70k Demand UPS and FedEx Leave ALEC, Stop Funding Climate Denial and Animal Cruelty
Nearly 70,000 people have signed petitions to pressure UPS and FedEx to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative public policy lobbying group known for its opposition to environmental regulations. The two Care2 petitions warn UPS and FedEx that consumers will send their holiday mail through other carriers if the companies do not quit ALEC.
Last year, ALEC saw a mass exodus of companies under pressure from various stakeholder groups. Microsoft severed ties with ALEC’s Communications and Technology Task Force in August in response to ALEC’s anti-renewables stance after prompting from investors. Google followed suit shortly after, after urging from enviromental groups; during the announcement, chairman Eric Schmidt said he felt ALEC is “making the world a much worse place,” and added, “We should not be aligned with such people. They are just literally lying [about climate change].” By the end of September, Facebook and Yelp ditched the council. AOL and SAP soon followed. eBay confirmed its departure in December after several months of pressure from activists.
Many of these companies were quick to say they had limited involvement with ALEC — that their only involvement was a certain task force, for example. Former eBay CEO John Donahoe clarified by saying, “We are only with them [ALEC] on one issue: Internet,” and “we are not with them” on climate change.
“With eBay out, we’re looking to AT&T, Verizon, FedEx and UPS to follow suit and distance themselves from ALEC’s extreme climate denial agenda,” said Ryan Canney, Senior Campaigner with Climate Truth (formerly Forecast the Facts). “If they choose to stay with ALEC, we’ll be taking the issue to their customers, shareholders and employees.”
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want to own the world. They are the axis powers of WWII with the map, dividing the continents. The shipping companies are biding their time while their criminal cohorts in Congress try to ruin the US postal service. The communications companies are ramping up the bidding war to see who will pay them the most for propaganda rights. 
