A left-wing charity organization with unknown sources of money is providing the funding for protests around the country — some of which have turned into violent riots — that have threatened a divided nation’s ability to unify after a contentious presidential election.
From Daily Caller
The Progress Unity Fund is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization — the same classification as the Red Cross. The group’s mission is to “provide a progressive alternative to mainstream charities,” according to its IRS filings.
The fund provides the financial backing for Act Now To Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, a left-wing activist group that began organizing “emergency protests” immediately after Trump’s election.
Cities where ANSWER held protests included: Chicago, New York, DC and San Francisco, among others.
“In a shock result, Donald Trump has been elected president – but the people can rise up and defeat his bigoted, extreme right wing agenda!” ANSWER said in a post-election statement. “The ANSWER Coalition is mobilizing across the country to organize and take part in emergency actions.”
Progress Unity Fund’s website says the group “creates and funds educational and material aid programs, to challenge the barriers and find solutions to the issues creating division.”
But ANSWER describes Progress Unity Fund as its “fiscal sponsor.” And the group is asking its supporters to financially support the next round of anti-Trump protests — Trump’s January 20 inauguration — by donating to the Progress Unity Fund.
The fund’s 2015 IRS filings list just one payment to ANSWER: $9,700 for “educational programs.”
Tonite over 9,000 marching against Trump. #notourpresident Here Cleve Jones longtime LGBTQ leader. Contact us! March: Jan 20 in #DC! pic.twitter.com/Zw8yFb76aJ
— ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) November 10, 2016
Students shut down downtown San Francisco saying no to @realDonaldTrump. Youth say the present is struggle the future is ours! #dumptrump pic.twitter.com/8DLmkprfg1
— ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) November 10, 2016
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