Look, I really feel silly having to say this, and I'm sure I've sent this
to you before (I've sent it to them before when they want me to sign
petitions) and gotten no response back, but...
If you have to tell someone, much less a Corporation whose only interest
is their bottom line, that is, they are only concerned about profits, that
they aren't doing good or that they are doing evil, working agasint your
best interests, momentary riding herd on them only gets what is
transparent, to be hidden and then they will use the profits they get from
your purchases or from their advertisers, the power they get from your
membership, to work agasint our ignorant asses anyway.
Just defund the bastards.
Buy nothing from any of them or anyone associated with them. They use
those profits to fund legislation that is agasint what we want.
Leave them as a group.
DO NOT tell them why, so they can hire a Wall Street smooth talker to
polish that turd and write stuff to get you to buy their Shit packaged as
Shinola. You'll still be funding with your purchases or support of their
advertisers, the things you are agasint.
Do NOT sign petitions agasint them, just LEAVE and STOP FUNDING THEM. Look
for someone who supports YOUR Values, and GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY, instead of
those you know are working agasint your best interests.
But do forward things like this on, and tell your friends why you do NOT
have a Facebook Account, why you do not YELP, and why you use anyone
else's services then Google.
It ain't free, if you believe that, then you too get paid with free money.
Scott
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Subject: Unbelievable. Google just joined ALEC
From: "Claiborne D., SumOfUs.org" <u...@sumofus.org>
Date: Mon, 16 September, 2013 12:36 pm
To: "Scott Peden" <scotpe...@cruzio.com>
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Facebook, Google, and Yelp just joined the American Legislative
Executive
Council, one of the worst right-wing lobbying forces in history.
Call on the three tech giants to dump ALEC now.
[1]Sign the petition
Scott,
Union-busting, fighting Obamacare, backing the Stand Your Ground laws that
led to Trayvon Martin's death, hiding proof of climate change... there's
nothing the American Legislative Exchange Council won't stoop to.
The public outcry against ALEC has caused nearly fifty corporations to
drop out over the past several months. But now Facebook, Google and Yelp
are looking to reverse that trend. The companies recently joined the group
responsible for some of the most egregious anti-labor, anti-environment,
anti-poor, and anti-minority legislation in the past decade. Now, we need
to raise a cry to show them that getting in bed with ALEC is unacceptable,
before all the hard work over the past year is undone.
[2]Demand Facebook, Google and Yelp drop their ALEC membership now.
We can't afford to have three major tech companies help finance a
monstrosity like this right-wing lobbying group, and they can't afford the
bad press that comes with an ALEC membership. ALEC has become a toxic
brand that image-conscious companies don't want to be associated with.
ALEC worked in close conjunction with the NRA to push the controversial
Stand Your Ground law onto dozens of states. ALEC helped private prison
companies enact Arizona's "show your papers" law in order to fill up cells
with Latinos. It has sponsored a host of horrific legislation that is
tearing down personal rights and handing over money to corporations. We
simply cannot allow such practices to be condoned by major companies.
Our voices already shamed over fifty companies and nonprofits, including
the likes of Amazon, Walmart, and Coca-Cola, into dropping the American
Legislative Executive Council. Just recently, after months of pressure by
students, Sallie Mae left the group. But if we don't speak out now,
Google, Facebook, and Yelp could start back the movement of corporate
funding into ALEC.
[3]Sign on to tell Google, Facebook, and Yelp to stop associating with
ALEC immediately.
Thanks for all that you do,
Claiborne and the rest of us.
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More Information:
[4]ALEC at 40: Turning back the clock on progress and prosperity, ALEC
Exposed, 23 August 2013.
[5]Tech Giants partner with ALEC, Salon Magazine, 16 August 2013.
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