Posted on 02/13/2004 7:30:00 AM PST by Hon
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:03:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
CHICAGO - Pittsburgh is home to a new liberal funding organization that lists its priorities as the local environment, land use and "sustainability." However, its affiliations raise questions about its real purpose.
Known as the Tides Center for Pennsylvania, formerly the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, it is a creation of the Tides Foundation and Center, headquartered in San Francisco, and two Pennsylvania-based foundations -- the Vira Heinz Endowment and the Howard Heinz Endowment-- chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, heir to the Heinz food company fortune and wife of Democrat presidential contender Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
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Teresa Heinz Kerry: Financier of the Radical Left
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Tides Foundation supports positive social change through innovative grantmaking. Tides Foundation has awarded over $300 million in grants to nonprofits in the United States and abroad. Here is a list of just a few of the hundreds of groups we have supported (organized by issue area). Civic Participation Tides supports groups that advance social and economic justice through building community-based problem solving and social change efforts and empowering people to participate in the democratic process. Center for Third World Organizing Southern Echo Tenants and Workers Support Committee Tides supports groups that develop assets, job skills, enterprises, and credit opportunities for communities with minimal resources, and that advance sustainable development solutions. Chitungwiza Integrated Youth Survival Alternative Project New America Foundation White Earth Land Recovery Project Tides supports groups working to promote social and racial equality and counter economic inequalities faced by low-income people and communities of color. Direct Action for Rights and Equality Fifth Avenue Committee Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy Tides supports groups that are addressing critical global environmental issues and promoting conservation and community-based natural resource management. Friends of the Earth The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Tides supports groups that are challenging destructive corporate practices and protecting the health and well-being of affected communities, especially indigenous, people of color and low-income communities. Asian Pacific Environmental Network Honor the Earth Campaign Project Underground Tides supports groups that advocate for people infected, affected by and at risk for HIV, work to meet the immediate needs of those suffering from HIV/AIDS, and work to reduce transmission of the virus. Blue Mountain Heart to Heart Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, INTERSEX and QUESTIONING COMMUNITIES Tides supports groups that work to empower and engage lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning (LGBTIQ) individuals and groups to combat homophobia and foster leadership; and to help young people understand and accept their sexuality. Gay-Straight Alliance Network Odyssey Youth Center Southerners on New Ground Tides supports groups working to sustain Native traditions, protect Native lands, develop sustainable and traditional land use practices, and build effective community development projects. Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment Indigenous Women's Network, Inc. Native Action PROGRESSIVE MEDIA, ARTS AND CULTURE Tides supports organizations that provide arts and educational opportunities to communities that have limited access to such programs, and groups that promote alternative media and progressive information sources. Loco Bloco Drum and Dance Ensemble Middle East Research and Information Project National Coalition Against Censorship Tides supports organizations that promote gun safety and rational gun policies, and that work for death penalty reform with the ultimate goal of abolition. Americans for Gun Safety Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty Men Stopping Violence WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Tides supports groups that advocate on behalf of marginalized women, work to ensure women and girls' access to reproductive health and sexuality education, and enable girls and women to develop self-esteem and promote social change. ProChoice Resource Center Self-Employed Women's Association Young Women's Work Project Tides supports groups that build the abilities of youth of color and low-income youth to become effective leaders in their communities and that work to ensure equal access to quality education for all students. Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment Coleman Advocates for Children/Youth Making a Change YouthAction |
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MERIP currently places op-eds in six major media markets: large US newspapers (via the Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire), small-town US newspapers (via the Minuteman Op-Ed Resource Center), foreign newspapers, US political magazines, news websites, and campus newspapers. Below is a partial list of recent op-eds and the publications in which they appeared.
