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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><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. | + | 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, 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, 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> | ||
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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[1] and Stop Mass Incarceration.[2] In the 2010s, AFGJ was a fiscal sponsor of the Occupy Wall Street movement.[3] The group also claims credit for helping form the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition,[4] which has ties to the extremist Workers World Party.[5]
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.[6] 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 State of Israel,[7] supporting convicted violent leftist extremists, and advancing various labor union efforts. Alliance for Global Justice is fiscal sponsor of 107 projects.[8]
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, and the Brightwater Fund have all made contributions to AFGJ.[9] 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.[10]
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.[11] 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.[12]
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.[13]
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 Venezuelan Bolivarian socialist regime of Nicolas Maduro, the Nicaraguan communist regime of Daniel Ortega, and the Cuban 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.[14] Persons associated with AFGJ have even affirmed the propaganda of the gulag state of North Korea.[15]
Extremism
Alliance for Global Justice is a staunch defender of left-wing extremists, including convicted felons. 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.[16]
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.[17]
See also
References
- ↑ Richardson, Valerie. “Antifa violence splits left as another major protest looms at Berkeley.”, The Washington Times. September 13, 2017.
- ↑ “#BlackLivesMatter Protests Held Amid Parties on New Year’s Eve.” NBCNews.com. January 01, 2015.
- ↑ Markay, Lachlan. “Meet the Radical Group Handling ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Finances.” The Daily Signal. November 07, 2011.
- ↑ [https://afgj.org/about/our-history “Our History.” Alliance for Global Justice.
- ↑ Clemetson, Lynette. “Some War Protesters Uneasy With Others.” The New York Times. January 23, 2003.
- ↑ <ref.Our Principles.” Alliance for Global Justice.
- ↑ “Alliance for Global Justice.” NGO Monitor.
- ↑ “AfGJ’s Fiscally Sponsored Projects.” Alliance for Global Justice.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Hogberg, David. “Communists Funding the Resistance: The Alliance for Global Justice.” Capital Research Center. August 29, 2017.
- ↑ Hogberg
- ↑ Hogberg
- ↑ 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
- ↑ “Venezuela-ALBA Weekly: Venezuela’s Communal Movement Today 11.24.2017.” Alliance for Global Justice. November 24, 2017.
- ↑ Hogberg, David. “Communists Funding the Resistance: The Alliance for Global Justice.” Capital Research Center.
- ↑ “Political Prisoners in the USA.” Alliance for Global Justice. September 07, 2017.
- ↑ “Alliance for Global Justice.” NGOmonitor. January 7, 2016.
External links
- Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) at Influencewatch.org
