schools and prisons.Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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