White House Now Ignoring Palestine
Catherine Cook (1/04)
Topeka Capital-Journal (Topeka, KS), The Mountain Mail (Salida, CO),
Minuteman Media
To Deny Iran Atomic Weapons, Create a Nuclear-Free Region
Chris Toensing (12/03)
Daily Star (Beirut)
Palestinian Cabinet's Success Lies with Israel
Catherine Cook (11/03)
Garden City Telegram (Garden City, KS), Minuteman Media
Why There's No Peace in Palestine
Catherine Cook (9/03)
Traverse City Record-Eagle (Traverse City, MI), Minuteman Media, The Garden City Telegram (Garden City, KS), Aventura News (Miami, FL), Observer-American (Clear Lake, CA)
Holding Syria Accountable, Though Selectively
Chris Toensing (9/03)
Daily Star (Beirut)
Hi, and a Low at the State Department
Chris Toensing (8/03)
Daily Star (Beirut)
Israel's Wall Not Really About Security
Catherine Cook (8/03)
Duluth News-Tribune
Minuteman Media
Aventura News (Miami, FL)
Dilemmas of the Left-Liberals
Chris Toensing
The Daily Star (Beirut)
August 6, 2003
Imperial Musings in Washington
Chris Toensing (7/03)
Daily Star (Beirut)
Jordan's Troubling Detour
Toujan Faisal and Ian Urbina (7/03)
Los Angeles Times
Bush Misled Public About Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction
Chris Toensing (6/03)
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Newswire
Occupational Hazards
Elliott Colla (6/03)
Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA), Brown University Op-Ed News Service,
Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire
Sharon's Road Map
Adam Hanieh and Catherine Cook (6/03)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire
Anti-War Thinking: Acknowledge Despair, Highlight Progress on Moral Preemption
Desmond Tutu and Ian Urbina (3/03)
Christian Science Monitor, Anchorage Daily News, Sacramento Bee, Raleigh News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA), Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA), Tricity Herald (Jacksonville, FL), The Bakersfield Californian, Beaufort Gazette (Beaufort, CA), The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), The Island Packet (Bluffton, SC), Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX)
Confronting Iraq: Might Doesn't Make Right
Desmond Tutu and Ian Urbina (3/03)
International Herald Tribune, USA Today,Toronto Star
A Saudi Dissident's Agenda for Democratic Reform
Mohammed AlMohaissen (3/03)
International Herald Tribune
Sanctions No Longer Serve US Interests
Ian Urbina (1/03)
Los Angeles Times
The Fight for Iran's Democratic Ideals
Saeed Razavi-Faqih and Ian Urbina (12/02)
New York Times
Ground Shifting Under Mullahs
Ian Urbina (12/02)
Los Angeles Times
Up in Arms
Ian Urbina (11/02)
Village Voice
Broadcast Ruse
Ian Urbina (11/02)
Village Voice, Mother Jones.com, Amnesty International News Trove, Asia Times, Global Vision News Network
Is the US Ready for Democracy in the Mideast?
Ian Urbina (11/02)
Houston Chronicle, Global Beat Newswire, Knight Ridder Newswire, Rabble.ca (Canada)
Poetic Injustice
Ian Urbina (11/02)
In These Times (November 8, 2002)
Forked-Tongue Warriors
Ian Urbina (10/02)
The Village Voice
East Timor Points a Way for Mideast
Ian Urbina (09/02)
(Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Moscow Times)
Turkey Says No to War
Ian Urbina (09/02)
In These Times
We Shouldn't Attack Iraq
Chris Toensing (07/02)
Knight-Ridder Newswire
Education as a Security Risk
Lara Harb (07/02)
Pacific News Service
Against Israeli Apartheid
Desmond Tutu and Ian Urbina (07/02)
(International Herald Tribune, The Nation (magazine), Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), Cairo Times, Middle East Times, Manila Times)
Reforming from Within
Hanan Ashrawi and Ian Urbina (06/02)
Guardian (London)
For Bethlehem, the Problems Are Just Beginning
Ian Urbina and Hanna Nasser (05/02)
Inter Press Service
Church Siege Narrowed a Religious Divide
Ian Urbina and Hanna Nasser (05/12/2002)
Los Angeles Times
The Answer is in the Force
Chris Toensing (05/05/02)
Boston Globe
The World Is Watching
Neta Golan and Ian Urbina (05/02)
In These Times
Starving in Bethlehem
Hanna Nasser (04/02)
Inter Press Service Newswire
Inside Arafat's Compound, I Fear What Awaits Us
Abed Khalil (04/02)
Inter Press Service Newswire
Inside Arafat's Compound, I Worry, Wait and Hold My Post
Ali Hamed (04/02)
