Color of Change press release: “his morning, Amazon General Counsel Michelle Wilson announced at the company’s shareholder meeting that the online retailer will not renew its membership in American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to multiple reports from inside the meeting. ALEC is a right-wing policy group that has worked to suppress the Black vote and attack workers and the environment. The announcement came as ColorOfChange, Working Washington, and other local and national organizations tried to delivered more than 500,000 petition signatures to the annual meeting in downtown Seattle but were turned away. The petitions call on Amazon and other corporations to cut ties with ALEC and were signed by members of ColorOfChange, CREDO Action, People for the American Way, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, SumOfUs and Fuse Washington.”