Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:24:21 -0700 Subject: Call to Action Against ALEC in Phoenix this November. From: Accion Directa <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Call to Action Against ALEC in Phoenix this November. ALEC thinks theyre meeting in Scottsdale, AZ this November The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a massive non-profit body that brings corporations and legislators together to draft model legislation. For example, AZ Senator Russell Pearce and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nations largest private prison firm, have been members for years. ALEC finalized the model legislation which became, almost word for word, Arizonas SB1070, aka Support Our Law Enforcement. Its the latest in the historical pattern of colonization, slave codes, convict leasing, and the drug war, that CREATES crimes and therefore criminals, for profit. With British Petroleum (BP) and the Koch brothers as some of their funders, ALEC has pushed for Three Strikes and Mandatory Minimum sentencing, as well as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. More than 200 of ALECs model bills became actual laws throughout the country over the past year. Were a group of people in occupied Indigenous lands, now called Arizona, who demand the end of SB1070 and 287g, the criminalizationand then the incarcerationof migrants, and the militarization of the border. We oppose private prisons, detention centers, and security companies, not simply because they are private, but because we are sickened by profiteering on human misery. ALEC desires free markets and limited government, which means they use the state to support profit-making, the continuance of colonization, and neo-liberal policies (NAFTA, CANAMEX, etc.) that draw lines, make laws, and build freeways and prisons to exploit labor and the earth. Whether maintained by the state or corporations, were against all systems of control. We are for freedom of movement for all people. ALEC should know there are a million better things to do with their time than plotting mass incarceration. But theres nowhere wed rather be than confronting their meeting. Were calling for four days of action here in occupied Onk Akimel Oodham lands from November 29th December 3rd, 2011, with an emphasis for action on November 30th (N30!). We encourage a creative diversity of tactics on N30, the 12th anniversary of the Seattle uprising against the WTO. No matter the acronym, ALEC is no different than all the other gangs of businessmen, politicians, and bureaucrats that weve been resisting for over 500 years. In solidarity with everyone locked up and locked down in AZ, and all Oodham, Yaqui, Lipan Apache separated by the border, and anyone dispossessed by the wealthy and powerful Project Baldwin <http://mc/[email protected]>[email protected] More information on ALEC and resistance at <http://azresistsalec.wordpress.com>azresistsalec.wordpress.com. More to come. ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
