Political Activists
Mark Boyle aka The Moneyless Man (born 8 May 1979) is an Irish activist and writer best known for founding the online Freeconomy Community, and for living without money since November 2008. Boyle writes regularly for the Freeconomy Blog and British newspaper The Guardian. His first book, The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living was published in 2010. Boyle currently lives near Bath, in South-west England.
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- Watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PuyYVVVkIM
- Also see: http://www.justfortheloveofit.org
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- Watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PuyYVVVkIM
- Also see: http://www.justfortheloveofit.org
Formerly Endorsed Political Activists
John Stauber (born 1953) is an American writer and political activist who has co-authored five books about propaganda by governments, private interests and the PR industry. They include one book about how industry manipulates science (Trust Us, We're Experts), one about the history and current scope of the public relations industry (Toxic Sludge is Good for You), and one about mad cow disease (Mad Cow USA), which predicted the surfacing of the disease within the United States. Stauber is the founder and former executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which sponsors PR Watch and SourceWatch. Since the 1960s, he has worked with public interest, consumer, family farm, environmental and community organizations at the local, state and national level. He edits and writes for the Center's quarterly newsmagazine, PR Watch. He is also a member of the Liberty Tree Board of Advisers.
Questionable Funding Sources for his organizations are mentioned in this excerpt from the Wikipedia page on Center for Media And Democracy:
"CMD states that it accepts donations from "individuals and philanthropic foundations through gifts and grants", but "no funding from for-profit corporations or grants from government agencies." It maintains a partial list of supporters on its website.
In a column for Fox News, Dan Gainor wrote that BanksterUSA received $200,000 from the Open Society Institute (OSI), a grantmaking network founded by George Soros, aimed to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. CMD stated that it received a grant from OSI "to continue work on national security issues".
Fox News reported that in 2011 CMD received $864,740 in donations. $520,000, or 60% of 2011's total revenue, was received from the Schwab Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund which preserves the anonymity of donors by not disclosing individual donor names.
According to the conservative news website Watchdog.org, the Tides Foundation, a foundation known to donate primarily to liberal organizations, reported giving CMD $160,000 in 2011, but that money did not appear on CMD's tax return. When asked why CMD heavily criticizes conservative organizations for not revealing their donors while refusing to name all of CMD's funders, CMD's presdient Lisa Graves said, “The question of conservative funders versus liberal funders, I think, is a matter of false equivalency.”
In June 2014, Politico reported that the Center for Media and Democracy was a recipient of funding through the Democracy Alliance, a network of progressive donors."
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stauber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Media_and_Democracy
- Image by Media Giraffe Project, via Flickr: http://farm1.staticflickr.com/105/263332978_fa073e2829.jpg
- Watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAEaSIubAs
- Also see: http://www.prwatch.org/users/4/john-stauber
Questionable Funding Sources for his organizations are mentioned in this excerpt from the Wikipedia page on Center for Media And Democracy:
"CMD states that it accepts donations from "individuals and philanthropic foundations through gifts and grants", but "no funding from for-profit corporations or grants from government agencies." It maintains a partial list of supporters on its website.
In a column for Fox News, Dan Gainor wrote that BanksterUSA received $200,000 from the Open Society Institute (OSI), a grantmaking network founded by George Soros, aimed to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. CMD stated that it received a grant from OSI "to continue work on national security issues".
Fox News reported that in 2011 CMD received $864,740 in donations. $520,000, or 60% of 2011's total revenue, was received from the Schwab Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund which preserves the anonymity of donors by not disclosing individual donor names.
According to the conservative news website Watchdog.org, the Tides Foundation, a foundation known to donate primarily to liberal organizations, reported giving CMD $160,000 in 2011, but that money did not appear on CMD's tax return. When asked why CMD heavily criticizes conservative organizations for not revealing their donors while refusing to name all of CMD's funders, CMD's presdient Lisa Graves said, “The question of conservative funders versus liberal funders, I think, is a matter of false equivalency.”
In June 2014, Politico reported that the Center for Media and Democracy was a recipient of funding through the Democracy Alliance, a network of progressive donors."
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stauber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Media_and_Democracy
- Image by Media Giraffe Project, via Flickr: http://farm1.staticflickr.com/105/263332978_fa073e2829.jpg
- Watch at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAEaSIubAs
- Also see: http://www.prwatch.org/users/4/john-stauber