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Date Posted: 01:40:44 12/17/04 Fri
Author: Sage
Author Host/IP: alb-69-200-14-65.nycap.rr.com / 69.200.14.65
Subject: Soros and the A-CLU

ACLU Northern California

A grant to support the Campaign Against Racial Profiling, which includes the "Driving While Black or Brown" Campaign and work to combat racial profiling since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

�2004 Open Society Institute. All rights reserved. (Soros organization)

ACLU Capital Punishment Project

$25K A grant to support media campaign on the death penalty

�2004 Open Society Institute. All rights reserved

http://www.sorostrading.com/art_usatoday.html"George Soros Independent News Site

"Parallel Anti-War Media/Movement"

(Hamilton Fish III is my cousin, thankfully removed more than once)

George Soros' "Parallel Anti-War Media/Movement"

by bob feldman

Perhaps Amy Goodman should finally make full disclosure of all foundation grants that either the Pacifica Foundation, WBAI, Democracy Now, WBAI, KPFA, the Indymedia Centers, Free Speech TV, Deep Dish TV, the Pacifica Campaign or the Downtown studio from which she broadcasted in 2000 and/or in 2001 have received since 1992?

Regarding George Soros's U.S. alternative media gatekeeping/censorship network, the following recap might be of use to U.S. grassroots anti-war activists whose political work is not being subsidized by Establishment Foundations such as Billionaire Global Speculator George Soros' Open Society Institute:

1. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $50,000 grant to the Nation Institute "to support project to improve performance and reach of Radio Nation, weekly public radio news and commentary program." George Soros' personal advisor for politics, Hamilton Fish III, is also a top executive at The Nation Institute.

2. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $50,000 grant to the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, which used to be headed by former Pacifica Foundation Executive Director Lynn Chadwick.

3. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute apparently gave a $125,000 grant to the Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting [CIPB} group (on whose board sits FAIR/CounterSpin co-host Janine Jackson) "to cover administrative and start-up costs for launching national campaign entitled Citizens for Independent Broadcasting."

4. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $78,660 grant to Don Hazen's Institute for Alternative Journalism/IMI/Alternet in San Francisco "to fund start-up of Youth Source, a youth Web site which will be part of a larger web poral, Independent Source."

5. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $126,000 grant to the International Center for Global Communications Foundation "toward launch of Media Channel, first global media and democracy supersite on the Internet."

6. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 4 grants, totalling $118,000, to the Internews Network.

7. In 1999 George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $12,000 grant to Downtown Community Television Center. (There's a possibility that this was the group which provided studio facilities for Democracy Now after the 1999 WBAI Christmas coup).

8. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $150,000 grant to the Fund for Investigative Journalism. (Is this the same media group which provided some funding for KPFA's Dennis Bernstein during the 1990s?)

9. In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave a $35,000 grant to American Prospect magazine.

10. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $30,000 grant to the Center for Defense Information.

11. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $75,000 grant to the Center for Investigative Reporting.

12. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 4 grants, totalling $220,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists--on whose board sits NATION magazine co-owner and editorial director Victor Navasky.

13. In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave 2 grants, totalling $272,000, to the "Project on Media Ownership."

14. In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave a $100,000 grant to the Public Media Center in San Francisco.

15. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $73,730 grant to the dance company of a Pacifica Network News staffperson's domestic partner.

16. In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave a $50,000 grant to Youth Radio in Berkeley.

17. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 2 grants, totalling $393,000, to the Tides Foundation.

18. George Soros's Open Society Institute recent gave a $102,025 grant to Radio Bilingue.

19. George Soros's Open Society Institute has also apparently been providing funds to subsidize a "parallel left" section of the prisoner solidarity movement. Critical Resistance, the Prison Moratorium Project, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and The Sentencing Project are all being funded by George Soros's Open Society Institute.

20. In 2001, George Soros's Open Society Institute also gave grants to help subsidize the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice group, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement group, the Million Mom March group and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

21. After 9/11, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $75,000 grant to the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Research Institute, a $250,000 grant to the ACLU and a grant to the LCEF group on whose board Mary Frances Berry used to sit.

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Billionaire Soros's War Stock Investments

Like the former Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chairperson who owns a major chunk of the Columbia University-linked Nation magazine, Clinton-Gore Campaign Fundraiser Alan Sagner, the global speculator whose Open Society Institute gave KPFA a $40,000 grant in 1995 has some interesting special economic interests.

In his 1990 book The New Money Masters, John Train has a chapter entitled "George Soros: Global Speculator" in which he indicated how Soros obtained his surplus wealth:

"Soros...has always had partners on the management side, such as Jim Rogers...In 1969, aged 39, he [Soros] ...joined with Jim Rogers to found Quantum Fund... "It is not registered with the SEC...so the shareholders are foreigners, mostly Europeans...It engages in multidirectional international speculation in commodities, stock, and bonds...Thanks to Rogers, the fund was one of the first to recognize the investment merits of defense stocks."

