Props for that if true, there's supposedly ALOT of MONEY floating around in this protest game.
Not sure why these Ferguson folks and others saying not a dime of the money donated reaches the hood. Alot of folks on the ground in these actual communities saying aint shyt changing and they aint seen shyt?
SOROS gave alot of money as well, peep.
"Colorlines is an online news site that focuses on race issues and is published by Race Forward, a group that received $200,000 from
Mr. Soros’s foundation in 2011. Colorlines has published tirelessly on the activities in
Ferguson and heavily promoted the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag and activities.
At the end of the #BlackLivesMatter march, organizers met with civil rights groups like the Organization for Black Struggle and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment to strategize their operations moving forward, Ms. Solomon wrote. OBS and MORE are also funded by
Mr. Soros.
Mr. Soros gave $5.4 million to
Ferguson and Staten Island grass-roots efforts last year to help “further police reform, accountability and public transparency,” the
Open Society Foundations said in a blog post in December. About half of those funds were earmarked to
Ferguson, with the money primarily going to OBS and MORE, the
foundation said.
OBS and MORE, along with the Dream Defenders, established the “Hands Up Coalition” — another so-called “grass-roots” organization in Missouri, whose name was based on now-known-to-be-false claims that
Brown had his hands up before being shot. The Defenders were built to rally support and awareness for the Trayvon Martin case and were funded by the Tides Foundation, another recipient of
Soros cash.
Hands Up Coalition has made it its mission to recruit and organize youth nationwide to start local events in their communities — trying to take
Ferguson nationwide.
Years and weekends of ‘resistance’
Hands Up Coalition has dubbed 2015 as “The Year of Resistance,” and its outreach program strongly resembles how President Obama’s political action committee — Organizing for Action — rallies youth for its causes, complete with a similarly designed Web page and call to action.
Mr. Soros, who made his fortune betting against the British pound during the currency crisis in the early ‘90s, is a well-known supporter of progressive-liberal causes and is a political donor to Mr. Obama’s campaigns. He committed $1 million to Mr. Obama’s super PAC in 2012.
Mr. Soros‘ two largest foundations manage almost $3 billion in assets per year, according to their most recent respective tax returns. The Foundation to Promote Open Society managed $2.2 billion in assets in 2011, and his Open Society Institute managed $685.9 million in 2012.
In comparison, David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers whom liberals often call a threat to democracy — and worse — for their conservative influence, had $308 million tied up in their foundation and institute in 2011.
One of the organizations that
Mr. Soros funds, and which fueled the demonstrations in
Ferguson, is the
Gamaliel Foundation, a network of grass-roots, interreligious and interracial organizations. Mr. Obama started his career as a community organizer at a Gamaliel affiliate in
Chicago.
The Rev. Traci Blackmon of Christ the King United Church of Christ in Florissant, Missouri, which is part of the Gamaliel network, said in one of the group’s webinars that clergy involved with Gamaliel must be “protectors of the narrative” of what happened in
Ferguson.
The Gamaliel affiliate in St. Louis — Metropolitan Congregations United — organized the “Weekend of Resistance” in October, in which clergy members from around the nation were called to come to
Ferguson to protest.
Clergy involvement
Representatives of Sojourners, a national evangelical Christian organization committed “to faith in action for social justice,” attended the weekend. The group received $150,000 from
Mr. Soros in 2011.
Clergy representatives from the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright serves as a trustee, also showed up. Mr. Wright was Mr. Obama’s pastor in
Chicago before some of his racially charged sermons, including the phrase “God damn America,” forced Mr. Obama to distance himself. SDPC received $250,000 from
Mr. Soros in 2011.
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There's alot of money floating around to "protest". Millions of dollars. Why we not seeing infrastructure and jobs in the neighborhood instead of poor people being pushed out?
Anybody can type or say they doing this and that. Actions speak loudest. Where the results at?
REad this as well:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/29/baltimore-protesters-released_n_7176610.html