🔥🔥🔥Breaking! George Floyd riot funder linked to MN anti ICE activities thru AyadaLeads! And, Ilhan Omar was RECRUITED for her congressional seat by AyadaLeads. An organization for African Dyaspora. Oh boy! Here we go again!
AyadaLeads are one of the groups going after ICE in MN. (See post) Latino COPAL runs a helpline to report ICE. And utilizes SALUTE reporting guidelines.
But this gets even bigger! AyadaLeads is funded by the Headwaters Foundation for Justice. Which funded all those orgs we saw during the George Floyd riots in 2020.
Headwaters ran a fund especially for the George Floyd riots called the Transformation Fund.
Orgs like:
- AvadaLeads
- Unicorn riot
- Black Visions Collective
- Minnesota Youth Collective
- Tons more see screenshots
And of course Headwaters Foundation for Justice has gotten money from leftist billionaires like Rockefeller and Soros Open Society.
And this gets even better, Headwaters, AyadaLeads, Rockefeller, and Open Society are all pro Palestine.
These connections are mind blowing! Sources to follow.
Let’s start with the Ayada Leads X post. Recall Ilhan Omar was RECRUITED by Ayada Leads.
“URGENT COMMUNITY ALERT – Twin Cities
Reports say DHS has deployed ~2,000 ICE agents to MN for up to 30 days.
Know your rights. Stay alert.
COPAL Helpline: 612-255-3112
Remember SALUTE when reporting.”
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“Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is the first woman Ayada Leads recruited to run for office. She represents MN District 5 which encompasses Minneapolis & surrounding suburbs.”
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Here’s just a little bit of background on Ayada Leads, then I get back to the goods.
“Ayada Leads’ mission is to equip New Americans, particularly African Diaspora Women, to excel in leadership positions in their communities across the spectrum of societal influence.
Ayada Leads views active political participation as a vital part of a representative democracy. We work to uplift the political and social power of Diaspora women and New Americans by ensuring their voices, values, and priorities are reflected in public policy and leadership. Originally founded as the Women Organizing Women (WOW) Network, we rebranded to better reflect our current identity. “Ayada,” the Somali word for she.”
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Headwaters Foundation for Justice funds Ayada Leads:
♦️Grantee Stories: Ayada Leads Headwaters Foundation for Justice
And oh yeah, Ayada Leads got a Bush Prize in 2023 too. 😏
“Because of Ayada Leads, more African diaspora women are leading in political office at every level – state, county, and city. Alumni of their programs include MN District 63 State Senator Zaynab Mohamed, MN District 62B Representative Hodan Hossan, St. Louis Park Mayor Nadia Mohamed, and U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district, Ilhan Omar. Each of these women were the first African diaspora women to hold their respective seats and Minnesota remains the only state in the nation to elect a Black Muslim refugee woman to Congress. Additionally, Amane Badhasso, who ran a campaign to become U.S. representative for Minnesota's 4th congressional district, is also an Ayada Leads’ alumna.”
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🔥Holy heck! How did I miss Headwaters Foundation for Justice, funding CAIR for the George Floyd riots? Along with Ilhan Omar’s Ayada Leads?
2020 George Floyd Transformation Fund.
- CAIR MN
- AvadaLeads
- Unicorn riot
- Black Visions Collective
- Minnesota Youth Collective
- Tons more see screenshots
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Welp, this photo now makes a lotta sense.
CAIR MN was funded by the Headwaters Fndn For Justice for the George Floyd protests.
Let’s move onto pro Palestine stances for the involved orgs and donors.
And yeah Ilhan Omar was RECRUITED by a pro Palestine org. 😬
Ayada Leads 👇🏻
Stronger Together, Black and Palestinian Solidarity:
A solid foundation for Black-Palestinian solidarity was laid in 1967 by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which stated: “In the Middle East, America has worked with and used the powerful organized Zionist movement to take over another people's home and to replace these people with a partner who has well served America's purpose” (SNCC, 1967).
