Friends and Patriots,
I could not believe how many organizations George Soros funds, it
is unbelievable.
Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open
Society Foundations
From Discover The Networks
Organizations that, in recent years, have received direct funding and assistance from George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF) include the following. (Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the "Groups" section of DiscoverTheNetworks.org):
From Discover The Networks
Organizations that, in recent years, have received direct funding and assistance from George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF) include the following. (Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the "Groups" section of DiscoverTheNetworks.org):
- Advancement
Project: This organization works to organize "communities
of color" into politically cohesive units while disseminating its
leftist worldviews and values as broadly as possible by way of a
sophisticated communications department.
- Air America
Radio: Now defunct, this was a self-identified
"liberal" radio network.
- Al-Haq:
This NGO produces highly politicized reports, papers, books, and
legal analyses regarding alleged Israeli human-rights abuses committed
against Palestinians.
- All of Us or
None: This organization seeks to change voting laws -- which
vary from state to state -- so as to allow ex-inmates, parolees, and even
current inmates to cast their ballots in political elections.
- Alliance for
Justice: Best known for its activism vis a vis the
appointment of federal judges, this group consistently depicts Republican
judicial nominees as "extremists."
- America
Coming Together: Soros played a major role in creating this
group, whose purpose was to coordinate and organize pro-Democrat
voter-mobilization programs.
- America
Votes: Soros also played a major role in creating this group,
whose get-out-the-vote campaigns targeted likely Democratic voters.
- America's
Voice: This open-borders group seeks to promote “comprehensive”
immigration reform that includes a robust agenda in favor of amnesty for
illegal aliens.
- American Bar
Association Commission on Immigration Policy: This organization
"opposes laws that require employers and persons providing education,
health care, or other social services to verify citizenship or immigration
status."
- American
Bridge 21st Century: This Super PAC conducts opposition
research designed to help Democratic political candidates defeat their
Republican foes.
- American
Civil Liberties Union: This group opposes virtually all
post-9/11 national security measures enacted by the U.S. government.
It supports open borders, has rushed to the defense of suspected
terrorists and their abettors, and appointed former New Left
terrorist Bernardine
Dohrn to its Advisory Board.
- American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: This
Washington, DC-based think tank seeks to move American jurisprudence to
the left by recruiting, indoctrinating, and mobilizing young law students,
helping them acquire positions of power. It also provides leftist
Democrats with a bully pulpit from which to denounce their political
adversaries.
- American Family Voices: This group creates and
coordinates media campaigns charging Republicans with wrongdoing.
- American
Federation of Teachers: After longtime AFT President Albert
Shanker died in in 1997, he was succeeded by Sandra Feldman, who slowly
“re-branded” the union, allying it with some of the most powerful
left-wing elements of the New Labor Movement. When Feldman died in 2004,
Edward McElroy took her place, followed by Randi Weingarten in 2008. All
of them kept the union on the leftward course it had adopted in its
post-Shanker period.
- American
Friends Service Committee: This group views the United
States as the principal cause of human suffering around the world. As
such, it favors America's unilateral disarmament, the dissolution of
American borders, amnesty for illegal aliens, the abolition of the death
penalty, and the repeal of the Patriot Act.
- American
Immigration Council: This non-profit organization is a
prominent member of the open-borders lobby. It advocates expanded rights
and amnesty for illegal aliens residing in the U.S.
- American
Immigration Law Foundation: This group supports amnesty for
illegal aliens, on whose behalf it litigates against the U.S. government.
- American
Independent News Network: This organization promotes
"impact journalism" that advocates progressive change.
- American
Institute for Social Justice: AISJ's goal is to produce skilled
community organizers who can “transform poor communities” by agitating for
increased government spending on city services, drug interdiction, crime
prevention, housing, public-sector jobs, access to healthcare, and public
schools.
- American
Library Association: This group has been an outspoken critic of
the Bush administration's War on Terror -- most particularly, Section 215
of the USA Patriot
Act, which it calls "a present danger to the
constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users."
- The American
Prospect, Inc.: This corporation trains and mentors young
leftwing journalists, and organizes strategy meetings for leftist leaders.
- Amnesty
International: This organization directs a grossly
disproportionate share of its criticism for human rights violations at
the United States and Israel.
- Applied
Research Center: Viewing the United States as a nation where
“structural racism” is deeply “embedded in the fabric of society,” ARC
seeks to "build a fair and equal society" by demanding “concrete
change from our most powerful institutions."
- Arab
American Institute Foundation: The Arab American Institute
denounces the purportedly widespread civil liberties violations directed
against Arab Americans in the post-9/11 period,
and characterizes Israel as a brutal oppressor of the
Palestinian people.
- Aspen
Institute: This organization promotes radical environmentalism
and views America as a nation plagued by deep-seated “structural racism.”
- Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now: This group conducts
voter mobilization drives on behalf of leftist Democrats. These
initiatives have been notoriously marred by fraud and corruption.
- Ballot
Initiative Strategy Center: This organization seeks to advance
“a national progressive strategy” by means of ballot measures—state-level
legislative proposals that pass successfully through a petition
(“initiative”) process and are then voted upon by the public.
- Bend The
Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice: This organization
condemns Voter ID laws as barriers that “make it harder for communities of
color, women, first-time voters, the elderly, and the poor to cast their
vote.”
