The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group [Mrs. Kerry Is A Commie]

Please also see this excellent Frontpage Magazine article which goes into this subject in greater detail:

Teresa Heinz Kerry: Financier of the Radical Left

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077277/posts

Hey, I dont want to know ANYTHING about the Heinz "endowments."

the Terri-babe threatened to maim ketchup boy if he ever cheated on her.

well, toots? put up or shut up!

surprise, SURPRISE!

The only way to stop this stuff from Heinz is to boycott nationally it's products. Sadly, many will have their jobs at stake. But, when your employer starts getting into political activism, that is the consequences.

The San Francisco-based Tides Foundation has given $1.5 million to antiwar efforts since September 11, 2001, including a salary for former U.S. Rep. Tom Andrews of Maine, who directs the 38-member Win Without War coalition.

Win Without War, which announced its formation at a press conference Dec. 11, has drummed up $1 million in support, founder David Cortright says. Mr. Cortright is also president of the Fourth Freedom Foundation in Goshen, Ind., which has provided substantial antiwar support.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=7043

The Tides Family
of Organizations

Supporting
Social Change

2002 Grants List
and Form 990

Tides Foundation supports positive social change through innovative grantmaking. Tides Foundation has awarded over $300 million in grants to nonprofits in the United States and abroad. Here is a list of just a few of the hundreds of groups we have supported (organized by issue area).

Civic Participation
Economic Development
Economic and Racial Justice
Environment
Environmental Justice
HIV/AIDS
LGBTIQ Communities
Native Communities
Progressive Media, Arts and Culture
Violence Prevention
Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Health
Youth Programs

CIVIC PARTICIPATION

Tides supports groups that advance social and economic justice through building community-based problem solving and social change efforts and empowering people to participate in the democratic process.

Center for Third World Organizing
Oakland, CA
The Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) initiates organizing campaigns addressing issues critical to low-income and minority communities, trains young people of color to become effective organizers, and assists grassroots organizations in becoming more effective social and economic justice change agents.

Southern Echo
Jackson, MS
Southern Echo offers technical and legal assistance to African-American and low-income communities throughout rural Mississippi and in 11 other Southern states. Echo works to develop an intergenerational grassroots movement that holds the political, educational, economic, and environmental systems accountable to their needs and interests.

Tenants and Workers Support Committee
Alexandria, VA
The Tenants and Workers Support Committee empowers low-income Latinos and African-Americans through community education, leadership development and mass action. The Worker's Project is a worker and workplace justice organizing project dedicated to increasing collective bargaining and unionizing and expanding the living wage.

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Tides supports groups that develop assets, job skills, enterprises, and credit opportunities for communities with minimal resources, and that advance sustainable development solutions.

Chitungwiza Integrated Youth Survival Alternative Project
Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
The Chitungwiza Integrated Youth Survival Alternative Project (CHIYSAP) offers leadership and vocational training for young people aged 16-25, and encourages them to become active participants in decision making processes. Graduates of these training programs can participate in CHIYSAP's small business training program.

New America Foundation
Berkeley, CA
The New America Foundation is a community-assets-building organization that promotes economic empowerment and self-sufficiency for low-income immigrants, refugees and new citizens through training and assisting new entrepreneurs in building both financial and social capital.

White Earth Land Recovery Project
Ponsford, MN
The White Earth Land Recovery Project strives to alleviate poverty and contribute to the economic growth of the White Earth Indian Reservation through restoring traditional land stewardship, developing language fluency, engaging in community development, and celebrating their spiritual heritage.

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ECONOMIC AND RACIAL JUSTICE

Tides supports groups working to promote social and racial equality and counter economic inequalities faced by low-income people and communities of color.

Direct Action for Rights and Equality
Providence, RI
Direct Action for Rights & Equality is a multi-racial and multi-issue grassroots organization of low-income families primarily headed by single mothers. DARE organizes neighborhood residents through house meetings, community outreach, and committee participation, and mobilizes their constituency through issue campaigns.

Fifth Avenue Committee
Brooklyn, NY
The Fifth Avenue Committee promotes social and economic justice through developing and managing affordable housing, creating employment opportunities, organizing residents and workers, and combating displacement caused by gentrification. The Job Creation Program creates community-owned job-generating businesses and skills training programs.

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Los Angeles, CA
The L.A. Alliance for a New Economy works to protect low-wage workers through grassroots organizing, political advocacy and corporate accountability campaigns. The L.A. Alliance is the lead organization in the Living Wage Coalition, made up of over 100 labor, religious and community groups working to implement and expand L.A.'s living wage ordinance.

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ENVIRONMENT

Tides supports groups that are addressing critical global environmental issues and promoting conservation and community-based natural resource management.

Friends of the Earth
Washington, DC
Friends of the Earth is dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental disaster; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an effective voice in decisions affecting their environment and their lives. FOE develops programs to foster partnerships between non-governmental environmental groups around the world.

The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Occidental, CA
The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center is a research and demonstration site for ecological farming and a center for education and organizing. OAEC seeks to address the root causes of environmental, economic, and social challenges and find innovative and practical solutions.

Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
Juneau, AK
The Southeast Alaska Conservation Council is devoted to protecting the prime ancient forest, fish and wildlife of Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest. Grassroots mobilization is a cornerstone of their forest protection activities. SEACC works closely with tourism, native and commercial fishing groups, small-scale timber operators, and community leaders.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Tides supports groups that are challenging destructive corporate practices and protecting the health and well-being of affected communities, especially indigenous, people of color and low-income communities.

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Oakland, CA
The Asian Pacific Environmental Network works to unify and empower low-income Asian and Pacific Islander communities around environmental and social justice issues. APEN's Youth Initiative develops the leadership and organizing capacity of young women as an integral component of building a strong, democratic organization.

Honor the Earth Campaign
St. Paul, MN
Honor the Earth supports front line Native environmental work through increasing funding and public support for Native communities protecting the Earth. Honor the Earth's grantmaking program focuses on environmental justice on Native lands, buffalo protection, and restoring traditional indigenous values in Native communities.

