>>855169

Slightly off center here but this helps with eliminating some of those that may be behind this and yet illuminate us to where many are aligned: Amazing site

Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute

By Discover The Networks

July 2007

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."

http:// www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Organizations%20Funded%20Directly5.htm

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU)

125 Broad Street - 18th Floor

New York, NY

10004

Phone :212-549-2500

Email :

membership@aclu.org

URL: Website

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)'s Visual Map

Opposes virtually all post-9/11 national security measures enacted by U.S. government

Key member of the open borders lobby

Opposes virtually every traditional American value

Founded by a socialist

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) characterizes itself as America's "guardian of liberty," working to "defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." "We work," says the ACLU, "also to extend rights to segments of our population that have traditionally been denied their rights, including Native Americans and other people of color; lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people; women; mental-health patients; prisoners; people with disabilities; and the poor."

The ACLU was established in 1920 by Roger Baldwin (1884-1981), who served as its executive director until 1950. Baldwin was a socialist who counseled subterfuge as the preferable means of promoting his political agendas in the United States. In a private 1917 letter (to the journalist/activist Louis Lochner, who was affiliated with a radical organization), Baldwin wrote: “Do steer away from making it look like a Socialist enterprise. We want to look like patriots in everything we do. We want to get a lot of flags, talk a good deal about the Constitution and what our forefathers wanted to make of this country, and to show that we are really the folks that really stand for the spirit of our institutions.” In the ACLU's early years, Baldwin hailed the Russia of Lenin and Stalin as “a great laboratory of social experimentation of incalculable value to the development of the world.” In 1928 Baldwin told his allies: “I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of all property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”

In 1934 Baldwin wrote an article for Soviet Russia magazine, in which he spelled out his steadfast commitment to promoting Communism by any means necessary:

"I believe in non-violent methods of struggle as most effective in the long run for building up successful working class power. Where they cannot be followed or where they are not even permitted by the ruling class, obviously only violent tactics remain. I champion civil liberty as the best of the non-violent means of building the power on which worker's rule must be based. If I aid the reactionaries to get free speech now and then, if I go outside the class struggle to fight against censorship, it is only because those liberties help to create a more hospitable atmosphere for working class liberties. The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental. When that power of the working class is once achieved, as it has been only in the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any means whatever."

Reflective of the enduring nature of the ACLU's radicalism is the fact that decades after its founding, the organization named the unrepentant New Left terrorist Bernardine Dohrn to its advisory board. Dohrn, a Marxist, was a 1960s-era leader of Weatherman—described by her husband Bill Ayers as “an American Red Army.”

Today the ACLU handles more than 6,000 court cases each year and has offices in all 50 states as well as Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. In addition to the nearly 200 staff attorneys it employs, the organization also makes use of approximately 2,000 volunteer attorneys who work pro bono. Further, the ACLU claims to have more than 500,000 “members and supporters.”

www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6145

>>856009

>>855169

I found this…will this help?

PLANNERS NETWORK (PN)

106 West Sibley Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

14853

Phone :(607) 254-8890

Fax :(607) 255-1971

Email :

editor@plannersnetwork.org

URL: Website

Planners Network (PN)'s Visual Map

Seeks to use "progressive planning" to "eliminate inequalities and promote peace and racial, economic and environmental justice”

Calls for “fundamental change in our political and economic systems”

The Planners Network (PN) is an association of professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas. Using "progressive planning" to "eliminate inequalities and promote peace and racial, economic and environmental justice,” PN “work[s] with other progressive organizations to inform public opinion and public policy.”

PN also helps “progressive planners” stay informed and network with one another by means of its monthly e-newsletter containing member updates, job listings, event announcements, and other resources; its quarterly magazine, Progressive Planning, which publishes reports and analyses relevant to that professional discipline; conferences featuring guest speakers and participatory workshops designed to help inform political strategies at the local, national, and international levels; a pn-net discussion listserv, which allows PN members to post and respond to queries, list job postings, and share resources and event announcements; and 21 local PN chapters—4 in Canada and 17 in the U.S.—that organize events and discussions around significant local issues. Further, PN has published a Disorientation Guide, replete with ideas for activist events, which serves as “a how-to manual for a progressive planning education.”

Depicting America as a nation rife with "racial, economic, and environmental injustice" as well as "discrimination by gender and sexual orientation," PN seeks to “eliminate the great inequalities of wealth and power in our society” by promoting “fundamental change in our political and economic systems.” In PN's calculus, the achievement of "greater equity" in "our global society"—whereby all people would have access to “adequate food, clothing, housing, medical care, jobs, safe working conditions, and a healthful environment”—is a “public responsibility” to be funded by taxpayers. “The private market,” says PN, “has proven incapable of doing so.”

PN's earliest roots date back to 1975, when urban planner Chester Hartman sought “to put the few hundred North American ‘radical planners' in regular touch with one another, to share ideas and experiences, discuss their work and lives, develop some sense of community and mutual support.” To jump-start his idea, Hartman distributed a newsletter that proposed “radical and socialist alternatives to mainstream urban planning.” In the years since then, Hartman has gone on to become an author, a university professor, the founding executive director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, and a fellow at both the Institute for Policy Studies and the Transnational Institute (in Amsterdam).

The first move toward formalizing PN's status as an organization came at a 1979 conference on progressive planning at Cornell University. Two years later, PN held its own first conference—at the National 4-H Center outside Washington, DC—where it adopted a statement of principles, established several working groups, and formed a steering committee.

—denounced Israel's proposed construction of a separation barrier near the West Bank to stop Palestinian terrorists from entering the Jewish state. Asserting that the Israeli barrier would create “isolated Palestinian ghettos, comparable to the Bantustans of South African apartheid,” PN characterized the initiative as “the latest tactic to realize the Israeli government's long-range plan to displace Palestinian people and gain control over the resources of the Occupied Territories.”

In 2010, PN described as “odious” the Arizona Immigration Law deputizing state police to check with federal authorities on the immigration status of criminal suspects whose behavior or circumstances seemed to indicate that they might be in the United States illegally. According to PN, this law represented “an attack on the human rights and dignity of immigrants and people of color,” and “an affront to the extraordinary contributions and sacrifices that immigrants have made … to the social, cultural and economic fabric of
the country.” Further, PN warned that the law would “ope[n] the door to racial profiling”; “threate[n] the basic civil liberties of all ethnic minorities in Arizona”; “breed mistrust between local law-enforcement officials and local communities”; and “instill fear and insecurity among the … undocumented immigrants who reside and work in the state.”

www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7740