George
Soros, the financier whose billions mostly reside overseas in banking secrecy
havens, already is known to have spent tens of millions of dollars funding
Ferguson protests and spin-offs like BLM, according to the Washington
Times. Now his colleagues in the Democracy Alliance are reportedly
ready to up the ante with many millions more to fan racial resentment.
Kenneth
P. Vogel and Sarah Wheaton of Politico report:
Some of the biggest donors on the left plan to meet behind
closed doors next week in Washington with leaders of the Black Lives Matter
movement and their allies to discuss funding the burgeoning protest movement,
POLITICO has learned.
The meetings are taking place at the annual winter gathering of
the Democracy Alliance major liberal donor club, which runs from Tuesday
evening through Saturday morning and is expected to draw Democratic financial
heavyweights, including Tom Steyer and Paul Egerman. (snip)
According to a Democracy Alliance draft agenda obtained by
POLITICO, movement leaders will be featured guests at a Tuesday dinner with
major donors. The dinner, which technically precedes the official conference
kickoff, will focus on “what kind of support and resources are needed from the
allied funders during this critical moment of immediate struggle and long-term
movement building.”
The groups that will be represented include the Black Youth
Project 100, The Center for Popular Democracy and the Black Civic Engagement
Fund, according to the organizer, a DA member named Leah Hunt-Hendrix. An heir
to a Texas oil fortune, Hunt-Hendrix helps lead a coalition of mostly young
donors called Solidaire that focuses on movement building. It’s donated more
than $200,000 to the Black Lives Matter movement since Brown’s killing.
According to its entry on a philanthropy website, more than $61,000
went directly to organizers and organizations on the ground in Ferguson and
Baltimore, where the fatal police shooting of Freddie Gray in April sparked a
more recent wave of Black Lives-related protests. An additional $115,000 went
to groups that have sprung up to support the movement.
As a
member of the antiwar generation in the late sixties/early seventies, I
observed organizers of demonstrations mysteriously able to fly all over the
country, and I asked where the money came from. I never got a straight
answer. After the fall of the USSR, we learned that the Russians were
funding antiwar activists. These days, the manipulators are domestic, but
the methods are the same.
