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On Feb 29, Occupy Las Vegas is calling for a march down Sahara Avenue to the offices of NV Energy, in protest of their environmental record and their involvement with a powerful corporate lobbying group: the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Over 80 Occupy Cities around the world are joining to oppose this controversial organization, which writes anti-environmentalist bills for your representatives to rubber-stamp. NV Energy is an ALEC member.
They are poisoning the air and the water.
They are killing the Paiute people.
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SHUT OFF YOUR POWER ON FEB 29.
MARCH AGAINST NV ENERGY & ALEC FEB 29.
WE'LL SEE YOU IN THE STREETS!
There has been a theft by the 1% of our democratic ability to shape and form the society in which we live and our society is steered toward the destructive pursuit of consumption, profit and greed at the expense of all else.
We call on everyone in the city of Las Vegas - activists and non-activists alike - to take action against corporations like NVEnergy that are part of ALEC - the American Legislative Exchange Council - a corporate thinktank that writes "model bills" for YOUR representatives to sign into law. We urge you to join us in demonstrations, marches, boycotts, strikes, walkouts, and any other form of non-violent action against more than 400 ALEC corporate members ALL DAY on FEB 29.
Additional Information & Resources:
ALEC/NVEnergy Research
Reid Gardner Plant Research
Handouts & Information Sheets (1- and 2-sided)
National Website: Shut Down The Corporations
Facebook Wall
Facebook Event
Twitter: #F29 @F29pdx
For details on the Wal-Mart action happening just prior to the NVEnergy march, click here.
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Our anti-ALEC march will form at Sahara & Decatur at 2PM, in an area of town which is ripe with ALEC member corporations and their distribution points. Affinity Groups are encouraged to perform their own actions, research their own preferred ALEC targets along the way, and get creative! The march will then proceed to its final destination: the local offices of energy monopolists, ALEC members and murderous profiteers at NVEnergy.
ON MAP:
AT&T
4750 W Sahara Ave
2011 Spent on Lobbying: $15,990,000
Number of lobbyists hired: 110
Revolving door personnel: 78
Number of bills mentioned: 107
2012 political contributions: $1.5 million
Revolving door personnel: 5 (down from 22)
ALEC Private Enterprise Board member
ALEC State corporate co-chair of Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas
ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force member
"Chairman" level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference in 2010
Member of ALEC Louisiana Host Committee
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/att-unlimited-data-plan-limit_n...
Bank of America
4801 W Charleston Blvd
2011 Spent on Lobbying: $2,210,000
Number of lobbyists hired: 16
Revolving door personnel: 12
Number of bills mentioned: 48
Cashamerica (owners of Super Pawn)
2645 S Decatur Blvd
Las Vegas NV 89102
"Vice Chairman" level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference in 2010
Cox Communications
3853 Spring Mountain Rd.
Las Vegas, NV 89102
Trustee level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference in 2010
member of ALEC Louisiana Host Committee
Muckety Map: http://www.muckety.com/Cox-Communications-Inc/5008681.muckety
McDonald's Corporation
4505 W Charleston Blvd
Las Vegas, Nevada 89102
(702) 870-8970
2011 Spent on Lobbying: $1,550,000
ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Executive Committee member
MCDONALDS CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE has raised $636,720 and spent $314,806 so far in 2012
Microsoft
2300 W. Sahara Avenue, Suite 800
Las Vegas, NV 89102
Phone: (702) 856-4300
Fax: (702) 856-4301
2011 Spent on Lobbying: $7,335,000
Number of lobbyists hired: 78
Revolving door personnel: 58
NV Energy
6226 W Sahara Ave
2011 Spent on Lobbying: $190,000
2008 Federal-level Contributions: $92,549
ALEC State corporate co-chair of Nevada
ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force member
-- R&R Partners (Lobbying Firm for NVEnergy)
-- 2008 total combined contributions: $193,362
-- 2008 federal-level contributions: $59,071
-- 2008 state-level contributions: $134,291
Outback Steakhouse
3111 S Valley View Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89102
(702) 247-4230
Wal-Mart
4505 W Charleston Blvd
2011 Spent on Lobbying: $5,610,000
Number of lobbyists hired: 100
Revolving door personnel: 83
Number of bills mentioned: 22
"Chairman" level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference in 2010
Muckety Map: http://www.muckety.com/Wal-Mart-Stores-Inc/5002033.muckety
see http://open.salon.com/blog/watchingfrogsboil/2011/10/24/wal-mart_greed_a...
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NOT ON MAP:
Boyd Gaming Corporation
Executive Offices
6465 S Rainbow Blvd, Las Vegas, NV
(702) 792-7200
CenturyLink
(702) 244-7469
330 S Valley View Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89107
Formerly Qwest Communications until April 2011, preceded by US West, Inc.
"Director" level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference in 2010
Exxon
5893 W Tropicana
Las Vegas NV 89103
2011 spent on lobbying: $12,730,000
Number of lobbyists hired: 35
Revolving door personnel: 21
Muckety Map: http://www.muckety.com/Exxon-Mobil-Corp/5000684.muckety
Fedex
3970 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89119
(702) 207-2811
2011 spent on lobbying: $13,161,784
Number of lobbyists hired: 61
Revolving door personnel: 51
JCPenney Co.
