Rich Brit, Anish Kapoor, funding community
organizing to promote refugees in North Carolina, by
Ann Corcoran on 5/9/18
The
federal resettlement contractor, one of nine, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society—crows about their pro-refugee political
advocacy campaign in a recent blog post on
their website. Titled: In North Carolina, Local
Advocacy Trainings Boost Action for Refugees
It
is maddening isn’t it that the refugee industry is rolling in (foreign) money
to promote more refugees for your towns, cities, states, but take heart and
consider that grassroots efforts by patriots to educate the public about the
downside of too much immigration in places like Minnesota (without funding for
advocacy training by rich Brits) is having an impact as I said here the other
day.
HIAS making plans for North Carolina…..This below is most of what HIAS says
about their community organizing (advocacy training!) and the source of their
new-found funds:
As
the United States’ life-saving refugee program continues to slow down—with just
over 12,000 refugees welcomed to this country more than seven months into a
fiscal year in which 45,000 refugees should be able to find welcome—communities
across the country are standing up and speaking out.
Through public demonstrations, direct assistance and urgent advocacy,
Americans from Westchester County to Los Angeles, to Washington, D.C., are
making the case for resettling refugees at a level that is both proportionate
to the global crisis and in line with the United States’ capacity, history and
values.
This week in North Carolina, dozens of interfaith advocates joined two
trainings in Charlotte and Durham in order to build upon the local efforts
already underway to preserve the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
Anish Kapoor wants his values advanced
in North Carolina….The trainings, which were
facilitated by HIAS, were made possible by the generous support of The Genesis
Prize Foundation (GPF) and 2017 Genesis Prize Laureate Anish Kapoor.
In
January, GPF and Kapoor announced grants to five prominent NGOs, including
HIAS, totaling $1 million, and followed up in March with an additional $100,000
challenge grant to HIAS.
Go here and see that another Brit, David
Miliband (International Rescue Committee) received some of the ‘prize’ too for
community organizing in America. They have already screwed up the UK and now
they want to screw up America!
Beginning in North Carolina, HIAS is utilizing the Genesis grants to
strengthen the capacity of local leaders in communities across America to
advocate in support of immigrants and refugees.
In
Charlotte, more than 30 individuals, including Marsha Hirsch, executive director
of HIAS’ local resettlement partner Carolina Refugee Resettlement Agency
(CRRA), and several members of her staff, gathered at Temple Beth El on Sunday,
April 29, to network and deepen their skills in in advocating effectively for
refugees.
“You are all already doing such incredible work to welcome refugees and
immigrants,” Merrill Zack, HIAS’ Senior Director for Community Engagement, told
the group. “By partnering more closely together in our collective advocacy, we
have the opportunity to move the needle at a really critical juncture.”
Representatives
of the Jewish
Community Refugee Initiative (JCRI), the Stan
Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice, Carolina Jews for Justice (CJJ) and the Refugee Congress were also in attendance.
Go here to learn more—they have placed many
links in their story and I’m too lazy to put them all in!
The
contractors! - I post the contractor list almost every day because I want new
readers to know exactly who is responsible for driving the US Refugee
Admissions Program (in addition to the UN!).
The
number in parenthesis is the percentage of the nine VOLAGs’ income paid by you (the taxpayer) to place the refugees,
line them up with (low paying) jobs in food production and cleaning hotel
rooms, and get them signed up for their
services (welfare)! From
most recent accounting, here.
·
Ethiopian Community Development
Council (ECDC) (secular)(93%)
·
International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular) (66.5%)
·
US Committee for Refugees and
Immigrants (USCRI) (secular)
(98%)
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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