Project Underground
Berkeley, CA
Project Underground makes the critical links between human and indigenous rights and the environmental movements. It promotes the human rights of communities resisting mining and oil exploitation by exposing abuses by these industries and facilitating local and international action to address such abuses.

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HIV/AIDS

Tides supports groups that advocate for people infected, affected by and at risk for HIV, work to meet the immediate needs of those suffering from HIV/AIDS, and work to reduce transmission of the virus.

Blue Mountain Heart to Heart
Walla Walla, WA
Blue Mountain Heart to Heart operates in rural southeast Washington state, working to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through client case management, needle exchange and education/prevention outreach programs for women, men who have sex with men, and injection drug users.

Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center
New York, NY
LESHRC is a culturally diverse, community-based organization working to reduce the spread of HIV among injection drug users and the community. LESHRC accomplishes this goal with a harm reduction philosophy that nonjudgmentally accepts drug users while offering a spectrum of practical strategies, ranging from safer use to managed use or abstinence.

Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
San Francisco, CA
The Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center offers case management, peer advocacy, HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy and nutritional supplements to HIV-positive individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Its clients include those with a history of substance abuse and/or mental illness, and people who are homeless, are commercial sex workers, and/or identify as transgendered.

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LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, INTERSEX and QUESTIONING COMMUNITIES

Tides supports groups that work to empower and engage lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning (LGBTIQ) individuals and groups to combat homophobia and foster leadership; and to help young people understand and accept their sexuality.

Gay-Straight Alliance Network
San Francisco, CA
The Gay-Straight Alliance Network connects California's school-based Gay-Straight Alliances to each other and to community resources, and grows the capacity of youth activists to create safe environments for LGBTIQ students, educate the school community about sexual orientation and gender identity, and fight discrimination, harassment and violence in schools.

Odyssey Youth Center
Spokane, WA
The Odyssey Youth Center provides education, support, information and a safe location for LGBTIQ youth ages 16-24 in eastern Washington state and northern Idaho. Through the Center, youth conduct peer-led HIV/AIDS and STD prevention and education workshops.

Southerners on New Ground
Durham, NC
Southerners on New Ground was founded to integrate work against racism, sexism, and economic injustice into LGBTIQ organizing, and work against homophobia into broader social justice struggles. Led by LGBTIQ people of color, SONG strives to build a progressive movement across the South by assisting local organizing efforts and providing training and skills-building sessions for Southern activists.

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NATIVE COMMUNITIES

Tides supports groups working to sustain Native traditions, protect Native lands, develop sustainable and traditional land use practices, and build effective community development projects.

Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment
Durango, CO
Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment is a Navajo environmental organization working within the Navajo homeland to educate and advocate for traditional teachings as it protects and provides a voice for all life in the Four Sacred Mountains. Its main goal is to empower local and traditional people to organize, speak out, and determine their own destinies.

Indigenous Women's Network, Inc.
Austin, TX
The Indigenous Women's Network empowers indigenous women, their families, communities, and nations throughout the Americas and the Pacific Basin. IWN educates about and advocates for revitalizing indigenous languages and cultures, preserving religious and cultural practice, and protecting and recovering Native lands.

Native Action
Lame Deer, MN
Native Action is a community empowerment organization located on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. It works on issues including environmental protection, economic development, social justice, youth leadership, women, family and elder empowerment, cultural and historical site preservation, and violence prevention.

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PROGRESSIVE MEDIA, ARTS AND CULTURE

Tides supports organizations that provide arts and educational opportunities to communities that have limited access to such programs, and groups that promote alternative media and progressive information sources.

Loco Bloco Drum and Dance Ensemble
San Francisco, CA
Loco Bloco preserves the artistic traditions of the Americas and sponsors three youth ensembles that perform approximately thirty times annually. Seven professional artists of color serve as mentors to approximately 75 low-income teenagers ages 12-18 and provide instruction in percussion, dance, theater, and spoken word.

Middle East Research and Information Project
Washington, DC
The Middle East Research and Information Project is a peace and social justice-oriented collective committed to bringing critical analysis of Middle Eastern political economy and US policy toward the region to the media and the general public.

National Coalition Against Censorship
New York, NY
The National Coalition Against Censorship is an alliance of 51 national nonprofit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups, promoting laws and policies supportive of free expression, mobilizing action in opposition to censorship, and facilitating communications between local activists and national organizations.

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VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Tides supports organizations that promote gun safety and rational gun policies, and that work for death penalty reform with the ultimate goal of abolition.

Americans for Gun Safety
Washington, DC
Americans for Gun Safety seeks to save lives by demanding and achieving common sense gun responsibility and safety from owners, dealers, manufacturers, law enforcement, government, and society at large. AGS activities include running a national gun safety educational campaign, supporting statewide and smaller anti-gun violence organizations, and working on passage of gun reform policies.

Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Chicago, IL
The Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty works to ensure that the state's historic moratorium on executions is sustained and to win permanent repeal of the death penalty through educational, legislative, organizing and media efforts. It actively seeks the participation of the Latino and organized labor communities, as well as death row inmates and their families, and the wrongly convicted.

Men Stopping Violence
Atlanta, GA
Men Stopping Violence is a social change organization dedicated to ending men's violence against women. Its focus is to stop battering, rape, and incest, and to confront other power hierarchies that are based on race, class, and sexual orientation.

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WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Tides supports groups that advocate on behalf of marginalized women, work to ensure women and girls' access to reproductive health and sexuality education, and enable girls and women to develop self-esteem and promote social change.

ProChoice Resource Center
Port Chester, NY
ProChoice Resource Center works to safeguards reproductive freedom through providing grassroots pro-choice groups and supporters with publications, a clearinghouse, a toll free hotline, a fax and global email network, and trainings. Training topics include coalition-building, organizational development, and effective use of technology.

