The 'Offended' 911 Group “Peaceful Tomorrows” is funded largely by Teresa Heinz

various sources, mostly Tom Randall of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 3/5/04

[dead]

“Peaceful Tomorrows” is being portrayed as an independent group of relatives of victims of the 911 attacks. They are getting a lot of press claiming to be outraged over the new Bush ads.

Call me insensitive if you like, but I wonder if this outrage could possibly be a tad overblown, and more likely attributable to the millions and millions of dollars this group has received from endowments chaired by Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry.

According to their own contribution page, “Peaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.”

According to an article in the Pittsburgh Review, “Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania.” (The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group)

The money that flows into The Tides also flows out. They have given grants totaling $489,000 to the Iraq Peace Fund, who used that money to fund the anti-war marches and media costs of 27 groups, including MoveOn.org, whose purpose is to defeat George W. Bush.

Other Tides Center projects include The Youth Gender Project, which seeks to "empower and support transgender, gender-variant, intersexed and gender-questioning youth and young adults."

They also shoveled $200,000 towards The Ruckus Society - founded in 1995 to train activists in violent protest against biotechnology, globalization and the World Bank. It incited property destruction in the Seattle riots of 1999 and Washington, D.C., the following year.

Now, if you really want to get mad, you should also know that $8,000,000 in taxpayer money flowed into the Tides Center in the form of federal grants made by eight different agencies between 1997 and 2001.

[pbear8]

Oh, now we see the 57 varieties of hypocrisy

I love this and I hope Registered will make us a Heinz/Kerry 57 varieties of Hypocrisy bottle/label.

[Shermy]

Check out the post by "quasi"

http://blog.johnkerry.com/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1163

[Pharmboy]

WOWSA! You've gone and done it this time: embarrassed all the media types. How're you gonna live with yourself! /sarcasm

Great job!

[b4its2late]

Excellent find!

[Constitution Day]

OUTSTANDING find, sir! Great work.

[Sloth]

Outstanding, dead! This should make it to the national media.

[OXENinFLA]

Bill Clinton's remarks (Fighting terrorism )

THE SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON AND SENATOR BOB DOLE

MR. LEHRER: Mr. President.

PRESIDENT CLINTON: One of the reasons that I ran for President is because not just children, a lot of grownups felt that way. If you remember, four years ago we had not only rising unemployment, but a lot of rising cynicism. I had never worked in Washington as an elected official. It seemed to me that most of the arguments were partisan -- Republican-Democrat, left-right, liberal-conservative.

That's why I said tonight I'm for opportunity, responsibility, and community. And we've gotten some real progress in the last four years. I've also done everything I could at every moment of division in this country -- after Oklahoma City, when these churches were burned -- to bring people together and remind people that we are stronger because of our diversity. We have to respect one another.

You mentioned Washington and Lincoln; they were Presidents at historic times. This is an historic time. It's important that we go beyond those old partisan arguments and focus on people and their future. When we do that, instead of shutting the government down over a partisan fight on the budget, we're a better country, and that's why we're making progress now.

[Bennett46]

A Kerry The Prince Of Tides bump!

[Shermy]

Your post about Tides Center from 2002

[mewzilla]

Holy cow.

[mewzilla]

Paging the IRS...

[abner]

PING!

[StriperSniper]

Sean Hannity

I sent it to James('Sweet Baby') also.

I'm heading out, but I'll be listening....

[Hon]

Peaceful Tomorrows is run by some twenty-something America-hating turd named Barry Amundson:

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:FIHMh-_0QXUJ:www.yopyop.com/resume/amundson.resume.pdf+%22Barry+Amundson%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8

Amundson's brother was killed in the PENTAGON.

Amundson is trying to make a career out of it. All he and his pals do is FUNDRAISE.

For what, you might ask? Well, for one thing to pay for a trip for them to go to Afghanistan so that they could commisserate with the Taliban members who have suffered under the horrible US bombing.

I kid you not:

"**1/11 FRI, 7-9 pm - Send-off Fundraiser & Reception. Delegation
of family members who lost loved ones on 9/11 visit Afghanistan &
meet w/families who have lost loved ones during recent bombing.
W/Rita Lasar, Barry Amundson, Colleen Kelly & Medea Benjamin (co-
founder Global Exchange & trip organizer). In Chappaqua, NY; call
for loc. $40 minimum, students/low-income will not be turned
away. Registration required. Nada Khader (WESPAC), 914-682-0488,
914-843-0874. (Donations accepted if you cannot attend; call for
info.)"

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22Barry+Amundson%22+group:misc.activism.progressive&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=misc.activism.progressive&safe=off&selm=a1882b%248vr%241%40pencil.math.missouri.edu&rnum=3

Of course it is no suprise that Commie Terry Kerry would be funding this. If it is anti-American you can count on her putting big bucks into it.

She hates this country. A lot of us don't even speak French. (She, who lived most of her life in South Africa.)

[goldstategop]

I'm sure its all a coincidence. At least one the liberal media will choose to overlook.

[ladyinred]

This will be buried by the press of course!
The President has every right to run on his record concerning 911 and the war on terror. The left has been using it for months for their own political gain, and where were the so called relatives then?

[freeperfromnj]

Where do you think this will go from here? Cable news won't cut it. Rather, Couric, the Daily News, and the other media outlets who have been running with this slimy smear against the President should be forced to apologize and report that Heinz is funding this group

[mewzilla]

Chappaqua?

[mewzilla]

Heh heh heh. In the age of the internet, who needs cable snooze?