- Bill of
Rights Defense Committee: This group provides a detailed
blueprint for activists interested in getting their local towns, cities,
and even college campuses to publicly declare their opposition to the
Patriot Act, and to designate themselves "Civil Liberties Safe
Zones." The organization also came to the defense of self-described
radical attorney Lynne
Stewart, who was convicted in 2005 of providing material
support for terrorism.
- Black
Alliance for Just Immigration: This organization seeks to
create a unified movement for “social and economic justice” centered on
black racial identity.
- Blueprint
North Carolina: This group seeks to “influence state policy in
North Carolina so that residents of the state benefit from more
progressive policies such as better access to health care, higher wages,
more affordable housing, a safer, cleaner environment, and access to
reproductive health services.”
- Brennan
Center for Justice: This think tank/legal activist group
generates scholarly studies, mounts media campaigns, files amicus briefs,
gives pro bono support to activists, and litigates test cases in pursuit
of radical "change."
- Brookings
Institution: This organization has been involved with a variety
of internationalist and state-sponsored programs, including one that
aspires to facilitate the establishment of a U.N.-dominated world
government. Brookings Fellows have also called for additional global
collaboration on trade and banking; the expansion of the Kyoto Protocol;
and nationalized health insurance for children. Nine Brookings economists
signed a petitionopposing
President Bush's tax cuts in 2003.
- Campaign for
America's Future: This group supports tax hikes, socialized
medicine, and a dramatic expansion of social welfare programs.
- Campaign for
Better Health Care: This organization favors a single-payer,
government-run, universal health care system.
- Campaign for
Youth Justice: This organization contends that “transferring
juveniles to the adult criminal-justice system leads to higher rates of
recidivism, puts incarcerated and detained youth at unnecessary risk, has
little deterrence value, and does not increase public safety.”
- Campus
Progress: A project of the Soros-bankrolled Center for
American Progress, this group seeks to "strengthen
progressive voices on college and university campuses, counter the growing
influence of right-wing groups on campus, and empower new generations of
progressive leaders."
- Casa de
Maryland: This organization aggressively lobbies legislators to
vote in favor of policies that promote expanded rights, including amnesty,
for illegal aliens currently residing in the United States.
- Catalist:
This is a for-profit political consultancy that seeks "to help
progressive organizations realize measurable increases in civic
participation and electoral success by building and operating a robust
national voter database of every voting-age American."
- Catholics
for Choice: This nominally Catholic organization supports
women's right to abortion-on-demand.
- Catholics in
Alliance for the Common Good: This political nonprofit group is
dedicated to generating support from the Catholic community for leftwing
candidates, causes, and legislation.
- Center for
American Progress: This leftist think tank is headed by
former Clinton chief
of staff John Podesta,
works closely with Hillary
Clinton, and employs numerous former Clinton administration
staffers. It is committed to "developing a long-term vision of a
progressive America" and "providing a forum to generate new
progressive ideas and policy proposals."
- Center for
Community Change: This group recruits and trains activists to
spearhead leftist "political issue campaigns." Promoting
increased funding for social welfare programs by bringing "attention
to major national issues related to poverty," the Center bases its
training programs on the techniques taught by the famed radical organizer
Saul Alinsky.
- Center for
Constitutional Rights: This pro-Castro organization
is a core member of the open borders lobby, has opposed virtually all post-9/11
anti-terrorism measures by the U.S. government, and alleges that
American injustice provokes acts of international terrorism.
- Center for
Economic and Policy Research: This group opposed welfare
reform, supports "living wage" laws, rejects tax cuts, and
consistently lauds the professed achievements of socialist regimes, most
notably Venezuela.
- Center for
International Policy: This organization uses advocacy,
policy research, media outreach, and educational initiatives to promote
“transparency and accountability” in U.S. foreign policy and global
relations. It generally views America as a disruptive, negative force in
the world.
- Center for
Reproductive Rights: CRR's mission is to guarantee safe,
affordable contraception and abortion-on-demand for all women, including
adolescents. The organization has filed state and federal lawsuits
demanding access to taxpayer-funded abortions (through Medicaid) for
low-income women.
- Center for
Responsible Lending: This organization was a major player in
the subprime mortgage crisis. According to Phil Kerpen (vice president for
policy at Americans for Prosperity), CRL “sh[ook] down and harass[ed]
banks into making bad loans to unqualified borrowers.” Moreover, CRL
negotiated a contract enabling it to operate as a conduit of high-risk
loans to Fannie Mae.
- Center for
Social Inclusion: This organization seeks to counteract
America's "structural racism" by means of taxpayer-funded policy
initiatives.
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Reasoning from
the premise that tax cuts generally help only the wealthy, this
organization advocates greater tax expenditures on social welfare programs for low
earners.
- Center on
Wisconsin Strategy (COWS): Aiming to redistribute wealth by way
of higher taxes imposed on those whose incomes are above average, COWS
contends that "it is important that state government be able to
harness fair contribution from all parts of society – including
corporations and the wealthy."
- Change
America Now: Formed in December 2006, Change America Now
describes itself as "an independent political organization created to
educate citizens on the failed policies of the Republican Congress and to
contrast that record of failure with the promise offered by a Democratic
agenda."
- Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: This group litigates
and brings ethics charges against "government officials who sacrifice
the common good to special interests" and "betray the public
trust." Almost all of its targets are Republicans.
- Coalition for an International
Criminal Court: This group seeks to subordinate American
criminal-justice procedures to those of an international court.
- Color Of
Change: This organization was founded to combat what
it viewed as the systemic racism pervading America generally and
conservatism in particular.
- Common Cause:
This organization aims to bring about campaign-finance reform, pursue
media reform resembling the Fairness Doctrine, and cut military budgets in
favor of increased social-welfare and environmental spending.
- Constitution
Project: This organization seeks to challenge the legality of
military commissions; end the detainment of "enemy combatants”;
condemn government surveillance of terrorists; and limit the President's
executive privileges.
- Defenders of
Wildlife Action Fund: Defenders of Wildlife opposes oil
exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It condemns
logging, ranching, mining, and even the use of recreational motorized
vehicles as activities that are destructive to the environment.
- Democracy
Alliance: This self-described "liberal organization"
aims to raise $200 million to develop a funding clearinghouse for leftist
groups. Soros is a major donor to this group.
- Democracy 21:
This group is a staunch supporter of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of
2002, also known as the McCain-Feingold Act.
- Democracy
Now!: Democracy Now! was created in 1996 by WBAI radio news
director Amy Goodman and four partners to provide "perspectives
rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media," i.e., the views
of radical and foreign journalists, left and labor activists, and
ideological foes of capitalism.
- Democratic
Justice Fund: DJF opposes the Patriot Act and most efforts to
restrict or regulate immigration into the United States -- particularly
from countries designated by the State Department as "terrorist
nations."
- Democratic
Party: Soros' funding activities are devoted largely to helping
the Democratic Party solidify its power base. In a November 2003 interview,
Soros stated that defeating President Bush in 2004 "is the central
focus of my life" ... "a matter of life and death." He
pledged to raise $75 million to defeat Bush, and personally donated nearly
a third of that amount to anti-Bush organizations.
"America under Bush," he said, "is a danger to the
world, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is."
- Demos:
This organization lobbies federal and state policymakers to “addres[s] the
economic insecurity and inequality that characterize American society
today”; promotes “ideas for reducing gaps in wealth, income and political
influence”; and favors tax hikes for the wealthy.
- Drum Major
Institute: This group describes itself as “a non-partisan,
non-profit think tank generating the ideas that fuel the progressive
movement,” with the ultimate aim of persuading “policymakers and
opinion-leaders” to take steps that advance its vision of “social and
economic justice.”
- Earthjustice:
This group seeks to place severe restrictions on how U.S. land
and waterways may be used. It opposes most mining and logging initiatives,
commercial fishing businesses, and the use of motorized vehicles in
undeveloped areas.
- Economic
Policy Institute: This organization believes that “government
must play an active role in protecting the economically vulnerable,
ensuring equal opportunity, and improving the well-being of all
Americans.”
- Electronic
Privacy Information Center: This organization has been a harsh
critic of the USA PATRIOT Act and has joined the American Civil Liberties
Union in litigating two cases calling for the FBI "to publicly
release or account for thousands of pages of information about the
government's use of PATRIOT Act powers."
- Ella Baker
Center for Human Rights: Co-founded by the revolutionary
communist Van Jones, this anti-poverty organization claims that “decades
of disinvestment in our cities” -- compounded by “excessive, racist
policing and over-incarceration” -- have “led to despair and
homelessness.”
- EMILY's List:
This political network raises money for Democratic female political
candidates who support unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
- Energy
Action Coalition: Founded in 2004, this group describes itself
as “a coalition of 50 youth-led environmental and social justice groups
working together to build the youth clean energy and climate movement.”
For EAC, this means “dismantling oppression” according to its principles
of environmental justice.
- Equal
Justice USA: This group claims that America's
criminal-justice system is plagued by “significant race and class biases,”
and thus seeks to promote major reforms.
- Fair
Immigration Reform Movement: This is the open-borders arm of
the Center for Community Change.
- Faithful
America: This organization promotes the redistribution of
wealth, an end to enhanced interrogation procedures vis a vis
prisoners-of-war, the enactment of policies to combat global warming, and
the creation of a government-run heath care system.
- Families USA:
This Washington-based health-care advocacy group favors
ever-increasing government control of the American healthcare
system.
- Feminist
Majority: Characterizing the United States as an
inherently sexist nation, this group focuses on "advancing the legal,
social and political equality of women with men, countering the backlash
to women's advancement, and recruiting and training young feminists to
encourage future leadership for the feminist movement in the United
States."
- Four
Freedoms Fund: This organization was designed to serve as a
conduit through which large foundations could fund state-based
open-borders organizations more flexibly and quickly.
- Free
Exchange on Campus: This organization was created solely
to oppose the efforts of one individual, David Horowitz, and his campaign
to have universities adopt an "Academic
Bill of Rights," as well as todenounce Horowitz's 2006 book The
Professors. Member organizations of FEC include Campus
Progress (a project of the Center for
American Progress); the American
Association of University Professors; theAmerican
Civil Liberties Union; People For
the American Way; the United
States Student Association; theCenter for
Campus Free Speech; the American
Library Association; Free Press;
and the National Association of State Public
Interest Research Groups.
