Obama, Soros, Socialist Groups Push Protests

Much has been said of the union protests in Wisconsin.  The solidarity of the unions is lauded by the main stream media.  The real thrust behind the protests has been kept from America by the media.

When you look beyond the rhetoric you will find that Barack Obama, George Soros, and many socialist groups funded by Soros and supported by Obama are the driving protest force.  This is a socialist movement not a protect the workers rights movement.

One of the main groups organizing the Wisconsin union protests is a spinoff from an activist academy modeled after Marxist community organizer Saul Alinsky and described as teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation.   Obama once funded that academy - the radical Midwest Academy. He has been closely tied to the group's founder, socialist activist Heather Booth.

Booth founded Midwest Academy in the 1970s with her husband, Paul Booth, a founder and the former national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society, the radical 1960s anti-war movement from which William Ayers' domestic Weather Underground terrorist organization splintered.

The Woods Fund, a nonprofit on which Obama served as paid director from 1999 to December 2002, provided capital to the Midwest Academy.  In 1999, Booth's Midwest Academy received $75,000 from the Woods Fund. In 2002, with Obama still serving on the Woods Fund, Midwest received another $23,500 for its Young Organizers Development Program.

Discover the Networks describe Midwest as "teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation, and intimidation.

The keynote speaker at last week's "Moving Wisconsin Forward" rally was John Nichols, who identifies himself as a "progressive" writer.   Nichols co-authored four books and a number of major articles with Marxist activist Robert W. McChesney, founder of the George Soros-funded Free Press.   Free Press openly lobbies for move government control of the news media and Internet. It has been closely tied to the Obama administration.

McChesney has called for the dismantlement "brick-by-brick" of the U.S. capitalist system, with America being rebuilt as a socialist society.   In February 2009 McChesney wrote in a column, "In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick-by-brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles."

Another main Wisconsin protest organizer has been the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest union.   In November, Obama gave the presidential Medal of Freedom – the nation's highest civilian honor – to John Sweeney, the AFL-CIO's president emeritus who retired last year.

Sweeney is a socialist activist and a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, the principal American affiliate of the Socialist International. The DSA has demonstrated a close relationship with Obama over the years.

Activist and author Joel Kotkin, a fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, observed how Sweeney brought communists into his union leadership.

"The public-sector unions have pushed the entire labor movement to the left," he said. "The [SEIU] has embraced organizations with a New Left origin, such as ACORN and Cleveland's Nine to Five, and has even set up its own gay and lesbian caucus. ... The rise of these unions led to the elevation of SEIU's boss, John Sweeney, to head of the labor federation.

These are the people behind the union protests in Wisconsin.  The socialists know the power they will lose if Wisconsin and America succeed.

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