Some
organizations Funded Directly by
George Soros
and his Open Society Institute
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By Discover The Networks
July 2007
(6.479 gramts were given by Soros in 2008. )
2008 Assets: $1,928,806,825
2007 Income: $542,536,108
Ron Arnold's
Left Tracking Library
Open Society
Institute
and
Soros Foundations Network |
OPEN
SOCIETY INSTITUTE & Soros
Foundations Network
Changing to Open Society
Foundations (2010)
501(c)(3) Private Operating
Foundation
400 W 59TH St
New York, NY 10019
Telephone:
(212) 548-0600 (212)
548-0600
Fax: 1-212-548-4605
Website:
http://www.soros.org/
2008 Assets:
$1,928,806,825
2007 Income: $542,536,108
EIN:
13-7029285
Founded 1993
Exempt since
November 1994
Self-Description:
The Open Society Institute works
to build vibrant and tolerant
democracies whose governments
are accountable to their
citizens. To achieve its
mission, OSI seeks to shape
public policies that assure
greater fairness in political,
legal, and economic systems and
safeguard fundamental rights. On
a local level, OSI implements a
range of initiatives to advance
justice, education, public
health, and independent media.
At the same time, OSI builds
alliances across borders and
continents on issues such as
corruption and freedom of
information. OSI places a high
priority on protecting and
improving the lives of people in
marginalized communities.
Actual: A global network of
dozens of Soros entities that
have paid millions to overthrow
governments in the Soviet Union,
Serbia, Georgia, and the United
States. The American agenda of
Soros foundations has little
system and is more a hodge-podge
of Soros' personal interests,
which tend to be leftist
provocations more than steady
programs. His personal attitudes
about America are very negative
and he regards capitalism to be
the major threat to the world,
as he once regarded communism to
be. Soros makes no secret of his
beliefs: he has written several
books including "The Bubble of
American Supremacy" and
"Reforming Global Capitalism."
The man who made it big because
of America and capitalism now
hates both and seeks to destroy
them.
Soros foundations consist of
national foundations in 29
countries, foundations in Kosovo
and Montenegro, and two regional
foundations, the Open Society
Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA)
and the Open Society Initiative
for West Africa (OSIWA). OSISA
and OSIWA, make grants in a
total of 27 African countries.
In 2003, Soros said that
removing President George W.
Bush from office was one of his
main priorities. During the 2004
campaign, he donated
$23 million
to various groups dedicated to
defeating the president.
He was less enthusiastic about
helping Barack Obama in 2008,
contributing only $4,400
directly, and $126,790
to all campaigns.
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Origin of the
Wealth:
George Soros
is the
founder of one of the first
offshore hedge funds, the
Quantum Fund,
through
which he accumulated vast
wealth. Extreme leverage
is a George Soros character
trait. Most readers of the
financial pages know about the
spectacularly leveraged coup
that earned him a billion
dollars overnight in a giant
gamble in 1992:
He bet $10 billion—most of it
borrowed money—that by selling
enough sterling short he could
force the Bank of England to
devalue the British pound and
make a killing.
Soros, with a keen grasp of
money and politics, had
calculated that bankers in the
European Exchange Rate Mechanism
(EERM), pegged to the German
mark, would refuse to uphold the
overvalued pound because at the
time Germany had its own
problems paying for
reunification. They did refuse,
so Britain pulled out of the
EERM and tried to prop up its
sinking currency by itself.
Prime Minister John Major and
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Norman Lamont spent billions of
the government’s foreign
reserves buying back pounds,
trying desperately to shore up
the value of sterling in the
face of the daunting speculative
tsunami that Soros started.
They ran out of foreign
reserves. The pound crashed. On
a day known thereafter as Black
Wednesday, September 16, 1992,
British subjects woke up to find
their money worth about 20
percent less than the day before
when compared to American
dollars, German marks or even
French francs. Soros’ daring
short position paid off—big.
Had he lost that bet, nobody
would know his name today.
Almost nobody outside the
financial markets knew his name
then, or how he got the clout to
pull it off, but the investment
world knew it very well. In
1967, George Soros had been an
arbitrage trader at a small New
York City investment bank—just
another drone—when he talked his
employers into letting him start
an offshore fund called First
Eagle, long positions only, with
$250,000 of his own money and $6
million of other peoples’. It
went well, and two years later
he launched Double Eagle, a
hedge fund that would later
become the Quantum Fund. He was
39.
His hedge fund was registered in
Curaçao in the Netherlands
Antilles, a Caribbean tax haven
beyond U.S. regulation. All of
its investors were also beyond
U.S. regulation: very rich non-U.S.
citizens, mostly European.
Soros, who stayed in New York,
was only its "investment
advisor" collecting a management
fee and a 15% incentive fee.
Like most hedge funds, Quantum
specialized in high risk, short
term speculation on stocks,
bonds, commodities, currencies,
stock options and derivatives,
taking long and short positions
and large leveraged positions.
Soros took huge risks,
spending mostly borrowed money
and selling stocks the fund did
not yet own. His success was
astonishing: throughout the
dismal bear markets of the
1970s, when most investors lost
money, Quantum was profitable
every year, sometimes paying
double-digit returns.
In 1981, Institutional
Investor magazine put him on
the cover as "the world’s
greatest money manager."
The name of his fund came from
quantum physics, especially the
indeterminacy principle of
Werner Heisenberg.
Soros liked "Quantum"
as a symbol of the
impossibility of accurately
determining the future movement
of markets as well as subatomic
particles. He had developed his
own theory that individual
biases (e.g., the
trend-following habits of
speculators) introduce
disequilibrium into an economy,
so conventional "efficient
market" theory doesn’t work.
Soros extends his theory to just
about everything, giving it the
clunky name "reflexivity."
