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🤩 Want to get trained up to do power research?
📣 Announcing our 7-part Research Tools for Organizers training series!
Learn how to build your power research skills and apply research to campaign strategies!
Starting 4/18 at 7pm ET. Sign up:
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NEW: Major corporations are bankrolling police foundations across the U.S., helping them to buy surveillance tech, body armor and weaponry.
#BillionairesBackTheBlue
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The Atlanta Police Foundation helped make ATL the most surveilled city in the U.S. with its “Operation Shield" in 2017. Now it is pushing forward the Cop City development.
Meet the corporate actors behind the ATL Police Foundation here:
I'm not sure people know just how bad the "cop city" project in Atlanta would be. They want a whole mock city to practice police repression.
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NEW: We mapped out some of the major weapons' producers and billionaire donors who are profiting from and enabling the current seige of Gaza.
These CEOs of the top 5 U.S. defense companies together made $318 million from 2020 to 2022.
Full:
🧵
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It’s impossible to separate the world of policing from the world of money.
These corporations ⤵️ are helping to raise $60 million to construct Copy City on protected forest land.
We profiled the backers of the Atlanta Police Foundation:
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Top shareholders of weapons companies profiting from war on Gaza:
BlackRock
Vanguard
State Street
Fidelity
Capital Group
Wellington
JPMorgan Chase
Morgan Stanley
Newport Trust Co
Longview Asset Mgmt
Mass Financial Services Co
Geode Capital
BoA
Full:
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These are the corporations that fund and direct the Louisville Metro Police Foundation.
More info in the map link ⬇️
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Police foundations raise money to supplement bloated police budgets and buy surveillance tech, body armor, and weapons for police forces with little to no public oversight.
We profiled the corporations bankrolling these foundations here:
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1/ THREAD ➡️ The fossil fuel companies and financiers that drive environmental racism are also intertwined with police foundations, helping build private slush funds for the police away from public oversight.
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NEW: Fossil Fuel Industry Pollutes Black & Brown Communities While Propping Up Racist Policing
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These are tear gas canisters used against protesters in San Juan. They were made by Safariland, owned by Warren Kanders. Safariland chemical weapons have been used against protesters in Ferguson, Egypt, and Palestine and migrants at the US-Mexico border (photo by
@Abner_Y_Dennis
)
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NEW: Cable news channels are bringing in "expert analysts" who advocate continued war on Gaza without disclosing their extensive personal financial ties to weapons companies that are profiting from war and militarism.
Full:
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Fossil fuel companies and corporate lobbyists working to obstruct climate action in New York have spent more than $15.5 million on lobbying and more than $1.4 million on campaign donations since 2016.
More in our latest report, 'Fueling Obstruction':
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Are you watching what's going down in Atlanta and wondering if your city has a police foundation with similar ideas?
We partnered with
@ColorOfChange
to review 23 police foundations in major cities across the U.S.
Is your city among them? ⤵️
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NYT reported Gorsuch ties to billionaire Anschutz. We found Anschutz donations to orgs advising Trump on SCOTUS nom.
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Hillary Clinton sold fracking around the world New emails reveal how
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NEW: Private equity firms own hundreds of dirty fossil fuel fuel companies that drive climate injustice all while their super-rich execs sits on prestigious university & museum boards
➡️w/
@PEstakeholder
REPORT:
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🚨 Attention movement organizers and researchers! We're thrilled to announce our FREE training series, Research Tools for Organizers, to help build skills in using public research tools and analyzing corporate power.
Visit for more info and to sign up!
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From Chevron and Shell to Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase, the same fossil fuel companies and financial institutions driving environmental racism are also directing and funding police foundations.
NEW: Fossil Fuel Industry Pollutes Black & Brown Communities While Propping Up Racist Policing
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Companies like Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), Northrop Grumman, Boeing + General Dynamics have profited for decades from selling weapons to Israel to use against Palestinians in Gaza -- and they are rushing to send weapons now.
More details ⤵️
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NEW: Union busting is disgusting!
As a student movement grows to kick Starbucks off campus, here's a new
@twittlesis
primer on how to research + map out Starbucks execs, directors, banks, top shareholders, law firms + investments at your college.
Link:
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Their top shareholders are firms like BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, Capital Group, Wellington, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Newport Trust Co, Longview Asset Management, Mass Financial Services Company, Geode Capital, and Bank of America.