- Free Press:
This "media reform" organization has worked closely with many
notable leftists and such organizations as Media
Matters for America, Air America
Radio, Global
Exchange, Code Pink, Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting, the Revolutionary
Communist Party, Mother Jones magazine,
and Pacifica
Radio.
- Funding
Exchange: Dedicated to the concept of philanthropy as a vehicle
for social change, this organization pairs leftist donors and foundations
with likeminded groups and activists who are dedicated to bringing about
their own version of "progressive" change and social justice. Many of these grantees assume that
American society is rife with racism, discrimination, exploitation, and
inequity and needs to be overhauled via sustained education, activism, and
social agitation.
- Gamaliel Foundation: Modeling its tactics on those of the
radical Sixties activist Saul Alinsky, this group takes a strong stand
against current homeland security measures and immigration restrictions.
- Gisha:
Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement: This
anti-Israel organization seeks to help Palestinians "exercise their
right to freedom of movement."
- Global
Centre for the Responsibility to Protect: This group contends
that when a state proves either unable or unwilling to protect civilians
from mass atrocities occurring within its borders, it is the
responsibility of the international community to intervene -- peacefully
if possible, but with military force if necessary.
- Global
Exchange: Established in 1988 by pro-Castro radical Medea
Benjamin, this group consistently condemns America's foreign
policy, business practices, and domestic life. Following the 9/11
terrorist attacks, Global Exchange advised Americans to examine "the
root causes of resentment against the United States in the Arab world --
from our dependence on Middle Eastern oil to our biased policy towards
Israel."
- Grantmakers
Without Borders: GWB tends to be very supportive of leftist
environmental, anti-war, and civil rights groups. It is also generally
hostile to capitalism, which it deems one of the chief "political,
economic, and social systems" that give rise to a host of
"social ills."
- Green For
All: This group was created by Van Jones to
lobby for federal climate, energy, and economic policy initiatives.
- Health Care
for America Now: This group supports a “single payer” model
where the federal government would be in charge of financing and
administering the entire U.S. healthcare system.
- Human Rights
Campaign: The largest
"lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender" lobbying group in the United
States, HRC supports political candidates and legislation that will
advance the LGBT agenda. Historically, HRC has most vigorously championed
HIV/AIDS-related legislation, “hate crime” laws, the abrogation of the
military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and the legalization of gay
marriage.
- Human Rights
First: This group supports open borders and the rights of
illegal aliens; charges that the Patriot Act severely erodes Americans'
civil liberties; has filed amicus curiae briefs on behalf
of terror suspect Jose Padilla;
and deplores the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities.
- Human Rights
Watch: This group directs a disproportionate share of its
criticism at the United States and Israel. It opposes the
death penalty in all cases, and supports open borders and amnesty for
illegal aliens.
- I'lam:
This anti-Israel NGO seeks "to develop and empower the Arab media and
to give voice to Palestinian issues."
- Immigrant
Defense Project: To advance the cause of illegal immigrants,
the IDP provides immigration law backup support and counseling to New York
defense attorneys and others who represent or assist immigrants in
criminal justice and immigration systems, as well as to immigrants
themselves.
- Immigrant
Legal Resource Center: This group claims to have helped gain
amnesty for some three million illegal aliens in the U.S., and in the
1980s was part of the sanctuary movement which sought to grant asylum to
refugees from the failed Communist states of Central America.
- Immigrant
Workers Citizenship Project: This open-borders organization
advocates mass immigration to the U.S.
- Immigration
Advocates Network: This alliance of immigrant-rights groups
seeks to “increase access to justice for low-income immigrants and
strengthen the capacity of organizations serving them.”
- Immigration
Policy Center: IPC is an advocate of open borders and contends
that the massive influx of illegal immigrants into America is due to U.S.
government policy, since “the broken immigration system […] spurs
unauthorized immigration in the first place.”
- Independent
Media Center: This Internet-based, news and events
bulletin board represents an invariably leftist, anti-capitalist
perspective and serves as a mouthpiece for anti-globalization/anti-America
themes.
- Independent
Media Institute: IMI administers the SPIN Project (Strategic
Press Information Network), which provides leftist organizations with
"accessible and affordable strategic communications consulting,
training, coaching, networking opportunities and concrete tools" to
help them "achieve their social justice goals."
- Institute
for America's Future: IAF supports socialized medicine,
increased government funding for education, and the creation of an
infrastructure "to ensure that the voice of the progressive majority
is heard."
- Institute
for New Economic Thinking: Seeking to create a new worldwide
"economic paradigm," this organization is staffed by numerous
individuals who favor government intervention in national economies, and
who view capitalism as a flawed system.
- Institute
for Policy Studies: This think tank has long supported
Communist and anti-American causes around the world. Viewing capitalism as
a breeding ground for "unrestrained greed," IPS seeks to provide
a corrective to "unrestrained markets and individualism."
Professing an unquestioning faith in the righteousness of the United
Nations, it aims to bring American foreign policy under UN control.
