{"article":{"id":633,"heading":"Soros Gave Over $200,000 To Democrats","author":"bob feldman","created":"2000-08-13 14:32:35","modified":"2000-08-13 15:00:02","last_modified":"Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:00:02","article":"

The billionaire global speculator whose Soros Foundation\/Open Society Institute helps fund certain independent media groups in Eastern Europe, George Soros, has also been a leading individual funder of the Democratic Party in recent years. According to the Center for Responsive Politics' web site, Soros Foundation\/Open Society Institute Director Soros has contributed over $200,000 to various politically partisan Democratic Party campaign committees since 1993.

On October 9, 1996, for instance, Soros made three campaign contributions, totalling $100,000, to the Democratic National Committee's \"DNC\/Non-Federal Unincorporated Account.\" On October 8, 1998, the Soros Foundation\/Open Society Institute Director gave an $18,000 campaign contribution to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. And on October 25, 1999 Soros gave an additional $20,000 campaign contribution to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting-sponsored Pacifica Foundation--to which both KPFK-Los Angeles and the Democracy Now show are institutionally-linked--accepted a $40,000 grant from Global Speculator Soro's Soros Foundation\/Open Society Institute in 1995. The Soros Foundation\/Open Society Institute also has given $150,000 grants to various U.S. dance companies in recent years.

KPFK-Los Angeles and the Democracy Now show have been criticized in recent years by anti-corporate Movement activists for excluding anti-censorship critics of the Pacifica Foundation, Soros and the Democratic Party Establishment from the KPFK-Los Angeles airwaves and the Democracy Now show. Pacifica's KPFK-Los Angeles show host Marc Cooper of Radio Nation has also been singled-out for special condemnation by most grassroots anti-corporate Movement activists for spreading disinformation about the 1999 KPFA Listeners' Revolt and for advocating the censorship of radical left voices by KPFK-Los Angeles management.

A leading Democratic Party campaign contributor from New Jersey, Alan Sagner, is a major investor in The Nation magazine which KPFK-Los Angeles talk show host Cooper's show promotes. Nation Magazine Co-Owner Sagner also used to be the Chair of the Corporate for Public Broadcasting Board that funds over 12% of KPFK-Los Angeles' operating budget.

Besides accepting funds from Democratic Party campaign contributor Soros' Soros Foundation\/Open Society Institute, the Pacifica Foundation also accepted a $75,000 grant from the Ford Foundation in the late 1990s. On the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation, sits Democratic Party Boss Clinton's close friend: Ford Foundation Trustee Vernon Jordan. Jordan's Ford Foundation has also given two grants, totalling $350,000, to the liberal media watchdog group FAIR, in recent years.

The Movement belongs to the People--Not The Foundations or the Ultra-Rich.

End Censorship of Radical Left Activists at Pacifica's KPFK-Los Angeles and on Pacifica's Democracy Now show.<\/p>\n","contact":"bob_jan@xensei.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Billionaire Global Speculator Soros helps fund Democratic Party, while Democratic Party-linked foundations help subsidize certain alternative media organizations.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/633.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}