Shut Down the Corporations: Report from F29 actions against ALEC

29th Feb­ru­ary 2012

Ris­ing Tide North Amer­i­ca sent out this report today about the Shut Down the Cor­po­ra­tions call to action: “#F29 is off to bang this morn­ing with actions across the coun­try. big props to our Ris­ing Tide & Occu­py com­rades in Port­land for ini­ti­at­ing this great day of action.

The tar­get of the day is the Amer­i­can Leg­isla­tive Exchange Com­mis­sion, or ALEC, & their mem­ber cor­po­ra­tions. ALEC is the shad­owy front group that has been push­ing a right wing agen­da on every­thing from labor to cli­mate change.

Here’s some updates:

-Occu­py­LA is blockad­ing a mas­sive Wal-Mart Dis­tro Cen­ter
-Occu­py Wall Street had a teach-in with Rolling Stone jour­nal­ist Matt Taib­bi & is see­ing march­es to Pfiz­er, block­ades at Bank of Amer­i­ca & lots of heavy hand­ed police repres­sion (shock­ing, we know)
-Occu­py­DC is blockad­ing Monsanto’s offices
-Actions are step­ping off in Ari­zona, Salt Lake City, Con­necti­cut, Hat­ties­burg, MS, Far­go, ND, Lake­land, FL, Tam­pa, FL, and Win­ston-Salem, NC.
-Today at 1130, Occu­py­Port­land has orga­nized a mass march to vis­it all ALEC offices in the city.

here’s the Glob­al Live Blog if you want to keep up

Great arti­cle this morn­ing on Moth­er Jones

…sol­i­dar­i­ty, RTNA News”

And check out this video of a block­ade of G4S secu­ri­ty com­pa­ny today in Tuc­son, AZ: http://youtu.be/AB5MZDdjHck