In
finance, he uses it to explain
"boom-bust cycles." He goes
further, arguing that when
any social enterprise begins
to rise, whether a market, a
business, a movement, or a
nation, the biases of
individuals (investors,
executives, movement leaders, or
statesmen) create instability.
They build a bandwagon effect,
overvaluing or overreaching,
which creates an artificial
"bubble" that eventually bursts.
Soros has attributed his hedge
fund success—including the Bank
of England episode—to his
reflexivity theory. Others call
it luck.
But there were thorns in the
hedge: critics called him a
"bandit" for his Southeast Asian
currency raids. Others accused
him of calculated hit-and-run
tactics: quietly buying into a
market—gold, for example, as he
did in 1993—deliberately leaking
his "secret," watching the
bandwagon stampede drive the
price up, then bailing out
before the bubble bursts.
Quantum had only one losing year
in its first two decades and
George Soros got very rich. Even
though he failed to predict the
stock market crash of ’87 and
took a $300 million hit, Quantum
was actually up 14 percent for
the calendar year—and his
personal compensation of $75
million made him the
second-highest-paid man on Wall
Street.
1993, it earned him $1.1
billion. George Soros was the
top earner on Wall Street,
making more than the gross
national product of 42 nations.
He was no longer just a drone on
the cusp of fame.
The money brought access and
influence through his charities.
From then on, he mixed with
chiefs of state as if he were
one of them. He even leveraged
heads of state: in that same
year he told a packed press
conference in Romania that he
had snubbed an invitation from
the country’s president, Ion
Iliescu, "for lack of time."
He raced to the airport
where his rented jet took him to
the next country. He dined with
the heads of Moldova and
Bulgaria in a single day and
told his travel companion,
journalist Michael Lewis: "You
see, I have one president for
breakfast and another for
dinner."
With tongue only slightly in
cheek, he told Lewis of the
influence his philanthropy had
bought him in the former Soviet
Union, "The Soviet Empire is now
known as the Soros Empire."
Yet this same man was known to
have his chauffeur wait at the
curb in Washington while he
dashed in to the National
Gallery of Art to admire a
Vermeer, then get to the next
appointment right on time.
--From
Ron Arnold's Freezing in the
Dark: Money, Power, People and
The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
Soros playing God with public
policy:
Criminal Justice: Soros
personally believes that the
American criminal justice system
is racist, and that prison is an
inappropriate punishment for
most lawbreakers. For example:
(a) OSI has established a “U.S.
Justice Fund” to
“diminish the role of prisons
... and to pave the way for the
creation of a larger system of
public health and social
supports.” (b) In a related
measure, the Institute created
an “After
Prison Initiative”
focusing on “supporting the
successful reentry of prisoners
to their communities.” (c) OSI
helps finance the
Sentencing Project,
which claims that prison
sentencing patterns are racially
discriminatory, and advocates in
favor of granting voting rights
to convicted felons. (d) OSI
funds the Southern Center for
Human Rights, which recruits
lawyers to represent death row
inmates and aims to reduce
America’s alleged over-reliance
on incarceration. (e) The
Institute supports Critical
Resistance, a program that
impugns the “Prison Industrial
Complex” for fostering the
delusion that “caging and
controlling people makes us
safe.”
Open Society Institute
Officers, Trustees, Foundation
Managers 2008
Five Highest Paid Employees
2008
Name |
Title |
Compensation |
HERBERT STURZ |
SENIOR ADVISOR |
$248,371 |
ANN BEESON |
EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
OF US PROGRAM |
$247,250 |
STEPHANIE BEHRENS |
DIRECTOR
OF INTERNATIONAL
HUMAN
RELATIONS |
$242,201 |
YALAN TENG |
CHIEF INFORMATION
OFFICER |
$240,638 |
GEORGE VICKERS |
DIRECTOR
OF INTERNATIONAL
OPERATIONS |
$215,000 |
Five Highest Paid
Independent Contractors 2008
Name |
Type of Service |
Compensation |
LAUFER GREEN ISAAC
LLC |
PROGRAM STRATEGY |
$409,965 |
GIVING WORKS |
OSI SURVEY ANALYSIS |
$409,012 |
AGENDALESS
CONSULTING INC |
IT SUPPORT |
$215,854 |
ISTANBUL BILGI
UNIVERSITY |
PROGRAM SUPPORT |
$193,801 |
ROBERT SCOTT HORTON |
PROGRAM CONSULTANT |
$173,750 |
Open Society Institute
Sample Grants
Recipient
Name
|
Amount |
Year
|
Grant
Description |
DUCKS UNLIMITED
Memphis
Tennessee |
$4,500 |
2006 |
|
INTERNATIONAL
RESCUE COMMITTEE
New York
|
$9,630 |
2006 |
To purchase
computer
equipment for
the group of
refuges from
Andijan
Uzbekistan |
INTERNATIONAL
RESCUE COMMITTEE
New York
|
$25,000 |
2006 |
To provide
general support |
NEW SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY
New York
|
$35,000 |
2006 |
To host a two
day public
conference on
crime and
punishment in
the United
States |
YALE UNIVERSITY
New Haven
Connecticut |
$21,051 |
2006 |
|
NEW YORK
UNIVERSITY
New York
|
$6,450 |
2006 |
|
NEW YORK
UNIVERSITY
New York
|
$450,130 |
2006 |
To support the
symposium
entitled Hannah
Arendt right new |
JOHNS HOPKINS
UNIVERSITY
Baltimore
Maryland |
$25,000 |
2006 |
To institute
summer learning
program for all
Baltimore city
Public School
system student |
BELL FOUNDATION
