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• Energy Future Holdings
• Johnson & Johnson
• Coca-Cola Company
• PhRMA
• Kraft Foods, Inc.
• Coca-Cola Co.
• Pfizer Inc.
• Reed Elsevier, Inc.
• DIAGEO
• Peabody Energy
• Intuit, Inc.
• Koch Industries, Inc.
• ExxonMobil
• Verizon
• Reynolds American Inc.
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• Salt River Project
• Altria Client Services, Inc.
• American Bail Coalition
• State Farm Insurance
For more on these corporations,
search at www.SourceWatch.org.
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propaganda.! We are located in Madison, Wisconsin, and publish www.PRWatch.org, www.SourceWatch.org,
and now www.ALECexposed.org. For more information contact: editor@prwatch.org or 608-260-9713.
Center for Media and Democracy's quick
summary
From its 1998 resolution in support of "Fast Track" Trade Promotion Authority-- which was used to push a
permanent normal trading relationship with China through Congress in 2000 with little discussion or debate-to more recent resolutions in support of the proposed Colombia, Panama and Korea Free Trade
Agreements, ALEC has consistently urged its members to support a radical "free trade" agenda. This free
trade agenda has cost America millions of jobs as factories closed and moved overseas in search of
cheaper labor. Since 2001, an estimated 2.4 million American jobs have been lost to China alone. Now a
diverse array of service sector jobs, from accounting and tax preparation to health care and credit card
servicing, are being off-shored under these agreements. Such free trade agreements also allow public
health, consumer, environmental and worker safety rules to be challenged as "barriers to trade" in trade
tribunals that operate outside the constraints of U.S. law.
ALEC has also been a major promoter of the U.S. tobacco industry, which seeks to hook new generations of
smokers on their products around the world. Reynolds Tobacco is the corporate co-chair of the International
Relations Task Force of ALEC. ALEC has a trade resolution specifically targeting the European Union ban
on Snus, a moist tobacco product often marketed to the young with fruit flavors. Reynolds produces Camel
Snus in four flavors and is not happy that this dangerous product is banned in most of Europe. Note that
ALEC maintains a list of "International Delegates," which are elected government officials around the world.