Teachers Unions Spends Dues on Left-Wing Causes AND Ally of Robert Mugabe

Courtesy of Victor Skinner, writing on NEAexposed.com:

A recent study of contributions made by the nation’s two largest teachers unions reveals that both shelled out millions in 2008-09, with a good chunk going to radical and scandal-ridden organizations.

The study, posted online by the Education Intelligence Agency, is further proof that the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers are out of step with their members, which union officials claim are evenly split between Democrat, Republican and Independent parties.

This is what the EIA found:

The AFT gave $46,894 to the scandal-plagued Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). That organization’s members gave tax evasion advice to pimps and prostitutes, encouraged struggling homeowners to walk away from their mortgages, and championed radical causes like softer immigration regulations and a government takeover of health care.

The AFT’s interest in government-run healthcare is also apparent in its $407,208 donation to the Economic Policy Institute, a union-funded progressive think tank that advocates for the expansion of unionized government jobs, and generally promotes organized labor’s interests.

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Tags: ACORN, AFT, Apollo Alliance, Economic Policy Institute, Education Intelligence Agency
Posted Feb 16th 2010 at 10:19 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Education, News, Politics | 7609078 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/kolson/2010/02/16/teachers-unions-spends-dues-on-left-wing-causes-and-ally-of-robert-mugabe/Teachers+Unions+Spends+Dues+on+Left-Wing+Causes+AND+Ally+of+Robert+Mugabe2010-02-16+18%3A19%3A27Kyle+Olson

Major ACORN Victory In New York Thanks In Part To Van Jones

ACORN’s New York operations are looking forward to a potential new flow of federal dollars, thanks to the New York State Senate and New York Governor Paterson.

Together they applied the Van Jones’ Apollo doctrine to tap into federal stimulus money allocated to New York.

Governor Paterson recently signed into law something called the “Green Jobs – Green New York Act of 2009″. The new law provides for the creation of a massive slush fund of federal stimulus dollars to be set aside for “green jobs”.

Those green jobs include but will not be limited to “Energy Auditors”, certified green contractors, green financing services to help pay for property upgrades, and more.

There are a number of places in the legislation where ACORN, SEIU, and their affiliates stand to gain access to this new green slush fund. Below is but one excerpt which must make them very happy:

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Tags: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, Apollo Doctrine, Dan Cantor, David Paterson
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 at 1:36 pm in ACORN, Big Labor, Featured Story, Politics, State Politics | 1957888 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/10/22/major-acorn-victory-in-new-york-thanks-in-part-to-van-jones/Major+ACORN+Victory+In+New+York+Thanks+In+Part+To+Van+Jones2009-10-22+20%3A36%3A59Andrew++Marcus

Sham Angelides Commission Will Protect ACORN

Congress’s official investigation into the financial crisis, the so-called Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, will convene its first meeting today.  Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi’s handpicked chairman of the commission Phil Angelides, has deep ties to radical left-wing politics, including the Van Jones-connected Apollo Alliance, which he chairs, and ACORN, which is an Apollo member and endorsed and actively supported his gubernatorial campaign.  His selection proves the commission will be a politicized attempt to advance a left-wing agenda through a revisionist history of the financial crisis.  It also assures that ACORN and other community organizers who forced banks to make reckless loans in the name of affordable housing will be let off the hook.

Angelides’s San Francisco-based Apollo Alliance describes itself as a “coalition of labor, business, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution.”  Based on the radical past of some of its key figures, the use of the word revolution is appropriate.  Apollo was conceived of, and presently serves, as a clearing house to align the otherwise disparate interests of environmental groups, labor unions, social justice organizations, and rent-seeking corporations.

Disgraced former White House green jobs czar Van Jones was an Apollo board member, involved with the group from its founding, and was its model for a new type of leader.  Apollo board member John Podesta, who was chairman of Obama’s transition team, already brought Van Jones back to the Center for American Progress, Podesta’s influential think tank where Jones had previously been a senior fellow.  These are Angelides’s friends and ideological peers. (more…)

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Tags: AFL-CIO, Apollo Alliance, Cathy Calfo, Center for American Progress, Ella Baker Center
Posted Sep 17th 2009 at 5:25 am in ACORN, Congress, Economics, Politics | 387836 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/pkerpen/2009/09/17/sham-angelides-commission-will-protect-acorn/Sham+Angelides+Commission+Will+Protect+ACORN2009-09-17+12%3A25%3A46Phil+Kerpen