Self-Employed Women's Association
Bhadra, Ahmedabad, India
With a membership of about 250,000 women, the Self-Employed Women's Network develops worker-owned cooperatives, establishes collective bargaining, and operates a lending bank for low-income women. SEWA also trains health care workers, child care providers and women making traditional arts and crafts, and provides technical assistance in developing cooperatives.

Young Women's Work Project
Brooklyn, NY
Young Women's Work Project is a national multicultural organization dedicated to providing meaningful, well-paid employment. YWWP promotes a new model of employment-one in which adults and young women train and teach each other how to run effective agencies or businesses that are for and about young women.

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YOUTH PROGRAMS

Tides supports groups that build the abilities of youth of color and low-income youth to become effective leaders in their communities and that work to ensure equal access to quality education for all students.

Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment
Greenville, SC
The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment, through its Youth Organizing Program, is at the forefront of challenging racial disparities in public schools. It provides a voice for students by bringing students and parents to the policymaking table with school officials. CAFE facilitates organized issue campaigns, ongoing training and leadership development opportunities, and various youth empowerment activities.

Coleman Advocates for Children/Youth Making a Change
San Francisco, CA
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth works to make San Francisco a place where children, youth, and their families can thrive and where the voices of young people are heard. Y-MAC, its youth organizing group, is a youth-led effort providing young people with hands-on leadership training in community organizing in order to develop their skills in improving their own lives as well as those of their peers.

YouthAction
Albuquerque, NM
YouthAction seeks to build a social-change movement in which young people play an important role in creating and fighting for solutions to the problems affecting them and their communities. It works to develop the capacity to actively involve young people in community organizing efforts related to social, environmental, and economic justice.

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The Heinz family was bought out from the ketchup business, weren't they? If they own any stock now, it's relatively little. Teresa controls the foundations' $$$$$.

ping

It's also called "money laundering" in Miami!

When Heinz funds the Tides Center she also helps fund the Gay Students Alliance: See:

http://www.gsanetwork.org/freezone/links.html

A particularly tastey morsel:

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, INTERSEX and QUESTIONING COMMUNITIES

Tides supports groups that work to empower and engage lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning (LGBTIQ) individuals and groups to combat homophobia and foster leadership; and to help young people understand and accept their sexuality.

Gay-Straight Alliance Network
San Francisco, CA
The Gay-Straight Alliance Network connects California's school-based Gay-Straight Alliances to each other and to community resources, and grows the capacity of youth activists to create safe environments for LGBTIQ students, educate the school community about sexual orientation and gender identity, and fight discrimination, harassment and violence in schools.

Odyssey Youth Center
Spokane, WA
The Odyssey Youth Center provides education, support, information and a safe location for LGBTIQ youth ages 16-24 in eastern Washington state and northern Idaho. Through the Center, youth conduct peer-led HIV/AIDS and STD prevention and education workshops.

Southerners on New Ground
Durham, NC
Southerners on New Ground was founded to integrate work against racism, sexism, and economic injustice into LGBTIQ organizing, and work against homophobia into broader social justice struggles. Led by LGBTIQ people of color, SONG strives to build a progressive movement across the South by assisting local organizing efforts and providing training and skills-building sessions for Southern activists.

+++++

"Southerners on New Ground" -- and Kerry thinks he won't win in the South? LOL! How can he lose?!

Senator Heinz of Pennsylvania was killed in a plane crash in the early 1990's. He was a good man (and conservative) I met him on one occasion. Teresa Heinz seemed to have gone off the socialist deep end after the death of her husband and all that wealth...

Look at some of the agit-prop Mrs. Kerry is funding:

MERIP currently places op-eds in six major media markets: large US newspapers (via the Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire), small-town US newspapers (via the Minuteman Op-Ed Resource Center), foreign newspapers, US political magazines, news websites, and campus newspapers. Below is a partial list of recent op-eds and the publications in which they appeared.

White House Now Ignoring Palestine
Catherine Cook (1/04)

Topeka Capital-Journal (Topeka, KS), The Mountain Mail (Salida, CO),
Minuteman Media

To Deny Iran Atomic Weapons, Create a Nuclear-Free Region
Chris Toensing (12/03)

Daily Star (Beirut)

Palestinian Cabinet's Success Lies with Israel
Catherine Cook (11/03)

Garden City Telegram (Garden City, KS), Minuteman Media

Why There's No Peace in Palestine
Catherine Cook (9/03)

Traverse City Record-Eagle (Traverse City, MI), Minuteman Media, The Garden City Telegram (Garden City, KS), Aventura News (Miami, FL), Observer-American (Clear Lake, CA)

Holding Syria Accountable, Though Selectively
Chris Toensing (9/03)

Daily Star (Beirut)

Hi, and a Low at the State Department
Chris Toensing (8/03)

Daily Star (Beirut)

Israel's Wall Not Really About Security
Catherine Cook (8/03)

Duluth News-Tribune
Minuteman Media
Aventura News (Miami, FL)

Dilemmas of the Left-Liberals
Chris Toensing

The Daily Star (Beirut)
August 6, 2003

Imperial Musings in Washington
Chris Toensing (7/03)

Daily Star (Beirut)

Jordan's Troubling Detour
Toujan Faisal and Ian Urbina (7/03)

Los Angeles Times

Bush Misled Public About Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction
Chris Toensing (6/03)

Knight-Ridder/Tribune Newswire

Occupational Hazards
Elliott Colla (6/03)

Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA), Brown University Op-Ed News Service,
Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire

Sharon's Road Map
Adam Hanieh and Catherine Cook (6/03)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire

Anti-War Thinking: Acknowledge Despair, Highlight Progress on Moral Preemption
Desmond Tutu and Ian Urbina (3/03)

Christian Science Monitor, Anchorage Daily News, Sacramento Bee, Raleigh News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA), Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA), Tricity Herald (Jacksonville, FL), The Bakersfield Californian, Beaufort Gazette (Beaufort, CA), The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), The Island Packet (Bluffton, SC), Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX)

Confronting Iraq: Might Doesn't Make Right
Desmond Tutu and Ian Urbina (3/03)

