Foundation cash funds antiwar movement

Washington Times ^ | 04/02/03 | Julia Duin

[francisr]

For instance, the institute's 2002 foreign policy budget of $400,000, which includes antiwar activism, received $50,000 from the HKH Foundation, $50,000 from the Arca Foundation, $20,000 from the Samuel Rubin Foundation, $15,000 from the Solidago Foundation and $50,000 from the MacArthur Foundation. Gordon Clark, the sole staff member and national coordinator of the Iraq Pledge of Resistance Network in Silver Spring, has run his organization during the past six months on $32,000 in grants from donors and institutions. "I think this war has a greater air of illegitimacy around it than other wars," he said, "so there have been greatly increased contributions." Not all antiwar groups are forthcoming about their finances. One of the leading organizers of antiwar demonstrations, International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) refused to divulge its funding sources.

[francisr]

freep these 'foundations' - for strapped city govt's looking for deep pockets - here they are - these are the folks that trained to jam your streets

[Publius]

These foundations are tax-exempt. Maybe we need to rethink that.

[Carry_Okie]

Already posted here.

[mvpel]

The tax-exempt status is how the Million Mom March was dismantled and booted from its office space at SF General Hospital. See http://www.ninehundred.net/~equalccw/ for details.

There's also investigations ongoing into various other anti-gun organizations, perhaps the same could be applied to theses orgs. If International ANSWER is a 501(c)(3) NPO, they are required by law to divulge their finances.

[citizen]

I agree, rethink the tax-free status....