The 'Offended' 911 Group “Peaceful Tomorrows” is funded largely by Teresa Heinz

various sources, mostly Tom Randall of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 3/5/04

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“Peaceful Tomorrows” is being portrayed as an independent group of relatives of victims of the 911 attacks. They are getting a lot of press claiming to be outraged over the new Bush ads.

Call me insensitive if you like, but I wonder if this outrage could possibly be a tad overblown, and more likely attributable to the millions and millions of dollars this group has received from endowments chaired by Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry.

According to their own contribution page, “Peaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.”

According to an article in the Pittsburgh Review, “Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania.” (The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group)

The money that flows into The Tides also flows out. They have given grants totaling $489,000 to the Iraq Peace Fund, who used that money to fund the anti-war marches and media costs of 27 groups, including MoveOn.org, whose purpose is to defeat George W. Bush.

Other Tides Center projects include The Youth Gender Project, which seeks to "empower and support transgender, gender-variant, intersexed and gender-questioning youth and young adults."

They also shoveled $200,000 towards The Ruckus Society - founded in 1995 to train activists in violent protest against biotechnology, globalization and the World Bank. It incited property destruction in the Seattle riots of 1999 and Washington, D.C., the following year.

Now, if you really want to get mad, you should also know that $8,000,000 in taxpayer money flowed into the Tides Center in the form of federal grants made by eight different agencies between 1997 and 2001.

[iceskater]

good catch.

[OldFriend]

This is the real bombshell!

[TruthConquers]

WOW!

[scan58]

excellent find!

[Shermy]

Tides Center accused of money laundering:

http://www.activistcash.com/index.cfm?org_id=225

"Anonymity is very important to most of the people we work with."
— Tides Foundation founder Drummond Pike, quoted in The Chronicle of Philanthropy


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....The Tides Center board of directors has been especially busy of late. In 2001 the first Tides “franchise” office (not counting Tides’ presence in Washington and New York) was opened in Pittsburgh. This new outpost, called the Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania, was erected largely at the urging of Pittsburgh native Teresa Heinz (the widow of Senator John Heinz, the ketchup heir). Heinz pulls more strings in the foundation world than almost any other old-money socialite; she’s presently married to U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA). The Tides Foundation has collaborated on funding projects with the Heinz Endowments (Teresa Heinz’s personal domain) for over 10 years.

[The Great RJ]

I won't hold my breath until the national media picks up on this. Fox News maybe, but the NY Times. CNN, CBS etc. pigs will fly first.

[jigsaw]

Holy Kerry!

[MJY1288]

This is really BIG, this needs to be sent to all media outlets

[Pikamax]

bttt

[mountaineer]

Seems to me an IRS investigation into their tax-exempt status is in order, considering the organizations' work is all political (ain't campaign finance reform great!).

[Pompah]

WOW !!.. Lock-n-Load.

Good Find. Thanks for posting.

[Sola Veritas]

Oh, now we see the 57 varieties of hypocrisy by those bemoaning those commercials.

[Poohbah]

I am utterly unsurprised.

[MrB]

Looks like something you'd see on Drudge.

He must be slipping if he didn't catch this first.

[OXENinFLA]

just dam*!

[The Grim Freeper]

I guess that makes Kerry the Prince of Tides.

[KC Burke]

Poster "dead" ignores the opponent in his face, and instead posts-up at the three point line.....he shoots...he scores.

The crowd goes wild.

[Nickname]

Here's some more on Teresa Heinz Kerry and Tides Foundation. It's a long read, but there's tons of info in it.

Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left
http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12187

[11th_VA]

Has anyone checked to see if the wifes making the talk show circuit have a history of making political contributions? Would be nice to know.