ANTIFA
Short for “anti-fascists,” antifa has no hierarchical structure or universal set of tactics that makes its presence immediately recognizable, though members tend to espouse revolutionary and anti-authoritarian views, said Mark Bray, a historian at Rutgers University and author of “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.”
Project Veritas pulled back the curtain on funding for antifascist groups and exposed one radical left-wing organization’s connection to George Soros and Democrat Tom Steyer (who ran for President in 2020 & is deeply linked to the Clintons).
New undercover footage from Project Veritas was released Thursday focusing on Refuse Fascism, a group that describes itself as a “movement to drive out the dangerous and illegitimate Trump / Pence regime.”
“There is no question Antifa is well-organized and well-funded. It’s not just George Soros or Tom Steyer who may have interest in domestic terrorist groups like Refuse Fascism and Antifa, this video also brings in players in Silicon Valley,” Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe said.
Undercover video released last week by the independent media outlet revealed Antifa’s violent tactics and the methodical plan to destroy America. The latest video uncovered organizers within Refuse Fascism and funding for the group’s planned activities.
“The ultimate vision is, for people to break with their comfort and come into the streets day after day, night after night into the hundreds of thousands, into the millions, and not leave until they have to step down,” Tee Stern, the head of the Atlanta Chapter of Refuse Fascism said in the undercover footage, referring to efforts to protest until President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence “step down” from office.
A press release from the group last week announced multiple protests in the streets of Washington, D.C. and other U.S. cities, declaring that Trump and Pence “must be removed from power” and that “only the people staying in the streets can make that happen.”
“The main thing about this, is that we see this is not going to happen through ‘normal channels’ because we are living in abnormal times,” Stern said in the video. “And the way we see this is that there is going to be a need for thousands of people, and then millions, to come into the streets and demand that the Trump-Pence regime must go.”
Stern revealed that the group “did apply for a grant from Soros at one time,” referring to the the left-wing billionaire.
“We actually did get a grant from them (Soros) around – we started a thing called a National Day of Appreciation for abortion providers,” Stern explained. “Contributing money is huge…look, we are not going to reach millions without millions. That’s just straight up. We are not going to do it. We need millions of dollars to reach millions of people.”
Of course, the mainstream media has been busy covering up any questions about Soros, a major donor to liberal and progressive causes, being behind funding protests that erupted across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death, calling claims of a connection just “conspiracy theories” by the right.
“We’re trying to meet with Tom Steyer,” national organizer for Refuse Fascism, Andy Zee, said in another portion of the project Veritas video.
“Right now, I don’t know if we took the meeting today, we’re meeting with his main adviser on impeachment,” Zee added. “We’re meeting, we’ve been talking to his assistant. He first said he was going to meet, then he got busy, he made the announcement.”
Zee added that Steyer, the liberal billionaire and activist who ended his 2020 presidential run in February, has “been retweeting some of our stuff.”
“I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s going to want to, I think he has – this is only me speaking based on reading newspapers from New York – I believe he has political ambitions,” Zee said, noting that Steyer may not want to be “directly connected” to their organization.
But the undercover video went on to reveal that Silicon Valley may also have some interest in the left-wing group, with Zee noting donations in the thousands and a meeting he had with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
“I think you’re familiar with them, they’re the main people fighting on net neutrality…the main organization that fights for internet privacy,” Zee explained, calling the San Francisco-based group a “major f-ing organization” that is “going to help us get connected.”
He added that “you’ll see, there’s people even in the Hillary campaign worked with RefuseFascism because they see the danger.”
Zee contended that ongoing daily demonstrations, sometimes from 5:00 pm to 1:00 a.m., in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, would “at a certain point dominates the national news…it’s a very disruptive force.”
RefuseFascism.org Tom Steyer, Nat Organizer
Make sure your read what this group is about before signing on as they are the "Pot Calling the Kettle Black"- endorses Critical Race Theory and refers to anyone who has white skin as "white-supremist's" - white Americans to these people are the Fascist's".
