"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
Posted on 10/22/2008 7:48:41 PM PDT by ETL
Boiling down a complex blog entry by P.U.M.A. pundit, Tony Rezko used Alexi Giannoulias bank to float $450,000 in bad checks, while campaigning for Alexi’s brother Demetris to be placed on the Illinois Finance Authority Board.
Demetris Giannoulias was on the Board at the Crossroads Fund, a Chicago Based left wing organization supported by Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Barack Obama, which made grants to such stellar organizations as ACORN and other affordable housing swindlers.
In 2002, Rezko borrowed $10.5 Million from Broadway Bank, the Giannoulias family bank, the same bank where Barack Obama kept his Senate campaign funds. In 2006, Sen. Obama endorsed Alexi Giannoulias for Illinois State Treasurer, and gives Sec. Giannoulias a slot to speak at the Democratic National Convention.
Glad to see all these upstanding folks able to work so well together, too bad that Rezko doesn’t want to serve time, and holds quite a bit of information about the Chicago Political Establishment that may be interesting to the Feds.
Read More of Feds and Rezko Piecing together Ayers, Giannoulias, Obama off-site...
http://cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/rezko-piecing-together-ayers-giannoulias-obama%2C1866/
In fall of 2005, Crossroads Fund worked closely with donors and board members to put together house parties featuring discussion on critical community issues, and also raise money for Crossroads Fund.
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, along with Yvonne Welbon and Dorian Warren hosted a group of donors and friends as they engaged in a lively discussion about political participation in Chicago. Crossroads Fund is working to understand how to support participation in the electoral process on an on-going basis, making government more accessible and accountable to voters and tax-payers.
http://www.crossroadsfund.org/Spring%202006%20Newsletter.pdf
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25th Anniversary Host Committee (2007)
Honorary Hosts:
State Representative
Barbara Flynn Currie
Congressman Danny Davis
Senator Richard J. Durbin
Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez
Alderman Joseph A. Moore
Senator Barack Obama
Cook County Clerk David Orr
Senator Carol Ronen
Congressman Bobby Rush
Alderman Helen Shiller
Alderman Tom Tunney
http://www.crossroadsfund.org/2007%20Annual%20Report.pdf
About Crossroads Fund
Crossroads Fund supports community organizations working on issues of social and economic justice in the Chicago area. A public foundation, Crossroads Fund pools the resources of individuals, foundations and businesses, building a broad base of support for grassroots organizations for social change. Crossroads Fund is a member of the Funding Exchange, a national network of locally-based community foundations committed to supporting grassroots groups that address critical issues in their regions. For more information, go to www.fex.org.
Contact Information
3411 W. Diversey #20, Chicago, IL 60647-1245
Telephone: 773.227.7676; Fax: 773.227.7790
www.crossroadsfund.org info@crossroadsfund.org
http://www.crossroadsfund.org/2007%20Annual%20Report.pdf
They’ll have all the dots connected by 2013.
"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
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25 Years & more: Seeding Change. Cultivating Leaders. Growing Movements
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Demetris Giannoulias, Chief Financial Officer of Broadway Bank in Chicago, is interested and involved in community organizing and economic development in low-income communities.
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Saul Alinsky on "Change"...
From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."[2]
[2] Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
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Statement from Communist Party USA (CPUSA):
"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.
The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."
Squeal Pig!!
That's Obami in a nutshell!
Ping
I support what you’re doing, but don’t believe the government will do anything about it. The US government has proven, by actions, that those running it are _way_ above the law. Corruption within the legislature, PC policies in the executive and creating law out of judicial thin_air, have made the _law_ a comedy in USA. Unfortunately, it is a cruel comedy on real tax paying Americans, who get the full weight of selective law enforcement, especially when standing up for their God given, in-alienable rights.
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