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NYT reported Gorsuch ties to billionaire Anschutz. We found Anschutz donations to orgs advising Trump on SCOTUS nom
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Unbelievable: Oil and gas industry exempted from CA water use restriction during worst drought in history
http://t.co/jIp8tQZOKN
#California
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Israel Bonds finance war, occupation and apartheid in Palestine. And your state or pension fund might be investing in them.
Full story:
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"[T]he executives responsible for wrecking the once venerable home goods store have profited, while the employees who kept stores running through the pandemic are being punished."
From
@MorePerfectUS
⤵️
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While 2 million NYers have lost their jobs, the state’s coronavirus recovery is being steered by billionaires who profited from the pandemic. 9 billionaires
@NYGovCuomo
put in charge of the recovery have made more than $18 billion.
#MakeBillionairesPay
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Big donors are bankrolling rightwing pro-Israel lobbying groups that are calling on lawmakers to send money + weapons to Israel.
United Democracy Project (AIPAC) donors include billionaires like Paul Singer, Marc Rowan, Robert Kraft, Bernie Marcus +more.
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Incoming 🧵 on useful articles and resources for understanding how police foundations operate around the U.S. and how to research them where you live.
⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
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Columbia University’s shocking repression of students protesting Israel’s ongoing genocide and it’s history of cozying up to the fossil fuel industry is a stunning example of the links between climate disaster and militarism, where Big Oil drives and profits from both. (🧵)
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We identified nearly two dozen recent investors in Israel bonds⤵️
These investments help fund illegal settlement activities in Occupied Palestine.
Full:
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📢 Coming in May: How to research police foundations (and other non-profits too)
⬇️ Register ⬇️
Background on PFs:
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Ramapough Lenape Nation is resisting the Pilgrim Pipeline -- and the powerful interests behind it
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Components produced by Fort Worth, Colorado-based Woodward Inc. have been found among bombing debris in Gaza. We mapped Woodward's corporate owners, including US asset managers, banks, and hedge funds.
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Take Columbia trustee Jeh Johnson. He sits on the board of top defense contractor Lockheed Martin and is a partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind & Garrison. This law firm represents ExxonMobil, and received an “F” grade from Law Students for Climate Accountability.
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Who are the billionaires and hedge funders behind the GameStop story?
One pled guilty to insider trading charges, another built a predatory lending empire. Check it out:
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Private donors are buying body armor, tech, and weapons for the police without public oversight. Check out our recent reports:
Corporate backers of the blue:
Corporate donors to the police also avoid billions in taxes:
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Billionaire donors to the warmongering Democratic Majority for Israel include hedge fund billionaire Daniel Loeb, oil billionaire Stacy Schusterman, and Gary Lauder, of the family that owns Estée Lauder.
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The Young Americans for Freedom club at
@UBuffalo
is bringing Michael Knowles – a right wing idealogue who recently called for the “eradication” of transgenderism “from public life entirely” – to campus tonight. What is YAF and why are they bringing Knowles to the UB campus? 🧵⬇️
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New reporting on the millions flowing from corporations to opaque and unaccountable private police foundations
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Beginning a thread on a Trump billionaire. We have a little surprise at the end.
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Wendy's, White Castle, Kroger, and UPS are among the corporations bankrolling and advising the Louisville Metro Police Foundation.
See the full board and disclosed donors in the map below. Click the link for more info and sources ⬇️
These are the corporations that fund and direct the Louisville Metro Police Foundation.
More info in the map link ⬇️
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These are some of the key corporate profiteers and billionaire donors that organizers who are working to halt the unfolding catastrophe in Gaza are up against.
Full piece ⤵️
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NY's
@AOC
caused a stir with the
#TaxTheRich
dress she wore to last night's Met Gala.
Here are a few of the billionaire & multimillionaire elites whose seats on the
@metmuseum
board were bought with hoarded wealth extracted from our communities ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Florida Power & Light runs a speakeasy to wine and dine lawmakers in the latest revelation about the utility company's influence machine. Other FPL political initiatives include hiring contractors to operate sham political campaigns and spy on journalists.
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Atlanta Police Foundation Backers Roll Call:
✅ Amazon
✅ Chick-Fil-A
✅ Delta Air Lines
✅ UPS
✅ Home Depot
✅ Inspire Brands
✅ Georgia State University
✅ Atlanta Hawks & State Farm Arena
✅ Axon Enterprises
✅ Waffle House
✅ JPMorgan Chase
✅ Wells Fargo
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NEW: As Wall Street rakes in millions from Puerto Rico's debt crisis, the creators of the debt are escaping any accountability for their roles in creating the crisis.
