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

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“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.

[ought-six]

Mainstream media will ignore this.

[ought-six]

"The left will do anything to win for socialism."

That is its sole reason for being.

[ought-six]

"You've gone and done it this time: embarrassed all the media types."

Come on, media are not embarrassed; nothing embarrasses the media.

[Triple]

IMO, Tides, as an organization, is an enemy of the United States Constitution.

[bmwcyle]

bttt

[talleyman]

Great Post - Benedict Arnold Kerry Bump!

[maxwellp]

It's leaking out. And many families of 9/11 victims have supported President Bush's ad and have told him so.

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More birds of a feather - all in bed together

 

 

 

Veterans for Peace, Inc. (VFP) -

 

CEASE FIRE!
VETERANS FOR PEACE--From Warriors To Diplomats (1999 story)
http://www.countryink.com/currart1.html

 

"Membership in Veterans for Peace is not limited to veterans with honorable discharges. Associate memberships are open to family members and may soon be expanded to include anyone who supports their principles. Contact them at (202) 347-6780, 1511 K Street NW, Suite 525; Washington, DC 20005; email: VFP@igc.org."

 

 

There's been two addresses found for them - don't know (yet) for sure whether these are old, new or current

 

 

1511 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-6780
fax: 202-347-6781
VFP@igc.org

 

One thing kinda interesting (maybe)  - The 733 15th Street address sits smack among a number of foreign embassies

 

733 15th Street, NW
Suite 928
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-6780 voice
(202) 347-6781 fax
vfp@igc.org

 

The 733 15th Street address is the "Woodward Building" in D.C., and "VFP" apparently shares building space with some interesting neighbors, among -

 

Volunteer Coordinator National Organization for Women (NOW), Second Floor
International Labor Rights Fund. (Human Rights and Labor Laws)
Gray Panthers
American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project, Suite 620
Code Pink Women's Pre-emptive Strike For Peace, #507     (how convenient)

 

 

 

 

 

"Veterans for Peace" is shown as a grant recipient from the HKH Foundation of New York, NY

per http://www.hkhfdn.org/directory/national.html
Veterans for Peace
David Hart
1511 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-6780
fax: 202-347-6781
VFP@igc.org
"An educational organization made up of veterans working to educate the general public concerning the cost of war, the arms race, US foreign policy issues, and the exigency of abolishing war as an instrument of international policy."

 

Contact addy -

HKH Foundation -aka- the Harold K. Hochschild Foundation
521 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1612
New York, NY 10175
hkh@hkhfdn.org

 

 

 

Here's a small rundown of some top grantees of HKH across varied timeframes -

per http://www.activistcash.com/donor_detail.cfm?DONOR_ID=125

 

 

	Activist Group		Total Donated		Time Frame
	Tides Foundation & Tides Center		$235,000.00		1991 - 1997
	Natural Resources Defense Council		$185,000.00		1990 - 2001
	Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy		$151,600.00		1997 - 2001
	Greenpeace		$100,000.00		1995 - 2001
	Western Organization of Resource Councils		$50,000.00		2001 - 2001
	Center for Media & Democracy		$45,000.00		1999 - 2001
	Union of Concerned Scientists		$40,000.00		1995 - 1998
	Center for Food Safety		$35,000.00		1996 - 1996
	Organic Consumers Association		$35,000.00		1999 - 1999
	American Corn Growers Association		$20,000.00		1999 - 1999

 

 

 

 

 

"Veterans for Peace" is listed as an organization that has had direct contact with the International Action Center - you know, the outfit apparently founded by Ramsey Clark 

http://www.iacenter.org/orgs.htm
"International Action Center"

 

Towards the top, after wading through the "mission" gobbley goop -

Organizations opposed to sanctions

 

"The following list covers a number of groups that have organized some form of opposition to sanctions against Iraq, especially those based in countries that were part of the alliance that waged war on Iraq in early 1991. The list is by no means complete, but consists of those groups that have been in direct contact with the International Action Center. The activities carried out by the organizations described here cover a wide variety of approaches to opposing sanctions: providing humanitarian assistance, organizing political opposition, publishing books and other educational material, and taking direct action. They illustrate both the growing opposition to sanctions and the variety of tactics to fight them."

 

 

(and what a list it is)

 

 

("Veterans for Peace" is shown using the 5011 "K" St. NW, #525 Washington address here)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sprinkled around on the "Veterans for Peace" site, such as on a page http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Defaultold.htm, can be seen "Email VFP", which turns out to be vfp@igc.org ,

 

 

What is "igc.org"???

 

 

A quick descriptor is on http://www.cein.net/cgi-bin/en/company_info.asp?CID=263 (circa 1999)

Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
Address   POBox 29904
              San Francisco, CA  94126-0904
Voice     (415) 561-6100
Fax       (415) 561-6101
Web       http://www.igc.apc.org/

 

http://www.igc.org/

 

 

Excerpts off of http://www.cein.net/cgi-bin/en/company_info.asp?CID=263 

 

"Since 1992, IGC and its APC members have been the primary information and communications service provider at UN world conferences, including the 1992 United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the 1993 United Nations Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing."

 

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

 

and most interesting, down towards the bottom -

 

"IGC Internet is a project of the Tides Center, a 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt organization."

 

 

 

 

 

 

On their "links" page is a link to the September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, which stuck out like a sore thumb
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/links.htm

(Them again)

 

 

 

And finally, Veterans for Peace has a listing in the San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory - http://www.bapd.org/dir.html, an index of organizations in the San Francisco area that are related to "progressive activism", though only their website is listed for contact

 

Hmm, okay.

 

 

 

 

[FReethesheeples]

Nasty John the Waffling French Undertaker, who is behind the atatacks on GWB's 9/11 ad, per the American Spectator.

Kerry, who is personally endorsed by Haiti's Aristide, Iran's Mullahs, Traitor "Red Jane" Fonda, Kim Jong Il, (& Kim Il Jong), Mugabe, Marxist thug Chavez of Venezuela, Castro of Cuba, & France's Jacques Chirac, is a weapon of mass economic destruction.

He'll destroy the troops in Iraq, the War on Terrorism,

& the U.S. stock market with all his negative talk and whiny-leftist-liberal sour-puss troop-bashing, Bush-bashing, America-bashing talk & self-aggrandizing, ultra-negative sourpuss whiny elitist personality.

[Hurricane Andrew]

bttt

[TankerKC]

Read later bump.

[dalebert]

You won't see it in the lamestream press

[cajungirl]

Fox , Brit, had this on the news with the ties of peaceful tomorrows {sounds like a cemetery} to Teresa the bag lady for the left{I love that appelation}

[dalebert]

Well I must have missed it Brit did a short piece on Sheps show today and said "Kerry took a beating this week". From who???? I do think the Whitehouse want Kerry to be the Dem nomination because he will be easy to discredit. He sounds like a fool and the Press acts like he is a rock star.

[prognostigaator]

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