Dorchester
Massachusetts |
$75,000 |
2006 |
To support the
launch of its
summer program
for students in
Baltimore city
Public schools |
UNITED WAY OF
NEW YORK CITY
New York
|
$20,000 |
2006 |
To support the
symposium nexus
between concern
trated poverty
ty incarceration
re-entry and
employment |
FEDERATION OF
AMERICAN
SCIENTISTS
Washington DC
|
$25,000 |
2006 |
To support the
project on
government
secretary |
HUMAN RIGHTS
WATCH
New York
|
$9,000 |
2006 |
|
HUMAN RIGHTS
WATCH
New York
|
$50,000 |
2006 |
To support the
US Programs
criminal justice
work |
HUMAN RIGHTS
WATCH
New York
|
$100,000 |
2006 |
To support work
on the human
rights
implication of
domestic anti
terrorism
measures |
GOVERNMENT
ACCOUNTABILITY
PROJECT
Washington DC
|
$100,000 |
2006 |
To support the
science and
engineering
whistleblower
campaign |
NEW ISRAEL FUND
Washington DC
|
$9,000 |
2006 |
|
NEW ISRAEL FUND
Washington DC |
$9,000 |
2006 |
|
EDUCATION
DEVELOPMENT
CENTER
Newton
Massachusetts |
$200,000 |
2006 |
To Launch a
youth media
learning network |
SUNDANCE
INSTITUTE
Beverly Hills
California |
$75,000 |
2006 |
To support the
re design and
expansion of the
Sundance
documentary
about the
wrongful
conviction and
exoneration of
Darry hunt |
PROTEUS FUND
Amherst
Massachusetts |
$200,000 |
2006 |
To support a
donor
collaborative
for
Collaborative
grantmaking in
the
media
policy arena |
PROTEUS FUND
Amherst
Massachusetts |
$250,000 |
2006 |
To provide
funding for the
civil marriage
collaborative
fund |
UNION OF
CONCERNED
SCIENTISTS
Cambridge
Massachusetts |
$200,000 |
2006 |
To provide
project support
for the
scientific
integrity
program |
MASSACHUSETTS
INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY
Cambridge
Massachusetts |
$46,021 |
2006 |
To support a
project entitled
pubic education
on the human
costs of the war
in Iraq |
PHYSICIANS FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS
Boston
Massachusetts |
$50,000 |
2006 |
To support
medical
evaluations for
individuals who
have been
detained by the
United States |
ALLIANCE FOR
GLOBAL JUSTICE
FOR CHIAPAS
MEDIA PROJECT
Washington
DC |
$50,000 |
2006 |
To support the
United students
against sweat
ships leadership
development
program |
HEIFER PROJECT
INTERNATIONAL
Little Rock
Arkansas |
$7,019 |
2006 |
|
NATIONAL
PARTNERSHIP FOR
WOMEN AND
FAMILIES
Washington
DC |
$225,000 |
2006 |
To provide
general support |
AMERICAN
INSTITUTE FOR
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Washington
DC |
$250,000 |
2006 |
General support |
UNITED STATES
STUDENT
ASSOCIATION
Washington
DC
|
$59,000 |
2006 |
General support |
UNITED STATES
STUDENT
ASSOCIATION
Washington
DC |
$300,000 |
2006 |
To support
training
materials &
networking
opportunities
for state-wide
student
association |
MS FOUNDATION
FOR WOMEN
New York
|
$6,825 |
2006 |
|
URBAN JUSTICE
CENTER
New York
|
$46,000 |
2006 |
To line the
debate on sex
work &
trafficking to a
struggle for
sexual and
economic rights |
EARTH ISLAND
INSTITUTE
San Francisco
California |
$300,000 |
2006 |
To support the
campus climate
challenge |
CENTER ON BUDGET
AND POLICY
PRIORITIES
Washington
DC |
$750,000 |
2006 |
General support |
PLANNED
PARENTHOOD
FEDERATION OF
AMERICA
New York
|
$200,000 |
2006 |
To support an
organization
campaign around
the federal
judiciary |
AMERICAN
SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA LEAGUE
New York
|
$15,000 |
2006 |
|
HOWARD
UNIVERSITY
Washington
DC |
$5,000 |
2006 |
To provide
general support
the national
African American
Drug Policy
coalition |
SYNERGOS
INSTITUTE
New York
|
$10,000 |
2006 |
To provide
general support |
EARTHJUSTICE
Oakland
California |
$150,000 |
2006 |
To support the
judging the
environment
project |
HUMAN RIGHTS
CAMPAIGN
Washington
DC |
$150,000 |
2006 |
To support the
Federal
Judiciary public
education
project |
WORLD RESOURCES
INSTITUTE
Washington
DC |
$100,000 |
2006 |
To support the
Chief Executive
Director climate
change
initiative |
CENTER FOR
COMMUNITY CHANGE
Washington
DC |
$25,000 |
2006 |
To support the
fair immigration
reform movement
citizenship
schools project |
CENTER FOR
COMMUNITY CHANGE
Washington
DC
|
$100,000 |
2006 |
To support
comprehensive
immigration
reform related
action coalition
building and
media outreach |
CENTER FOR
COMMUNITY CHANGE
Washington
DC
|
$100,000 |
2006 |
To develop the
optimal
management
structure for
the generation
change
leadership
initiative |
CENTER FOR
COMMUNITY CHANGE
Washington
DC |
$100,000 |
2006 |
To support the
no more circus
tents project |
CENTER FOR
COMMUNITY CHANGE
Washington
DC |
$300,000 |
2006 |
To support the
fair immigration
reform movement
network |
CENTER FOR
COMMUNITY CHANGE
Washington
DC |
$300,000 |
2006 |
To support the
Community voting
project |
GEORGETOWN DAY
SCHOOL
Washington
DC |
$30,000 |
2006 |
|
GEORGETOWN DAY
SCHOOL
Washington
DC |
$25,000 |
2006 |
|
MARET SCHOOL
Washington
DC |
$7,500 |
2006 |
|
AMERICAN
SCANDINAVIAN
FOUNDATION
New York
|
$5,000 |
2006 |
General support |
NEW WORLD
FOUNDATION
New York
|
$10,000 |
2006 |
To support the
social justice
infrastructure
funders project |
NEW WORLD
FOUNDATION
New York
|
$20,000 |
2006 |
To support an
intergenerational
convening of
activists of
color and their
ensuring
campaign |
NEW WORLD
FOUNDATION
New York
|
$50,000 |
2006 |
To support the
Alston Bennerman
Fellowship
Program |
CENTER FOR
PUBLIC INTEREST