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Starbucks. Amazon. Facebook. Wells Fargo. Google.
These corporations - and more - donate to the Seattle Police Foundation, helping them buy the "latest in policing technologies."
Some serve on the foundation's board.
Map:
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Israel's war on Gaza has being going on for 6 months. These are some of the U.S. states and localities that have bought up hundreds of millions of dollars in Israel Bonds that are helping to finance war, occupation and apartheid.
Story:
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📣🎉LIVE FROM HARRISBURG 📣🎉
Hundreds of Pennsylvanians from across the state are gathered to demand their elected officials actually meet their needs & put them first—instead of billionaires like Jeff Yass who fund them!
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Greenwashing group CSSD's founders make
@NRDC
list of top fracking violators
http://t.co/E53SpjTZjm
http://t.co/XMPm2DDaei
#fracking
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Why are more and more climate orgs focusing on the banks, insurers, and other financiers BEHIND the fossil fuel industry?
Our new fossil fuel finance series explains how asset managers, private equity firms, big banks, and insurance corps are driving climate destruction 🧵⬇️
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📣 Announcing our Research Tools for Organizers training series! Join LittleSis researchers for a 7-part series to build your power research chops and learn how to apply research to campaign strategies!
Starting next month 4/18 at 7pm ET, sign up here:
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NEW: Pedro Pierluisi, a lobbyist and lawyer attempting to take Puerto Rico the Governor's office amid a constitutional crisis, has ties to allegedly illegal debt issuances and to controversial coal power company AES
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NEW:
@washingtonpost
published an op-ed by Stephen Hadley praising the Soleimani assassination and urging continued US presence in Iraq. They didn't note his seat on the Raytheon board of directors or $2.4 million in stock. Worse, we've been here before.
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The law firms working for Trump's efforts to stop vote counting in swing states have been getting a lot of attention.
ICYMI we published an article about Kirkland & Ellis, the corporate firm behind Trump and Barr's capture of the Department of Justice
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Medical care providers & other essential workers need protective gear to stay healthy during the
#COVID19
crisis. Today we learned how
@3M
,
@Honeywell
,
@FedEx
are using their power via the
@USChamber
to work against them.
Read our new report "Unmasked":
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Excellent summary of the fight against Cop City - the urban warfare training facility planned for Atlanta’s Welaunee Forest where police killed a protester this month - that cites our recent profile the Atlanta Police Foundation and its corporate backers
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In 2021,
@ColorOfChange
& LittleSis released a 63-page report detailing the threat of police foundations.
Learn more here:
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Paul Tudor Jones gives TED talk about ending inequality, donates to pols who exasperate it
http://t.co/waQCrfiCHI
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Will Phil Murphy stop the
#PennEast
Pipeline? A look at how gas companies have positioned themselves to try to sway the NJ governor who has signaled opposition.
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1/ THREAD --> We recently posted a report on how corporations like Amazon, Starbucks, BofA & others are bankrolling police foundations across the US ⬇️
Now we're learning that some of these police foundations are also taking coronavirus bailout money.
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NEW: Amazon has a "Black Lives Matter" banner on its homepage but it's helping fundraise for police foundations that buy tech & weapons for the police.
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Billionaire fracking investor Michael Bloomberg went on the record calling Green New Deal plans "pie in the sky." We detailed his fossil fuel interests here:
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NEW: Amazon says Black Lives Matter, but it’s Helping Fund Police Foundations Across the U.S.
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Where do research and organizing intersect? Read: "The Hidden History of the SNCC Research Department"
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Learn all about police foundations through our report and microsite with our partners
@ColorOfChange
:
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Some of the U.S. states and counties that are invested in Israel Bonds, which help prop up Israel's regime of occupation and apartheid against Palestinians.
Find out more:
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Make no mistake: colleges and universities are part of the corporate power structure.
Our new "CorpU" report shows how fossil fuel-tied Wall Street firms, big developers & other corporate actors dominate university governance across the US.
CorpU:
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We recently profiled the corporate backers of the Atlanta Police Foundation, the institution fundraising for the Cop City development:
Today 5 community activists were arrested for protesting Atlanta's new "Cop City" with tree sits, forest blockades, and allegedly throwing rocks at police.
They're being charged with domestic terrorism.
Here's why all activists need to be paying attention:
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CORPORATE BACKERS OF POLICE POWER:
Wall Street? ☑️
Big Tech? ☑️
Big Retail? ☑️
Fossil fuel industry? ☑️
MAP:
REPORT:
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From 2020 to 2022, these five CEOs of the top US weapons' companies raked in around $318 million in total compensation.