International Herald Tribune, USA Today,Toronto Star

A Saudi Dissident's Agenda for Democratic Reform
Mohammed AlMohaissen (3/03)

International Herald Tribune

Sanctions No Longer Serve US Interests
Ian Urbina (1/03)

Los Angeles Times

The Fight for Iran's Democratic Ideals
Saeed Razavi-Faqih and Ian Urbina (12/02)

New York Times

Ground Shifting Under Mullahs
Ian Urbina (12/02)

Los Angeles Times

Up in Arms
Ian Urbina (11/02)

Village Voice

Broadcast Ruse
Ian Urbina (11/02)

Village Voice, Mother Jones.com, Amnesty International News Trove, Asia Times, Global Vision News Network

Is the US Ready for Democracy in the Mideast?
Ian Urbina (11/02)

Houston Chronicle, Global Beat Newswire, Knight Ridder Newswire, Rabble.ca (Canada)

Poetic Injustice
Ian Urbina (11/02)

In These Times (November 8, 2002)

Forked-Tongue Warriors
Ian Urbina (10/02)

The Village Voice

East Timor Points a Way for Mideast
Ian Urbina (09/02)

(Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Moscow Times)

Turkey Says No to War
Ian Urbina (09/02)

In These Times

We Shouldn't Attack Iraq
Chris Toensing (07/02)

Knight-Ridder Newswire

Education as a Security Risk
Lara Harb (07/02)

Pacific News Service

Against Israeli Apartheid
Desmond Tutu and Ian Urbina (07/02)

(International Herald Tribune, The Nation (magazine), Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), Cairo Times, Middle East Times, Manila Times)

Reforming from Within
Hanan Ashrawi and Ian Urbina (06/02)

Guardian (London)

For Bethlehem, the Problems Are Just Beginning
Ian Urbina and Hanna Nasser (05/02)

Inter Press Service

Church Siege Narrowed a Religious Divide
Ian Urbina and Hanna Nasser (05/12/2002)

Los Angeles Times

The Answer is in the Force
Chris Toensing (05/05/02)

Boston Globe

The World Is Watching
Neta Golan and Ian Urbina (05/02)

In These Times

Starving in Bethlehem
Hanna Nasser (04/02)

Inter Press Service Newswire

Inside Arafat's Compound, I Fear What Awaits Us
Abed Khalil (04/02)

Inter Press Service Newswire

Inside Arafat's Compound, I Worry, Wait and Hold My Post
Ali Hamed (04/02)

Pacific News Service

The World Just Watches
Neta Golan and Ian Urbina (04/02)

International Herald Tribune, Cairo Times, Jordan Times, Manila Times, Palestine Chronicle, Dawn (Pakistan), Gush Shalom, New Vision (Uganda), Via Dolorosa (Jerusalem)

Message From the Israeli Military
Ian Urbina and Peretz Kidron (3/02)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire, Pacific Newswire, Minuteman, Middle East Newswire, Advance News (Manchester, New Jersey), Bergen County (New Jersey) Record, Northwest Arkansas Times, Black World Today, Cairo Times; College Newspapers: Texas A & M, U of Wisconsin Madison, UNC Chapel Hill

War Clouds Over Somalia
Dan Connell (03/02)

Global Beat News Service, Middle East Newswire, Common Dreams, Chicago Sun Times, Jordan Times, Yemen Observer, Addis Ababa Tribune (Ethiopia)

Why Black Hawks Go Down
Ian Urbina (02/02)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire, Middle East Newswire, Toronto Star, Jordan Times, Ft Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, Free Lance Star (Fredericksburg,VA), Rome News-Tribune (Rome, GA), Huntsville Times (Huntsville, AL), Virgin Island Daily News (St. Croix, Virgin Islands), Charleston SC Sunday Gazette and Mail; College Newspapers: Georgetown, U of Maryland, UNC Chapel Hill, U of Oregon, Texas A & M, U Wisconsin Madison, U of Indiana, Scripps College

US Hawks Should Not Dictate Iran Policy
Chris Toensing (2/02)

Knight-Ridder/Tribune Newswire, Virgin Island Daily News (St. Croix, Virgin Islands)

A Breach Widens
Ian Urbina (12/01)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire , Minuteman, Toronto Globe and Mail , San Diego Union Tribune, Middletown Press (Middletown, CT), Guyana Stabroek

Occupation is the Problem
Chris Toensing (11/01)

Minuteman

US Bows To Turkey
Ian Urbina (11/01)

The Nation (magazine), Arms Trade Newswire

Bush Administration's Policies Limit Media Coverage
Chris Toensing (10/01)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire , Raleigh North Carolina News and Observer , Charleston South Carolina Sunday Gazette Mail , Jordan Times

US Mideast Policy Fuels Arab Anger
Chris Toensing (09/01)

New Jersey Star Ledger

Time for a College Anti-War Movement?
Chris Toensing (09/01)

Harvard University The Crimson, Common Dreams Newswire, Z net (news website)

Brute Force or Smart Pressure? The International Community Must Decide
Ian Urbina (09/01)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire, Minuteman, Toronto Globe and Mail, Jordan Times, Egypt Business Today, Guyana Stabroek, South Korea Herald, Pakistan Dawn, South Africa Daily Mail and Guardian

The Harm Done to Innocents
Chris Toensing (09/01)

Boston Globe, Referenced in New York Times

The Daily Doublespeak at the State Department
Chris Toensing (08/01)

Common Dreams Newswire

The Other Mideast Settlers
Ian Urbina (07/01)

In These Times (magazine), Jordan Times, Common Dreams Newswire, The Middle East Newswire

Is Democracy or Dollars the Real US Goal?
Chris Toensing (06/01)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire, Florida Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Kansas The Witchita Eagle

A Simple Plan
Ian Urbina (06/01)

Jordan Times

Let The UN Do Its Job
Ian Urbina (03/01)

Common Dreams Newswire

Bush Needs To Overhaul Mideast Policy
Ian Urbina (01/01)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire

The UN Must Protect Not Observe in the Middle East
Ian Urbina (12/00)

Common Dreams Newswire

Bush's Middle East Policy: Look to His Advisors
Chris Toensing and Ian Urbina (12/00)

Foreign Policy in Focus (internet magazine)

Some Middle East Advice for the Next President
Ian Urbina (11/00)

Common Dreams Newswire

Arab World Faces Revolt
Ian Urbina (10/00)

Albion Monitor (news website)

Palestinian Uprising Cannot Be Ended By Force
Ian Urbina (10/00)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire , San Diego Union Tribune, Z (magazine)

http://www.merip.org/newspaper_opeds/newspaper_opeds.html

the Terri-babe threatened to maim ketchup boy if he ever cheated on her.