RESEARCH
Boston
Massachusetts |
$100,000 |
2006 |
To support the
student
empowerment
training state
student
association
organization
project |
SOUTHERN CENTER
FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Atlanta
Georgia |
$7,500 |
2006 |
|
SOUTHERN CENTER
FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Atlanta
Georgia |
$250,000 |
2006 |
General support |
EQUAL JUSTICE
WORKS
Washington
DC |
$750,000 |
2006 |
|
EQUAL JUSTICE
WORKS
Washington
DC |
$875,000 |
2006 |
To support the
class of 2005
fellowships |
FREEDOM FROM
HUNGER
Davis
California |
$6,906 |
2006 |
|
SHELTER OUR
SISTERS
Hackensack
New Jersey |
$7,011 |
2006 |
To provide
additional
support to study
at Assumption
University |
ATLANTIC COUNCIL
OF THE UNITED
STATES
Washington
DC |
$16,000 |
2006 |
To develop areas
of potential
transatlantic
cooperation |
ASPEN INSTITUTE
Washington
DC |
$195,000 |
2006 |
To rethink the
dominant
perspectives on
Crime and
Punishment in
the US |
ASSOCIATION OF
BALTIMORE AREA
GRANTMAKERS
Baltimore
Maryland |
$5,500 |
2006 |
General support |
ASSOCIATION OF
BALTIMORE AREA
GRANTMAKERS
Baltimore
Maryland |
$10,000 |
2006 |
To provide staff
support for the
education
funders affinity
group |
GODS LOVE WE
DELIVER
New York
|
$5,000 |
2006 |
General support |
NATION INSTITUTE
New York
|
$10,000 |
2006 |
To provide
general support |
FORDHAM
UNIVERSITY
Bronx
New York |
$14,500 |
2006 |
To support
rethinking
judicial
selection |
NEW YORK LAWYERS
FOR THE PUBLIC
INTEREST
New York
|
$215,700 |
2006 |
To provide
renewal support
for the national
campaign to
restore civil
rights |
NEW YORK LAWYERS
FOR THE PUBLIC
INTEREST
New York
|
$12,000 |
2006 |
To provide add
on support for
the national
campaign to
restore civil
rights |
RESEARCH
FOUNDATION OF
THE CITY
UNIVERSITY OF
NEW YORK
New York
|
$200,000 |
2006 |
To support the
creation of the
center on the
Media crime and
justice |
FIDELITY
INVESTMENT
CHARITABLE GIFT
FUND
Boston
Massachusetts |
$44,250 |
2006 |
|
ECONOMIC POLICY
INSTITUTE
Washington DC
|
$400,000 |
2006 |
To provide
general support |
FOUNDATION
CENTER
New York
|
$20,000 |
2006 |
To provide
general support |
FOUNDATION
CENTER
New York
|
$20,000 |
2006 |
To provide
general support |
CENTER FOR
STRATEGIC AND
INTERNATIONAL
STUDIES
Washington DC
|
$15,000 |
2006 |
To support a
Libyan
delegation to
discuses
political and
economic issues |
AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION OF
UNIVERSITY WOMEN
AAUW
Washington DC
|
$150,000 |
2006 |
To craft a
policy statement
to college and
University
regarding
inviting outside
speakers |
ALLIANCE FOR
JUSTICE
Washington DC
|
$100,000 |
2006 |
To provide
support for a
lecture series
in honor of
professor Herman
Schwartz |
ASSOCIATION FOR
CHILDREN OF NEW
JERSEY
Newark
New Jersey |
$50,000 |
2006 |
To renew support
for
participation in
the state fiscal
analysis
initiative |
ASSOCIATION FOR
CHILDREN OF NEW
JERSEY
Newark
New Jersey |
$50,000 |
2006 |
To renew support
for
participation in
the state fiscal
analysis
initiative |
ASSOCIATION OF
AMERICAN
COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES
Washington DC
|
$11,100 |
2006 |
|
CARNEGIE
ENDOWMENT FOR
INTERNATIONAL
PEACE
Washington DC |
$9,800 |
2006 |
To support
Georgian Ossetia
civic dialogue |
CARNEGIE
ENDOWMENT FOR
INTERNATIONAL
PEACE
Washington DC |
$16,850 |
2006 |
To support the
think tank
network on
alternative
solution stop
the transnistria
conflict |
CARNEGIE
ENDOWMENT FOR
INTERNATIONAL
PEACE
Washington DC |
$124,038 |
2006 |
To support the
East partnership
beyond borders
program at
Carnegie Moscow
center |
CENTER FOR
JUSTICE AND
ACCOUNTABILITY
San Francisco
California |
$7,500 |
2006 |
|
CENTER FOR
JUSTICE AND
ACCOUNTABILITY
San Francisco
California |
$9,000 |
2006 |
|
CENTER FOR LAW
AND SOCIAL
POLICY
Washington DC |
$7,500 |
2006 |
|
COOPERATIVE FOR
ASSISTANCE AND
RELIEF
EVERYWHERE CARE
Atlanta
Georgia |
$7,500 |
2006 |
|
CORPORATION FOR
SUPPORTIVE
HOUSING
New York
|
$100,000 |
2006 |
To create re
entry supportive
housing |
ENVIRONMENTAL
LAW INSTITUTE
Washington DC
|
$150,000 |
2006 |
To provide
support for the
endangered
environmental
Law project |
INDEPENDENT
MEDIA INSTITUTE
San Francisco
California |
$40,000 |
2006 |
To support sire
tap magazine |
INDEPENDENT
MEDIA INSTITUTE
San Francisco
California |
$100,000 |
2006 |
General support |
INTER FAITH
EDUCATION FUND
Austin
Texas |
$250,000 |
2006 |
To increase
civic
participation |
LOWER EAST SIDE
TENEMENT MUSEUM
New York
|
$4,750 |
2006 |
To enable South
Africa
Constitutional
Court to
Commission works
form artists |
MANAGEMENT
ASSISTANCE GROUP
Washington DC
|
$50,000 |
2006 |
To advance
technical
assistance
efforts to
leading national
advocacy
organization |
MIGRATION POLICY
INSTITUTE
Washington DC |
$21,300 |
2006 |
To support the
migration
learning
Community |
NATIONAL COUNCIL
OF LA RAZA
Washington DC |
$100,000 |
2006 |
To support the
we are America
Alliance |
NATIONAL COUNCIL
OF LA RAZA
Washington DC
|
$300,000 |
2006 |
To support the
immigration unit
and the
immigrants
rights project |
NATIONAL
COMMITTEE FOR
RESPONSIVE
PHILANTHROPY
Washington DC |
$25,000 |
2006 |
To build
organization
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Organizations that, in recent years, have received
direct funding and assistance from
George Soros and his
Open Society Institute (OSI) include the following.
(Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the "Groups"
section of DiscoverTheNetworks.org):
·
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.
·
American Civil Liberties Union:
This group opposes virtually all post-9/11 national
security measures enacted by U.S.
government. It supports open borders, has rushed to the
defense of suspected terrorists and their abetters, 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 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 Law Foundation:
This group supports amnesty for illegal aliens, on whose
behalf it litigates against the U.S.
government.
·
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.
·
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.
·
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.
·
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.
·
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 petition
opposing 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.
·
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.”
·
Catholics for a Free Choice:
This nominally Catholic organization supports women's
right to abortion-on-demand.
·
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 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.
·
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.
·
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.
·
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." Claiming that "the Republican party has been
captured by a bunch of extremists," Soros accuses the
Bush administration of following a "supremacist
ideology" in whose rhetoric he claims to hear echoes
of "Nazi slogans."
·
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.
·
EMILY's List: This
political network raises money for Democratic female
political candidates who support unrestricted access to
taxpayer-funded
abortion-on-demand.
·
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.”
·
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.
·
Human Rights First:
This group supports open borders and the rights of
illegal immigrants; 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.
·
Immigrant Legal Resource Center:
This group claims to have helped gain amnesty for some
three million illegal immigrants 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.
·
Independent Media Institute:
This
group provides leftist
organizations with “strategic communications consulting,
training, coaching, networking opportunities and
concrete tools” to help them “achieve their social
justice goals.”
·
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 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 a President
Bill Clinton's Special Assistant for Arab-Israeli
Affairs. His analysis of the Mideast conflict is
markedly pro-Palestinian.
·
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.
·
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
immigrants.
·
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 immigrants; 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.
·
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.
·
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
illegals 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.
·
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund:
This group advocates open borders, free college tuition
for illegal immigrants, 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 operative
Harold 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.
·
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 immigrants, and big government
generally.
·
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 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 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 abetters; 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 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 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.
·
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.
·
Peace and Security Funders Group:
This is an association of more than 50 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.
·
People for the American Way:
This group opposes the Patriot Act, anti-terrorism
measures generally, and the allegedly growing influence
of the “religious right.”
·
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.
·
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.
·
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.
·
Proteus Fund:
This foundation directs its philanthropy toward a number
of radical leftwing organizations.
·
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.
·
Sentencing Project:
Asserting that prison sentencing patterns are racially
discriminatory, this initiative advocates voting rights
for felons.
·
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.
·
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.
·
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."
·YWCA
World Office, Switzerland: The YWCA opposes abstinence education; supports
universal access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand;
and opposes school vouchers.
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Major Introductory
Resources:
"Charitable" Foundations: ATMs
for the Left
By Ben Johnson
March 2, 2004
Guide to the George Soros
Network
By Discover The Networks
July 2007
Organizations Funded Directly by
George Soros and his Open
Society Institute
By Discover The Networks
July 2007
"Secondary" or "Indirect"
Affiliates of the George Soros
Network
By Discover The Networks
July 2007
Open Society Institute & Soros
Foundations Network
By Ron Arnold
March 12, 2009
How Obama Revolution Came to
America
By Robert Chandler
April 6, 2009
Additional Resources:
Soros Money Financed Communist
Van Jones
By Cliff Kincaid
September 15, 2009
The Anti-Incarceration Movement:
A Crisis Not Wasted (pdf)
By Joseph Lawler
May 2009
Soros Show Trials
By Matthew Vadum
April 28, 2009
Soros Invades Pentagon
By Rowan Scarborough
April 21, 2009
George Soros Funds Catholic Left
By NewsMax.com
October 26, 2008
NGO "Lawfare": Exploitation of
Courts in the Israeli-Arab
Conflict
By NGO Monitor
October 8, 2008
Barack Obama and the Strategy of
Manufactured Crisis
By James Simpson
September 28, 2008
The Softer Side of Schools?
By Michelle Malkin
August 22, 2008
Democratic Platform's Hidden
Soros Slush Fund
By Michelle Malkin
August 20, 2008
George Soros, Movie Mogul (pdf)
By Rondi Adamson
March 2008
Democracy Alliance: Billionaires
for Big Government
By Matthew Vadum and James
Dellinger
January 2008
Soros Gets Money from US Govt,
Palestinians?