Full story:
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MUST READ analysis from
@KateAronoff
for
@newrepublic
that cites data from our 2021 report on the rise of corporate-backed police foundations ⬇️
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RIGHT NOW: Protesters in DC are demanding the Kennedy Center
#DropDavidRubenstein
as chairman.
The Kennedy Center is opening a climate change exhibit tonight while its billionaire chairman David Rubenstein & Carlyle Group invest huge $$$ in dirty oil.
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Police foundations privately raise money to buy weapons, equipment, and surveillance tech for police departments with little oversight.
Who are their donors? ⬇️
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Cybersecurity firm that spied on Black Lives Matter "pro bono" raises $27 mil to expand
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ICYMI: Fracking billionaire Terry Pegula hired Jim Wilkinson, a spin doctor who helped push the US invasion of Iraq, to shake down New York State to use public money to fund a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills projected to cost >$1 billion.
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📢 NEW TRAINING 📢
War Profiteers on Campus: How to Research Corporate Backers of War and Militarism at your College
November 21st, 12pm ET/9am PT
Register:
Prep with our report on the corps profiting from Israel's war on Gaza:
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Right now, thousands of students across the US are taking on the corporate university, run by trustees who represent weapons companies, Wall Street, Big Oil + more.
Here is a 🧵 of resources to help you power map you university or college and dig into its investments.
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NEW: Pennsylvania's richest man, secretive billionaire Jeffrey Yass, is using his huge fortune to prop up Pennsylvania's far-right, anti-union, anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ network of think tanks & PACs.
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Up next from Research Tools for Organizers ⤵️
THE CORPORATION 👀
Prepare to track down big numbers and parse through corporate legalese. This skills training will walk through databases and tools you can use to research public and private corporations!
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The PA Society annual weekend retreat — the epicenter of Pennsylvania politics and yet almost no actual Pennsylvanians have even heard of it. So as PA's elected officials head off to Manhattan, here’s a primer:
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NEW: In recent reports from
@UE
and
@KateAronoff
, Exxon lobbyists candidly disclosed how they use elite think tanks to push their agenda. We documented how this played out with Brookings & CSIS in the Obama-era debate over expanding crude oil exports.
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63% of Americans are represented by someone in Congress who denies climate science
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NEW REPORT: How Uber, Lyft, and other gig economy employers are sponsoring front groups, using super PACs, and cultivating ties to the Democratic Party in New York to replicate their success blocking workers' rights with Prop 22 in California
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2/ Example: Chevron is a major sponsor of the New Orleans Police & Justice Foundation, as well as a board member of the Houston Police Foundation and sponsor of the Houston Police Department’s mounted patrol. They also have a seat on the Salt Lake City Police Foundation board.
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🚨 Trump admin staffers are fleeing the White House and looking for a cushy place to land 🚨
Help LittleSis track 'em down with our new microsite: SWAMPED!
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📢 NEW: Big insurers prop up climate chaos by insuring fossil fuel operations and investing billions in oil, gas and coal companies.
Even the boards of insurance companies have close ties to fossil fuels.
Part 4 of our primer series on fossil finance ⤵️
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Housing advocates will be protesting at
@NYGovCuomo
's fundraiser tonight. Cuomo's campaign chair Bill Mulrow is an executive at the largest Wall Street landlord in the country. cc
@NomikiKonst
@nychange
@tenantneighbor
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"Divestment has a long, rich history, not only to publicize critical issues but as an effective tool for bringing about change."
From
@inkstickmedia
👇
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History shows that rich elites will use crises to build their own prosperity, control and power.
#BargainingfortheCommonGood
is an approach to build alignment between unions and community groups to challenge elite power. Read more here:
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NEW: Wall Street firms profiting from Trump’s detention & deportation machine set to host Steve Bannon
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What corporations are profiting off the destruction of Gaza and the planet? A 🧵on three major asset managers financing Israel’s genocidal warfare and global climate disaster:
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We have a new Friday newsletter w/ latest shenanigans from oil & gas industry. Check it out & sign up to get emails.
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NEW: We mapped out the power behind the fracked-gas Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Who are the big banks, asset managers, CEOs, campaign donors and oil-tied regulators connected to the MVP? 🧵
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NEW REPORT: Recent financial disclosures reveal tactics of 21 vulture hedge funds stalking Puerto Rico, including taking advantage of coronavirus pandemic to buy more debt, buying bonds while also challenging their legality, possible insider trading
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