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EXCLUSIVE: Donations to BLM Are Funneled Through Democrat Related ActBlue and Handled by Organization Led By Member of Weather Underground Terrorist Group
Gateway Pundit ^ | 06/25/2020 | Joe Hoft

Posted on 06/25/2020 8:15:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

We reported on May 30th the recent riots in Democrat-led cities around the country were coordinated and related to three main groups: 1) US based Islamist Organizations, 2) Domestic terrorists, and 3) Others related to the Democrat Party.

Today we uncover a fourth major contributor, a Clinton pardoned member of the Weather Underground, Susan Rosenberg.

There clearly was no reason for the mass riots taking place around the country after the death of the individual at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Everyone who saw the police brutality was appalled and outraged at the sight of the policeman kneeling on the victims neck for an incredibly long period of time. The man died. But nothing warrants the wholesale destruction of property and and riots around the US since that event.

Here’s who we predicted were involved:

In Portland, Oregon, Antifa showed up as was expected:

In Boston more masked rioters:

The same in Washington DC where Antifa set a church on fire and attacked the people’s house – the White House:

In Santa Monica, Antifa set a police car on fire and chased the police away:

2. US Based Radical Islamists

In LA rioters vandalized a Jewish synagogue and then came back later in the night to burn it down:

In Minnesota, the Governor’s daughter and Ilhan Omar’s daughter were both sharing Intel with rioters:

3. Democrats

In New York City, the mayor’s daughter is involved in the protests:

Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to condemn the looters and rioters, she just attacked President Trump:

Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden looked weak while meeting with members of Black Lives Matter (another domestic group involved in the riots):

At Least 13 Joe Biden Staffers Donate to Group Supporting Violent Minnesota Looters and Rioters

4. Today we can add another name to the group – a member of the Weather Underground, Susan Rosenberg:

We were the first to report that BLM was raising money using ActBlue as a resource. The Daily Caller confirmed this and reported that BLM is not a non-profit organization and nonprofit organization (Thousand Currents) said it provides ‘fiduciary oversight, financial management, and other administrative services to BLM.

Candice Owen reported on the BLM – ActBlue relationship and was targeted by a bogus fact-checker. Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch jumped in and stated that the findings confirmed what we and Candice Owen reported:

Transparency? So if you want to make a tax-deductible charitable donation directly to Black Lives Matter, you can't. You donate to Act Blue Charities. Act Blue Charities sends this money, allegedly, to another charity, Thousand Currents, which runs BLM as a "fiscal sponsorship."

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) June 20, 2020

Thousand Currents is apparently a non-profit organization and Susan Rosenberg serves on its Board as reported by Wikipedia (note the link to Thousand Currents no longer works).

What’s the big deal? Susan Rosenberg was a member of the Weather Underground terrorist group, which included Obama friend Bill Ayers. In January of 2001, the New York Times reported that many politicians, including Democrat Chuck Schumer, were critical of a pardon President Clinton gave to her on his last day in office:

An unusual combination of New York political and law enforcement leaders have condemned former President Bill Clinton’s pardon of Susan L. Rosenberg, a one-time member of the Weather Underground terrorist group who was charged in the notorious 1981 Brink’s robbery in Rockland County that left a guard and two police officers dead.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican, and United States Senator Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat, were among those who criticized the pardon, as did Bernard B. Kerik, New York City’s police commissioner, and David Trois, a Rockland County police union official.

Here is a related tweet about Rosenberg:

https://t.co/Fz8jVGXNOM
Who is Susan Rosenberg? She should NOT be allowed anywhere near a charity. What do public filings about Thousand Currents reveal concerning her background?

— Charles Ortel (@CharlesOrtel) June 23, 2020

So contributions to BLM are funneled through ActBlue, the major resource for Democrat donations, and then funneled to an organization ran by a member of the Weather Underground terrorist group.

It’s clear that the recent riots around the country are not spontaneous. They are coordinated and planned. These riots are related to the same individuals involved in similar activities for years.

These people hate America.

Hat tips Bob, Charles Ortel


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Clinton pardons a terrorist, and now she’s teaching in Clinton, N.Y.
BY ROGER KIMBALL
Friday, December 3, 2004

At Hamilton College—an elite liberal arts institution in Clinton, N.Y.—you can take courses in Roman civilization, Shakespeare and the “Emergence of Modern Western Europe, 1500-1815.” All well and good. You can also take something called “Resistance Memoirs: Writing, Identity and Change.” That last course—a month-long, half-credit seminar—is scheduled to begin next month. Its teacher is Susan Rosenberg, formerly of the Weather Underground.

Remember the Weather Underground? Its self-described revolutionaries, mostly middle-class, dedicated themselves to supporting radical black causes and tearing apart American society in the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1970, they blew up a townhouse when a bomb detonated prematurely and killed a few of their troops. Kathy Boudin, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and other high-profile members of the group spent the next decade or so running from the police and, some of them, continuing to pursue careers in criminal violence.