By Steve Gilbert
September 27, 2007
The Soros Threat To Democracy
By Investor's Business Daily
September 24, 2007
Soros' Man in Britain
By John Gizzi
July 6, 2007
The Other Brown
By Nile Gardiner
July 2, 2007
Khalil Gibran Moral Equivalency
By William Mayer and Beila
Rabinowitz
June 22, 2007
Lawyers for Terror
By New York Post
September 19, 2006
Spawn of Soros: Funding a New
Generation of Think Tanks
By Robert Huberty
March 2006
Kofi Annan: Hamas? Terrorist?
By Joseph Klein
February 6, 2006
Open Minds Need Not Apply
The New Editor
February 1, 2006
The Plot to Shush Rush and
O’Reilly
By Brian C. Anderson
Winter 2006
Emperor Soros
By Ron Arnold
August 2005
George Soros' $30M Welfare Check
By Jeff Johnson
April 26, 2005
George Soros, Lynne Stewart, and
the Open Society Institute
By The Capital Research Center
March 2005
Funding Terror Foundationally
By David Hogberg
February 25, 2005
Soros Funded Stewart Defense
By Byron York
February 17, 2005
The Open Borders Lobby and the
Nation’s Security After 9/11,
Part Two
By William Hawkins and Erin
Anderson
January 22, 2004
George Soros: Billionaire of the
Left
By Lowell Ponte
November 13, 2003
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- Assets:
$858,935,162 (2005)
- Grants Received:
$377,413,561 (2005)
- Grants Awarded:
$65,934,588 (2005)
Established in 1993, the
Open Society Institute (OSI)
is the most prominent of
the numerous foundations
belonging to the
international
billionaire financier
George Soros, its
founder and Chairman.
Claiming to be “a
nonpartisan,
nonpolitical entity”
whose funding agendas
are “wholly
separate” from
“George Soros’s private
political activities,”
OSI
describes itself as
“a private operating and
grantmaking foundation
[that] "aims to shape
public policy to promote
democratic governance,
human rights, and
economic, legal, and
social reform; …
implements a range of
initiatives to support
the rule of law,
education, public
health, and independent
media; [and] works to
build alliances across
borders and continents
on issues such as
combating corruption and
rights abuses.”
OSI’s Director of U.S.
Advocacy is
Morton Halperin
(President of
John Podesta’s
Center for American
Progress, and a
longtime affiliate of
the
Institute for Policy
Studies and the
National Lawyers Guild).
The President of OSI and
the Soros Foundation
Network is Aryeh Neier,
who worked for the
American Civil Liberties
Union from 1963 to
1978, serving as its
Director for the last
eight of those years.
Then, from 1978 to 1990,
he was the Executive
Director of
Human Rights Watch.
PBS broadcaster and
Schumann Center for
Media and Democracy
President
Bill Moyers is a
former trustee of the
Open Society Institute.
Another noteworthy
former OSI trustee is
Lani Guinier, who
served on the OSI board
until the end of 2007.
Guinier is best known as
President Bill
Clinton's 1993
nominee for the post of
Assistant Attorney
General for Civil
Rights. Derided by some
critics as "Clinton's
Quota Queen" because she
favored proportional
representation (based on
race and ethnicity) in
local political
elections, Guinier
ultimately failed
to impress the Senate
and her nomination was
withdrawn by Clinton.
OSI supports a wide
array of leftist
organizations,
including: the
American Constitution
Society for Law and
Policy; the
Tides Foundation;
the
Tides Center; the
National Organization
for Women;
Feminist Majority;
the
American Civil Liberties
Union;
People for the American
Way;
Alliance for Justice; NARAL
Pro-Choice America;
America Coming Together;
the
Center for American
Progress;
Campaign for America’s
Future;
Amnesty International;
the
Sentencing Project;
the
Center for Community
Change; the
National Association for
the Advancement of
Colored People Legal
Defense and Educational
Fund; the
Association of Community
Organizations for Reform
Now (ACORN);
Campus Progress;
Free Exchange on Campus; Citizens
for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington;
Democracy 21;
Human Rights Watch;
the
Prison Moratorium
Project; the
Immigrant Funders'
Collaborative; the
Moving Ideas Network;
the
Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement; the No
Peace Without Justice
International Committee;
the
National Lawyers Guild;
the
Center for
Constitutional Rights;
the Coalition for an
International Criminal
Court; the Abortion
Access Project; People
of Color In Crisis;
The American Prospect;
MoveOn.org; the Gay
Straight Alliance
Network; the Youth Law
Center;
Planned Parenthood;
the
American Constitution
Society for Law and
Policy; the
Institute for Policy
Studies;
Joint Victory Campaign
2004; the
Midwest Academy;
Jews for Racial and
Economic Justice;
Project Syndicate (an
international
association of
newspapers that publish
anti-American
propaganda); the Rocky
Mountain Peace
Center; the
International Gay and
Lesbian Human Rights
Commission; Earth Rights
International; the
National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force; the
Nation Institute;
the Violence Policy
Center; Gun Violence
Prevention; Critical
Resistance - Beyond the
Prison Industrial
Complex; the Center for
Investigative Reporting;
the Million Mom March;
Murder Victims' Families
for Reconciliation; the
Death Penalty
Information Center, the
Death Penalty
Mobilization Fund; the
Drug Policy Alliance;
the
Brennan Center for
Justice; the Project
On Death in America; the
Death with Dignity
National Center; the
Ms. Foundation for Women;
the
National Security
Archive Fund; the
Pacifica Foundation;
Physicians for Human
Rights; the
Proteus Fund; the
Public Citizen
Foundation; the
Urban Institute; the
American Friends Service
Committee;
Catholics for a Free
Choice;
Human Rights First; the
Independent Media
Institute; and
MADRE.
A key funder of the open
borders movement, OSI
also supports the
Mexican American Legal
Defense and Education
Fund; the
Immigrant Legal Resource
Center; the
National Immigration Law
Center; the
National Immigration
Forum; the
National Council of La
Raza; and the
American Immigration Law
Foundation.
