๐จ๐ฅ WHO'S BEHIND THE ANTI-ICE RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES? PT. 2 ๐ฅ๐จ
Yesterday's thread implicated Neville Singham as the backer behind PSL, the communist party which printed up the protest signs.
However, there are more NGOs involved. We will pivot our attention to Community Self-Defense Corporation and other local NGOs.
Patience as I assemble this thread in real time.
Thanks to @bullfrog35 and @jammles9 for assistance.
Two related groups, Union del Barrio and Community Self-Defense Coalition, organized protests. Centre CSO, an ally, had the ability to organize people quickly.
Neither organization is a registered nonprofit. Both Union del Barrio and CSDC are informal organizations and hence do not have an EIN associated.
Ron Gochez served as spokesman for both during a press conference.
This same Ron Gochez was the former chairman of MECHA. He also called for a Mexican revolution in the United States.
MECHA has significant violent pro-Hamas elements. @bullfrog35 has extensively documented their extremism.
Although CSDC / Union del Barrio are grassroots, they are well-organized. Gochez bragged about being able to cover large areas quickly and simultaneously.
Translation: nothing about what you're seeing is spotaneous. They knew how to make sure the protests are coordinated and spread.
@bullfrog35 An allied group is Centre CSO, with Gabriel Quiroz Jr. as their spokesperson. He bragged about a "rapid response network."
@bullfrog35 Gabriel Quiroz Jr. also talks about organizing Raza to fight for George Floyd. So it would seem that the same people rioting today also rioted for BLM in 2020.
@bullfrog35 Union del Barrio claims to be entirely backed by membership dues and online sales and "fundraising efforts."
@bullfrog35 Their online store appears to sell only this...
@bullfrog35 More organizations are involved. Stop LAPD Spying Coalition did plan a rally. Stop LAPD Spying is not an independent nonprofit; it operates under Los Angeles Community Action Network (aka CANGRESS) and has the EIN 020661629.
@bullfrog35 CANGRESS mostly has private grants from DAFs.
@bullfrog35 Centre CSO does not have an EIN. The two members mentioned by Influence Watch are both Communists.
@bullfrog35 Another organizing group, Association of Raza Educators, was co-founded by Union del Barrio and, frustratingly, also is an informal organization with no formal nonprofit structure.
@bullfrog35 The protests had significant pro-Palestine elements. One of the chants was "From Palestine to Mexico, all walls have to go."
@bullfrog35 As explained last night, the presence of pro-Palestinian elements appears to be largely influenced by the PSL communist group.
@bullfrog35 US Campaign for Palestinian rights organized protests for today, and it seems likely that these protests had significant overlap with the anti-ICE protests:
@bullfrog35 USCPR EIN is 42-1636592 and while largely privately funded, has received government grants in the past. They seem to be primarily DAF-financed.
@bullfrog35 Yet another group, Black Alliance for Peace of South California, was involved in today's protests. They are a Black radical group deeply aligned with Palestine.
@bullfrog35 BAP operates under Community Movement Builders, with an EIN of 474653915. They receive an unspecified government grant and DAF donations.
@bullfrog35 Because so many of those organizations do not have any EINs and if they do have EINs they are financed by DAFs, it's tough to trace the financers. CSDC has a GoFundMe that raised only $2000.
@bullfrog35 Centre CSO raised $8000.
@bullfrog35 Overall, it seems most of the local extremist groups are genuinely grassroots-financed. UnidosUS (La Raza) receives a lion's share of private and government money. But they have been strangely silent in the protests for the most part.
@bullfrog35 After running a search - CHIRLA along with PSL / Neville are likely the "deep pockets" behind this organization. Both were covered in my initial thread from yesterday.
@bullfrog35 Ron Gochez organized anti-Zionist protests last year.
@bullfrog35 A 2010 Fox News article quotes Ron Gochez as calling for a revolution against white people. I found the video. Stand by...
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Today, NOTUS published an incredible article wherein it interviewed former and current federal employees all outright admitting to plot a soft coup on President Trump, touting their expertise in color revolutions.
NOTUS is the newly launched flagship publication of Allbritton Journalism Institute (AJI), bankrolled by founder of Politico, Robert Allbriton, who has also been implicated by the Senate on foreign money laundering but never charged.
The article talks about one of the groups involved, DemocracyAID.
I cannot promise to unmask everyone, but I can reveal who's spoken publicly. Patience as I pull together this thread.
The NOTUS article states: there are current and former trained federal officials trained in formenting color revolutions who believe that the United States has become an authoritarian country, and they are applying these same tactics at home in hopes of a "nationwide general strike."
