{"id":13525,"date":"2014-10-07T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/common-cause-joins-over-80-organizations-asking-ebay-to-leave-alec\/"},"modified":"2014-10-07T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:58:00","slug":"common-cause-joins-over-80-organizations-asking-ebay-to-leave-alec","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articles\/common-cause-joins-over-80-organizations-asking-ebay-to-leave-alec\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Joins Over 80 Organizations Asking eBay to Leave ALEC"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13525","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Common Cause joined over 80 organizations on Tuesday in asking eBay to drop its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a secretive corporate lobbying group.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8296}"],"related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p>Common Cause joined over 80 organizations on Tuesday in asking eBay to drop its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a secretive corporate lobbying group.<\/p><p>En un <strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/policy-and-litigation\/letters-to-government-officials\/coalition-letter-to-ebay.html\/\"><strong>letter&nbsp;to eBay executives<\/strong><\/a>, the coalition partners cited ALEC&rsquo;s extreme agenda, including its denial of the impact of climate change and its opposition to net neutrality. They also complained that ALEC hides its role in writing state laws. A Common Cause&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/asuntos-2\/more-democracy-reforms\/alec\/whistleblower-complaint\/\" title=\"Whistleblower Complaint\">complaint to the IRS<\/a> challenges ALEC&rsquo;s status as a nonprofit, charitable organization and asserts the group functions as a lobby for its corporate members.<\/p><p>&ldquo;ALEC is a corporate lobby that masquerades as a charity and uses its non-profit tax status to evade lobbying disclosure laws,&rdquo; said Common Cause President Miles Rapoport. &ldquo;It supports a radical policy agenda that would have government ignore climate change, block localities from guaranteeing workers a living wage, and dismantle programs that offer a helping hand to victims of racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination. Ebay should join the dozens of companies that have severed ties with ALEC.&rdquo;<\/p><p>The letter urges eBay to follow the example set by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, International Paper, Occidental Petroleum, News Corporation, and Overstock.com, all companies that recently have announced that they have left ALEC or plan to depart soon. Additionally, Uber and Lyft, two prospective ALEC members whose representatives attended ALEC&rsquo;s most recent annual meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/democracy-wire\/uber-and-lyft-leave-alec-at-curb.html\/\">told Common Cause<\/a> they have no plans to join, participate, or fund ALEC.<\/p><p>ALEC brings state legislators and corporate lobbyists together in private, often at lavish resort hotels, to fashion legislative proposals that advance the interests of its corporate members, frequently at the expense of the general public.<\/p><p>Since 2011, more than 90 corporations and at least 400 state legislators have dropped their memberships in ALEC.<\/p><p>Organizations signing the letter to eBay include environmental, labor, religious, citizen action, and public interest groups.<\/p><p><strong>The list of organizations who have signed the letter is below:<\/strong><\/p><p>Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA)<br \/> Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)<br \/> Voces de la familia americana<br \/> American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)<br \/> American Federation of State, County, &amp; Municipal Employees (AFSCME)<br \/> American Federation of Teachers (AFT)<br \/> Estadounidenses por la Acci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica (ADA)<br \/> Americans United for Change<br \/> Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA)<br \/> Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice<br \/> Boston Common Asset Management<br \/> Campaign for America's Future (CAF)<br \/> Campaign to Unload<br \/> Catholics United<br \/> Centro para un Gobierno Eficaz<br \/> Center for Media &amp; Democracy\/ALEC Exposed<br \/> Christopher Reynolds Foundation<br \/> Climate Parents<br \/> ColorofChange.org<br \/> Causa com\u00fan<br \/> Trabajadores de las Comunicaciones de Estados Unidos (CWA)<br \/> Corporate Accountability International<br \/> CourageCampaign.org<br \/> Ciudadanos por la Responsabilidad y la \u00c9tica en Washington (CREW)<br \/> CREDO Action<br \/> Democracy for America<br \/> Poblaci\u00f3n<br \/> Dignity Health<br \/> Coalici\u00f3n de Acci\u00f3n Energ\u00e9tica<br \/> Environmental Defense Fund<br \/> Families USA<br \/> Forecast The Facts<br \/> Friends Fiduciary Corporation<br \/> Friends of the Earth U.S.<br \/> Global Exchange<br \/> Green Century Capital Management<br \/> Paz verde<br \/> In The Public Interest<br \/> International Brotherhood of Teamsters<br \/> Empleos con justicia<br \/> League of Conservation Voters<br \/> Midwest Coalition for Responsible investment<br \/> Money Out Voters In<br \/> Montana Environmental Information Center<br \/> MoveOn.org<br \/> National Council of Churches USA<br \/> National Coalition on Black Civic Participation<br \/> Asociaci\u00f3n Nacional de Educaci\u00f3n (NEA)<br \/> Proyecto de Ley Nacional de Empleo (NELP)<br \/> National Gay and Lesbian Task Force<br \/> Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment<br \/> PAX World Management<br \/> Gente a favor del estilo americano<br \/> Progress Arizona<br \/> Progreso Florida<br \/> Progress Iowa<br \/> Progress Missouri<br \/> Progress Now<br \/> Progress Ohio<br \/> Progress Virginia<br \/> Public Campaign<br \/> Ciudadano p\u00fablico<br \/> Responsible Endowments Coalition<br \/> RootsAction<br \/> Sindicato Internacional de Empleados de Servicios (SEIU)<br \/> Club Sierra<br \/> Sierra Student Coalition<br \/> Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary<br \/> La seguridad social funciona<br \/> Stand Up To ALEC<br \/> SumofUs<br \/> SustainUS<br \/> Unitarian Universalist Association<br \/> Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)<br \/> Trabajadores Unidos de Alimentos y Comercio (UFCW)<br \/> United Steelworkers (USW)<br \/> US Action<br \/> We Act Radio<br \/> Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota Coalition for Responsible Investment<br \/> Am\u00e9rica trabajadora<br \/> Zevin Asset Management<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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