The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a massive non-profit body that brings corporations and legislators together to draft “model” legislation. For example, AZ Senator Russell Pearce and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm, have been members for years. ALEC finalized the model legislation which became, almost word for word, Arizona’s SB1070, aka “Support Our Law Enforcement.” It’s the latest in the historical pattern of colonization, slave codes, convict leasing, and the drug war, that CREATES crimes and therefore criminals, for profit.
ALEC should know there are a million better things to do with their time than plotting mass incarceration. But there’s nowhere we’d rather be than confronting their meeting. We’re calling for four days of action here in occupied Onk Akimel O’odham lands from November 29th – December 3rd, 2011, with an emphasis for action on November 30th (N30!). We encourage a creative diversity of tactics on N30, the 12th anniversary of the Seattle uprising against the WTO. No matter the acronym, ALEC is no different than all the other gangs of businessmen, politicians, and bureaucrats that we’ve been resisting for over 500 years.
December 3, 2011 11:15pm
We’re a group of people in occupied Indigenous lands, now called Arizona, who demand the end of SB1070 and 287g, the criminalization—and then the incarceration—of migrants, and the militarization of the border. We oppose private prisons, detention centers, and security companies, not simply because they are private, but because we are sickened by profiteering on human misery. ALEC desires “free markets” and “limited government,” which means they use the state to support profit-making, the continuance of colonization, and neo-liberal policies (NAFTA, CANAMEX, etc.) that draw lines, make laws, and build freeways and prisons to exploit labor and the earth.
Whether maintained by the state or corporations, we’re against all systems of control. We are for freedom of movement for all people.