That is not what the famous quote from her seems to say. She said:

"If you ever get something, I'll maim you. I won't kill you. I'll maim you."

In other words, "Don't bring me any diseases from your chasing about."

Again, some particularly piquant morsels:

Inside Arafat's Compound, I Fear What Awaits Us
Abed Khalil (04/02)

Inter Press Service Newswire

Inside Arafat's Compound, I Worry, Wait and Hold My Post
Ali Hamed (04/02)

Pacific News Service

What? No standing by her man like the queen of doormats Hitlery?

Thank You for a great post.

Bttt

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just to make sure, now I check the email address I gave you and send this around, right?

JIHAD!!!

One of Teresa's activities is the Heinz Awards. She is the Chairman of the Board.

On the web site it gives her bio and mentions that she was the wife of Senator John Heinz. IT DOESN'T MENTION KERRY AT ALL!

By the way, another member of the Board of Directors of The Heinz Awards is Andrea Mitchell of NBC.

Check out:

http://www.heinzawards.net/about.asp?staticid=11

Hey, I have completely switched to Hunts Ketchup.

LOL! Me either!

Correct, I just am not at home right now, so the email won't be there right now. The email dsitribution list is on my other computer at home and I'm not there right now. As soon as I get home (lunch time, probably?), I will email the file.

"In recent months, 27 national and local grass-roots anti-war groups got grants — mostly $5,000 to $30,000 — from the Iraq Peace Fund of the San Francisco-based Tides Foundation. A new Tides initiative is trying to raise $1 million more.

A Tides beneficiary, United for Peace and Justice, is the national coalition that organized large New York City marches on Feb. 15 and March 22."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-03-30-anti-warmoney_x.htm

"..The Heinz family was bought out from the ketchup business,..."

Really? Are you sure? If so, I can go on buying my preferred ketchup. I've always preferred Heinz over Hunts, but was planning a change next time. If this is true, I'll stick with Heinz.

Nice find!--you post some real gems :) I'm curious if there's any link between this group and Ted Kennedy--I've been trying to identify any financiers he and Kerry have in common and this strikes me as a likely candidate.

"Anonymity is very important to most of the people we work with."

The agenda that dares not speak its name.

Thanks. As I said, I was inspired to look into this by the great article in Frontpage which I linked above. This could really pay some real dividends in showing just the kind of people the Kerrys are.

I don't know if there is any connection to Ted Kennedy, but I would be suprised if there aren't--since he owns Kerry. And always has, since Kerry was a teenager.

Great. Thanks for doing the hard part!

I was going to switch brands also. I read it somewhere on the internet the other day from a reputable source. I don't have time to look it up right now. I'll try to do it later.

"A Tides beneficiary, United for Peace and Justice, is the national coalition that organized large New York City marches on Feb. 15 and March 22."

From the United For Peace And Justice website:

March 20: The World Still Says No To War
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM BACKS MARCH 20 CALL TO ACTION, GLOBAL MOMENTUM BUILDS
Momentum is building across the globe for the Global Day of Action against War and Occupation on March 20, 2004—the one-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. On that day people all around the globe will take to the streets to say YES to peace and NO to pre-emptive war and occupation. Joining with growing numbers of military families and soldiers, we will call for an end to the occupation of Iraq and Bush's militaristic foreign policies. March 20 will be the first time the world's "other superpower" will take center stage since Feb. 15.
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Feb. 15: Global Vigil for Peace
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Following on the heels of the military invasion of Iraq, another invasion began: a corporate invasion by Halliburton, Bechtel, and other U.S. companies that were awarded millions in “reconstruction” contracts. Nine months into the occupation, Iraqi schools are still in disrepair, electricity is intermittent, and the water is not safe to drink. On February 24, protest the corporations that are making millions in Iraq, and speak out for Iraqi workers’ rights and self-determination.
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As the occupation of Iraq becomes an ever-greater quagmire and the Bush Administration’s assaults on democracy continue, United for Peace and Justice begins 2004 with a renewed commitment to fight the warmongering, empire-building policies of our government. Over the next year, the nation’s attention will gradually shift toward the 2004 presidential elections. UFPJ has adopted an ambitious plan of action designed use the opportunities provided during the election year to focus greater attention on the ongoing reality of war and empire and the intensifying war at home. We will maintain an activist presence and increase pressure on policymakers so as to emerge as a stronger and more vibrant coalition regardless of who is elected in the 2004 Congressional and Presidential votes.
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Good post! The Tides family of Socialist/Communist organizations looks very similar to the list of organizations funded by George Soros and his Open Society Institute. These organizations constitute a serious threat.

Hmmm...well, I'll definitely be looking for alternatives to Heinz products...

> I don't know if there is any connection to Ted Kennedy, but I would be suprised if there aren't--since he owns Kerry. And always has, since Kerry was a teenager.

That's how it looks to me, too. You familiar with this?

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Bob_Shrum

Bob Shrum

Bob Shrum (Robert M. Shrum) was "added" to the U.S. presidential election, 2004 campaign team by John Forbes Kerry in February 2003.[1] Also see.

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OnePeople.org, February 27, 2003:

"You have probably never heard of Robert Shrum. He's the most sought-after Democratic strategist right now, and today we find out that he's signed on with Kerry. ABC's The Note refers to this as winning the Shrummy or the Shrum Primary. Last year, Joel Klein wrote a piece prophesying the importance. Why the excitement?

