Links Page

• Alliance for Democracy
• Alliance local chapters
• Campaign finance
• Corporate welfare

Alliance for Democracy links

About the Alliance

• The People vs. the Runaway Trains, an article about the Alliance founding convention in November 1996
• The Alliance for Democracy Is Born, another account of the convention
• The New York Times had a rather smug piece about the convention. (Sorry, the link is broken.)
• Provisional Constitution of the Alliance

Local chapters with websites

• Austin, Texas Chapter
• Indianapolis/Central Indiana Chapter
• Madison, Wisconsin Chapter
• San Francisco and East San Francisco Bay, Calif. chapters
• Davis/Yolo County, Calif. Chapter
• San Diego and Los Angeles
• Oregon has a web page. (Watch this space.)

Other "Alliance for Democracy" groups

• North Carolina Alliance for Democracy works on campaign finance reform, voter rights, and other related issues
• Pennsylvania Alliance for Democracy works mainly on civil liberty issues and equal rights

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Campaign finance links

• The Coin-Operated Congress, a continuing investigation by Mother Jones managazine
• Project Vote Smart includes campaign finance info in its biographies of state and national elected officials
• The Federal Election Commission is the "sheep in wolf's clothing" that was created to enforce the 1975 Federal Election Campaign Act. This site provides plenty of raw numbers

Updated 17 February 1999
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Corporate welfare links

• Who Gets Welfare? names names and shows faces of CEOs who benefit from public largesse [Source: WILPF, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom]
• CW-Watch is the home page of the CORP-WELFARE discussion list. You can search the list archives.
• The Corporate Welfare Shame Page has a free-enterprise, Libertarian slant (but some links are broken)

Birmingham Alliance for Democracy Edited by Rob Collins
Last updated on 17 February 1999.