Boycott Koch Brothers Industries – POSTER

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1. Michelle says:

   April 6, 2011 at 8:09 pm

   Now that we know that the Tea Party isn’t a grass roots organization, but the result of astroturfing by oil billionaires, it’s worth looking at what the Koch brothers’ political influence has gained for Koch Industries so far. AFP has been involved in:

   Lobbying for the tobacco industry and against clean air initiatives:
   It opposed a proposed Texas smoking ban in 2005, using money from Philip Morris and other tobacco companies.It also opposed: an Illinois state tax on cigarettes in 2008, claiming it would eliminate jobs, a clean indoor air law in Washington, D.C. in 2006 and a clean indoor air law in Kansas City, portraying the issue as one of personal liberty and economics rather than public health.
   Opposition to health care reform:
   AFP created an offshoot front group called Patients United Now, which organized what is estimated to be in excess of three hundred rallies against health-care reform. At one rally, an effigy of a Democratic congressman was hung. At another, protesters unfurled a banner depicting corpses from Dachau. Patients United Now also helped organize “Kill the Bill” protests outside the Capitol, in March 2010, where Democratic supporters of health-care reform alleged that they were spat on and cursed at.
   AFP and the 912 Project were involved in organizing “town hall protests” and “recess rallies” where participants opposed health care reform by shouting down members of Congress while they are holding public meetings to inform the public about the proposals..
   AFP started a group called “Patients First” to oppose health care. It conducted bus tours around the country to create opposition to health care reform. They continued to push the “death panel” lie long after it was exposed as completely untrue.
   Opposing climate control legislation (Koch Industries is one of America’s largest polluters):
   In 2008, AFP ran its Hot Air Tour campaign, a hot air balloon cross-country tour with the slogan, “Global Warming Alarmism: Lost Jobs, Higher Taxes, Less Freedom.”
   The controversial David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, pushes a very optimistic and unrealistic view of the way that humans “will adapt to climate change.”
   Setting up a web site called nostimulus.com, a supposedly grassroots website intended to address concerns regarding government spending and growth. It also contained a petition against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
   The company was founded by Fred Koch, who made a lot of money working for the Soviet dictator at the time, Joseph Stalin. Fred, a staunch anti-communist during the McCarthy era, was also a founding member of the arch-conservative, some would also claim racist, but certainly paranoiac, John Birch Society. He and other members considered President Dwight D. Eisenhower to be a Communist agent. His sons, David and Charles, continued in his footsteps.
2. Car Hire Alicante says:

   April 12, 2011 at 2:39 pm

   Maybe you’ll want to get a twitter button to your blog. Just marked down this blog, but I must do it manually. Just my $.02

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