Common Cause and 54 other organizations joined Wednesday in asking Google to drop its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a secretive corporate lobbying group.

In a letter to Google offices across the country, the coalition partners urged Google to follow its motto of “Don’t Be Evil” by giving up its ALEC’s membership. The groups cited ALEC’s hidden role in writing state laws; a Common Cause reklamo sa IRS challenges ALEC’s status as a nonprofit charitable organization and asserts the group functions as a lobby for its corporate members..

The letter, which comes just a few weeks after Microsoft announced its departure from ALEC, also argues that ALEC’s opposition to clean energy and net neutrality does not fit Google’s public policy agenda. ALEC, which is heavily funded by telecom and fossil fuel giants including Comcast, AT&T, ExxonMobil, and Koch Industries, has pushed “model” legislation undermining the development of clean energy and opposing net neutrality.

ALEC has been called a “stealth business lobbyist” by the New York Times. The group brings state legislators and corporate lobbyists together in private, often at posh resort hotels, to fashion a variety of legislative proposals that advance the interests of its corporate members, often at the expense of the American people.

Over the past three years more than 80 corporations and at least 400 state legislators have dropped their memberships in ALEC.

Organizations signing the letter to Google include environmental, labor, religious, citizen action, and public interest groups. The signers agreed that “in the spirit of what Google purports to be, and in the spirit of what is best for the American public: it is time for Google to end its membership in ALEC.”

You can read a copy of the letter here.

Ang listahan ng mga organisasyong pumirma sa liham ay nasa ibaba:

American Family Voices
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
Nagkakaisa ang mga Amerikano para sa Pagbabago
Alyansa para sa mga Retiradong Amerikano
Sentro para sa Epektibong Pamahalaan
Center for Media and Democracy/ALECExposed
Christopher Reynolds Foundation
Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington (CREW)
Mga Magulang sa Klima
ColorofChange.org
Karaniwang Dahilan
Communication Workers of America (CWA)
Kampanya ng Tapang
Pagkilos ng CREDO
Demokrasya para sa Amerika
Mga demo
Energy Action Coalition
Forecast the Facts
Free Press
Mga Kaibigan Fiduciary Corporation
Good Jobs First
Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters, U.S.A.
In the Public Interest
International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
Mga Trabahong May Katarungan
Liga ng mga Botante sa Konserbasyon
Money Out Voters In (MOVI)
Montana Environmental Information Center
MoveOn
New Energy Economy
Northwest Coalition para sa Responsableng Pamumuhunan
Mga Tao Para sa Paraang Amerikano
Umunlad Ngayon
Pag-unlad Florida
Pag-unlad Missouri
Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order Milwaukee
Pampublikong Kampanya
Pampublikong Mamamayan
RootsAction
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Sierra Club
Mga Kapatid sa Pagtatanghal ng Mahal na Birheng Maria
Share Action
Social Security Works
Stand Up to ALEC
SumOfUs
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
United Steelworkers (USW)
USAction
Kami Act Radio
Nagtatrabaho sa America
Zevin Asset Management