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Starbucks Gets Million$ from U.S. Govt., Picks Soros-Funded Group to Lead Anti-Bias Training
Judicial Watch ^ | June 13, 2018 | Judicial Watch Staff

Posted on 06/14/2018 9:20:16 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

When private companies close thousands of stores for an afternoon to conduct anti-bias training it usually doesn’t affect American taxpayers, but in Starbucks’ case it does. In addition to approximately $400,000 in U.S. government contracts, the global coffeehouse chain has received millions of dollars from Uncle Sam for a coffee yield improvement project in Colombia, records uncovered by Judicial Watch show. Additionally, the anti-bias curriculum that was recently forced upon 175,000 employees was designed by a nonprofit that’s largely funded by leftwing billionaire George Soros. The group’s (Perception Institute) leadership has close ties to Democratic party politics, including Planed Parenthood and the Obama administration, Judicial Watch’s investigation found.

The special training was called to order after a manager at a Philadelphia Starbucks called police on two black men who sat in the store without buying anything. The men were eventually arrested for trespassing and the race card was quickly played. Starbucks responded by closing 8,000 stores in the U.S. for four hours “to come together for a conversation and learning session on racial bias.” The goal, according to the company, was to take a foundational step in renewing Starbucks as a place where all people feel welcome. “Starbucks partners shared life experiences, heard from others, listened to experts on bias and racial anxiety, reflecting on the realities of bias in our society and talking about how all of us can work together to create public spaces where everyone feels like they belong,” the company wrote in a statement. A national newspaper described it as a “dramatic move toward racial reconciliation.”

At the helm of this so-called racial reconciliation was the Perception Institute, which lists Soros’ Open Society Foundation among its major supporters. The group’s executive director, Alexis McGill-Johnson, co-founded the Democrat marketing firm Brand Architects and is a former board chair for Planned Parenthood. She was also the political director for Russell Simmons’ Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and executive director of Citizen Change, a nonprofit founded by rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs. Perception Institute’s director of research, Rachel Godsil, was “the convener for the Obama campaign’s Urban and Metropolitan Policy Committee” and an advisor to Obama’s Housing and Urban Development (HUD) transition team. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Godsil chair of the city’s Rent Guidelines Board. Years ago, Judicial Watch obtained documents exposing de Blasio’s dark past as an active supporter of a brutal communist regime well known as one of Latin America’s worst human rights abusers.

The Perception Institute’s research advisor, DeAngelo Bester, is a renowned leftist who served as a project manager with the National People’s Action, an Alinskyite community-organizing group dedicated to progressive social change and economic and racial justice. Besides advising the nonprofit that helped conduct Starbucks’ racial sensitivity training Bester is executive director of the Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, a Chicago nonprofit founded by a group of unemployed and formerly incarcerated black workers. In 2015 the group co-sponsored a Black Lives Matter protest at the International Association of Chiefs of Police convention along with the Malcom X Grassroots Movement, the International Socialist Organization and similar leftwing groups. A few years ago, the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice received a $250,000 grant from Soros’ Open Society Foundation.

Soros dedicates monstrous sums of money to spread his radical globalist agenda by funding liberal media outlets, supporting leftwing politicians, advocating for open borders, fomenting public discord and influencing academic institutions. In the United States Soros groups have pushed a radical agenda that includes promoting an open border with Mexico and fighting immigration enforcement efforts, fomenting racial disharmony by funding anti-capitalist black separationist organizations, financing the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups involved in the Ferguson Missouri riots, weakening the integrity of the nation’s electoral systems, opposing U.S. counterterrorism efforts and eroding 2nd Amendment protections. He has also funded a liberal think-tank headed by former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and the scandal-ridden activist group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), so corrupt that Congress banned it from receiving federal funding. Judicial Watch recently published an investigative report exposing the connection between U.S.-funded entities and Soros’ Open Society Foundation to further the Hungarian philanthropist’s efforts in Central America. Last year Judicial Watch published an investigative piece about the U.S. government’s multi-million-dollar secret collusion with Soros to destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government in Macedonia.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: jw; soros; starbucks

1 posted on 06/14/2018 9:20:16 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Admin Moderator

Please move to Bloggers. I posted this in News. Sorry!


2 posted on 06/14/2018 9:21:00 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

But it is news.


3 posted on 06/14/2018 9:28:14 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
the global coffeehouse chain has received millions of dollars from Uncle Sam for a coffee yield improvement project in Colombia

So wheres my cut?


4 posted on 06/14/2018 9:29:53 AM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Belongs in crime and corruption as does most of what goes on in government these days.


5 posted on 06/14/2018 9:30:12 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; vette6387; sheik yerbouty; Liz; LS; unkus; SkyPilot; ZULU; NFHale; ...

Everyone please send a note to President Trump at his comment website asking his Administration to cut off ALL federal taxpayer dollars to anyone associated with Soros!!


6 posted on 06/14/2018 9:36:39 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Everyone please send a note to President Trump at his comment website asking his Administration to cut off ALL federal taxpayer dollars to anyone associated with Soros!!

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great comment extex

we must turn off the tap to our own gummit funding our enemies


7 posted on 06/14/2018 9:56:32 AM PDT by thinden
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To: thinden

Contact the White House:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/


8 posted on 06/14/2018 10:02:53 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

If you want to read about a bunch of liberals that are really liberal, to the point of severe mental derangement, check out the staff at Perception Institute:

https://perception.org/about-us/team/

Shhh! Uberliberals are at work.


9 posted on 06/14/2018 10:09:04 AM PDT by upchuck (The problem: parents doing their careers instead of raising their kids. h/t: Wyrd bið ful aræd)
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To: ExTexasRedhead; thinden

Done! Thanks for the link.


10 posted on 06/14/2018 10:17:22 AM PDT by upchuck (The problem: parents doing their careers instead of raising their kids. h/t: Wyrd bið ful aræd)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Do we have a douchebaggery section here at FR?


11 posted on 06/14/2018 10:24:54 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

We will leave it in news, thanks for the concern but it is newsworthy.


12 posted on 06/14/2018 10:28:16 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

bookmark


13 posted on 06/14/2018 10:35:56 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Admin Moderator

Thanks! :)


14 posted on 06/14/2018 10:45:33 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Get your MAGA hat and a secret video recorder. Go to Starbucks. Don’t buy anything; just sit there, and occasionally use the bathroom. See how long they tolerate it. Then sue them. Let’s put these lefties and their crappy, overpriced coffee out of business.


15 posted on 06/14/2018 11:47:55 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

bump


16 posted on 06/14/2018 11:55:20 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Trump is a real estate genius because he lives rent-free in so many heads.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

This is true fascism. Mussolini would be pleased.


17 posted on 06/14/2018 2:41:26 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: BBell

Until now; I was happy not seeing Jamal...


18 posted on 06/14/2018 6:52:08 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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