According to The New Money Masters book, Soros's business partner in the 1970s and early 1980s, Jim Rogers, "became the largest outside shareholder of Lockheed in 1974."

As of 1989, the portfolio of Soros Fund Management Equity Holdings included $27 million worth of Boeing stock, $106 million worth of RJR Nabisco tobacco company stock, $3.5 million worth of Lockheed stock, $2.2 million worth of CBS stock, $2.3 million of Time Inc. stock, $12.8 million worth of Warner Communications stock and $6.5 million worth of Wal-Mart stock.

A Senior Fellow at the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute who is a former president/ceo of Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minnesota "is aiding the Open Society Institute in considering issues of professionalism in media and related public policy questions," according to the Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute website.

Carol Pitchersky, fund-raiser for ACLU

Carol Pitchersky, fund-raiser for ACLU, others, dies of breast cancer

By Matt Schudel | Washington Post
October 22, 2004

WASHINGTON _ Carol Pitchersky, whose fund-raising skills saved the American Civil Liberties Union from bankruptcy and who helped put dozens of other public interest groups on solid financial ground, died Oct. 19 of breast cancer at her home in Washington. She was 57.

From the time she moved to Washington at age 21, she showed a knack for building structures that allowed nonprofit groups on shoestring budgets to reach fiscal stability. She continued to work as a consultant until Oct. 1, but her greatest achievement, by all accounts, came during her nine years at the ACLU.

She joined the activist group when wounds from the court battle over Nazis' right to march on Skokie, Ill., in the late 1970s were still fresh. In that case, the ACLU supported the right of the Nazi party to march through a Chicago suburb heavily populated by Jewish immigrants who had survived the Holocaust. That position led to an exodus from the ACLU's membership rolls.

In early 1979, Ms. Pitchersky was one of the first people hired by the ailing organization's new executive director, Ira Glasser, who led the ACLU for 23 years.

"She was the best single hire and the most important decision I made in all that time," he said. "Over the next 10 years, it's fair to say the organization was resurrected financially and organizationally. I was the director, but the truth is, Carol deserves most of the credit."

In 1979, Glasser said, the ACLU was "close to bankrupt," and its membership was shrinking. It took in about $300,000 in small donations each year and had no cash reserves or endowment. By the time Ms. Pitchersky left in 1988 as associate director, the ACLU was receiving $3 million in annual donations. Today, its endowment is $150 million, and the group owns its buildings in Washington and New York.

Since 1988, she had been an independent consultant, helping set up boards of directors and financial networks for dozens of mostly liberal groups, including Common Cause, Friends of the Earth, the National Abortion Rights Action League, Planned Parenthood and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

"There are a lot of really good fund-raisers in this country," said a former colleague, David Tatel, now a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington. "Carol was in a league by herself."

Ms. Pitchersky was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Hunter College in New York. An early marriage to Howard Hoffman ended in divorce.

She arrived in Washington in 1968 to work for J.R. Taft Corp., which raised money for colleges, arts organizations and community groups. In 1971, she wrote a report that is widely considered the first handbook on nonprofit fund-raising.

From 1972 to 1976, she was development director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which was founded in the 1960s to promote justice during the civil rights era.

"The two years that Carol was there," Tatel said, "were the years it went from a relatively small funding base to a truly national organization. Here's a person who had a major role in building two of the major civil rights groups.

"She wasn't just a fund-raiser," he added. "She understood the mission of the organization, and it was infectious."

Ms. Pitchersky helped recruit executives to the former Department of Health, Education and Welfare as a special consultant in 1977 and 1978.

In the past year, according to her husband, Morton Halperin, she was instrumental in organizing Americans Coming Together, a group partially backed by financier George Soros that seeks to elect Democrats in the coming election.

In her earlier years, Ms. Pitchersky made pottery in her spare time. More recently, she and her husband collected antiques and contemporary art.

Survivors include her husband, a Defense Department official in the Johnson administration and a State Department official under President Bill Clinton, of Washington; her father, Arthur Pitchersky of Rockville; and two sisters, Karen Williams of Poolesville and Laura Crisp of Herndon.

"She would always say," Halperin said, " 'If you are doing something important, and you are explaining it properly, you won't have trouble raising money.' "

Jeepers!

Is this the Linda Evans of "Big Valley?

"It's true that THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, stimulates appetite and soothes nausea in some patients. That's why it has been synthesized into Marinol, which is available with a doctor's prescription."

This may be the only thing I agree with Soros on - medical marijuana. As I said in journal, Laf had a one-time Marinol prescription, but BUT BUT BUT Medicaid refuses to cover this. It helped so much with nausea, but he couldn't get anymore.

The ACLU & Groups That Hate America

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