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Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth Behind Bail Fund for 'Free Palestine' Bridge Blockers
Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 15, 2024 | Jessica Costescu

Posted on 04/16/2024 11:56:13 AM PDT by george76

Community Justice Exchange, part of the Soros-funded Tides Center, solicits legal defense donations for arrested protesters..

Scores of "Free Palestine" protesters across the United States took to the streets Monday to block major airports, highways, and bridges. Those who are arrested will receive bail money and legal support from a left-wing dark money behemoth funded by George Soros, an online fundraising page shows.

The protests, which took place in dozens of U.S. cities including San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, and Philadelphia, were organized by A15 Action, a newly formed group that worked to "coordinate a multi-city economic blockade on April 15 in solidarity with Palestine." The group's website directs users to a "bail and legal defense fund" hosted through ActBlue, the Democratic Party's online fundraising juggernaut.

Those who donate to the fund, the ActBlue page says, are sending money to the Community Justice Exchange, which provides "money bail, court fees and fines" and other legal services to "community-based organizations … that contest the current operation and function of the criminal legal and immigration detention systems." The exchange is a project of the Tides Center, a left-wing dark money network funded by Soros and other liberal billionaires.

The protesters, who organized the global event under the title A15, targeted economic "choke points" with the express purpose of causing as much financial disruption as possible, according to their website.

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Ahead of the protests, A15 said it identified "major choke points in the economy" that it would "blockade" to "cause pain." The group listed more than 50 participating cities, including Chicago, where dozens of protesters shut down access to the O’Hare International Airport for nearly an hour, forcing some travelers to walk with their luggage to the airport.

Similar protests occurred in San Francisco—where protesters held up traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge—and in Oakland, Calif., where protesters blocked all lanes on Interstate 880. Philadelphia and New York City also experienced disruptions.

At the A15 protest on Wall Street, protesters were photographed wearing Hamas bandanas and flying Hezbollah flags. Banks located near the protest were vandalized with red spray paint and graffiti that read "Funder of Genocide" and "Free Gaza." Those protesters later blocked the Brooklyn Bridge.

Police across the country made dozens of arrests in connection with the protests, with defendants set to receive support from Community Justice Exchange.

"On April 15th, people from over 30 cities around the world will take action to demand a free Palestine," A15's fundraising page reads. "Donate here to support community members who are criminalized in the U.S. for their solidarity with Palestine."

"Should the actions of the state result in the need for it, these funds will be used for bail, legal defense, and support for defendants."

The Tides Center houses a variety of left-wing groups, including the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. It funnels millions of dollars from wealthy donors to those groups.

The center acts as a "fiscal sponsor" to a number of liberal nonprofits, allowing the groups under its umbrella to avoid registering with the IRS. Some of those groups are known for their anti-Israel activism.

The Tides Center, for example, fiscally sponsors the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, which last year organized a "direct action" protest that attempted to block a U.S. military ship bound for Israel from leaving a port in Washington. It also sponsors the Adalah Justice Project, one of America’s most vocal Hamas apologists.

Soros and fellow liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar are among the Tides Center’s major donors.

"The Tides Center is as liberal and politically active as they come; its entire purpose is to create new activist groups," Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, previously told the Washington Free Beacon.

The Tides Center, ActBlue, Community Justice Exchange, and A15 did not respond to requests for comment.

ActBlue’s website says its fundraising platform is only open to groups whose "work is not at odds with values including, but not limited to, social equality; women’s rights; LGBTQIA2S+ rights; racial justice; diversity; freedom of speech; disability rights; and respect for scientific inquiry, discovery, and data."

A15’s "mutual solidarity agreement" outlines ways in which protesters are expected to "act in solidarity with each other in the face of attacks from the media, politicians and the police and the Zionist project." Activists are encouraged to avoid talking to police and are not to "discourage or denounce each others [sic] plans because solidarity means affinity, not ownership."

"If one city faces police repression, other cities will extend or expand their blockades or initiate other actions in response if able to the best of their abilities and capacity," the agreement says.

"We will not attack each other or each other's actions on social media or to the press. We will hold a post-action debrief so that we can raise principled critiques among ourselves in a constructive manner rather than publicly


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Illinois; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: a15action; actblue; arrestsoros; chicago; domesticenemies; enemieslist; johnkerry; newyorkcity; philadelphia; pierreomidyar; sanfrancisco; soros; sorosfunded; terroristfunding; tides; tidescenter

1 posted on 04/16/2024 11:56:13 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

If a judge sets a cash bail amount, then in the opinion of the judge the accused can be released.

If the defendant is too dangerous to release then they should be kept in jail without bail.


2 posted on 04/16/2024 12:08:56 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: JSM_Liberty

The Left will hate whoever they are told to hate by the people who pay their bills.. Soros and Billionaire globalist pals.


3 posted on 04/16/2024 12:12:27 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: JSM_Liberty

What’s sad is that they have no clue they being used.


4 posted on 04/16/2024 12:14:10 PM PDT by waterhill (Gonoonqua)
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To: george76

Proves what I’ve thought all along. These people are Rent-A-Mob actors


5 posted on 04/16/2024 12:20:49 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore…)
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To: george76
Soros-funded Death to America money, goes to Democrats and other nationalizing tsocialists, most of whom, live off government money (grants, "jobs", loans, pay, and/or NGO's).

6 posted on 04/16/2024 12:22:49 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: george76
Of course it is.

The Democrats may find their pets are not as controllable as they thought.

7 posted on 04/16/2024 12:27:38 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: george76

Kapos aplenty run and fund most of these

Disgusting

Worse than southerner morris dees pissing on his own kind before he got ousted at SPLC

I truly despise folks who betray their own in this world

Not to mention not just Israel but the white race and our traditions in general is their global target

Destroy the bogeyman so they as elites can live all dacha

Careful though

For every Trotsky lies a Stalin


8 posted on 04/16/2024 1:01:03 PM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind btw Alina Habba is fine as grits)
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To: george76
"MUSLIMS" ....A mass of people who carry a "holy" book that says to murder all Jews and Christians who won't bow to their prophet.

And now we're flooding them into our country and even putting them into our government!

Can American citizens be more stupid or are we trying to destroy ourselves ???

That first Muslim president Obama said he "had a plan for America" .... and it was not for our good!

9 posted on 04/16/2024 1:44:23 PM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: george76
LET'S GET THE TRUTH OUT THERE!!

Historical and biblical truth - The “Palestinian refugees” are neither Palestinian nor refugees.

Here are the facts!

https://www.frontpagemag.com/__trashed-14/

10 posted on 04/16/2024 1:45:24 PM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: george76

Why can’t Texas courts arrest and throw these people in jail, along with those funding these “insurrections”? Why does the US govt have the power to reach into States to throw people in prison, but not vice versa?


11 posted on 04/16/2024 2:22:10 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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