Soros-Funded Nonprofit Gets $12 Mil from U.S. to Empower Workers in Latin America (Connecting the Dots: Soros Networking)
DECEMBER 01, 2022
JUDICIAL WATCH
The Biden administration is giving a nonprofit partially
funded by leftwing billionaire George
Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) $12 million to
strengthen labor rights and empower workers in three Latin American countries.
The U.S. taxpayer dollars will go to the Solidarity Center, a Washington D.C.-based
group closely allied with OSF as well as the country’s largest union
conglomerate, the American
Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).
The Solidarity Center’s mission is to help workers across the globe fight
discrimination, exploitation and systems that entrench poverty. It claims to
accomplish this by empowering workers to raise their voice for dignity on the
job, justice in their communities and greater equality in the global economy.
The group will use the $12 million to “strengthen
democratic, independent workers’ organizations in Brazil, Colombia and Peru,”
according to the Department of Labor (DOL) announcement issued this week. The
project will bolster unions and advocate for the full and free exercise of
collective bargaining rights and freedom of association, the agency writes,
adding that the focus will be on underserved communities and advancing gender
and racial equity. Specifically, the American taxpayer dollars will support
activities that improve respect for the rights of Brazil’s Afro-Brazilian,
migrant, women and LGBTQI+ workers in the digital platform economy and the
manufacturing sector. In Colombia, the focus will be on increasing the capacity
of women, migrants, and indigenous people to organize and advocate for workers’
rights. In Peru, the goal is to improve access to mechanisms for labor rights
compliance in the mining and agriculture sectors, particularly for indigenous
and migrant workers.
The Solidarity Center, which claims to be the largest
U.S.-based international worker rights organization, also operates in Africa,
Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Most of its funding comes from Uncle Sam,
but private groups like OSF also contribute generously. In 2020, the Solidarity
Center received nearly $39 million in federal awards, according to its
latest annual report. In
2019, the center got over $36 million from the U.S. government. Additionally,
the group gets millions annually in “other revenues” that are not broken down.
However, records obtained
by Judicial Watch show that the OSF has given a lot of money to the Solidarity
Center in the last few years. In 2020, the latest available reporting period,
OSF gave the Solidarity Center $980,000. In 2019 the center received $785,000
from OSF and in 2018 it got $400,000 from the Soros nonprofit that has
dedicated billions of dollars to leftist causes around the world. Soros’s
global foundation explains that the grants are for economic equity and justice,
access to justice for migrant workers in the U.S., to improve labor rights in
Mexico and Central America, and the empowerment of vulnerable workers in the
domestic and agricultural sectors in the Middle East.
The U.S. government has long funded Soros groups as well
as those with close ties to them like the Solidarity
Center. Judicial Watch has reported on it for years and obtained records
that show the disturbing reality of American taxpayers financing Soros’s
leftwing plots abroad. This includes uncovering documents showing
State Department funding of Soros nonprofits in Albania to attack traditional,
pro-American groups and policies; U.S. government funding of Soros’s radical globalist agenda in
Guatemala , Colombia, Romania and Macedonia. The cash usually flows through the
State Department and U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID). Details of the financial and
staffing nexus between OSF and the U.S. government are available in a Judicial
Watch investigative report.
Domestically Soros groups have pushed a radical agenda that includes promoting
an open border with Mexico, fomenting racial disharmony by funding
anti-capitalist black separationist organizations, financing the Black Lives
Matter movement and other groups involved in the Ferguson Missouri riots,
weakening the integrity of the nation’s electoral systems, opposing U.S.
counterterrorism efforts and eroding 2nd Amendment protections.
Connecting the Dots:
Richard L. Trumka is
the president of the AFL-CIO, the secretary-treasurer at
the Solidarity Center and a director at the Economic Policy
Institute.
R. Thomas
Buffenbarger is a trustee at the Solidarity Center and a
director at the Economic Policy Institute.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Economic Policy
Institute.
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the
founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Economic Policy
Institute (think tank) and the Planned Parenthood Federation
of America.
Cecile Richards is
the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the
president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, married to Kirk
Adams and was the founder & president of America Votes.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America
Votes.
Service
Employees International Union (SEIU) is a national partner
with America Votes.
Kirk
Adams is the international EVP for the Service Employees
International Union (SEIU), married to Cecile Richards, and was
an organizing director for the AFL-CIO.
AFL-CIO is
a national partner with America Votes.
Richard L. Trumka is
the president of the AFL-CIO, the secretary-treasurer at
the Solidarity Center and a director at the Economic Policy
Institute.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Economic Policy
Institute and the Center for American Progress.
George Soros is
the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was
a supporter for the Center for American Progress.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Center for
American Progress and the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID).
Glover Park
Group was a funder for the Center for American Progress
and is the lobby firm for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Elizabeth Engel is
a lobbyist for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a
managing director for the Glover Park Group and was the deputy
assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
Howard Wolfson was
a partner at the Glover Park Group and is married to Terri
McCullough.
Terri McCullough is
married to Howard Wolfson and Nancy Pelosi’s chief
of staff.
Nancy
Pelosi’s chief of staff is Terri McCullough, the minority
leader for the U.S. House of Representatives, was invited to George
Soros 2013 wedding reception and Cecile Richards was
her deputy chief of staff.
Cecile Richards was Nancy
Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, the founder & president of America
Votes, is the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund,
the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and
married to Kirk Adams.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America
Votes.
Kirk
Adams is married to Cecile Richards, the international EVP
for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and was an
organizing director for the AFL-CIO.
AFL-CIO is
a national partner with America Votes.
Richard L. Trumka is
the president of the AFL-CIO, the secretary-treasurer at
the Solidarity Center and a director at the Economic Policy
Institute.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Economic Policy
Institute.
George Soros is
the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID).
Resources: Past
Research
Unions distance
themselves from Obama economic record (Past
Research on the Solidarity Center)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/08/unions-distance-themselves-from-obama.html
Finally! Job market
returns to 2008 peak (Past Research on the Economic
Policy Institute)
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/06/finally-job-market-returns-to-2008-peak.html
Smaller Bites - America
Votes (Connecting the Dots: America Votes, The
Unions & Soros)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2022
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/10/smaller-bites-america-votes-connecting.html
Obama Administration
Preserves Essential Funding for Women’s Health Programs (Past Research on the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID))
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014
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