Ms. Rosenberg did her part. In October 1981, in an operation code-named “The Big Dance,” several black radicals and members of the Weather Underground held up a Brinks armored car in Nanuet, N.Y. In the course of that act of domestic terrorism, they murdered Peter Paige, a Brinks guard, and police officers Edward O’Grady and Waverly Brown, the only black officer on the Nyack, N.Y., force. Ms. Rosenberg, then still at large, was indicted as an accessory.

According to John Castellucci’s “The Big Dance,” an account of the Brinks robbery, Ms. Rosenberg’s role in the Brinks job was performing surveillance, driving a getaway car and transmitting orders. “Any white who had taken part in the robbery,” Mr. Castellucci writes, “would have received orders from her.”

Mr. Castellucci reports that the Brinks robbery was only one of several violent episodes that Ms. Rosenberg was involved with in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was finally apprehended in November 1984 while unloading a cache of weapons—including 740 pounds of explosives—at a storage facility in Cherry Hill, N.J. ...”

https://web.archive.org/web/20041216055223/http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110005979

13 posted on 10/28/2016, 3:55:30 PM by ETL


21 posted on 06/25/2020 1:43:54 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa
Ms. Rosenberg did her part. In October 1981, in an operation code-named “The Big Dance,” several black radicals and members of the Weather Underground held up a Brinks armored car in Nanuet, N.Y. In the course of that act of domestic terrorism, they murdered Peter Paige, a Brinks guard, and police officers Edward O’Grady and Waverly Brown, the only black officer on the Nyack, N.Y., force. Ms. Rosenberg, then still at large, was indicted as an accessory. According to John Castellucci’s “The Big Dance,” an account of the Brinks robbery, Ms. Rosenberg’s role in the Brinks job was performing surveillance, driving a getaway car and transmitting orders. “Any white who had taken part in the robbery,” Mr. Castellucci writes, “would have received orders from her.”
22 posted on 06/25/2020 1:46:07 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: headstamp 2

Yep! Nail them ALL on RICO charges.


23 posted on 06/25/2020 1:48:06 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Fedora

Asian partners:
ASHA Nepal
Digo Bikas Institute (DBI)
Focus on the Global South
ForestAction Nepal
Nari Chetana Kendra(WACN)
Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG)
Sahyog Sansthan
Social Empowerment Educational Programme (SEEP)
Graman Vikas Vigyan Samiti
Diverse Voices for Action and Equality (DIVA for Equality)
La Via Campesina South Asia
LILAK – Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights
Vanuatu Indigenous Land Defense Desk (VILDD)


24 posted on 06/25/2020 2:05:12 PM PDT by Fedora
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DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

Trace that money!!!!

EXPOSE

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25 posted on 06/25/2020 2:05:50 PM PDT by elbook
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To: piasa

May 19th was linked to the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, which was a militia front group for Weather Underground and has a similar name to Antifa’s John Brown Gun Club.


26 posted on 06/25/2020 2:07:22 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora; piasa

Latin American partners—need to cross-reference this with groups supported by the Chicoms:

Asociación de Mujeres Ixpiyakok
(ADEMI)

Guatemala

Asociación Femenina para el Desarrollo
de Sacatepéquez
(AFEDES)

Guatemala

Asociación para la Promoción de la
Salud y el Desarrollo
Socio-Económico (APROSADSE)

Guatemala

Comisión de Mujeres de Centroamérica de La Via Campesina

Central America

Educación para la Paz
(EduPaz)

Mexico

Federación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas, Artesanas, Indígenas, Nativas y Asalariadas de Perú (FENMUCARINAP)

Peru

Federación Nacional Sindical Unitaria Agropecuaria (FENSUAGRO)

Colombia

Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB)

Brazil

Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)

Brazil

Ñepi Behña

Mexico

Grupo Género y Economía (GGE)

Peru

Red Ñuqanchik Maronijei Noshaninka

Peru

More about our partners

Our Senior Partners - Latin America

Asociación para la Naturaleza y el Desarrollo Sostenible (ANDES)

Peru

Comité Campesino del Altiplano (CCDA)

Guatemala

Instituto para la Superación de la Miseria Urbana de Guatemala (ISMUGUA)

Guatemala

Desarrollo Económico y Social de los Mexicanos Indígenas (DESMI)

Mexico

More About Senior Partners

Catalyst Partners - Latin America

Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB)

Brazil

Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (CONAQ)

Brazil

La Red Nacional de Mujeres Productoras de la Agricultura Familiar (La Red de Mujeres)

Peru

Red de Organizaciones de Jóvenes Indígenas del Perú (REOJIP)

Peru

Movimento pela Soberania Popular na Mineração (MAM)

Brazil

Movimento dos Pescadores e Pescadoras Artesanais (MPP)

Brazil


27 posted on 06/25/2020 2:08:41 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Regional partners:

Regional Partners

Comisión de Mujeres de Centroamérica de La Via Campesina

Central America

Focus on the Global South

South- East Asia

More about our partners

Global Partners

La Via Campesina

Our Catalyst Partners - Regional and Global

La Via Campesina South Asia

South Asia

Nous Sommes la Solution (NSS)

West Africa


28 posted on 06/25/2020 2:09:43 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Thousand Currents Staff Meet our leader-full team. Mónica Carrillo Zegarra Regional Director, Latin America Rudo Chigudu Program Manager, Africa Jinky Demarest de Rivera Director of Finance and Administration Dino Foxx Donor Organizing Coordinator Ayşe Gürsöz Communications Manager Gabriela Hylton Garza Executive Assistant Ashlesha Khadse Program Manager, Asia and the Pacific Rajiv Khanna Director of Philanthropic Partnerships Luam Kidane Regional Director, Africa Priya Krishnamoorthy Director of UK Partnerships Solomé Lemma Executive Director Heather Masaki Grants Manager Lindley Mease Director of Climate Leaders In Movement Action (CLIMA) Fund Hafsa Mustafa Manager of Philanthropic Partnerships Sayra Pinto Director of Learning and Innovation Nina Robinson Buen Vivir Finance Fellow Samira Shifteh Accounting and Operations Manager Gaithiri Siva Buen Vivir Fund Director Rachel E. Smith Data Systems and Accounting Manager Jessie Spector Director of Donor Organizing Katherine Zavala Director of Grassroots Partnerships Also with Thousand Currents Artists-in-Residence Contractors Board of Directors Nwamaka Agbo Fahad Ahmad Shilpa Alimchandani Saba Bireda M. Jahi Chappell Gregory Hodge Susan Rosenberg
29 posted on 06/25/2020 2:11:29 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Thousand Currents Staff

Meet our leader-full team.

Mónica Carrillo Zegarra

Regional Director, Latin America

Rudo Chigudu

Program Manager, Africa

Jinky Demarest de Rivera

Director of Finance and Administration

Dino Foxx

Donor Organizing Coordinator

Ayse Gürsöz

Communications Manager

Gabriela Hylton Garza

Executive Assistant

Ashlesha Khadse

Program Manager, Asia and the Pacific

Rajiv Khanna

Director of Philanthropic Partnerships

Luam Kidane

Regional Director, Africa

Priya Krishnamoorthy

Director of UK Partnerships

Solomé Lemma

Executive Director

Heather Masaki

Grants Manager

Lindley Mease

Director of Climate Leaders In Movement Action (CLIMA) Fund

Hafsa Mustafa

Manager of Philanthropic Partnerships

Sayra Pinto

Director of Learning and Innovation

Nina Robinson

Buen Vivir Finance Fellow

Samira Shifteh

Accounting and Operations Manager

Gaithiri Siva

Buen Vivir Fund Director

Rachel E. Smith

Data Systems and Accounting Manager

Jessie Spector

Director of Donor Organizing

Katherine Zavala

Director of Grassroots Partnerships

Also with Thousand Currents

Artists-in-Residence Contractors

Board of Directors

Nwamaka Agbo

Fahad Ahmad

Shilpa Alimchandani

Saba Bireda

M. Jahi Chappell

Gregory Hodge

Susan Rosenberg

30 posted on 06/25/2020 2:16:31 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Solomé Lemma
Executive Director

…leaders of all ages, nationalities, and backgrounds around the world are developing solutions to the challenges their communities face.

~Solomé Lemma

As Executive Director, Solomé works closely with the board to set the strategic direction for Thousand Currents and is responsible for ensuring Thousand Currents remains a dynamic, innovative, and financially-sound organization, rooted in its support of grassroots partners.

As a champion of social transformation through community-driven initiatives, Solomé joins Thousand Currents most recently from Africans in the Diaspora (AiD), an initiative she co-founded and led for four years before its merger with Thousand Currents. Previously, she served as Global Fund for Children’s Senior Program Officer for Africa for over five years, managing a portfolio of over 100 grassroots organizations in about 25 countries. Solomé has also worked with the UN Development Programme in Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch in New York City, and International Rescue Committee in Liberia. Solomé currently serves on the advisory board of the Agroecology Fund.

Born in Ethiopia and moving to the United States at a young age, Solomé quickly learned of the skewed perspectives held of Africans. As a co-founder of Africa Responds, Solomé also led a diaspora-led humanitarian effort to galvanize fundraising for grassroots organizations that fought the Ebola outbreak in parts of West Africa. She is a White House Champion of Change for her work with diaspora communities.