As time has passed, this alliance between the Black and Palestinian communities has only grown stronger. At the pinnacle of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, Black communities all around the world asked one question: In the face of our suffering, who will stand with us? Who will bear our pain? The Palestinians were not reluctant to answer this question.
Taqi Spateen, an artist based in Bethlehem, exemplifies this enduring solidarity. Moved by the protests following George Floyd’s tragic death, he channeled his inspiration into a powerful act of resistance: a mural painted on the Israeli Separation Wall. This act of defiance not only honors Floyd’s memory but also symbolizes the rejection of physical and ideological barriers that seek to stifle the Palestinian spirit. Spateen's mural of Floyd sits next to depictions of Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi and martyred medic Razan al-Najjar. With this mural, Spateen made one thing clear: We will all be free.
Scholar and activist, Angela Davis’, 2020 statement further reflects on the collective struggles and sacrifices of Black and Palestinian communities, each portraying a story of resilience and resistance.
As Israel's extremist right-wing government has waged war on Gazans, Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapters, such as BLM Los Angeles, have spoken out in support of Palestinians, drawing attention to the ongoing fight against settler colonialism and apartheid: “Black Lives Matter Grassroots stands in solidarity with our Palestinian family who are currently resisting 57 years of settler colonialism and apartheid. As Black people continue the fight to end militarism and mass incarceration in our own communities, let us understand the resistance in Palestine as an attempt to tear down the gates of the world's largest open-air prison.” In the profound recognition of themselves within each other's struggles, Palestinians and Black people share a mutual understanding that their paths to freedom are inexorably intertwined. Through this shared recognition, they acknowledge that the liberation of one is inextricably linked with the liberation of the other. Together, Black people and Palestinians are creating a vision of a world in which their lives are sacred and liberation knows no bounds.
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I probably didn’t this, considering the Headwaters Foundation For Justice funds CAIR, but why not since I have it.
Recall these same folks funded George Floyd riots and Ilhan
Omar’s Ayada leads.
♦️$100,000 in solidarity with Palestine Foundation News, Grantee Announcement
Dear Community,
I am writing today to announce that Headwaters will be making four rapid response grants of $25,000 for a total of $100,000 to support organizations in Minnesota leading local community organizing in response to the ongoing crisis in Palestine:
•American Muslims for Palestine – Minnesota
•Students for Justice in Palestine – Minnesota
•Mizna
•Jewish Voices for Peace – Twin Cities
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Now for the Donors to the Headwaters Foundation for Justice being pro Palestine/Anti Israel. I source everything! Headwaters is on this page too.
The main point is any org donating to Headwaters is pro Palestine. They are deep in it.
Open Society Funded Pro Palestine Headwaters during the 2020 George Floyd riots at the very least. And Rockefeller funds Headwaters too.
The thing is, the ADL has less than I do, because Headwaters funded CAIR too. And Plus, Headwaters funded Ayada Leads which is pro Palestine also. There’s likely much more if we look closer. Plus the ADL has the four Palestine rapid funds I mentioned in a post above.
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Soros Open Society funded Headwaters Fndn For Justice the year of the George Floyd riots. And of course Headwaters in return funded a long list of orgs. This is the typical money pass through that Soros is famous for.
♦️Headwaters Foundation for Justice
2020
$300,000
Description:
“To support fellowships and network-building tailored to strengthen the work of the racial justice movement ecosystem in Minneapolis”
Term:
2 years
Region:
United States
Funder:
Foundation to Promote Open Society
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HeadWaters Fndn For Justice had received two grants from the Ford Fndn. For some reason this page was deleted very recently. Sometime after Nov 5, 2025. 🤨
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And lastly, here’s the Rockefeller Fndn donating to the Headwaters Fndn For Justice.
Nothing major here, I’ll go look for more stuff. Threading sources makes me sleepy. 🥱
projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…
I’ll be seeing you tomorrow!
Stay tuned!
PS, I told you this was a rush job. 😈
Welp, I rushed things out last night because of the urgency with the riots. Well, here you go, the official 2025 - 2026 network! It’s called the Immigrant Defense Network (IDN).
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