Soros-Funded Groups Behind Anti-Trump Corporate Targeting Campaign

Wednesday, May 10, 2017
By Paul Martin

Progressives are targeting nine corporations who they say can profit from Trump’s policies

BY: Joe Schoffstall
FreeBeacon.com
May 10, 2017

The groups leading a campaign targeting corporations that may benefit from Trump administration policies have received millions from liberal billionaire George Soros.

The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), a New York-based nonprofit consisting of old chapters of the controversial and now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and Make the Road New York (MRNY), a group whose 19,000 dues-paying members are primarily Latino immigrants, have partnered to “name and shame” companies the groups say are working with Trump or “profiting” from his “anti-immigrant, anti-worker” platform, Time magazine first reported.

The campaign, known as “Corporate Backers of Hate,” targets nine companies: JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Disney, IBM, BlackRock, Uber, and Blackstone.

Individuals from the groups researched the personal email address of every CEO and board member included in the list of targeted companies to allow activists to bypass lower channels and send emails directly to the top. Corporate responsibility experts told Time that the “mass lobbying” campaign is unprecedented and that they had never heard of these tactics being employed in the past.

Organizers say the targeted companies could benefit from Trump’s stricter immigration policies due to their ties to immigrant detention companies and private prisons.

Time‘s piece describes the Center for Popular Democracy and Make the Road New York as having “partnered” for the campaign. However, the groups’ leadership and flow of funds show that their connections go beyond a mere campaign partnership.

Andrew Friedman, a co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, co-founded Make the Road New York in 1997. Friedman spent 15 years building up that organization before moving to the Center for Popular Democracy. Friedman currently serves on the board of Make the Road and Make the Road Action Fund.

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