Solomé received a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor’s in International Relations from Stanford University. During to her 15+ years of experience in philanthropy and social change, Solomé has become a strong voice against “inequitable and ineffective partnerships” and a fierce supporter of local leadership. Solomé’s work and writing has been featured in Forbes, the Washington Post, The Guardian, Inside Philanthropy, and Africa is a Country, among others, and she has appeared on NPR, BBC, and Al Jazeera discussing aid and philanthropy in Africa. She has been an invited guest speaker at community events, conferences, and universities such as the University of Vermont, Columbia, and NYU. Solomé was named as one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s “100 women to follow on Twitter” at @innovateafrica.

Mónica Carrillo Zegarra
Regional Director, Latin America

Mónica Carrillo Zegarra is an Afro-Peruvian feminist, human rights advocate, and artist with 18 years of experience in fundraising, designing, and leadership of human rights initiatives. She founded LUNDU Center for Afro Peruvian Studies and Advancement in Peru and has harnessed more than two million dollars to improve public policies of racial and gender equality, rebuild rural communities after natural disasters, and strengthen grassroots social organizations from a racial, feminist, and integenerational perspective. She has also designed public campaigns to denounce the exploitation of women labor in the agribusiness export sector and supported the creation of centers to prevent gender violence and HIV in rural communities in Peru.

Carrillo led the first successful lawsuit against the use of Blackface on Peruvian television and a strategy which resulted in the official recognition of racist insults as physiological violence in Peru. Her latest book, “Faces of Violence, Faces of Power” explores the intersection of racism and sexism in the lives of Afro-Peruvian women.

As the community organizer of the Queens Museum, Carrillo led projects to recover the traditional textile arts of immigrant women, supported immigrant families with special needs children, and organized public festivals that celebrated immigrant communities.

Carrillo creates poetry that mixes Afro-Peruvian music to bring attention to the ongoing effects of racism and sexism. Her productions “Unicroma” and “Poetics of Reparation” includes a CD, a book, and a live performance with musicians and dancers. As a songwriter and performer, she has been featured in the Grammy, Latin Grammy, and Independent Music Awards winning album “El Orisha de la Rosa” among other Latin Grammy nominee albums.

Carrillo has been recognized as a global advocate by Google Earth and by The Elders–an organization founded by Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu–and has been featured on programs and films on PBS, CNN, Univision, The New York Times, MTV Europe, and others. She holds a B.A. in journalism, an M.F.A in Performance Media and Interactive Arts from Brooklyn College, a post-degree in Political Journalism/Cultural Analysis, and a certification in International Law and Human Rights from Oxford University in England.

Rudo Chigudu
Program Manager, Africa

 

As an African feminist, activist, and artist fiercely committed to social justice and human rights, Rudo Chigudu has worked with social movements on the African continent. She has worked for close to a decade with young women on issues of sexuality and leadership. Using creative arts as a feminist popular education tool to politicise  sexuality and its linkage to broader political discourse. She is co-founder of Katswe Sistahood, a Zimbabwean based young women’s organisation and is popularly known as a V warrior for her engagement in the struggles surrounding women’s bodily autonomy and sexual diversity.  She holds a Master of Philosophy in Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa. Her recent work includes projects on the politics of land as history, identity and a means towards food sovereignty within Africa.

Jinky Demarest de Rivera
Director of Finance and Administration 

Jinky de Rivera oversees the financial, human resource and organizational effectiveness functions at Thousand Currents. As part of the senior management team, Jinky brings nearly twenty years of experience in leadership, technical expertise and strategic thinking. Their history directing nonprofit financial operations spans human rights and social justice organizations in the Bay Area and New York City. Their history directing nonprofit financial operations spans human rights and social justice organizations in New York City and the bay area, starting at GLSEN and the Audre Lorde Project and most recently at Tides. Jinky currently serves on the Leadership Sangha of the East Bay Meditation Center, which strives to foster liberation, healing, social action and community building. A native New Yorker, Jinky moved to Oakland in 2004 where they earned their MFA in English & Creative Writing at Mills College. They are the co-editor of the anthology Homelands: Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place and Time (Seal Press, ed. 2007). To find out more about the magic of combining social justice, creativity and math skills read Jinky’s entry on the Thousand Currents blog.

Dino Foxx
Donor Organizing Coordinator 

Dino Foxx, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, is a nationally presented actor, singer, poet, arts educator and activist. They are a founding member of a Queer Xicana/o Performance Poetry Collaborative and a company member with Jump-Start Performance Co. Their poetry has been published in such collections as Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (Floricanto Press), the 19th issue of Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing (2007), and Queer Codex: Chile Love (Evelyn Street Press/allgo). Dino is the author of When the Glitter Fades (2013) and will also be featured in the upcoming poetry collection Joto: An Anthology of Queer Xicano & Chicano Poetry through Kórima Press.

