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The [[Alliance for Global Justice]] (AFGJ, sometimes styled AfGJ) is an organizing group that serves as a fiscal sponsor to numerous left-wing initiatives, among them [[Refuse Fascism]]<ref>Richardson, Valerie. [https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/13/antifa-protest-of-ben-shapiro-looms-at-berkeley/ “Antifa violence splits left as another major protest looms at Berkeley.”], ''[[The Washington Times]]''. September 13, 2017.</ref> and Stop Mass Incarceration.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/blacklivesmatter-protests-held-amid-parties-new-years-eve-n277896 “#BlackLivesMatter Protests Held Amid Parties on New Year’s Eve.”] NBCNews.com. January 01, 2015.</ref>  In the 2010s, AFGJ was a fiscal sponsor of the [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement.<ref>Markay, Lachlan. [http://dailysignal.com/2011/11/07/meet-the-radical-group-handling-occupy-wall-street-finances/ “Meet the Radical Group Handling ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Finances.”] The Daily Signal. November 07, 2011. </ref>  The group also claims credit for helping form the [[Act Now to Stop War and End Racism]] (ANSWER) Coalition,<ref>[https://afgj.org/about/our-history “Our History.” Alliance for Global Justice.</ref> which has ties to the extremist [[Workers World Party]].<ref>Clemetson, Lynette. [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/us/threats-and-responses-dissent-some-war-protesters-uneasy-with-others.html. “Some War Protesters Uneasy With Others.”] The New York Times. January 23, 2003.</ref>

The '''Alliance for Global Justice''' (AFGJ, sometimes styled AfGJ) is an organizing group that serves as a fiscal sponsor to numerous left-wing initiatives, among them [[Refuse Fascism]]<ref>Richardson, Valerie. [https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/13/antifa-protest-of-ben-shapiro-looms-at-berkeley/ “Antifa violence splits left as another major protest looms at Berkeley.”], ''[[The Washington Times]]''. September 13, 2017.</ref> and Stop Mass Incarceration.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/blacklivesmatter-protests-held-amid-parties-new-years-eve-n277896 “#BlackLivesMatter Protests Held Amid Parties on New Year’s Eve.”] NBCNews.com. January 01, 2015.</ref>  In the 2010s, AFGJ was a fiscal sponsor of the [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement.<ref>Markay, Lachlan. [http://dailysignal.com/2011/11/07/meet-the-radical-group-handling-occupy-wall-street-finances/ “Meet the Radical Group Handling ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Finances.”] The Daily Signal. November 07, 2011.</ref>  The group also claims credit for helping form the [[Act Now to Stop War and End Racism]] (ANSWER) Coalition,<ref>[https://afgj.org/about/our-history “Our History.” Alliance for Global Justice.]</ref> which has ties to the extremist [[Workers World Party]].<ref>Clemetson, Lynette. [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/us/threats-and-responses-dissent-some-war-protesters-uneasy-with-others.html. “Some War Protesters Uneasy With Others.”] The New York Times. January 23, 2003.</ref>

The group describes itself as “anti-capitalist,” opposed to the principles of [[liberal democracy]] and [[individual rights]], and favoring a “multi-polar” world order with powerful rivals to American international primacy.<ref><ref.[https://afgj.org/about/our-principles Our Principles.” Alliance for Global Justice.]</ref>  Alliance for Global Justice and people associated with the organization have advocated for socialist and Communist authoritarian regimes since its founding.  

The group describes itself as “anti-capitalist,” opposed to the principles of [[liberal democracy]] and [[individual rights]], and favoring a “multi-polar” world order with powerful rivals to American international primacy.<ref>[https://afgj.org/about/our-principles Our Principles.” Alliance for Global Justice.]</ref>  Alliance for Global Justice and people associated with the organization have advocated for socialist and Communist authoritarian regimes since its founding.  

The organization provides “fiscal sponsorship” to groups advocating numerous foreign and domestic far-left and extreme-left causes, including eliminating the [[Israel|State of Israel]],<ref>[https://www.ngo-monitor.org/funder/alliance-for-global-justice/ “Alliance for Global Justice.” NGO Monitor.]</ref> supporting convicted violent leftist extremists, and advancing various labor union efforts.  Alliance for Global Justice is fiscal sponsor of 107 projects.<ref>[http://afgj.org/sponsored-projects/fiscally-sponsored-projects/fiscally-sponsored-projects “AfGJ’s Fiscally Sponsored Projects.”] Alliance for Global Justice.</ref>

