Shutting down the US Chamber of Commerce

I received this email message from the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution.  Their activist project wants to shut down the US Chamber of Commerce.  Your financial support is requested; below are excerpts from that email message.

Three years ago, we thought about taking on the Chamber. But we didn’t because we didn’t have the resources. We talked with friends and potential partners. And that’s all we did; talk. 

It turns out that even then, the Chamber was listening. They hired private security firms made up of former military intelligence specialists to spy on our friends, and to spy on us. These firms, HBGary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (collectively called Team Themis) — developed tactics for damaging progressive groups and labor unions, produced a report that revealed that our executive director, Ben Manski, had met with another pro-democracy activist named Brett Kimberlin. 

Earlier this week we raised nearly $1,000 to help us get the Shut the Chamber campaign going.  We need to raise another $4,000 by Monday so that we can launch the campaign next week. 

Budget cuts are here. The Chamber is to blame. The climate crisis is off Washington’s radar. The Chamber is to blame. Every day counts. Every day that goes by in which the Chamber is unchallenged counts. Please make the most generous contribution you can now. 

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Take Action: Demand ALEC companies withdraw from membership

From Tell ALEC Companies to Stand Down! | The Center for Media and Democracy

• The tragic Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida has once again drawn attention to the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in spreading terrible public policy in the form of “model” bills across the nation.

• We are sending letters to the corporate leadership of the ALEC, which includes many household names (Bayer, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft, Wal-Mart, UPS, State Farm, Johnson and Johnson, AT&T, Koch, Altria/Phillip Morris USA, Reynolds Tobacco, Centerpoint 360, American Bail Coalition, Diageo, Energy Future Holdings, Exxon Mobile, Intuit, Peabody Energy, PhRMA, Reed Elsevier, Salt River Project) to demand that they withdraw their membership from ALEC and do what’s right for our democracy.

• Send your own letter to the companies.

• For more information about ALEC corporations, ALEC politicians, and the details of what they are doing behind closed doors go to www.ALECexposed.org.