Ayşe Gürsöz
Communications Manager

Ayşe Gürsöz comes to Thousand Currents with a breadth of experience harnessing the power of narrative and new media for social transformation. Her commitment to reshaping the world to be more just and equitable has taken her from the newsroom at Al Jazeera’s social media network, AJ+, where she produced stories that were neglected by mainstream media; to Public Advocates, where she led digital strategy for a critical housing justice initiative; to Rainforest Action Network, where she led communications for high profile campaigns targeting the world’s largest financial institutions for their outsized roles in the climate crisis and Indigenous rights abuses. Ayşe has also worked as a multimedia producer and content creator with Indigenous Environmental Network and Grassroots Global Justice during major climate justice mobilizations over the past eight years.

Ayşe has a B.A. from the Technocultural Studies program at UC DAVIS and a Permaculture Design Certification from the Regenerative Design Institute. As a 2019 Lucie Foundation “Photo Taken, Emerging Scholarship” nominee, Ayşe is also a seasoned photographer. In her free time, Ayşe continues to build on her photography work, cooks up her favorite Turkish recipes from scratch, and crushes on her favorite director, Taika Waititi. 

Gabriela Hylton Garza
Executive Assistant

Gabriela Hylton Garza has 10 years of Administrative and Event Management experience. Having held various positions in Education, Human Resources, and Project Management, she has increased efficiency in several of her assigned roles. Gabriela is inspired when supporting the dynamic work of non-profits dedicated to global transformation. She was a facilitator and founding member of the Stewardship Circle for Thrive East Bay, a meaningful community dedicated to creating a just and flourishing world for all.

Gabriela is passionate about guiding Grandmother Ceremonies, Water Blessings and circles that focus on honoring the ancestors and connecting with Mother Earth. She is committed to co-creating a world where individuals share their passions and unique gifts openly, experience unconditional love, and support the next generations to become thriving and compassionate individuals.

Ashlesha Khadse
Program Manager, Asia and the Pacific

Ashlesha Khadse is connected to the Amrita Bhoomi Agroecology School, a peasant agroecology training school in southern India, which is run by the Karnataka state’s farmers’ movement and part of the global peasant’s movement, La Via Campesina. At Amrita Bhoomi, she helps to coordinate trainings for rural youth. She has been working with farmers’ and food movements since 2009. She completed her Msc at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in Chiapas, Mexico in 2016 where she conducted research on the Zero Budget Natural Farming movement, an Indian peasant led agroecology movement which has millions of peasant members nationally. Her main areas of interest are agroecology movements, gender and agriculture, grassroots solutions to the agrarian and climate crisis. She loves Mexican food and is dreaming of starting a taco truck with her partner in Mumbai.

Rajiv Khanna
Director of Philanthropic Partnerships

Rajiv is engaged in strategy development and effective execution of all activities related to cultivating a just, equitable, and inclusive philanthropic & impact investing sector that centers local solutions, forms learning partnerships with grassroots groups, and reimagines wealth, well-being, and giving. He provides overall leadership of the Philanthropic Partnerships Program at Thousand Currents, overseeing individual donor engagement and fundraising, institutional fundraising, the Thousand Currents Academy, and the Buen Vivir Fund. As part of the Senior Management Team, he also informs and guides Thousand Currents’ overall strategy and planning, ensuring collaboration and interconnectedness across all Thousand Currents’ programs. He currently serves on the Board of the Management Assistance Group, which strengthens individuals, organizations, and networks to bring about transformative change. In addition, he is on the Stewardship Circle of Thrive East Bay, a purpose-driven community of people committed to creating a flourishing world for all. A recovering academic, Rajiv is professionally trained as a historian of international relations with expertise in Modern Europe, South Asia, and the Cold War and has designed and taught college-level courses at universities across the U.S. He has also led the Indian Diaspora Oral History Project, a community-centered project focused on South Asian immigrants in Silicon Valley, as part of the Silicon Valley Immigration Center at San Jose State University. Rajiv has a Bachelor’s in English and History from Newman University in Wichita, KS, and a Master’s in history from The Ohio State University. A native of Bombay, he is a published poet and writer, enjoys cooking, the outdoors, the ocean, reading, traveling, and is a cricket fanatic.

Luam Kidane
Regional Director, Africa


An African of Eritrean origin, Luam Kidane’s curatorial work, research, and writing examines movement building at the intersections of Indigenous governance models, cultural production and articulations of self-determination. Prior to joining Thousand Currents Luam worked for over a decade as a researcher and strategist on food sovereignty, political economy, gender, sexuality and cultural production. She received a Master’s from McGill University, focusing her thesis on the liberatory value of cultural production. Luam is also the co-curator of NSOROMMA, a pan-African arts initiative, and has written several publications and articles on radical transformation in Africa.