"First, there's a soap opera quality to the choice, since Shrum is friendly with everyone in the field. He's worked for Richard A. Gephardt, John Edwards and Kerry. 'He has close personal relationships with a lot of people involved in this process... And it is very difficult to sort that out, and deal with the very high profile atmospherics of all this. There are friendships and relationships at stake here, and he takes that very seriously,' a close friend of Shrum told The Note.

"Second, Shrum has a Kennedy fetish. He's famous for his 'I'm On Your Side' message -- but lately he's veered towards what Joe Klein calls 'an aggressive, pessimistic, and unsubtle strain of economic populism.' We can expect him to work hard on Kerry's charisma deficit, which is seen as the biggest weakness. In so doing, Shrum will change Kerry's formula, which he's used successfully thus far. It's also possible that Kerry can't be molded in the Shrum image.

"The Edwards campaign has picked up on this, referring to this as an irresponsible 'vanity hire.' Sour grapes, of course, but the argument has merit.

"Third, Shrum doesn't have a great record on these races. He made his name in state races, but his candidates have a tendency to drop out during primaries or lose elections outright."

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In 1999, Robert Shrum, Stanley Greenberg, and James Carville founded the Democracy Corps.[2]

According to his Democracy Corps biography, Shrum was "born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania in 1943. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Loyola High School, winning a National Merit Scholarship to Georgetown University and later graduating from Harvard Law School. At Georgetown, he was named the nation's top college debater, and at Harvard he was the winner of the Ames Competition for the best appellate advocacy at the law school. Mr. Shrum was a fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University and has taught at Yale and Boston College.

"Mr. Shrum was the principal speechwriter to Senator George McGovern in the 1972 Democratic campaign for President. Subsequently, he served as the Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. Mr. Shrum served as Press Secretary to Senator Edward M. Kennedy from 1980 to 1984, and he was the Senator's principal speechwriter during and after the 1980 presidential campaign.

"As a journalist, Mr. Shrum's work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The New Republic, among other publications. He has been a columnist for the Microsoft on-line magazine Slate. He has written for both political and commercial television, including 'The Emmy Awards' on ABC, 'The American Film Institute Life Achievement Awards' on CBS, and the Emmy Award-winning and Peabody Award-winning 'Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts' on CBS.

"Since 1985, Mr. Shrum has conceived and produced advertising (T.V., radio, print) for political clients, over twenty winning U.S. Senate campaigns; six Governors; the Mayors of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver, Dade County and San Francisco; and the Speaker and the Democratic Leader of the United States House of Representatives. Mr. Shrum has consulted internationally for Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel, President Andres Pastrana of Colombia, the Fianna Fail in Ireland, and the Labour Party in Great Britain.

"In 1995, Mr. Shrum and his partner Tad Devine won first place in the American Association of Political Consultants 'Pollie' Award, for producing the best sixty-second political commercial of 1994 (for Senator Edward Kennedy.). He won another 'Pollie' in 1986 for producing the best political TV Ad of that election cycle (for Senator Alan Cranston), and in 1997 for producing the best sixty-second political commercial (for Sheriff Nat Glover) of the 1996 election cycle. Mr. Shrum is Chairman of the political media consulting firm Shrum, Devine & Donilon.

"Mr. Shrum served as a Senior Adviser to the Al Gore/Gore for President Campaign. He has been a co-host of CNN's television program 'Crossfire,' and appears regularly on 'Crossfire' and 'Capitol Gang'."

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From In Middle of the Kerry Storm, a Man Known to Whirlwinds by David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, November 12, 2003.

"As Democratic strategists go, Bob Shrum has long been considered one of the heavyweights: a talented speechwriter, an expert at debate preparations, an ideologically committed liberal who has a knack for distilling the essence of a candidate's message into a slogan, sound bite or 30-second commercial."

"Now, with Mr. Kerry's campaign battling for survival in New Hampshire and embroiled in turmoil and infighting — his press secretary and deputy finance director walked out the door on Tuesday, following the abrupt dismissal of his campaign manager (Jim Jordan) — the talk is less about Mr. Shrum's gifts and more about what some are acidly describing, in this toxic environment, as the Shrum curse.

"As prominent and well-traveled a figure as Mr. Shrum is — alter ego to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, consultant to four presidential candidates and many senators — there is one thing he has never accomplished: advising a successful presidential campaign.

"Instead, he has become known as a polarizing figure who dominates and divides a staff, a relentless player of inside politics who will sometimes steamroll colleagues to win an argument, people who have worked with him for years say./p>

"To his credit, Mr. Shrum has been an adviser to several successful Senate campaigns. And the problems Mr. Kerry's campaign faces can hardly be ascribed to one consultant, particularly when his team includes so many.

"'Bob Shrum has been a friend of John Kerry's since he first got into politics, so they go back a long way,' said former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mr. Kerry's campaign chairwoman. 'I have found him to provide valuable input and to be one of the team in doing what's best for John Kerry and the Kerry campaign.'

"But it is a measure of Mr. Shrum's impact that few believed Mr. Kerry when he denied to his staff that Mr. Shrum was behind the choice of a Kennedy confidante, Mary Beth Cahill, as his new campaign manager.

"Now that Ms. Cahill has replaced Jim Jordan, who clashed frequently with Mr. Shrum, these Kerry aides said that Mr. Shrum's views were likely to prevail. 'He's not running it, but he's clearly the dominant voice and has the dominant say on strategy,' a campaign official said.

"Mr. Shrum's influence can be seen in the campaign in ways large and small. It was in the turn of a phrase, when Mr. Kerry began talking in July about a 'preparedness gap' in domestic security. More recently, he helped coin the line 'real Democrats don't turn their backs on the middle class,' which Mr. Kerry used as a jab at Howard Dean and Representative Richard A. Gephardt for supporting a repeal of some tax cuts that benefit middle-income families.

"It is also there in Mr. Kennedy's growing presence in Mr. Kerry's campaign; his former press spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter, was named on Tuesday to replace Robert Gibbs.

