Posted on 04/23/2020 11:43:07 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum graduated from an Oakland, California-based training school for progressive revolutionaries that has spawned a list of activists who have gone on to become the who’s who of the far-left leadership world, with many taking senior positions at organizations financed by billionaire George Soros.
In scores of cases, graduates of the Rockwood Leadership Institute founded or directed notorious Soros-financed activist groups, such as Black Lives Matter, Media Matters for America, MoveOn.org and the Tides Foundation, one of the nation’s largest funders of progressive groups.
Soros’s own Open Society Foundations sent top staff to Rockwood for training. Notorious radicals Van Jones and Linda Sarsour are among the many famous names listed as alums.
Gillum is listed as a 2012 Rockwood alum. The Florida politician’s involvement with the radical school was not cursory or symbolic. Only five months ago, Gillum boasted in a speech to the Center for Environmental Health that he attended the institute “for about a year and a half.”
In that speech, Gillum talked about getting to know the Center for Environmental Health’s director Michael Green while they both attended Rockwood together. Green is also listed as a 2012 alum along with Gillum.
In 2013, Gillum, then a member of the Tallahassee City Commission, wrote that graduating the program in June of that year was a “major milestone.”
“I will continue to use the tools and methodology in life and as I advance in my career and my role as a member of the City Commission,” he stated.
Gillum’s Rockwood graduating class included such top activists as:
Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change, which was founded by Van Jones, President Obama’s infamous former “green” jobs czar. Jones stepped down from his position after it was exposed that he was a founding organizer for the communist revolutionary group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM). Soros has financed Color of Change. Denise Collazo of the Soros-financed radical PICO Network, which in its own terminology says it is “pushing for citizenship, and more, for an estimated 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.” Mary Anne Hitt from the radical Sierra Club environmental activist organization. Nan Aron, president and founder of the Soros-funded Alliance for Justice. Other notable Rockwood alums are Van Jones; Jodie Evans, co-founder and executive director of Code Pink; several senior employees of Soros’s own Open Society Foundations; and Drummond Pike, founder of the Soros-funded Tides Foundation.
Radical Linda Sarsour is listed as a Rockwood “alum in the news,” as is Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
Eric Rodriguez, vice president of the Soros-financed radical open borders group the National Council Of La Raza is also a graduate. As are Ilya Sheyman, executive director of the Soros-funded MoveOn.org, and Matthew Butler, who served as CEO and president of the Soros-funded Media Matters for America.
Also on the alum list is Idelisse Malave, former executive director of the Soros-funded Tides Foundation; David Rosenn of the Soros-funded New Israel Fund, which finances pro-Palestinian organizations; Justin Ruben of the Soros-backed MoveOn.org; Bill Lipton, founder of the Working Families Party, whose own leadership institute says it is “made possible by the Open Society Foundation”; and Pamela Chiang of the Soros-funded Center For Community Change.
Also listed is Adrienne Maree Brown, former executive director of the Tides-funded Ruckus Society. Ruckus provided “direct-action” training and official manuals to Occupy protesters. The group is infamous for helping to spark the 1999 World Trade Organization riots in Seattle.
Besides senior personalities, Rockwood also provides a “short list of foundations who have sent their staff through” its training program, including Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Soros-financed Tides Foundation and the Soros-funded New Israel Fund.
Rockwood is in formal partnership with the Soros-funded Social Transformation Project (STP). STP was founded by Robert Gass who also founded the Rockwood Leadership Program “along with a dedicated group of environmental activists.”
Soros, meanwhile, has directly donated to organizations seeking to get Gillum elected. Days before Gillum’s Aug. 28 primary, Soros joined with billionaire Tom Steyer to lead a group of donors making a $650,000 infusion into Gillum’s coffers.
Soros also contributed to The Collective, a little-known but increasingly influential political organization that says it is seeking to build a “black political power” movement. The Collective reportedly injected nearly $2 million into Gillum’s campaign, funding television and radio ads, get-out-the-vote drives, and playing a key role in helping Gillum defeat his Democratic opponents, some of whom were better-funded and had more statewide name recognition. The group announced plans to continue backing Gillum during the current general election campaign.
Why won’t israel deal with this admitted nazi?
Sadly I think its because he must fulfill an agenda they are okay about.
Florida Governor Candidate Andrew Gillum’s Family Under Investigation; May Have Engaged In Voter Fraud
Less than a year before gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum publicly denounced President Donald trump’s efforts to investigate the threat of voter fraud,
Gillum’s brother, Marcus Gillum, voted in the 2016 general election in Tallahassee, Florida while a resident of Chicago, Illinois.
According to Florida law, you must be a legal resident in Florida to vote in Florida.
https://tallahasseereports.com/tag/andrew-gillum/
I would not bet on that................
Why didn’t they get rid of Arafart?
Because the US State Department warned them not to.
I see one, Robert Gass.
He formed a commune in north central Massachusetts in a town not far from where I am.
He and others formed the "Opening the Heart Workshop" dedicated to peace, love, and understanding. He also recorded songs. A google search will turn up a fair bit about him.
Given his association with Rockwood, and the whackos there, it looks like his heart was shuttered along the way.
When that Missouri police officer was accused of murdering that young black guy there were large protest marches that went on for several days. During those marches a reporter mentioned that some of the protesters come from Oakland. That made me curious—it takes money to travel all the way from Oakland, California to Missouri. I was wondering where they got the money. Another oddity—some months or years later a building in Oakland, California went up in flames with many people in it. The building seems from the description to be a fire trap and some sort of hippie hang out. This did not seem like a legal residence. Police drive around all of the city streets all day—that is their job, yet no one reported to city hall that there were many people living in an illegal dwelling? The police didn’t care or they reported it to city hall but the politicians dropped it. I think this was a hang out for the Soros gang and the Mayor and city hall were looking the other way because this was providing housing for their radical left activists.
Andrew “Soiled Linens” Gillum?
And this ALL comes from our money!!!
Maybe someone wants to keep stirring up trouble in the Middle East. There is lots of profit in war.
Why no one has long since “pushed a button on this mutt” is a mystery.
Florida voters who possess a functioning brain really dodged the bullet by voting for DiSantos.
So we can expect more of these anti Americans being caught in hotels wearing nothing but chaps and having sex with male escorts
It sounds a lot like the Highlander Folk School.
Even though I’m not from FL, (VA, we have our own major problems) I followed this election fairly closely. I never heard a word about ANY scandalous behavior on the part of Gillum. This is not to say it wasn’t covered somewhat, I just didn’t see anything earth shaking.
The media really is in the tank for the democrats.
I hope someone is taking notes for the bugaloo.
Even harder to understand how he still has American citizenship, and is allowed to essentially buy subversion.
Another Soros spawn is son Jonathan. He is associated with MoveOn.org, New America Foundation Open Society Foundations, and he donated $1 million to the Planned Parenthood PAC in 2016, a few of his pet charities.
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