The organization provides “fiscal sponsorship” to groups advocating numerous foreign and domestic far-left and extreme-left causes, including eliminating the [[Israel|State of Israel]],<ref>[https://www.ngo-monitor.org/funder/alliance-for-global-justice/ “Alliance for Global Justice.” NGO Monitor.]</ref> supporting convicted violent leftist extremists, and advancing various labor union efforts.  Alliance for Global Justice is fiscal sponsor of 107 projects.<ref>[http://afgj.org/sponsored-projects/fiscally-sponsored-projects/fiscally-sponsored-projects “AfGJ’s Fiscally Sponsored Projects.”] Alliance for Global Justice.</ref>

Alliance for Global Justice has received substantial funding from organizations often claiming to be the mainstream of the center-left. The [[Open Society Foundations]], [[Tides Foundation]], Arca Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Public Welfare Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the Brightwater Fund have all made contributions to AFGJ.<ref>Data compiled by Foundationsearch.com subscription service, a project of Metasoft Systems, Inc. from forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Queries conducted December 14, 2017 by Influencewatch.org.</ref>  AFGJ has also received substantial contributions through donor-advised funds, which allow donors to anonymize contributions which might otherwise be disclosed using an intermediary foundation.<ref>Hogberg, David. [https://capitalresearch.org/article/communists-funding-the-resistance-the-alliance-for-global-justice/ “Communists Funding the Resistance: The Alliance for Global Justice.”] Capital Research Center. August 29, 2017.</ref>

Alliance for Global Justice has received substantial funding from organizations often claiming to be the mainstream of the center-left. The [[Open Society Foundations]], [[Tides Foundation]], Arca Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Public Welfare Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the Brightwater Fund have all made contributions to AFGJ.<ref>Data compiled by Foundationsearch.com subscription service, a project of Metasoft Systems, Inc. from forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Queries conducted December 14, 2017 by Influencewatch.org.</ref>  AFGJ has also received substantial contributions through donor-advised funds, which allow donors to anonymize contributions which might otherwise be disclosed using an intermediary foundation.<ref>Hogberg, David. [https://capitalresearch.org/article/communists-funding-the-resistance-the-alliance-for-global-justice/ “Communists Funding the Resistance: The Alliance for Global Justice.”] Capital Research Center. August 29, 2017.</ref>

In addition to more general left-of-center organizations, AFGJ has taken money from foundations associated with the extreme left. The Foundation for Deep Ecology, an extremist environmentalist funder, has provided $30,000 to AFGJ.<ref>Hogberg</ref>  The group has also received funding from the left-wing Ben and Jerry’s Foundation, the anti-Israeli Firedoll Foundation, and the left-wing Hill-Snowdon Foundation.<ref>Hogberg</ref>

In addition to more general left-of-center organizations, AFGJ has taken money from foundations associated with the extreme left. The Foundation for Deep Ecology, an extremist environmentalist funder, has provided $30,000 to AFGJ.<ref>Hogberg</ref>  The group has also received funding from the left-wing Ben and Jerry's Foundation, the anti-Israeli Firedoll Foundation, and the left-wing Hill-Snowdon Foundation.<ref>Hogberg</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>

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==

==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.

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>

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 trade 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==

==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]] and [[Judy Clark]], members 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>

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]] and [[Judy Clark]], members 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>

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>

*Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance southernarizonabds.weebly.com

*Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance southernarizonabds.weebly.com

*Assata’s Daughters assatasdaughters.org

*Assata's Daughters assatasdaughters.org

*BeeKind CommUNITY facebook.com/occustock

*BeeKind CommUNITY facebook.com/occustock

*Chico Mendes Reforestation Project chicomendesguatemala.org

*Chico Mendes Reforestation Project chicomendesguatemala.org

*Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com

*Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com

*Clean up the Mines www.cleanupthemines.org

*Clean up the Mines www.cleanupthemines.org

*Nija’nu Apoyando a Nuestros Abuelos A.C. www.nijanu.org

*Nija’nu Apoyando a Nuestros Abuelos A.C. www.nijanu.org

*Pan-African Roots www.a-aprp-gc.org/pan-african-roots

*Pan-African Roots www.a-aprp-gc.org/pan-African-roots

*People Helping People www.phparivaca.org

*People Helping People www.phparivaca.org

*Philly Thrive www.phillythrive.org/

*Philly Thrive www.phillythrive.org/

*Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign www.economichumanrights.org

*Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign www.economichumanrights.org

*Popular Resistance www.popularresistance.org

*Popular Resistance www.popularresistance.org