"Perhaps not coincidentally, though, Mr. Kerry's was also the first presidential campaign to see an internal clash boil over into public view this year, and Mr. Shrum was at the center of it.

"Mr. Shrum, who declined repeated requests for comment, made his name as a press secretary and speechwriter for Mr. Kennedy, and wrote his 'dream shall never die' address to the 1980 Democratic convention. But he had already made his reputation as a controversial figure by working for Jimmy Carter in 1976, then quitting after 10 days and criticizing the candidate as he left. He worked for Mr. Gephardt in the 1988 campaign, Senator Bob Kerrey in 1992 and along the way endured noisy business divorces with partners Patrick Caddell and David Doak.

"Mr. Shrum has been more successful at counseling Senate candidates over the years, including Robert G. Torricelli and Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey. And in 1996, he was credited with helping to rescue Mr. Kerry's re-election battle against Gov. William F. Weld of Massachusetts."

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According to William Safire's New York Times November 12, 2003 Op-Ed, "Jeanne Shaheen, the former New Hampshire governor ... prevailed on the candidate to fire his longtime manager, Jim Jordan, and replace him with Mary Beth Cahill, Ted Kennedy's chief of staff. Cahill has impeccable far-left credentials, from Emily's List fund-raising to Representative Barney Frank's staff. She is an ideological soulmate of the superb writer and Kennedy Boston braintruster Robert Shrum, who has been battling Jordan to yank Kerry's moderate position over to the demonstrative dovecote."

Good find!

As you know Kerry worked for Ted Kennedy's Senate Campaign while he was still in prep school.

The only way to stop this stuff from Heinz is to boycott nationally it's products. Sadly, many will have their jobs at stake. But, when your employer starts getting into political activism, that is the consequences.

Stop the hysteria! Boycotting Heinz will not do anything to harm Kerry and Teresa.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In the manner of anonymous message boards, the discussion flails along with bad typists spewing insults back and forth, and desperately trying to get something going with the fact that Kerry -- suddenly looking like a winning candidate -- happens to be married to Teresa Heinz Kerry.

In the real world, the first lady contender has little financial connection anymore to Pittsburgh's H.J. Heinz. She was married for 25 years to a member of the founding family, Republican U.S. Sen. John Heinz, until his death in a plane crash in 1991.

She chairs the Heinz Endowments, which still own stock but not enough to meet the 5 percent ownership threshold that requires notifying the Securities and Exchange Commission.

There's been no Heinz family member involved in the management of the business since the late 1980s, said company spokesman Jack Kennedy. And the family drastically reduced its holdings in 1995 in a secondary stock offering.

"There's no real relationship," said Kennedy, beyond those at the company being respectful, of course, of anyone related to the founder, Henry John Heinz, who came from Sharpsburg.

Bloggers and message board participants might be interested to learn that while the Federal Election Commission's Web site listed a $2,000 contribution on Dec. 31, 2003, by Teresa Heinz Kerry to the "John Kerry For President Inc." cause, it also lists a $5,000 contribution on June 3, 2003, to "Bush-Cheney '04 Inc." by the H.J. Heinz Co. Political Action Committee.

The Heinz company gave money to Bush and Cheney! Why boycott that?

SD

Really? Are you sure? If so, I can go on buying my preferred ketchup. I've always preferred Heinz over Hunts, but was planning a change next time. If this is true, I'll stick with Heinz.

See my number 39. The Heinz family does not run the business and holds very little stock. There's no need to abuse yourself by eating Hunts "ketchup."

SD

On the web site it gives her bio and mentions that she was the wife of Senator John Heinz. IT DOESN'T MENTION KERRY AT ALL!

Up until last summer or so, Teresa would refer to "my husband" and mean John Heinz. She's a flake.

SD

Here's something else on that I've been looking into:

http://www.bop2004.org/bop2004/candidate.aspx?cid=4&act=cp

Based on contributions to the federal and nonfederal committees of Citizen Soldier Fund, Kerry's senate campaigns from 1984-2002, and Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign through Sept. 30, 2003.

Organization Total

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo $230,796

FleetBoston Financial Corp. $182,387

Time Warner $140,710

Hale and Dorr LLP $128,258

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom $123,400

Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos Inc. $122,300

Harvard University $118,200

Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand/Piper Rudnick $117,800

Citigroup $111,356

Goldman Sachs Group $110,500

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:BNUomBbUYcMJ:opengov.media.mit.edu/EX/0000/100/122/454/+mintz+levin+ted+kennedy&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

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Campaign Contribution

» John Forbes Kerry $52,000.00 [s][c]

» Edward M. 'Ted' Kennedy $17,000.00 [s][c]

» Edward J. 'Ed' Markey $6,750.00 [s][c]

» Martin T. 'Marty' Meehan $3,000.00 [s][c]

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Edward M. 'Ted' Kennedy

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» Verizon Communications $39,517.00 [s][c]

» Raytheon Co $35,775.00 [s][c]

» Ness, Motley et al $31,250.00 [s][c]

» AOL Time Warner $31,000.00 [s][c]

» FleetBoston Financial $30,750.00 [s][c]

» Cassidy & Assoc/Interpublic Group $26,661.00 [s][c]

» Fidelity Investments $23,000.00 [s][c]

» AT&T $22,000.00 [s][c]

» Beacon Properties $20,500.00 [s][c]

» Thomas H Lee Co $20,500.00 [s][c]

» Global Crossing $20,000.00 [s][c]

» Laborers Union $20,000.00 [s][c]

» Service Employees International Union $20,000.00 [s][c]

» Foley, Hoag & Eliot $19,250.00 [s][c]

» Williams & Bailey $18,500.00 [s][c]

» Vivendi Universal $18,000.00 [s][c]

» Sippican Inc $17,370.00 [s][c]

» Mintz, Levin et al $17,000.00 [s][c]

» Carpenters & Joiners Union $16,400.00 [s][c]

» Hale & Dorr $15,600.00 [s][c]

