🔥More evidence of government linked anti right organizing during the Trump admin! This time including USAID and the CIA’s NED!
This is Part 4 of my series on the Open Government Hub and the Open Government Partnership.
Series recap: Recall the Hub (OGH) was at the same exact address as the Open Government Partnership (OGP). And the Global Network Lead of the Obama Fndn, Nada Zohd, is a director at the hub.
The hub ran an event and had a Serbian Otpor founder and its associated Rhize there. Nada had been a board member at Rhize.
And also, the Open Government Partnership is a gov ran, “inside the beltway affair”, and is a MEMBER of the Open Government Hub. So these two orgs can mingle. And mingle they do, here’s an example:
- Civicus United States -
Here they discuss rising up against “anti-rights” groups (ARG). Essentially, right-wing folks are included in ARG. And USAID was there!
Let’s continue with the report:
August 2019, Open Gov Hub in Washington, DC
Convening organizations: Plan International and Open Gov Hub
Focus of the session:
Anti-Rights Groups, their effect on young people, and young people’s responses to them.
Dialogue participants:
Number of participants and gender distribution
24 – 17 female and 7 male
Specific groups represented:
Mix of DC-based organisations, including:
- USAID ❗️
- Open Government Partnership❗️
- Open Gov Hub❗️
- National Endowment for Democracy + You for Democracy❗️
- Rhize (Serbian Otpor trainers)❗️
- Plan International
- Accountability Lab (OGH member )
- Global Integrity
- plus more, see photo
Here’s a prized quote:
“March for our Lives was a good example of youth claiming protest spaces”
(March for Our Lives is a student-led org which leads demonstrations in support of gun control legislation. It took place in DC on March 24, 2018)
This report discusses what anti rights groups are, but their international report covers it more extensively. It’s 💯 includes right-wing nationalists and populists.
Feel free to view the photos of the US event but I’m going to head into the international report.
Here’s some wild quotes:
“Anti-rights groups are political and often partisan, and are often part of the machinery by which right-wing populism and nationalism are being advanced. Right-wing populist politicians and anti-rights groups attack excluded groups and civil society, because populist narratives are based on such attacks and these targets must be subdued to enable the exercise of power; the notion of ‘the people’ that populism narrowly defines and appeals to sits entirely at odds with civil society’s inclusive understanding of citizenship.”
“10 civil society dialogues involving over 400 civil society practitioners, convened in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Nigeria, Tanzania and the USA by CIVICUS members and the CIVICUS secretariat between June and August 2019.”
“Anti-rights groups are now more confident, more visible and better resourced. They have grown in success through winning support from sections of the public, and they are doing so because their narratives are resonating with some people. They are shaping public narratives, including through DISINFORMATION and manipulation, and are SOWING HATRED and division. They are both helping to make and benefiting from a change in the political weather in many contexts, in which RIGHT-WING populism and narrow nationalism are on the rise.”
“Anti-rights groups are both helping to make and benefiting from recent political shifts. In many countries sections of the public are embracing right-wing populism and nationalism, and populist and nationalist leaders are coming to power.”
Who is Civicus?
“CIVICUS has representation at UN Headquarters in New York (Home of the UN General Assembly and governance body for the Sustainable Development Goals) & the United Nations office in Geneva (Home of the UN Human Rights Council).”
I’ll share more quotes and sources next.
This is Part 4 of my series on the Open Government Hub and the Open Government Partnership.
Series recap: Recall the Hub (OGH) was at the same exact address as the Open Government Partnership (OGP). And the Global Network Lead of the Obama Fndn, Nada Zohd, is a director at the hub.
The hub ran an event and had a Serbian Otpor founder and its associated Rhize there. Nada had been a board member at Rhize.
And also, the Open Government Partnership is a gov ran, “inside the beltway affair”, and is a MEMBER of the Open Government Hub. So these two orgs can mingle. And mingle they do, here’s an example:
- Civicus United States -
Here they discuss rising up against “anti-rights” groups (ARG). Essentially, right-wing folks are included in ARG. And USAID was there!
Let’s continue with the report:
August 2019, Open Gov Hub in Washington, DC
Convening organizations: Plan International and Open Gov Hub
Focus of the session:
Anti-Rights Groups, their effect on young people, and young people’s responses to them.
Dialogue participants:
Number of participants and gender distribution
24 – 17 female and 7 male
Specific groups represented:
Mix of DC-based organisations, including:
- USAID ❗️
- Open Government Partnership❗️
- Open Gov Hub❗️
- National Endowment for Democracy + You for Democracy❗️
- Rhize (Serbian Otpor trainers)❗️
- Plan International
- Accountability Lab (OGH member )
- Global Integrity
- plus more, see photo
Here’s a prized quote:
“March for our Lives was a good example of youth claiming protest spaces”
(March for Our Lives is a student-led org which leads demonstrations in support of gun control legislation. It took place in DC on March 24, 2018)
This report discusses what anti rights groups are, but their international report covers it more extensively. It’s 💯 includes right-wing nationalists and populists.
Feel free to view the photos of the US event but I’m going to head into the international report.
