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To: pissant
Screenshot of Proteus Fund homepage.

You gotta love that social justice and common good stuff, huh?


536 posted on 03/11/2008 3:13:53 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl

Anything that calls for “social justice” is nothing but a commie front group.


537 posted on 03/11/2008 3:16:10 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: calcowgirl
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5265

Founded in 1995, the Proteus Fund is set up not as a traditional foundation, but as a public charity. ... Margaret Gage, who founded the Peace Development Fund in 1981, is the Proteus Fund's President and Executive Director.

The Proteus Fund's Board of Directors is composed of members who are affiliated with numerous leftist causes and organizations. For example, Tom Asher founded the Media Access Project and sits on the Board of the Center for Responsive Politics. Donna Edwards of the Arca Foundation founded the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Mike Lux of Progressive Strategies LLC, a political consulting firm, served as Senior Vice President for Political Action at People for the American Way. Labor and political organizer Cecile Richards is the senior advisor to Nancy Pelosi and sits on the Directors' Boards of Progressive Majority, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), and the national Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Byron Rushing, a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, is a South Africa rights activist and a Board member of the CarEth Foundation and Grassroots International. Frank Sanchez of the Needmor Fund co-founded the Chicano Youth Association in 1969 and institutionalized bilingual education in American schools. Selena Singleton of the TransAfrica Forum is an attorney who represents minorities in matters pertaining to civil rights, environmental justice, and housing segregation; she also serves with the International Women's Democracy Center. Janet Shenk of the AFL-CIO is a longtime human rights activist and sits on the Board of the Arca Foundation. Margery Tabankin of Tabankin Associates is the director of the Streisand Foundation and Steven Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation. Robert Zevin of Zevin Associates was a founder or Board member of such leftist groups as Resist, Affirmative Investments, and the Tax Equity Alliance of Massachusetts. Dini Merz is a Program Director of the Proteus Fund's Peace and Security program and of the CarEth Foundation, which is an arm of the Proteus Fund.

538 posted on 03/11/2008 3:23:03 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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