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Labor unions are also substantial contributors to AFGJ and its sponsored projects. In 2016, the [[SEIU]] reported a contribution to AFGJ, while numerous other unions have funded AFGJ projects United Students Against Sweatshops and US Labor Against the War.<ref>Data compiled by the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Labor Management Standards from Annual Report of a Labor Organization (Forms LM-2) filed with OLMS in 2016 and 2017. Queries conducted December 15, 2017, Influencewatch.org</ref>
Labor unions are also substantial contributors to AFGJ and its sponsored projects. In 2016, the [[SEIU]] reported a contribution to AFGJ, while numerous other unions have funded AFGJ projects United Students Against Sweatshops and US Labor Against the War.<ref>Data compiled by the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Labor Management Standards from Annual Report of a Labor Organization (Forms LM-2) filed with OLMS in 2016 and 2017. Queries conducted December 15, 2017, Influencewatch.org</ref>
==History==
Alliance for Global Justice was incorporated in 1998 by members of the pro-[[Sandinista]] Nicaragua Network. To reduce confusion regarding the group’s non-Nicaragua-related [[left-wing]] organizing work, Nicaragua Network staffers incorporated the Alliance for Global Justice. AFGJ ultimately subsumed the Nicaragua Network as a project of the Alliance.
AFGJ has been criticized for close alignment with [[authoritarian]] left-wing regimes, including the [[Venezuela]]n Bolivarian [[socialist]] regime of [[Nicolas Maduro]], the [[Nicaragua]]n communist regime of [[Daniel Ortega]], and the [[Cuba]]n communist regime of [[Raul Castro]]. The group is an advocate for the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (known by the acronym ALBA), a Venezuelan- and Cuban-led trading bloc of leftist-led countries in [[Latin America]] and the [[Caribbean]].<ref>[https://afgj.org/venezuela-alba-weekly-venezuelas-communal-movement-today-11-24-2017. “Venezuela-ALBA Weekly: Venezuela’s Communal Movement Today 11.24.2017.”] Alliance for Global Justice. November 24, 2017.</ref> Persons associated with AFGJ have even affirmed the [[propaganda]] of the [[gulag]] state of [[North Korea]].<ref>Hogberg, David. “Communists Funding the Resistance: The Alliance for Global Justice.” Capital Research Center.</ref>
==Extremism==
Alliance for Global Justice is a staunch defender of left-wing extremists, including convicted [[felon]]s. AFGJ publishes a list of purported “Prisoners of Empire” it asserts are political prisoners. The list includes several violent extremists: Native American radical Leonard Peltier, convicted of murdering two FBI agents; [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]], a former [[Black Panther]] convicted of murdering a Philadelphia police officer; members of the [[Marxist-Leninist]] [[terrorist]] organization [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia]] (FARC); members of the Black Liberation Army; [[David Gilbert]], a member of the terrorist [[Weather Underground]]; three men convicted of a politically motivated spree murder in the U.S. Virgin Islands; and members of the terrorist United Freedom Front. The list also honors convicted Cuban spy Ana Montes, convicted terrorist conspirator [[Patrice Lumumba Ford]], and two Minnesota women convicted of material support for the [[Islamist]] terror organization Al-Shabbab.<ref>[https://afgj.org/politicalprisonersusa “Political Prisoners in the USA.”] Alliance for Global Justice. September 07, 2017. </ref>
As of 2016, Alliance for Global Justice was a fiscal sponsor of nine pro-[[Palestinian]] and anti-Israeli groups. At least one, the “One Democratic State Group,” openly calls for the abolition of Israel as a national home for the Jewish people. Other organizations AFGJ has supported have facilitated violent demonstrations.<ref>[https://www.ngo-monitor.org/funder/alliance-for-global-justice/ “Alliance for Global Justice.”] NGOmonitor. January 7, 2016.</ref>
==See also==
==See also==