- Institute
for Public Accuracy: This anti-American, anti-capitalist
organization sponsored actor Sean Penn’s celebrated visit to Baghdad in
2002. It also sponsored visits to Iraq by Democratic Congressmen Nick
Rahall and former Democrat Senator James Abourezk
- Institute
for Women's Policy Research: This group views
the U.S. as a nation rife with discrimination against women, and
publishes research to draw attention to this alleged state of affairs. It
also advocates unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand,
stating that "access to abortion is essential to the economic
well-being of women and girls."
- International
Crisis Group: One of this organization's leading figures is its
Mideast Director, Robert Malley, who was President Bill Clinton's Special
Assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs. His analysis of
the Mideast conflict is markedly pro-Palestinian.
- J Street:
This anti-Israel group warns that Israel’s choice to take military action
to stop Hamas' terrorist attacks “will prove counter-productive and only
deepen the cycle of violence in the region”
- Jewish Funds
for Justice: This organization views government intervention
and taxpayer funding as crucial components of enlightened social policy.
It seeks to redistribute wealth from Jewish donors to low-income
communities “to combat the root causes of domestic economic and social
injustice.” By JFJ's reckoning, chief among those root causes are the
inherently negative by-products of capitalism – most notably racism and
“gross economic inequality.”
- Joint
Victory Campaign 2004: Founded by George Soros and Harold Ickes,
this group was a major fundraising entity for Democrats during the 2004
election cycle. It collected contributions (including large amounts from
Soros personally) and disbursed them to two other groups, America
Coming Together and the Media Fund,
which also worked on behalf of Democrats.
- Justice at
Stake: This coalition calls for judges to be appointed by
nonpartisan, independent commissions in a process known as “merit
selection,” rather than elected by the voting public.
- LatinoJustice
PRLDF: This organization supports bilingual education, the
racial gerrymandering of voting districts, and expanded rights for illegal
aliens.
- Lawyers
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: This group views America
as an unremittingly racist nation; uses the courts to mandate race-based
affirmative action preferences in business and academia; has filed briefs
against the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to limit the
wholesale granting of green cards and to identify potential terrorists;
condemns the Patriot Act; and calls on Americans to "recognize the
contribution" of illegal aliens.
- Leadership
Conference on Civil and Human Rights: This organization
views the United States as a nation rife with racism, sexism, and all
manner of social injustice; and it uses legislative advocacy to push for
“progressive change” that will create “a more open and just society.”
- League of United Latin American Citizens: This group
views America as a nation plagued by "an alarming increase in
xenophobia and anti-Hispanic sentiment"; favors racial preferences;
supports the legalization of illegal Hispanic aliens; opposes military
surveillance of U.S. borders; opposes making English America's official
language; favors open borders; and rejects anti-terrorism legislation like
the Patriot Act.
- League of
Women Voters Education Fund: The League supports
taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; supports "motor-voter"
registration, which allows anyone with a driver's license to become a
voter, regardless of citizenship status; and supports tax hikes and
socialized medicine.
- League of
Young Voters: This organization seeks to “empowe[r] young
people nationwide” to “participate in the democratic process and create
progressive political change on the local, state and national level[s].”
- Lynne
Stewart Defense Committee: IRS records indicate that
Soros's Open Society Institute made a September 2002 grant of $20,000 to
this organization. Stewart was the criminal-defense attorney who was later
convicted for abetting her client, the "blind sheik" Omar Abdel
Rahman, in terrorist activities connected with his Islamic
Group.
- Machsom
Watch: This organization describes itself
as "a movement of Israeli women, peace activists from all sectors of
Israeli society, who oppose the Israeli occupation and the denial of
Palestinians' rights to move freely in their land."
- MADRE:
This international women's organization deems America the
world's foremost violator of human rights. As such, it seeks to "communicat[e] the
real-life impact of U.S. policies on women and families
confronting violence, poverty and repression around the world," and
to "demand alternatives to destructive U.S. policies."
It also advocates unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
- Malcolm X
Grassroots Movement: This group views the U.S. as a
nation replete with racism and discrimination against blacks; seeks to
establish an independent black nation in the southeastern United
States; and demands reparations for slavery.
- Massachusetts
Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition: This group calls for
the expansion of civil rights and liberties for illegal aliens; laments
that illegal aliens in America are commonly subjected to
"worker exploitation"; supports tuition-assistance programs for
illegal aliens attending college; and characterizes the Patriot Act as a
"very troubling" assault on civil liberties.
- Media Fund:
Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose purpose was to
conceptualize, produce, and place political ads on television, radio,
print, and the Internet.
- Media
Matters for America: This organization is a "web-based,
not-for-profit … progressive research and information center" seeking
to "systematically monitor a cross-section of print, broadcast,
cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative
misinformation." The group works closely with the Soros-backed Center for American
Progress, and is heavily funded by Democracy
Alliance, of which Soros is a major financier.
- Mercy Corps:
Vis a vis the Arab-Israeli conflict, Mercy Corps places all blame for
Palestinian poverty and suffering directly on Israel.
- Mexican
American Legal Defense and Education Fund: This group advocates
open borders, free college tuition for illegal aliens, lowered educational
standards to accommodate Hispanics, and voting rights for criminals. In
MALDEF's view, supporters of making English the official language of
the United States are "motivated by racism and
anti-immigrant sentiments," while advocates of sanctions against
employers reliant on illegal labor seek to discriminate against
"brown-skinned people."
- Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein, PC: This influential
defender of Big Labor is headed by Democrat operativeHarold Ickes.
- Midwest
Academy: This entity trains radical activists in the tactics of
direct action, targeting, confrontation, and intimidation.
- Migration
Policy Institute: This group seeks to create "a North
America with gradually disappearing border controls ... with
permanent migration remaining at moderate levels."
- Military
Families Speak Out: This group ascribes
the U.S. invasion of Iraq to American imperialism and
lust for oil.
- Missourians
Organizing for Reform and Empowerment: This group is
the rebranded Missouri branch of the now-defunct, pro-socialist,
community organization ACORN.
- MoveOn.org:
This Web-based organization supports Democratic political candidates
through fundraising, advertising, and get-out-the-vote drives.
- Ms.
Foundation for Women: This group laments what it views as the
widespread and enduring flaws of American society: racism, sexism,
homophobia, and the violation of civil rights and liberties. It focuses
its philanthropy on groups that promote affirmative action for women,
unfettered access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, amnesty for
illegal aliens, and big government generally.
- Muslim
Advocates: Opposed to U.S. counter-terrorism strategies
that make use of sting operations and informants, MA
characterizes such tactics as forms of “entrapment” that are
inherently discriminatory against Muslims.
- NARAL
Pro-Choice America: This group supports taxpayer-funded
abortion-on-demand, and works to elect pro-abortion Democrats.
- NAACP Legal
Defense and Education Fund: The NAACP supports racial preferences in
employment and education, as well as the racial gerrymandering of voting
districts. Underpinning its support for race preferences is the fervent
belief that white racism in the United States remains an intractable,
largely undiminished, phenomenon.
- The Nation
Institute: This nonprofit entity sponsors
leftist conferences, fellowships, awards for radical activists, and
journalism internships.
- National
Abortion Federation: This group opposes any restrictions on
abortion at either the state or federal levels, and champions the
introduction of unrestricted abortion into developing regions of the
world.
- National
Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty: This group was
established in 1976 as the first "fully staffed national organization
exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment."
- National
Committee for Responsive Philanthropy: This group depicts
the United States as a nation in need of dramatic structural
change financed by philanthropic organizations. It overwhelmingly promotes
grant-makers and grantees with leftist agendas, while criticizing their
conservative counterparts.
- National
Committee for Voting Integrity: This group opposes "the
implementation of proof of citizenship and photo identification
requirements for eligible electors in American elections as the means of
assuring election integrity."
- National
Council for Research on Women: This group supports big
government, high taxes, military spending cuts, increased social welfare
spending, and the unrestricted right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
- National
Council of La Raza: This group lobbies for racial preferences,
bilingual education, stricter hate-crime laws, mass immigration, and
amnesty for illegal aliens.
- National
Council of Women's Organizations: This group views
the United States as a nation rife with injustice against girls
and women. It advocates high levels of spending for social welfare
programs, and supports race and gender preferences for minorities and
women in business and academia.
- National
Immigration Forum: Opposing the enforcement of present
immigration laws, this organization urges the American government to
"legalize" en masse all illegal aliens
currently in the United States who have no criminal records, and
to dramatically increase the number of visas available for those wishing
to migrate to the U.S. The Forum is particularly committed to
opening the borders to unskilled, low-income workers, and immediately
making them eligible for welfare and social service programs.
- National
Immigration Law Center: This group seeks to win unrestricted
access to government-funded social welfare programs for illegal aliens.
- National
Lawyers Guild: This group promotes open borders; seeks to
weaken America's intelligence-gathering agencies; condemns the Patriot Act
as an assault on civil liberties; rejects capitalism as an unviable
economic system; has rushed to the defense of convicted terrorists and
their abettors; and generally opposes all U.S. foreign policy positions,
just as it did during the Cold War when it sided with the Soviets.
- National
Organization for Women: This group advocates the unfettered
right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; seeks to "eradicate
racism, sexism and homophobia" from American society; attacks
Christianity and traditional religious values; and supports gender-based
preferences for women.
- National
Partnership for Women and Families: This organization supports
race- and sex-based preferences in employment and education. It also
advocates for the universal "right" of women to undergo
taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand at any stage of pregnancy and for any
reason.
- National Priorities Project: This group supports
government-mandated redistribution of wealth -- through higher taxes and
greater expenditures on social welfare programs. NPP exhorts the
government to redirect a significant portion of its military funding
toward public education, universal health insurance, environmentalist
projects, and welfare programs.
- National
Public Radio: Founded in 1970 with 90 public radio stations as
charter members, NPR is today a loose network of more than 750 U.S. radio
stations across the country, many of which are based on college and
university campuses. (source)
- National
Security Archive Fund: This group collects and publishes
declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to
a degree that compromises American national security and the safety of
intelligence agents.
- National
Women's Law Center: This group supports taxpayer-funded
abortion-on-demand; lobbies against conservative judicial appointees;
advocates increased welfare spending to help low-income mothers; and
favors higher taxes for the purpose of generating more funds for such
government programs as Medicaid, food stamps, welfare,
foster care, health care, child-support enforcement, and student loans.
