Wisconsin
Related: About this forumNew group ALICE to counter ALEC’s influence
This afternoon, the American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange (ALICE) announced the launch of its groundbreaking new website. ALICE is a one-stop, web-based, public library of progressive law on a wide range of issues in state and local policy.
ALICE Director Joel Rogers explained that ALICE is an open, public, transparent resource that relies on the knowledge and goodwill of a network of professors, students, activists, researchers and others. The website we are launching today provides a starting place for activists, policymakers and others interested in progressive model law. We hope that others will join us in the important work of building a one-stop shop of progressive best practices.
ALICE might be understood as a partial antidote to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate-backed group that has for nearly 40 years provided model state law and connection to corporate lobbyists to its nearly 2,000 state legislator members.
Like ALEC, ALICE is a values-based nonprofit that offers model legislation over a broad range of state and local issues. But its easily distinguished from its counterpart. ALICE aims to promote, not destroy, economic fairness, environmental sustainability, and effective democratic government. Its model laws are public, not secret. Theyre written by public interest advocates and volunteers, not paid corporate lobbyists. They cover local, not just state, policy. They include law originating from the executive branch and directly from citizens, as well as from legislative bodies. And ALICE only provides such model law and written supports for its persuasive communication.
As Rogers said, ALICE is not a corporate-funded juggernaut nor do we aspire to be one. Unlike ALEC, we dont plan to subsidize junkets for state legislators. As we get underway, we aim simply to supply a small, if vital, piece of a broader infrastructure: progressive model and exemplary laws that everyone should know about.
For further information please visit our website at www.alicelaw.org, or contact us at 608.890.4879.
ALICE (American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange), is a project of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), a nonprofit think-and-do tank, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that promotes high road solutions to social problems.
http://bloggingblue.com/2012/09/26/new-group-alice-to-counter-alecs-influence/
freshwest
(53,661 posts)alittlelark
(18,890 posts)Alice.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)research for them...
midnight
(26,624 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)calimary
(81,498 posts)Glad to see this. Too bad we didn't have something like this years ago!
dmr
(28,349 posts)midnight
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Summary:A report on how businesses who operate in Wisconsin use tax loopholes to move their profits out of state, thus avoiding paying state income tax.Topic:Corporate Tax Disclosure RequirementsYear:2007Source:Institute for Wisconsin's Future
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4. Adequacy Based School Funding
Summary:A report on how disparities in school district funding cause students attending schools in low-income districts to fall behind students in high-income districts and what certain states are doing to rectify...Topic:Adequacy Based School FundingYear:2008Source:Center for State Innovation
This is great stuff to know about...
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)tanglefoot
(202 posts)Maybe more - at least as long as I've known about ALEC.
But thanks for sharing it here. It hadn't occurred to me that so many people weren't aware of it or that with the new awareness of ALEC, that more people would be interested in ALICE.