Industry Support

» Lawyers / Law Firms $925,260.00 [s][c]

» Real Estate $307,500.00 [s][c]

» Securities & Investment $277,650.00 [s][c]

» TV / Movies / Music $239,000.00 [s][c]

» Business Services $215,950.00 [s][c]

» Lobbyists $208,311.00 [s][c]

» Hospitals & Nursing Homes $201,562.00 [s][c]

» Health Professionals $198,351.00 [s][c]

» National Assn Retired Federal Employees $179,929.00 [s][c]

» Education $139,080.00 [s][c]

» Insurance $112,200.00 [s][c]

» Pharmaceuticals / Health Products $109,300.00 [s]

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» Human Rights $103,700.00 [s][c]

» Democratic/Liberal $97,635.00 [s][c]

» Misc Manufacturing & Distributing $94,470.00 [s][c]

» Transportation Unions $93,800.00 [s][c]

» Printing & Publishing $89,625.00 [s][c]

» Building Trade Unions $82,550.00 [s][c]

» Industrial Unions $82,000.00 [s][c]

» Public Sector Unions $78,250.00 [s][c]

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Thanks for the clarification.

A previous reply addressed this issue in a less hysterical way. Glad to see I don't have to have Boston Mrkt guilt.

Bridging the Economic Divide

Death Penalty Mobilization Fund

Native Communities
Program

Rapid Response Initiative

Democratic Justice Fund

Iraq Peace Fund

Tides Foundation has initiated two efforts to support timely and critical peace and justice work.

Iraq Peace Fund
The Iraq Peace Fund, a short-term grantmaking effort, made grants to organizations working to organize and elevate the voices of peace and justice in response to the Bush administration's intention to attack Iraq. More>>

Democratic Justice Fund
The Democratic Justice Fund was launched by Tides Foundation, in collaboration with The Open Society Institute and other institutional and individual donors, to address three primary areas -- Protecting the civil liberties of all Americans; Supporting immigrant rights with a particular focus on strengthening the capacity of Arab, Muslim, South Asian and Sikh organizations; and Promoting alternative media voices that can frame the complex political, social and economic history informing today's international crises and expanding their influence on mainstream media.

The Democratic Justice Fund is the successor to the Tides 9/11 Fund-our rapid response effort that raised and distributed more than $600,000 to assist the working poor, help rebuild communities, and promote a just and peaceful national response in the immediate wake of September 11, 2001. More>>

"The Democratic Justice Fund was launched by Tides Foundation, in collaboration with The Open Society Institute..."

That would be GEORGE SOROS, folks.

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The Tides Community Responds to 9/11/01

Since the events of September 11, 2001, the Tides community has responded in a number of ways.

Tides Foundation has granted over $1.5 million to organizations doing timely and essential peace and justice work, including assisting the working poor and immigrant communities in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, promoting peaceful co-existence within diverse and potentially conflicting communities, guarding against the erosion of civil liberties, and elevating the voices of peace and justice in response to the administration's intention to attack Iraq. More on the Foundation's efforts>>

Tides Center has also done critical work to support a peaceful response to the crisis. Shortly following 9/11, Tides Center helped a group of victims' family members form September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, an advocacy organization seeking effective nonviolent responses to terrorism. These family members continue to be a powerful, persuasive voice in the growing movement to find alternatives to war.

And Groundspring.org (formerly eGrants.org) has played a key role in gathering, processing and granting more than $840,000 in online donations to support a wide range of peace and justice work

Our efforts at Tides are rooted in our over 26 years of working for progressive social change, and we feel privileged to be able to redouble our commitment to such work at this critical time.

Here are a few of the organizations we have been able support over the last year through the commitment and generosity of our partners in social change:

American Civil Liberties Union
Campaign to Defend the Constitution and Human Rights, Education and Law Project.

Afghan Institute of Learning
Providing emergency relief and human rights workshops to Afghan women refugees in Pakistan.

Arab American Action Network
Protecting Arab, Muslim and other immigrants' civil liberties and human rights.

Asociacion Tepeyac de New York
Advocating for and working with families of undocumented workers who died on 9/11.

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Advocating for Arab Americans' civil rights, providing educational programs in schools, and giving legal assistance to hate crime victims.

Center for Constitutional Rights
Public education campaign to educate about the dangers posed by governmental anti-terrorism activities.

Chinese Staff and Workers Association
Ensuring that documented and undocumented Chinese workers and small business owners affected by 9/11 can access needed relief and services.

Council on American-Islamic Relations
Interfaith Coalition Against Hate Crimes project: promoting peaceful co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims and decreasing the tolerance for anti-Muslim hate crimes.

Global Exchange
United for Peace Coalition

Independent Press Association
Beyond War project

MoveOn.org
Providing a forum for ordinary people to oppose war with Iraq.

National Council of Churches
Coalition building for peace

National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
Assisting immigrant workers in New York, especially the Latino, Afro-Caribbean and Eastern European communities that were hit hard by 9/11.

New York ACORN
Organizing low-income communities to ensure that rebuilding efforts and federal funds benefit all New Yorkers, and especially low-income people.

Peace Action Education Fund
October 26, 2002 Peace March on Washington.

Physicians for Social Responsibility
Campaign to Stop War Against Iraq project.

Renaissance Economic Development Corporation
Emergency loan funds to address the working capital and technical assistance needs of small business in lower Manhattan affected by 9/11.

South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow
Planning and implementing hate crimes briefings and legislative and law enforcement trainings.

South Asian Network
Media outreach, coalition building, and staffing for civil liberties & detention issues.

Thanks for the ping. This is just sickening. And criminal. Wish the DOJ could go after some of these money launderers and domestic terrorist trainers.

Prairie

Thanks for the timely information, SoothingDave. I'm one of those pariahs who eats ketchup on anything except a good steak (ok, not anything, but a lot). I like Heinz the best, and I'm going to print your response up so I can show my wife that I'm not helping Kerry by using it. She's really been picking on me about using Heinz lately. I owe you one.

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