Priya Krishnamoorthy
Director of UK Partnerships

Priya Krishnamoorthy is Thousand Currents’s Director for UK Partnerships. A Global South (especially Asia) projects specialist, Priya has an excellent track record of successful partnerships and innovative fundraising, PR and Diaspora Philanthropy experience. Her 18 years of international work experience includes 12 years in the charity sector in London (UK) and 6 years in the creative/media industries as a journalist (India/Oman), advertising copywriter (UAE), and a film development assistant in Hollywood (USA). A proud South Indian with ancestry in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, she’s an adopted Brit for whom London is second home. She is passionate about the natural world, walking in the wild, cycling, green politics, movements building, India, indie cinema, literature from the Global South, Indian classical music, and writing for the screen. Priya has a Master’s in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, UK, and a Master’s in Public Communications from Syracuse University, NY, and uses her background, expertise and skills to champion grassroots philanthropic practices in the Global North that challenge monopolistic vanilla philanthropy tendencies.

Heather Masaki
Grants Manager

Masaki was born and raised on O’ahu, Hawai’i, and she brings experience in feminist activism and research, community engagement, and fundraising for women’s rights and social change organizations. She holds a Bachelor’s in Women’s Studies and Religious Studies from San Diego State University in California, and a Master’s in Development Studies from the University of Auckland in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her thesis research focused on the intersections of gender, climate change, and transnational Pacific Island communities. Prior to joining Thousand Currents, Masaki supported a feminist research project exploring gender inequality in the Pacific Islands through the lens of local marketplaces. Previously, she worked at the Global Fund for Women, focusing on donor stewardship and grant writing. She has also worked for Making Contact/International Media Project, and UpsideDowns Education Trust. Masaki enjoys spending time outdoors, particularly when that entails being in or near the the ocean. She is an avid traveler, reader, and information seeker, and a proud aunty to two adorable nephews.

Lindley Mease
Director of Climate Leaders in Movement Action (CLIMA) Fund 

Lindley is dedicated to nurturing networks of solidarity for grassroots leaders advancing just and regenerative solutions to climate change. She directs the Climate Leaders In Movement Action (CLIMA) Fund at Thousand Currents, mobilizing funders to collaboratively give to climate justice movements in the Global South. She is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Blue Heart, an organization that organizes millennial donors to give to frontline organizations in the United States. In these roles she is working to build accountability and humility into philanthropic giving, and to elevate the stories of scrappy organizations building real political power. Prior to Blue Heart, Lindley was a Senior Research Analyst at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment. Lindley currently teaches a class on human-centered design for graduate students at Stanford University; is an experienced mediator and counselor; and organizes with LeftRoots, a national formation of social movement activists. Lindley has a M.S. in Earth System Science and a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University. Although her roots run deep beneath the Cascades of Washington State, she has fallen hard for the Sierras and the Redwoods that surround her home of Oakland.

Hafsa Mustafa
Manager of Philanthropic Partnerships

Hafsa Mustafa is a seasoned researcher, monitoring & evaluation (M&E) expert, educator, and fundraiser with more than a decade of experience working with nonprofits, foundations, and corporations in the U.S. and abroad. As the Learning and Evaluation Manager for Thousand Currents, Hafsa works on evaluating the Thousand Currents Academy, Buen Vivir Fund, and other programs. Her passion to create sector-wide strategic partnerships and promote data-driven decision-making was born in Pakistan, where she worked on designing tools and M&E systems to address these challenges. Major projects include developing tools and systems for RISEPAK – an award-winning project by John Hopkins University and the World Bank; co-establishing M&E systems at Marie Stopes International for the Buffet Foundation Project; leading a qualitative study for the Kennedy School at Harvard University on the Hajj; and advising a University of Illinois research project on first-generation Sub-Saharan Africans. Hafsa is currently an Adjunct Faculty at the University of San Francisco’s School of Management and volunteers her time by working on pro-bono projects for the American Pakistan Foundation and serving on the boards of the UChicago Bay Area Alumni Association and Collaborative Enterprise Exchange. Hafsa earned her Master’s in Public Policy and Program Evaluation from the University of Chicago and her Bachelor’s in Economics with a minor in Mathematics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Sayra Pinto
Director of Learning and Innovation

Sayra Pinto leads learning and innovation processes at Thousand Currents. An immigrant from Honduras, Sayra began working as a community organizer in the late 1980’s in the Greater Boston region. Sayra has an unshakable commitment to practice-based approaches to leadership education, values-driven organizational development, and experiential social innovations.

In a 30 year career devoted to cross-sectoral social transformation, Sayra has worked with the Harvard Law Human Rights Program, the Harvard Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, the Suffolk University Center for Restorative Justice, The State of Massachusetts’ Anti-Crime Council, the Schott Foundation for Public Education, the Boston Foundation’s Indicators Project, the National Parks Conservation Association of New England, the Third Sector New England’s Inclusion Initiative, the Holyoke High School’s P’Alante Restorative Justice Program, the Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition amongst many other alliances, networks and coalitions. Sayra is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Vermont’s Rubinstein School’s Master’s of Leadership in Sustainability program.