Internal Revenue Service
records indicate that OSI made
a September 2002 grant
of $20,000 to the
Lynne Stewart
Defense Committee.
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.
The Capital Research
Center has published a
list of additional
organizations to which
OSI has recently donated
money, groups that
according to CRC
“advocate higher taxes
and more government
spending, oppose social
security reform,
litigate against
property rights, oppose
the death penalty,
oppose tough criminal
incarceration policies,
oppose Bush judicial
nominees, and promote
balkanizing racial
agendas.” These donees
include the following:
- We Interrupt
This Message
portrays America as
a nation rife with
racism and economic
injustice; seeks to
radicalize minority
youth; aims to help
the
“disenfranchised”
and the
“marginalized” to
overcome negative
media stereotypes;
and encourages acts
of rebellion against
America’s alleged
injustices, as
evidenced by its
characterization of
the 1992 Los Angeles
riots as a “civil
uprising.”
- The
Independent Media
Institute
publishes a
number of regularly
updated websites
that offer news and
opinion from a far
left perspective;
its Executive
Director Don Hazen
is a former
publisher of
Mother Jones
magazine.
- The
Community Rights
Counsel
provides legal
assistance to state
and local
governments seeking
to restrict
individual property
rights in the name
of “community
interest.”
- Equal
Justice Works
encourages young
people to pursue
careers as public
interest lawyers --
focusing on the
areas of workers’
rights, birth
control and abortion
issues, consumers’
rights, disability
issues, children’s
rights, the death
penalty, and
prisoners’ rights --
by funding student
fellowships and
helping students pay
back their school
loans.
- The Legal
Action Center
is a public
interest law firm
that litigates to
force health-care
insurers to provide
coverage for people
with histories of
addiction to alcohol
and drugs. It also
opposes community
efforts to block the
placement of
alcohol- and
drug-treatment
facilities in or
near residential
neighborhoods.
- Population
Services
International
promotes wider
access to birth
control and abortion
services in more
than 60 countries
worldwide.
- The Western
States Center
aims to build a
“progressive
movement for social,
economic, racial and
environmental
justice in … eight
Western states.”
- The
Esperanza Center
strives to build a
political movement
drawing on “women,
people of color,
lesbians and gay
men, the working
class and poor” --
groups it considers
“wounded by
domination and
inequality” in
American political
life.
- The
Institute on
Taxation and
Economic Policy
believes that
wealthy Americans
pay less than their
fair share of taxes;
it publishes op-eds
and studies that
urge states to raise
taxes on higher
income-earners.
- The Network
for a Progressive
Texas is a
coalition of "Texans
who are committed
to economic, social,
and environmental
justice ... engaging
in collective
action, and building
power to affect
progressive change.”
- The Center
for Law and Social
Policy promotes
government welfare
entitlements under
the heading of
“economic security”;
the Center’s Board
of Directors
includes attorney
Peter Edelman,
husband of
Children’s Defense
Fund President
Marian Wright
Edelman.
- The Center
for Policy
Alternatives is
a “progressive
public policy and
leadership
development center
serving state
legislators, state
policy
organizations, and
state grassroots
leaders.”
- The Economic
Policy Institute
opposes social
security
privatization and
free trade
agreements such as
NAFTA; it was
founded in 1986 by
journalist Robert
Kuttner,
Clinton Labor
Secretary
Robert Reich,
and economist Lester
Thurow.
- The State
Strategies Fund
works to create a
coalition of
activists to support
its agenda of
campaign finance
reform, progressive
tax policy, and
government-funded
health care.
- DEMOS
believes that
America’s social and
economic ills stem
largely from “the
values of extreme
laissez faire
ideology that have
deeply permeated our
society,” and from
the fact that
“[w]e’ve been told
that government is
the problem, not the
solution.”
A strong supporter of
anti-war and
environmentalist
organizations, OSI is a
member of the
Peace and Security
Funders Group. It is
also a member of the
International Human
Rights Funders Group, a
network of more than
six-dozen grant-makers
dedicated to bankrolling
leftist organizations
and causes.
OSI
endorsed a 2000
document called the
Earth Charter, which
blames capitalism for
many of the world's
environmental, social,
and economic problems.
According to the Charter,
“the dominant patterns
of production and
consumption are causing
environmental
devastation, the
depletion of resources,
and a massive extinction
of species.” “The
benefits of
development,” adds the
Charter, “are not shared
equitably and the gap
between rich and poor is
widening."
In the vanguard of the
U.S. drug
decriminalization
movement, OSI in 1994
pledged $4 million to
fund the establishment
of the Lindesmith
Center, which supports
the legalization of
marijuana. In 2002 OSI
gave $3 million to the
Tides Foundation,
earmarking the money for
a group called Fund for
Drug Policy Reform,
which opposes the War on
Drugs.
OSI was a signatory to a
November 1, 2001
document
characterizing the 9/11
attacks as a legal
matter to be addressed
by criminal-justice
procedures rather than
military
retribution. Suggesting
that the hijackers were
motivated chiefly by
a desire to point out
global injustices
perpetrated by the
United States, this
document explained that
similar future
calamities could be
averted only if America
would finally begin to
“promote fundamental
rights around the
world.”
OSI endorsed
the Civil Liberties
Restoration Act (CLRA)
of 2004, which was
designed to roll back,
in the name of
protecting civil
liberties, vital
national-security
policies that had been
adopted after the 9/11
terrorist attacks.
Numerous OSI funding
initiatives reflect the
Institute’s view that
the American
criminal-justice system
is infested with racism,
and that incarceration
is an inappropriate
punishment for most
lawbreakers. For
example: (a) OSI has
established a “U.S.