Here’s some wild quotes:
“Anti-rights groups are political and often partisan, and are often part of the machinery by which right-wing populism and nationalism are being advanced. Right-wing populist politicians and anti-rights groups attack excluded groups and civil society, because populist narratives are based on such attacks and these targets must be subdued to enable the exercise of power; the notion of ‘the people’ that populism narrowly defines and appeals to sits entirely at odds with civil society’s inclusive understanding of citizenship.”
“10 civil society dialogues involving over 400 civil society practitioners, convened in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Nigeria, Tanzania and the USA by CIVICUS members and the CIVICUS secretariat between June and August 2019.”
“Anti-rights groups are now more confident, more visible and better resourced. They have grown in success through winning support from sections of the public, and they are doing so because their narratives are resonating with some people. They are shaping public narratives, including through DISINFORMATION and manipulation, and are SOWING HATRED and division. They are both helping to make and benefiting from a change in the political weather in many contexts, in which RIGHT-WING populism and narrow nationalism are on the rise.”
“Anti-rights groups are both helping to make and benefiting from recent political shifts. In many countries sections of the public are embracing right-wing populism and nationalism, and populist and nationalist leaders are coming to power.”
Who is Civicus?
“CIVICUS has representation at UN Headquarters in New York (Home of the UN General Assembly and governance body for the Sustainable Development Goals) & the United Nations office in Geneva (Home of the UN Human Rights Council).”
I’ll share more quotes and sources next.
🔥Why Trump is being targeted and these quotes will explain why all targeting should cease immediately! Keep reading!
First I’ll link the two referenced docs, so you can start reading right away. Then quote like a banshee.
(And PS, these docs are backed up two ways. There’s no sense in deleting them.)
1. Civicus US 2019 event.
2. Civicus 2019 report in the international events held including the one linked above. (See photos)
“High-profile election victories – among them those of President Donald Trump in the USA, President Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and the UK’s Brexit referendum in 2016, President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil in 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landslide re-election win in India in 2019 and the League/Five Star Movement coalition that governed Italy from June 2018 to September 2019 – were game-changing moments for many anti-rights groups, who saw their side making major advances.
“...after the Brexit vote and the Trump victory, they are emboldened. The latest developments in Hungary and
Poland are also proof to them that they may be closer to winning.”
“And Betsy DeVos is currently the Trump administration’s Secretary of Education... We need to go through all these layers to understand why these groups exist, how sophisticated they are and why they are so difficult to remove.”
“In the worst cases, some states have effectively been co-opted by anti-rights groups, who have been able to weaken state institutions and circumvent constitutional safeguards to insert their leaders into key institutions. In such instances, as a result of co-option, anti-rights groups are able to drive divisive state agendas and attack civil society voices that oppose them.”
“Uma Mishra-Newbery connects the growing role and confidence of anti- rights groups that attack women’s rights in international forms to their funding from conservative foundations, which also support the regressive Trump administration.”
“Regressive states are enabling these attacks. In President Trump’s USA, for example, abortion rights and LGBTQI rights are under attack and the government’s international aid no longer provides any support to organisations that promote family planning.”
“One increasingly influential anti-rights group at the international level is the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), a US-based hardline anti-abortion group. Formerly a fringe group whose use of hate speech left it isolated, it has become an inside favourite of the Trump administration, and has been part of official US CSW delegations. Its status with the US government has given it scope for international influence.”web.archive.org/web/2020010721…
First I’ll link the two referenced docs, so you can start reading right away. Then quote like a banshee.
(And PS, these docs are backed up two ways. There’s no sense in deleting them.)
1. Civicus US 2019 event.
2. Civicus 2019 report in the international events held including the one linked above. (See photos)
“High-profile election victories – among them those of President Donald Trump in the USA, President Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and the UK’s Brexit referendum in 2016, President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil in 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landslide re-election win in India in 2019 and the League/Five Star Movement coalition that governed Italy from June 2018 to September 2019 – were game-changing moments for many anti-rights groups, who saw their side making major advances.
“...after the Brexit vote and the Trump victory, they are emboldened. The latest developments in Hungary and
Poland are also proof to them that they may be closer to winning.”
“And Betsy DeVos is currently the Trump administration’s Secretary of Education... We need to go through all these layers to understand why these groups exist, how sophisticated they are and why they are so difficult to remove.”
“In the worst cases, some states have effectively been co-opted by anti-rights groups, who have been able to weaken state institutions and circumvent constitutional safeguards to insert their leaders into key institutions. In such instances, as a result of co-option, anti-rights groups are able to drive divisive state agendas and attack civil society voices that oppose them.”
“Uma Mishra-Newbery connects the growing role and confidence of anti- rights groups that attack women’s rights in international forms to their funding from conservative foundations, which also support the regressive Trump administration.”
“Regressive states are enabling these attacks. In President Trump’s USA, for example, abortion rights and LGBTQI rights are under attack and the government’s international aid no longer provides any support to organisations that promote family planning.”
“One increasingly influential anti-rights group at the international level is the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), a US-based hardline anti-abortion group. Formerly a fringe group whose use of hate speech left it isolated, it has become an inside favourite of the Trump administration, and has been part of official US CSW delegations. Its status with the US government has given it scope for international influence.”web.archive.org/web/2020010721…
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