Sayra holds an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College, an MFA from Goddard College, and an PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from the Union Institute and University. She has published two chapbooks and a doctoral dissertation to date: Pinol : Poems (2012), Vatolandia (2012), and the dissertation The Ontology of Love: A Framework for Re-Indigenizing Communities of Color in the U.S (2015). She is also published in various anthologies including I Was Indian (2011), Decolonizing the Spirit in Education and Beyond (2018), and the forthcoming Where We Stand: Brown and Black Voices Speak the Earth. When not writing, teaching or working, Sayra can be found hosting friends and chilling in her backyard with her family, including black cat Moses, in Richmond, CA.

Nina Robinson
Buen Vivir Finance Fellow

Nina Robinson is an impact capital convener with over 10 years of experience working with mission-driven entrepreneurs and innovative investment models including The Runway Project Oakland, Homestake Ventures, and as a RSF Integrated Capital Fellow in 2017-2018. Nina has advised numerous small businesses on strategic growth, capital raising, impact and organizational development which has resulted in creation of 400+ local good jobs, and the facilitation of over $10M in capital investments. At ICA Fund Good Jobs, Nina managed a $2.2M investment portfolio and provided consulting, capital raising support, and board participation to seed portfolio companies.

Nina received her MBA from the Lorry I. Lokey School of Business at Mills College, and holds a Bachelors degree in High Technology Management from California State University. Nina holds a Certificate for Board Directorship from the Anderson Graduate School of Business at UCLA. Nina sits on Credit Committee of The Runway Project and when she isn’t working towards economic justice, you can find her spinning records around the globe as Nina Sol.

Samira Shifteh
Accounting and Operations Manager


Raised in a family of immigrants and refugees from Iran, Samira has been involved in social movements for over a decade, as part of immigrant justice, anti-militarism, and Palestine solidarity work. As a non-profit professional she has held both direct service and operations roles throughout her career. Originally from Los Angeles, she began direct service work with immigrant survivors of gender-based violence in L.A., and continued that work in Seattle, before transitioning into operational roles. Now settling into the Bay Area, Samira brings her non-profit finance background to her position as the Accounting and Operations Manager at Thousand Currents. Samira is also a budding filmmaker, with a strong desire to document and share the stories of our community activists, artists, and movements who are speaking truth to power!
 

Gaithiri Siva
Buen Vivir Fund Director

Gaithiri is a finance professional with over 15 years of progressive leadership experience in investments, management consulting, risk advisory, and operations. She played a key role in the North America expansion and diversification of a $40B Malaysian strategic investment fund into the technology sector, where she partnered with teams across North America and Asia to execute on critical strategic investment decisions. She has closed over $40M investments to-date and led diligence for numerous deals totaling over $300M.

In previous roles, Gaithiri has consulted for the UN in Indonesia, Laos, and Myanmar, predominantly to improve reach and efficacy of spending. She led large teams under difficult conditions in these remote areas of Asia for the oversight of disaster-relief fund management and micro-financing for women.

As a Malaysian of Indian origin, Gaithiri is familiar with ethnic discrimination and is very keen on closing the inequality gap, especially amongst minorities. She has a Bachelor of Accounting (Honors) degree and a CPA. An avid reader, she also enjoys the beach, baking, kickboxing, and film photography. These days, however, she spends all her free time chasing after her young daughter.

Rachel E. Smith 
Data Systems and Accounting Manager 

Originally from Texas, Rachel is an audio-visual artist, musician, data nerd and lifelong learner. Her educational background has ranged from sociocultural anthropology, linguistics and museum studies to coding, game design and VR to creating really terrible pottery. Professionally, Rachel has over 15 years database management and fundraising experience, from organizations including The Asia Foundation, San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, and the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. She currently volunteers and serves on the board of Bay Area Girls’ Rock Camp, a grassroots music education organization dedicated to gender justice, creativity and transforming the lives of young people. In her free time, Rachel also records and releases music under the experimental collaborative International Corporation.

Jessie Spector
Director of Donor Organizing

Jessie Spector organizes donors and supporters of Thousand Currents to engage and leverage their whole selves in support of social justice. Having worked with individual donors and funders for nearly a decade, Jessie is passionately committed to organizing people with financial privilege to be in solidarity and partnership with frontline communities. Prior to joining Thousand Currents, Jessie was the Executive Director of Resource Generation, organizing wealthy people ages 18-35 to become transformative leaders toward a world with the equitable distribution of land, wealth, and power. Jessie deeply believes in the goodness of all people, and the vital role that people with privilege can play in supporting a more just and peaceful world. Jessie serves on the boards of the Markham Nathan Fund for Social Justice and Jewish Voice for Peace. When not organizing, Jessie can be found on long bike rides through New England, baking bread, and eating ice cream. 