DRIVE OUT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME (from their website)- Fascism is not just a gross combination of horrific reactionary policies. It is a qualitative change in how society is governed. Fascism foments and relies on xenophobic nationalism, racism, misogyny, and the aggressive re-institution of oppressive “traditional values.” Fascist mobs and threats of violence are unleashed to build the movement and consolidate power. What is crucial to understand is that once in power fascism essentially eliminates traditional democratic rights.
DRIVE OUT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME (from their website)- Fascism is not just a gross combination of horrific reactionary policies. It is a qualitative change in how society is governed. Fascism foments and relies on xenophobic nationalism, racism, misogyny, and the aggressive re-institution of oppressive “traditional values.” Fascist mobs and threats of violence are unleashed to build the movement and consolidate power. What is crucial to understand is that once in power fascism essentially eliminates traditional democratic rights.
ANTIFA: History and Tactics by Andy Ngo
BLM
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement protesting against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people While there are specific organizations such as the Black Lives Matter Global Network that label themselves simply as "Black Lives Matter", the Black Lives Matter movement comprises a broad array of people and organizations. The slogan "Black Lives Matter" itself remains untrademarked by any group. The broader movement and its related organizations typically advocate against police violence toward black people as well as for various other policy changes considered to be related to black liberation.
Politico reported in 2015 that the Democracy Alliance, a gathering of Democratic-Party donors, planned to meet with leaders of several groups who were endorsing the Black Lives Matter movement. According to Politico, Solidaire, the donor coalition focusing on "movement building" and led by Texas oil fortune heir Leah Hunt-Hendrix, a member of the Democracy Alliance, had donated more than $200,000 to the BLM movement by 2015.
According to The Economist, between May 2020 and December 2020, donations to Black Lives Matter related causes amounted to $10.6 billion dollars. The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, one of the main organizations coordinating organizing and mobilization efforts across the Black Lives Matter network, reported raising $90 million in 2020, including a substantial number of individual donations online, with an average donation of $30.76
Last year Black Lives Matter Inc. raked in tens of millions-of-dollars as cities around the country were burned in riots, totaling more than $2 billion in damages.
But according to a new report from the Associated Press, the $90 million donated to the political group in 2020 isn't reaching local activists. BLM has been around since 2014 and has been backed by big name celebrities and the Democrat Party.
A group of 10 chapters, called the #BLM10, rejected the foundation’s funding offer last year and complained publicly about the lack of donor transparency. Foundation leaders say only a few of the 10 chapters are recognized as network affiliates.
In a letter released Nov. 30, the #BLM10 claimed most chapters have received little to no financial resources from the BLM movement since its launch in 2013. That has had adverse consequences for the scope of their organizing work, local chapter leaders told the AP.
The chapters are simply asking for an equal say in “this thing that our names are attached to, that they are doing in our names,” said April Goggans, organizer of Black Lives Matter DC, which is part of the #BLM10 along with groups in Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, San Diego, Hudson Valley, New York, and elsewhere.
“We are BLM. We built this, each one of us,” she said.
Records show some chapters have received multiple rounds of funding in amounts ranging between $800 and $69,000, going back as far as 2016. The #BLM10 said the amounts given have been far from equitable when compared to how much BLM has raised over the years.
Another report recently published in POLITICO shows many individuals who founded the movement continue to take advantage of its public success while shafting local activists.
"The operations of Black Lives Matter have always been opaque, with thousands of members and dozens of affiliates. Two of its three co-founders are no longer affiliated with the movement — even as they continue to represent Black Lives Matter on TV. Local Black Lives Matter activists say national leaders cut them off from funding and decision-making, leaving them broke and taking the movement in a direction with which they fundamentally disagree. And as the Black Lives Matter movement grows in influence, with millions in donations and celebrity endorsements, local organizers argue they’re the ones in the streets pushing for change — and they’re not getting their due," the outlet reported in December.
