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Taylor Leake, Corporate Accountability info@corporateaccountability.org via email.actionnetwork.org
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Dear Peter,
Every year, we choose 10 abusive corporations and ask you to vote for which is the worst of the worst. The winner is inducted into our Corporate Hall of Shame. Then, we partner with members and allies to mobilize grassroots pressure and turn up the heat on corporations that corrupt the political process and abuse human rights, the environment, and our public health.
And for the fifth year in a row, you have voted to induct Koch Industries into the Corporate Hall of Shame.
Maybe you voted for Koch Industries because of its lobbying for environmental rollbacks. Or maybe it was its role in securing a massive tax cut for the rich. Or because Koch Industries helps bankroll the Koch network that pushes a policy agenda focused on halting action on the climate crisis, weakening public education nationwide, and stripping rights and keeping wages low for workers. Whatever your reason, and whoever you voted for in our Corporate Hall of Shame, it’s time to take action!
Because Koch Industries is being inducted into the Corporate Hall of Shame, we’re partnering with UnKoch My Campus, and other allies, to urge George Mason University to cut ties with the Koch network.
These tactics are not new. Corporations have long used think tanks, academic institutions, and nonprofits to spread misinformation to boost corporate profits, and push for corporate-friendly policies that harm people, the planet, and democracy.
Will you add your name and tell George Mason University to remove all of the Koch-funded programs from campus now?
Urge George Mason University to cut ties with the Koch network.
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George Mason University hosts three Koch-funded institutes. These programs must be removed from the campus immediately. A public institution should not serve the interests of corporations, let alone host corporate-backed think tanks that are undermining public health and environmental policy.
What do these three Koch-funded institutes look like? The Mercatus Center uses the university’s name in its promotion of misinformation about Medicare for All. For years, it has also been a leading pusher of climate change denial in the nation. Currently the Mercatus Center is using the COVID-19 pandemic to encourage the permanent rollback of regulations. The Law & Economics Center has spent decades pushing a pro-corporate doctrine onto state and federal judges through its “seminars.” And George Mason University’s Institute for Humane Studies is working to equip conservative academics across the country with resources to undermine student activists who are organizing against white supremacist speaking tours.
We cannot allow the Koch network to continue using George Mason University’s name and reputation to bolster its pursuit of a policy agenda focused on halting action on the climate crisis, weakening public education nationwide, and stripping rights and keeping wages low for workers.
Tell George Mason University to remove all of its Koch-funded programs from campus NOW!
Taylor Leake Onward,
Taylor Leake
Digital Director
Corporate Accountability
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