- Natural
Resources Defense Council: One of the most influential
environmentalist lobbying groups in the United States, the Council
claims a membership of one million people.
- New America
Foundation: This organization uses policy papers, media
articles, books, and educational events to influence public opinion on
such topics as healthcare, environmentalism, energy policy, the Mideast
conflict, global governance, and much more.
- New Israel
Fund: This organization gives support to NGOs that regularly
produce reports accusing Israel of human-rights violations and religious
persecution.
- NewsCorpWatch:
A project of Media Matters For America, NewsCorpWatch was established with
the help of a $1 million George Soros grant to Media Matters.
- Pacifica
Foundation: This entity owns and operates Pacifica
Radio, awash from its birth with the socialist-Marxist rhetoric
of class warfare and hatred for capitalism.
- Palestinian
Center for Human Rights: This NGO investigates and
documents what it views as Israeli human-rights violations against
Palestinians.
- Peace and
Security Funders Group: This is an association of more than 60
foundations that give money to leftist anti-war and environmentalist
causes. Its members tend to depict America as the world's chief
source of international conflict, environmental destruction, and economic
inequalities.
- Peace
Development Fund: In PDF's calculus, the United States needs a
massive overhaul of its social and economic institutions.
"Recently," explains PDF, "we have witnessed the negative
effects of neo-liberalism and the globalization of capitalism, the
de-industrialization of the U.S. and the growing gap between the rich and
poor ..."
- People for
the American Way: This group opposes the Patriot Act,
anti-terrorism measures generally, and the allegedly growing influence of
the "religious right."
- People
Improving Communities Through Organizing: This group uses
Alinsky-style organizing tactics to advance the doctrines of the religious
left.
- Physicians
for Human Rights: This group is selectively and
disproportionately critical of the United States and
Israel in its condemnations of human rights violations.
- Physicians
for Social Responsibility: This is an anti-U.S.-military
organization that also embraces the tenets of radical environmentalism.
- Planned
Parenthood: This group is the largest abortion provider in
the United States and advocates taxpayer-funded
abortion-on-demand.
- Ploughshares
Fund: This public grantmaking foundation opposes America's
development of a missile defense system, and contributes to many organizations that
are highly critical of U.S. foreign policies and military
ventures.
- Prepare New
York: This group supported the proposed construction of a
Muslim Community Center near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan – a project
known as the Cordoba Initiative, headed by Imam Feisal Abdul
Rauf.
- Presidential
Climate Action Project: PCAP's mission is to create a new
21st-century economy, completely carbon-free and based largely on
renewable energy. A key advisor to the organization is the revolutionary
communist Van Jones.
- Prison
Moratorium Project: This initiative was created in 1995 for the
express purpose of working for the elimination of all prisons in
the United States and the release of all inmates. Reasoning from
the premise that incarceration is never an appropriate means of dealing
with crime, it deems American society's inherent inequities the root of
all criminal behavior.
- Progressive
Change Campaign Committee: This organization works “to elect
bold progressive candidates to federal office and to help [them] and their
campaigns save money, work smarter, and win more often.”
- Progressive
States Network: PSN's mission is to "pass progressive
legislation in all fifty states by providing coordinated research and
strategic advocacy tools to forward-thinking state legislators."
- Project Vote:
This is the voter-mobilization arm of the Soros-funded ACORN.
A persistent pattern of lawlessness and corruption has followed
ACORN/Project Vote activities over the years.
- Pro Publica:
Claiming that “investigative journalism is at risk,” this group aims to
remedy this lacuna in news publishing by “expos[ing] abuses of power and
betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other
institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur
reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.”
- Proteus Fund:
This foundation directs its philanthropy toward a number of radical
leftwing organizations.
- Psychologists
for Social Responsibility: This anti-capitalist,
anti-corporate, anti-military, anti-American organization “uses
psychological knowledge and skills to promote peace with social justice at
the community, national and international levels.”
- Public
Citizen Foundation: Public Citizen seeks increased
government intervention and litigation against corporations -- a practice
founded on the notion that American corporations, like the capitalist
system of which they are a part, are inherently inclined toward
corruption.
- Public
Justice Center: Viewing America as a nation rife with injustice
and discrimination, this organization engages in legislative and policy
advocacy to promote "systemic change for the disenfranchised."
- Rebuild and
Renew America Now (a.k.a. Unity '09): Spearheaded by MoveOn.org and
overseen by longtime activist Heather
Booth, this coalition was formed to facilitate the passage of
President Obama’s "historic" $3.5 trillion budget for fiscal
year 2010.
- Res Publica:
Seeking to advance far-left agendas in places all around the world, RP
specializes in “E-advocacy,” or web-based movement-building.
- Roosevelt
Institute: Proceeding from the premise that free-market
capitalism is inherently unjust and prone to periodic collapses caused by
its own structural flaws, RI currently administers several major projects
aimed at reshaping the American economy to more closely resemble a
socialist system.
- Secretary of
State Project: This project was launched in July 2006 as an
independent "527" organization devoted to helping Democrats get
elected to the office of Secretary of State in selected swing, or
battleground, states.
- Sentencing
Project: Asserting that prison-sentencing patterns are racially
discriminatory, this initiative advocates voting rights for felons.