Justice Fund” to
“diminish the role of
prisons ... and to pave
the way for the creation
of a larger system of
public health and social
supports.” (b) In a
related measure, the
Institute created an “After
Prison Initiative”
focusing on “supporting
the successful reentry
of prisoners to their
communities.” (c) OSI
helps finance the
Sentencing Project,
which claims that prison
sentencing patterns are
racially discriminatory,
and advocates in favor
of granting voting
rights to convicted
felons. (d) OSI funds
the Southern Center for
Human Rights, which
recruits lawyers to
represent death row
inmates and aims to
reduce America’s alleged
over-reliance on
incarceration. (e) The
Institute supports
Critical Resistance, a
program that impugns the
“Prison Industrial
Complex” for fostering
the delusion that
“caging and controlling
people makes us safe.”
A strong advocate of
gun control, OSI
funds the Network on
Small Arms, which has
lobbied the United
Nations to pass a
measure
outlawing private gun
ownership and
effectively overturning
the U.S. Constitution’s
Second Amendment.
OSI funded the
multi-year United
Nations
Millennium Development
Project --
commissioned by the UN
Secretary-General in
2002 “to develop a
concrete action plan for
the world to … reverse
the grinding poverty,
hunger and disease
affecting billions of
people. In 2005 this
Project culminated in a
recommendation for a
massive
wealth-redistribution,
foreign-aid program
whose provisions, if
adopted, would impose
more than $150 billion
in annual costs on
Americans.
Each year, OSI sponsors
a number of fellowships,
among them, the
Soros Justice Fellowship
which is awarded to
"outstanding
individuals" who will
implement projects aimed
at reforming the
American
criminal-justice system.
Most notably, OSI
seeks to end "the
over-reliance on
incarceration and harsh
punishment, and the lack
of equal
justice—especially for
people of color and the
poor." One of the more
infamous
recipients of this
fellowship was the
radical communist Linda
Evans, a former member
of the
Weather Underground.
In the 1970s, Evans and
accomplice
Susan Rosenberg took
part in the deadly
Brinks armored-car
robbery in Nyack, New
York, where two security
guards and two police
officers were shot,
three of them fatally.
Three years later, the
women were finally
apprehended. At the
time, they had 740
pounds of explosives
(which they admitted
were earmarked for
bombings) in their
possession. Rosenberg
was sentenced to 58
years in prison, Evans
to 40 years. (She was
later paroned by
President
Bill Clinton in
January 2001.)
According to FBI files,
Evans, during a 1969
trip to Hanoi, was shown
an anti-aircraft gun,
cradled it in her arms,
and said, "[I wish] an
American plane would fly
over." Her OSI award was
intended to aid her
efforts to "increase
civic participation of
former prisoners."
On August 16, 2005, OSI
(in collaboration with
the Center for American
Progress, the
AFL-CIO, the
Service Employees
International Union,
AFSCME, and the United
Steelworkers Union)
launched a new
organization called the
Progressive Legislative
Action Network (PLAN).
Led by Democratic
activists David Sirota
and Steve Doherty,
PLAN’s mission is to
seed state legislatures
with prewritten "model"
legislation
reflecting leftist
visions of justice.
Between 1998 and 2003,
OSI received
more than $30 million
from U.S. government
agencies. Various
State Department
documents indicate that
OSI has been paid to run
what the Department
describes as
"democratization
programs" in a number of
countries, including
Uzbekistan, Burma, and
regions of Central Asia.
In an effort to present
itself in the most
positive light to the
American people, OSI
uses the services of
the public relations
firm
Fenton Communications.
In October 2010, OSI
announced that it
was donating $1.8
million to
National Public Radio,
in order to enable NPR
to add 100 journalists
at its affiliate radio
stations across the
United States.
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"Secondary" or "Indirect"
Affiliates of the George Soros
Network
By Discover The Networks
July 2007
In addition to those
organizations (“primary” or
“direct” affiliates) that are
funded directly
by
George Soros
and his
Open Society Institute (OSI),
there are also numerous
“secondary” or “indirect”
affiliates of the Soros network.
These include organizations
which do not receive direct
funding from Soros and OSI, but
which are funded by one or more
organizations that do. These
secondary affiliates also
include organizations that work
collaboratively
or synergistically
with Soros-funded groups. Among
these secondary affiliates are
the following:
·
Air America Radio:
Funded by
Democracy
Alliance,
which is heavily bankrolled by
Soros, this radio station was
created to advance the cause of
the
Democratic Party
and the political Left.
·
Catalist:
Headed by Soros ally
Harold Ickes,
this political consultancy 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.” Toward
this end, it helps leftist
organizations conduct more
effective get-out-the-vote
drives and targeted political
advertising.
·
Center for
Progressive Leadership:
Funded by the Soros-bankrolled
Democracy
Alliance,
this anti-capitalist
organization is dedicated to
training future leftist
political leaders.
·
Media Matters for America:
Seeking to "systematically
monitor [the media] for
conservative misinformation" and
to discredit anything that
"forwards the conservative
agenda," this group, which has
intimate ties to Hillary
Clinton, works very closely with
the Soros-backed
Center for American Progress.
It is heavily funded by
Democracy Alliance,
of which Soros is a major
financier.
·
Moving Ideas Network:
This coalition of more than 250
leftwing activist groups is a
partner organization of the Soros-backed
Center for American Progress.
Promoting the candidacy of
leftwing politicians, 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 MIN.
·
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.”
·
Schumann Center for Media and
Democracy:
PBS broadcaster and Schumann
Center President
Bill Moyers
is a trustee of the Open Society
Institute’s Board of Directors.
The Schumann Center
shares many of OSI’s agendas.
·
Service Employees
International Union:
The current President of SEIU is
the former New Leftist
Andrew Stern,
who sat on the Executive
Committee of the Soros-created
America Coming Together.
·
Sierra Club:
This organization’s Executive
Director,
Carl Pope,
co founded
America Coming Together,
in whose creation Soros played a
major role.
·
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.”
Think Progress promotes an
agenda identical to that of the
left wing of the
Democratic Party.
·
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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