Environmental for Food Justice

Moderator’s Note: Over the past few years we have monitored the activities of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an infamous elite- and corporate donor-driven organization that has played a major role framing and shaping the extreme right-wing agenda in state legislatures controlled by Republicans. ALEC – which is funded by the likes of Koch Industries, BP, Shell, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and many other energy, oil, and natural gas industry corporations – is well known for designing laws against voting, women’s reproductive health, immigrant, and marriage equality rights. Indeed, ALEC is hardnosed in opposing any policies that benefit low-income or working-class communities and lobbying for laws designed to protect capitalist profits and political power. With all the damage done to human and civil rights by ALEC in the state legislative chambers, what they are doing to dismantle and weaken environmental protections is also a grave and immediate threat to democracy and sane...