Links for Lake Erie States Progressive Summit Presentation
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Welcome to readers from the Lake Erie States Progressive Summit held on August 25 in Erie, Pennsylvania.  Following are the promised website links referenced in my presentation titled "The Infrastructure Behind the Right Wing Juggernaut."
You can also view outlines and links to webpages used in previous PA Progressive Summit presentations at the following links:

2012
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/2/15/111659/576

2011
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/2/1/132159/0192

2010
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/2/10/223656/720

Webpages Referenced in 2013 Presentation:

ALEC Exposed - Center for Media and Democracy
www.alecexposed.org

Keystone Progress reports on ALEC
http://www.scribd.com/ALECfiles

Keystone Progress report on the Pennsylvania Independent and Franklin Center
http://www.scribd.com/doc/159802911/Driving-the-News

Center for Media and Democracy on State Policy Network
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/04/11909/reporters%E2%80%99-guid e-%E2%80%9Cstate-policy-network%E2%80%9D-right-wing-think-tanks-s pinning-disinform

State Policy Network - directory to states
http://www.spn.org/directory/

"Takin' It To The States"
Frederick Clarkson's 1999 Political Research Associates report on the State Policy Network
http://www.politicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/201 3/02/PE-Summer-Fall-1999.pdf

Paul Weyrich's C-Span Interview 2005
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/185929-1

Paul Weyrich C-Span Interview 2005 transcript
http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1016

Cato Institute Briefing Paper 1995
Public Schools, Make Them Private - Milton Friedman
http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-023.html

Cato Institute Analysis No. 269
Vouchers and Educational Freedom:  A Debate
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-269.html

"Like most other conservatives and libertarians, we see vouchers as a major step toward the complete privatization of schooling. In fact, after careful study, we have come to the conclusion that they are the only way to dismantle the current socialist regime."

"Because we know how the government schools perpetuate themselves, we can design a plan to dismantle them."

Dick DeVos Speaking to Heritage Foundation - 2002
(Video embedded in article.)
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/12515/58655

Series of Talk2action.org articles on school privatization efforts in Pennsylvania

Voucher Advocate Betsy DeVos, Right-Wing Think Tanks Behind Koch-Style Attack on PA Public Schools
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/4/20/232844/831
Pro-Voucher Astroturfing Campaigns Across Nation Coordinated by DeVos, Funded by a Few Mega-Donors
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/4/24/22559/1547
Betsy DeVos Announces PA Governor Tom Corbett Will Keynote Pro-Voucher National Policy Summit
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/4/26/112152/230
Protesters Object to School Privatization Efforts of DeVos, Michelle Rhee and PA and WI Governors
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/10/212833/674/

Bridge Project - Conservative Transparency
Website for tracking funding http://bridgeproject.com/?transparency

Family Policy Networks
Family Research Council- State Organizations
http://www.frc.org/state-policy-organizations

Focus on Family/Citizen Link State Organizations
http://www.citizenlink.com/state-groups/

David Barton video
Jesus Opposed the Minimum Wage video
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barton-jesus-opposed-minimu m-wage


Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan, by Kim Phillips-Fein
http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Hands-Making-Conservative-Movement/dp/B0071UODKK

Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) Information
"Battle for the Mainline Churches," by Frederick Clarkson (2006)
http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v20n1/clarkson_battle.html

Reforming America's Churches Project of IRD
http://www.theocracywatch.org/internal_document_ird.html

"Resisting the Green Dragon"
short trailer of film by Cornwall Alliance
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beware-green-dragon



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