Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 ‘partners’ of the Women’s March on Washington
What is the link between one of Hillary Clinton’s largest donors and the Women’s March? Turns out, it’s quite significant
by Asra Q. Nomani 01.20.17
by Asra Q. Nomani 01.20.17
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To understand the march better, I stayed up through the nights this week, studying the funding, politics and talking points of the some 403 groups that are “partners” of the march. Is this a non-partisan “Women’s March”?
Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the
American Humanist Association, a march “partner,” told me his
organization was “nonpartisan” but has “many concerns about the incoming
Trump administration that include what we see as a misogynist approach
to women.” Nick Fish, national program director of the American
Atheists, another march partner, told me, “This is not a ‘partisan’
event.” Dennis Wiley, pastor of Covenant Baptist United Church of
Christ, another march “partner,” returned my call and said, “This is not
a partisan march.”
Really? UnitedWomen.org, another partner,
features videos with the hashtags #ImWithHer, #DemsInPhily and
#ThanksObama. Following the money, I poured through documents of
billionaire George Soros and his Open Society philanthropy, because I
wondered: What is the link between one of Hillary Clinton’s largest
donors and the “Women’s March”?
I found out: plenty.
By my draft research, which I’m opening up for crowd-sourcing on
GoogleDocs, Soros has funded, or has close relationships with, at least
56 of the march’s “partners,” including “key partners” Planned
Parenthood, which opposes Trump’s anti-abortion policy, and the National
Resource Defense Council, which opposes Trump’s environmental policies.
The other Soros ties with “Women’s March” organizations include the
partisan MoveOn.org (which was fiercely pro-Clinton), the National
Action Network (which has a former executive director lauded by Obama
senior advisor Valerie Jarrett as “a leader of tomorrow” as a march
co-chair and another official as “the head of logistics”). Other Soros
grantees who are “partners” in the march are the American Civil
Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International
and Human Rights Watch. March organizers and the organizations
identified here haven’t yet returned queries for comment.
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