drafting right to work language used as a model in states across the country is the american legislative exchange council or alec tax exempt nonprofit organization that's behind everything from stand your ground laws to voter id laws and the organization's latest victory once again plays directly into the manipulation of the word rights this time promoting the right to farm see right to farm laws were passed throughout the eighty's and now exist in every single state essentially protecting farmers from being sued over the smells or sounds that may occur from standard agricultural practices sounds like comments . ans except according to business week all the way back in one thousand nine hundred six alec came up with a model legislation that would expand existing right to farm laws to grant wide ranging legal rights to farms of all sizes as in and nor most industrial size farms such as the ones operated by meat producer cargill or g.m.o. crop producer monsanto and the way that alec wrote the right to farm language makes it nearly impossible to take on these companies over issues such as animal mistreatmen

shady and when you're looking to buy up some shady there's one main supplier alec the american legislative exchange council they've cornered the market and sure enough alec created these right to farm bills so that no one could stop massive factory farms from doing all kinds of horrible in this many people still don't know much about factory farms here's an aerial image of one of them this is a real image doesn't look like of lucent for where to go out to like a three day bender of coke jack daniels chili dogs and malaria and then vomit all over top middle of america that's what it is many of these farms consist of thousands of animals stacked on. top of each other hardly moving eating excrement mixed with food full of more chemicals than barry bonds in his prime so he's right to farm bills which are sold as something to help small farmers are really designed to protect massive farm corporations as they pillage the earth coating portions of the country in rivers of cow poop that make the ghost busters to river of evil look like ponce de leon for value. and i was wrong about one thing though there are indee

drafting right to work language used as a model in states across the country is the american legislative exchange council or alec tax exempt nonprofit organization that's behind everything from stand your ground laws to voter id laws and the organization's latest victory once again plays directly into the manipulation of the board of rights this time promoting the right to farm see right to farm laws were passed throughout the eighty's and now exist in every single state essentially protecting farmers from being sued over the smells or sounds that may occur from standard agricultural practices sounds like comments . ans except according to business week all the way back in one thousand nine hundred six alec came up with a model legislation that would expand existing right to farm laws to grant wide ranging legal rights to farms of all sizes as in and nor most industrial size farms such as the ones operated by meat producer cargill or g.m.o. crop producer monsanto and the way that alec wrote the right to farm language makes it nearly impossible to take on these companies over issues such as animal mistrea

rallying in dallas, texas this week to protest the annual convention of the right-wing american legislative exchange councilknown as alec. the secretive group joins corporate lobbyists with state lawmakers to craft model legislation that is then introduced in legislatures nationwide. activists have been organizing protests under the banner of "don't mess with texas, alec." and those are some of the headlines. headlines. this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. mate. i am aaron over 40 palestinians have been killed in the gaza city of rafah following the collapse of a u.s and un-backed ceasefire. reuters reports israeli tanks opened fire in the southern rafah area just hours after the 72-hour ceasefire began. israel is claiming hamas first broke the ceasefire by firing rockets at israeli forces in southern gaza. a senior hamas leader says a soldier was scheduled -- was captured before. even before the outbreak of violence, the u.s. and israel said they would refuse to negotiate directly with hamas. >> the palestinian death toll has now reached at least 1,460, mostly

about eighty three million dollars compared to alec the american legislative exchange council seven million so it is a it's a they consider themselves think tank but it's an ideological bent obviously a big one very much so now with these who's who is behind this who wins if you believe their union so it's interesting how they have really gone through this attack where they're coming after not only the unions but working families and the middle class primarily and of course the funders of the typical suspicious elements they are the koch brothers the donors trusts which is the the dark a.t.m. for the for the right wing but it also is funded by a lot of foundations that i don't think a lot of people have heard of like the ceral foundation the walton foundation the bradley foundation the chorus foundation so a lot of money going going to say policy network blowing into n.p.r. i and the wall foundation would be the moment that a large family of five. get there with over one hundred billion dollars right back to the riches that when america. back in back in the fifty's back in fifty two and rus