In other words, there are people who are actively employed in the federal government trying to instigate a color revolution.
One of these groups has formed an informal affiliation called DemocracyAID. Ro Tucci, who directed USAID Center for Democracy, is a co-founder of DemocracyAID and leading invite-only workshops.
Meet @McFaul , who wears many hats but is perhaps most famous for being Obama's ambassador to Russia from 2011-2014.
A career ideologue turned diplomat, McFaul spent decades preaching regime change from the safety of academia and NGOs. All the while making insane statements he had to repeatedly apologize for and having a good dose of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
This is the story of how a โdemocracy promoterโ helped set fire to U.S.-Russia relations.
Patience as I pull together this thread in real time.
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Remember how I've made the point that activists are "discovered" in college and trained from early on?
McFaul was no exception. He was sent to the Soviet Union by several NGOs during his university years, where he also volunteered for the National Democratic Institute, one of the Deep State NGOs.
He was never a "neutral party" in any sense - he was groomed to be an activist early on.
@McFaul In fact, he openly wrote of regime change from his college years and bragged about training democratic activists within the Soviet Union. And, yes, this was done with partial federal dollars.
Salt Lake City and surrounding areas have experienced a significant boom in population driven by international migration. All around Salt Lake County, multifamily housing is going up.
In one year alone (2023-2024), the Salt Lake City metro area gained 19,124 international migrants. Given Salt Lake City proper has only about 209K people, that is a significant change.
But, who's paying for this housing? I did some research and am sharing my compilation here. (Patience as I slowly compile in real time.)
BTW, this topic has nothing to do with the proposed federal land sales - which seems dead now.
Utah Department of Workforce Service receives tons of federal money for refugee assistance. You can search for it in USA Spending, or browse the federal awards here: taggs.hhs.gov/Detail/RecipDeโฆ
The overall federal budget can be found here . Obligations nearly quadrupled from 3 billion in 2019 to a peak of 11.5 billion in 2023. usaspending.gov/federal_accounโฆ
๐งต THREAD: The history of Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODE PINK
Jodie Evans gets most of the attention as the co-founder of CODEPINK and Neville Singham's wife. But Medea Benjamin's history may be more interesting.
While creating the linked thread below, I dived into Medea Bejamin briefly - who had an interesting history of speaking to Chinese media.
She co-founded Global Exchange with her husband, Kevin Danaher, which goes on a number of "Reality Trips" to various closed countries - Cuba, Venezuela, among others.
If you've followed me long enough ... you know that's a big red flag. State-facilitated exchange trips are one of the most common "soft power" tools that countries have in exporting their ideology to others.
Benjamin, per SFGate, has been a career activist since her college years, spending much of her time overseas in Africa. The Wikipedia page says that she joined Students for a Democratic Society in college - if so, this makes her yet another homegrown career NGO-ist.
The prior thread mentioned briefly that she went to Cuba from 1979 to 1983 to work as a translator for their official Communist Party newspaper. She lauded their comparative social equality, describing it as "I died and went to heaven."
She got deported after writing an anti-government article, having overestimated Cuba's taste for freedom of speech.
"We are writing to formally address and correct the false and defamatory statements made in your recent social media posts regarding CODEPINK. These claimsโwhich falsely allege that our organization is funded by China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or any foreign government or entityโare entirely baseless and constitute libel."
So, I will share the facts without spin:
Per Wikipedia, CODEPINK is 25% funded by Neville Singham, who is living in Shanghai and got rich off spreading CCP propaganda, and is under investigation by Congress for FARA violations.
CODEPINK is running a campaign called "China is Not Our Enemy," which promotes pro-China messaging, including denial of the Uyghur genocide, an atrocity affirmed by the U.S. Department of State.
The founder of CODEPINK, Jodie Evans, is married to the aforementioned Neville Singham.
In fact, the Uyghur denialism goes so far that Jodie Evans said in a YouTube interview, that Uyghurs are terrorists trained in Yemen and Syria who bomb shopping centers.
Please share any more facts you have about CODEPINK below. Do not opine.
Here's another fact: CODEPINK offers group trips to China.
CODEPINK is on Friends of Socialist China page and has hosted book club discussions with Carlos Martinez, who is the co-founder of FoSC.
It wasn't hard to find who actually supported the bill. As we will see, they will have many of the same funders and backers.
Popular Democracy has the EIN of 453813436 and receives a lot of DAF money. It is associated with various Make the Road chapters - many of whom receive migration-associated federal grants.