Katherine Zavala
Director of Grassroots Partnerships

A native of Peru, Katherine Zavala has journeyed through years of learnings, strategic shifts, experimentation, and relationship-building in global philanthropy since 2006. Katherine has spent the majority of her career at Thousand Currents, starting as an intern at the organization (formerly known as IDEX) and working her way through several iterations of program positions and directorships, all with a focus on channeling funds to grassroots organizations and social movements in the Global South. Currently as Director of Grassroots Partnerships, she supports the Regional Directors and Grants Manager to model long-term engagement and commitment to not just individual organizations, but whole ecosystems of grassroots actors working towards collective self-determination and social transformation. Katherine has been invited to spend significant time with indigenous organizations and social movements in Latin America, including with AFEDES, an indigenous women-led organization in Guatemala (and a long-term Thousand Currents partner) and the Movement of People Affected by Dams (also a Thousand Currents partner) in Brazil. As a writer, Katherine’s work champions Indigenous cosmovision and activism, and highlights how Indigenous women’s leadership and resilience is at the heart of dignified livelihoods and sustainable ecosystems. Katherine earned a Master’s in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor’s in Hospitality Management from Florida International University. Always curious to learn more about the world, you can find Katherine planning her next travel adventure.

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31 posted on 06/25/2020 2:18:36 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: dsrtsage
... and Handled by Organization Led By Member of Weather Underground Terrorist Group...

The corrupt lame FBI doesn't care. They're looking for some right wing 18 year old living in a trailer park without one smidgen of power and without the means to do crap. Someone the SPLC has been grooming to become the next horror...

Yep, our FBI is the joke of the universe. Examples?

The FBI couldn't find a real domestic terrorist if Russians called them and said two idiots were going to use pressure cookers as bombs at a race...

They're so stupid they send 17 special agents to check out a 'hate crime' that so obviously fake it takes your breath away..

OK corrupt special agents... Pretend for a second that burning and looting cities and attempting to erase our history is almost as bad as saying 'the N word'...

32 posted on 06/25/2020 2:29:50 PM PDT by GOPJ (No one is above the law UNLESS you're black or a white Antifa - then you can burn, loot and destroy.)
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I am beginning to think that besides making the left look bigger than it is, the ridiculous number of redundant leftist groups with overly elaborate names is little more than a way to make otherwise uninteresting resumes look fluffier.


33 posted on 06/25/2020 2:51:20 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Lots of Indian names rather than Chinese.


34 posted on 06/25/2020 2:52:42 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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That, and it’s useful for concealing affiliations and laundering money.


35 posted on 06/25/2020 3:00:35 PM PDT by Fedora
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Before this, Ms. Mustafa worked at a Research Firm in Chicago for five years, first as a Project Manager and later as a Project Director overseeing a portfolio of 50+ clients and spearheading 80+ research studies across healthcare, education, technology, and business. Her major development projects and publications include: co-establishing monitoring and evaluation systems at Marie Stopes International (Pakistan) for the Buffet Foundation National Expansion Project; conducting qualitative and quantitative field research for RISEPAK - an award-winning tech4development project by John Hopkins University and the World Bank on informing earthquake relief work; leading a qualitative study for the Kennedy School at Harvard University on the Ritual of Hajj; and interviewed first generation Sub-Sahara Africans living in Chicago to study health, education and domestic violence incidences as part of a University of Illinois research project. She volunteers her time serving on the boards of several organizations including; Board member of UChicago Bay Area Alumni Association, Board of Director of Collaborative Enterprise Exchange (Non-Profit), and works on projects for the American Pakistan Foundation. In her free time, she enjoys the outdoors, hiking, running and exploring local art exhibitions.: Hafsa Mustafa bio
36 posted on 06/25/2020 4:32:49 PM PDT by Fedora
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Focus on the Global South has worked with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS): Iraq's New Patent Law (2005)
37 posted on 06/25/2020 4:54:13 PM PDT by Fedora
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La Via Campesina works with the Nepal Communist Party in Asia, which was formed by a merger of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre). The former is affiliated with the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties, which is affiliated with CPUSA.
38 posted on 06/25/2020 5:02:48 PM PDT by Fedora
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and with the Communist Party in China and three different Communist groups from Russia.


39 posted on 06/25/2020 5:04:14 PM PDT by Fedora
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Nous Sommes la Solution (NSS) looks to be a feminist Pan-African group founded in 2011 in French-speaking Africa: Nous sommes la solution (NSS) est une campagne panafricaine qui vise à promouvoir la souveraineté alimentaire dans les pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest membre que sont : le Burkina, le Mali, la Guinée, le Ghana et le Sénégal.: Campagne Panafricaine : Nous Sommes la Solution (NSS). Their English name is We are the Solution (WAS): WAS is a collaboration of women-led family farmer organizations in Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Senegal. WAS is building a movement to strengthen women’s political learning and development.: We Are the Solution Campaign (WAS). According to this link, "La Fondation New Field travaille en partenariat avec plusieurs autres fondations pour appuyer la campagne, notamment The Christensen Fund, CS Fund, Grassroots International, et Swift Foundation."
40 posted on 06/25/2020 5:13:59 PM PDT by Fedora
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