- Social Justice
Leadership: This organization seeks to transform an allegedly
inequitable America into a "just society" by means of "a
renewed social-justice movement."
- Shadow
Democratic Party: This is an elaborate network of non-profit
activist groups organized by George Soros and others to mobilize resources
-- money, get-out-the-vote drives, campaign advertising, and policy
iniatives -- to elect Democratic candidates and guide the Democratic Party
towards the left.
- Sojourners:
This evangelical Christian ministry preaches radical leftwing politics.
During the 1980s it championed Communist revolution in Central America
and chastised U.S.
policy-makers for their tendency "to assume the very worst about
their Soviet counterparts." More recently, Sojourners has taken up
the cause of environmental activism, opposed welfare reform as a
"mean-spirited Republican agenda," and mounted a defense of
affirmative action.
- Southern
Poverty Law Center: This organization monitors the activities
of what it calls “hate groups” in the United States. It exaggerates the
prevalence of white racism directed against American minorities.
- State Voices:
This coalition helps independent local activist groups in 22 states work
collaboratively on a year-round basis, so as to maximize the impact of
their efforts.
- Talking
Transition: This was a two-week project launched in early
November 2013 to “help shape the transition” to City Hall for the newly
elected Democratic mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio.
- Think
Progress: This Internet blog "pushes back, daily," by
its own account, against its conservative targets, and seeks to transform
"progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications,
legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships
with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world."
- Thunder Road Group: This political consultancy, in whose
creation Soros had a hand, coordinates strategy for the Media Fund, America
Coming Together, and America
Votes.
- Tides Foundation and Tides Center:
Tides is a major funder of the radical Left.
- U.S. Public
Interest Research Group: This is an umbrella organization of
student groups that support leftist agendas.
- Universal
Healthcare Action Network: This organization supports a
single-payer health care system controlled by the federal government.
- Urban
Institute: This research organization favors socialized
medicine, expansion of the federal welfare bureaucracy, and tax hikes for
higher income-earners.
- USAction Education
Fund: USAction lists its priorities as: "fighting the right wing
agenda"; "building grassroots political power"; winning
"social, racial and economic justice for all"; supporting a
system of taxpayer-funded socialized medicine; reversing "reckless
tax cuts for millionaires and corporations" which shield the
"wealthy" from paying their "fair share"; advocating
for "pro-consumer and environmental regulation of corporate
abuse"; "strengthening progressive voices on local, state and
national issues"; and working to "register, educate and get out
the vote ... [to] help progressives get elected at all levels of
government."
- Voter
Participation Center: This organization seeks to increase voter
turnout among unmarried women, "people of color," and
18-to-29-year-olds -- demographics that are heavily pro-Democrat.
- Voto Latino:
This group seeks to mobilize Latin-Americans to become registered voters
and political activists.
- We Are
America Alliance: This coalition promotes “increased
civic participation by immigrants” in the American political process.
- Working
Families Party: An outgrowth of the socialist New Party,
WFP seeks to help push the Democratic Party toward the left.
- World
Organization Against Torture: This coalition works closely with
groups that condemn Israeli security measures against Palestinian
terrorism.
- YWCA World Office, Switzerland:
The YWCA opposes abstinence education; supports universal access to
taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; and opposes school vouchers.
"Secondary" or "Indirect" Affiliates of the George Soros Network
By Discover The Networks
In addition to those organizations that are funded directly by George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF), there are also numerous "secondary" or "indirect" affiliates of the Soros network. These include organizations which do not receive direct funding from Soros and OSF, but which are funded by one or more organizations that do.
- Center for
Progressive Leadership: Funded by the Soros-bankrolled Democracy
Alliance, this anti-capitalist organization is dedicated to
training future leftist political leaders.
- John Adams
Project:This project of the American Civil Liberties Union was
accused of: (a) having hired investigators to photograph CIA officers
thought to have been involved in enhanced interrogations of terror
suspects detained in Guantanamo, and then (b) showing the photos to the
attorneys of those suspects, some of whom were senior al-Qaeda operatives.
- Moving Ideas
Network (MIN): This coalition of more than 250 leftwing
activist groups is a partner organization of the Soros-backed Center for
American Progress. MIN was originally a project of the
Soros-backed American
Prospect and, as such, received indirect funding from
the Open Society
Institute. In early 2006, The American Prospect relinquished
control of the Moving Ideas Network.
- New
Organizing Institute: Created by the Soros-funded MoveOn.org,
this group "trains young, technology-enabled political
organizers to work for progressive campaigns and organizations."
- Think
Progress: This "project" of the American
Progress Action Fund, which is a "sister advocacy
organization"of the Soros-funded Center for
American Progress and Campus
Progress, seeks to transform "progressive ideas into
policy through rapid response communications, legislative action,
grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other
progressive leaders throughout the country and the world."
- Vote for
Change: Coordinated by the political action committee of the
Soros-funded MoveOn.org,
Vote for Change was a group of 41 musicians and bands that performed
concerts in several key election "battleground"states
during October 2004, to raise money in support of Democrat John Kerry's
presidential bid.
- Working Families Party: Created in 1998 to help push
the Democratic
Party toward the left, this front group for the
Soros-funded ACORN functions
as a political party that promotes ACORN-friendly candidates.
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