Pacific News Service
The World Just Watches
Neta Golan and Ian Urbina (04/02)
International Herald Tribune, Cairo Times, Jordan Times, Manila Times, Palestine Chronicle, Dawn (Pakistan), Gush Shalom, New Vision (Uganda), Via Dolorosa (Jerusalem)
Message From the Israeli Military
Ian Urbina and Peretz Kidron (3/02)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire, Pacific Newswire, Minuteman, Middle East Newswire, Advance News (Manchester, New Jersey), Bergen County (New Jersey) Record, Northwest Arkansas Times, Black World Today, Cairo Times; College Newspapers: Texas A & M, U of Wisconsin Madison, UNC Chapel Hill
War Clouds Over Somalia
Dan Connell (03/02)
Global Beat News Service, Middle East Newswire, Common Dreams, Chicago Sun Times, Jordan Times, Yemen Observer, Addis Ababa Tribune (Ethiopia)
Why Black Hawks Go Down
Ian Urbina (02/02)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire, Middle East Newswire, Toronto Star, Jordan Times, Ft Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, Free Lance Star (Fredericksburg,VA), Rome News-Tribune (Rome, GA), Huntsville Times (Huntsville, AL), Virgin Island Daily News (St. Croix, Virgin Islands), Charleston SC Sunday Gazette and Mail; College Newspapers: Georgetown, U of Maryland, UNC Chapel Hill, U of Oregon, Texas A & M, U Wisconsin Madison, U of Indiana, Scripps College
US Hawks Should Not Dictate Iran Policy
Chris Toensing (2/02)
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Newswire, Virgin Island Daily News (St. Croix, Virgin Islands)
A Breach Widens
Ian Urbina (12/01)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire , Minuteman, Toronto Globe and Mail , San Diego Union Tribune, Middletown Press (Middletown, CT), Guyana Stabroek
Occupation is the Problem
Chris Toensing (11/01)
Minuteman
US Bows To Turkey
Ian Urbina (11/01)
The Nation (magazine), Arms Trade Newswire
Bush Administration's Policies Limit Media Coverage
Chris Toensing (10/01)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire , Raleigh North Carolina News and Observer , Charleston South Carolina Sunday Gazette Mail , Jordan Times
US Mideast Policy Fuels Arab Anger
Chris Toensing (09/01)
New Jersey Star Ledger
Time for a College Anti-War Movement?
Chris Toensing (09/01)
Harvard University The Crimson, Common Dreams Newswire, Z net (news website)
Brute Force or Smart Pressure? The International Community Must Decide
Ian Urbina (09/01)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire, Minuteman, Toronto Globe and Mail, Jordan Times, Egypt Business Today, Guyana Stabroek, South Korea Herald, Pakistan Dawn, South Africa Daily Mail and Guardian
The Harm Done to Innocents
Chris Toensing (09/01)
Boston Globe, Referenced in New York Times
The Daily Doublespeak at the State Department
Chris Toensing (08/01)
Common Dreams Newswire
The Other Mideast Settlers
Ian Urbina (07/01)
In These Times (magazine), Jordan Times, Common Dreams Newswire, The Middle East Newswire
Is Democracy or Dollars the Real US Goal?
Chris Toensing (06/01)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire, Florida Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Kansas The Witchita Eagle
A Simple Plan
Ian Urbina (06/01)
Jordan Times
Let The UN Do Its Job
Ian Urbina (03/01)
Common Dreams Newswire
Bush Needs To Overhaul Mideast Policy
Ian Urbina (01/01)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire
The UN Must Protect Not Observe in the Middle East
Ian Urbina (12/00)
Common Dreams Newswire
Bush's Middle East Policy: Look to His Advisors
Chris Toensing and Ian Urbina (12/00)
Foreign Policy in Focus (internet magazine)
Some Middle East Advice for the Next President
Ian Urbina (11/00)
Common Dreams Newswire
Arab World Faces Revolt
Ian Urbina (10/00)
Albion Monitor (news website)
Palestinian Uprising Cannot Be Ended By Force
Ian Urbina (10/00)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Newswire , San Diego Union Tribune, Z (magazine)
http://www.merip.org/newspaper_opeds/newspaper_opeds.html
That is not what the famous quote from her seems to say. She said:
"If you ever get something, I'll maim you. I won't kill you. I'll maim you."
In other words, "Don't bring me any diseases from your chasing about."
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