The Boulevard Center
3542 S Maryland, NV
Muckety Map: http://www.muckety.com/J-C-Penney-Co/5001020.muckety
Kraft Foods
4550 Engineers Way
North Las Vegas, Nv 89081-2661
Fortune 1000 rank in 2011: 49
Muckety Map: http://www.muckety.com/Kraft-Foods-Inc/5001085.muckety
2010 spent on lobbying: $500,479
Motorola
3150 North Tenaya Way
Las Vegas, NV 89128-0443
Phone: (702) 838-5946
Sprint Nextel
750 E Warm Springs Rd , Ste 120
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119
(702) 614-5600
2011 spent on lobbying: $3,757,379
State Farm Insurance
3565 Las Vegas Blvd S # 408
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Fortune 1000 rank in 2011: 37
Muckety Map: http://www.muckety.com/State-Farm-Insurance-Companies/5002945.muckety
2010 Lobbying Expenditures: $3,620,000
ALEC Private Enterprise Board member
Recipient of ALEC's 2011 Private Sector Member of the Year Award
"Chairman" level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference in 2010
State Farm Insurance (alternate location)
1700 Vegas Dr Las Vegas,
NV 89106
Phone : 702-750-2700
United Parcel Service (UPS)
2011 Spent on Lobbying: $3,630,560
Number of lobbyists hired: 31
Revolving door personnel: 16
Number of bills mentioned: 17
ALEC Private Enterprise Board member
ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Executive Committee member
ALEC State corporate co-chair of California
Verizon Wireless
3825 S Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas, NV 89119
(702) 734-2510
2011 spent on lobbying: $15,470,000
Number of lobbyists hired: 117
Revolving door personnel: 92
Walgreen Co.
3024 Las Vegas Blvd S, STE A
LAS VEGAS, NV 89109
"Trustee" level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
Sponsor of the Louisiana Welcome Reception at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting
Muckety Map: http://www.muckety.com/Walgreen-Co/5005669.muckety
Walgreens District Office
4340 S Valley View Blvd Ste 208
Las Vegas, NV 89103
(702) 889-8274
I used to work for an AT&T spin-off. Prior to year 2000, if you worked at AT&T for 20 years, you automatically qualified for a retirement pension at 80% of my maximum annual salary. Pretty good right? So how did AT&T reward their loyal employees? They laid off everyone after 19.5 years so the employees got no pension at all. How fucking evil is that?
There are many things you can do to strike a blow against the corrupt power of ALEC:
BEFORE THE EVENT
DISTRIBUTE FLYERS & POSTERS
Print as many as you can, distribute as many as you can, all over town! Public Awareness is key to the impact of the powerdown.
[fullpage flyer]
[4-up flyers]
[how you can help flyer]
DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION SHEETS
Same thing with our information sheets explaining the situation at Moapa Town and our position on the Reid Gardner plant - these are for informing people who want to know more than the info on the posters...
2-Page Info Sheet (for double-sided printing)
Unseen Costs of Burning Coal (1-sided)
SPREAD THE WORD
Tell all your friends & co-workers about Feb 29. Write about it on your blog or facebook wall. Mention it in your newsletters. Tweet about it. Get everyone you know to check out this web page. Convince everyone in your apartment complex to shut off their power that day. Don't be afraid to get creative. Kids, tell your parents - SHUT IT DOWN FEB 29!
DAY OF THE EVENT
MARCH WITH US
This is our main action of the day. Join us at Sahara & Decatur at 2PM on Feb 29. We will crown the day of anti-ALEC actions with a march to NVEnergy's local office. They should have expected us.
OTHER ANTI-ALEC ACTIONS
Are you itching to do something a little more creative? Go for it! There are many ALEC members to choose from. See here for local ALEC members (potential targets for your affinity group). It is recommended that you time your action (if possible) to either occur before 2PM, after 5PM, or (if it's close to the marching area) to coincide with the march (enabling you to perform your action and then fold into the march itself).
BOYCOTT ALEC COMPANIES AND PRODUCTS
A list is developing here. Please feel free to add more.
>> POWER DOWN <<
If you don't feel like marching but you still want to make a statement against NVEnergy - or even if you do come out and join the march - please TURN OFF YOUR POWER all day on Feb 29. Just turn off all electronic appliances (such as computers), and then flip your main circuit breakers. The silence is astonishing, and you can spend some quality facetime with your family.
but:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC_Politicians#Nevada_Legis...
peace
Feb 29th: Shut Down ALEC from Kontra on Vimeo.
Super great find Tod! I can't wait to see what we come up with!
The list is building! We now have testimonial support and/or representatives coming in from...
Good work Todd,
Now let's hope all members do there part to spread the message this is the circles shinning moment for doing a larger scal protest aginst on of the most despicable corps. Out there.
Print off fliers and get out on the streets and spread the word. The time has come to show this town that occupy is not dead.
Please get out and spread the message for the F29 event this is national occupy all at one time. This is an important action for all of us. It would be great if this is the action to show the city we still are here. Get out and pass out fliers tell everyone you come in contact with. this action has been in the works for weeks and we will need all members support.
Panic
Call To Action Feb. 29th 2012
http://occupywallst.org/article/f29-occupy-portland-national-call-action...
After talking to Susan the other day I know what their crew is up to... If they do their end well... and we hit ours... F29 will be remembered in Vegas. It will definitely be a good show that OLV is not dead.
Us and them
Walmart is their action look at their web site and the call out for tape on the fb pages. Looks like an exciting action.
Yeah.. this is gonna be a fun one (evil grin)
I am glad you are pumped this Is going to be the start of the American spring. Good on ya!
(excited squeeky noise)
creepy
I know, right? Surprised me too!
Here's one reason I'm so excited: I got copies today of the outreach email blasts from both the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, verifying fo sho that they WILL be sending people out to march with us.
Sierra Club said: "It is more than gratifying to see Occupy Las Vegas target this issue for action! See you there."
This is what real grassroots looks like. We are able to reach out to to other grassroots groups. We are now resembling a orginized group. Check out the cool video Tod looks like a bad ass activist. Go Morpheus.
Greenpeace posted about us on a blog on their website quitcoal.org:
QuitCoal.org Blog: Momentum-Moapa
Double twinkling.