AFGJ :: Alliance for Global Justice

A look at the clandestine organization behind the fiscal sponsorship of Samidoun

May 02, 2024

Who Are They?

Tucson, AZ based Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) organises left-wing illiberal agitprop activism under the guise of anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism. AFGJ facilitates fiscal sponsorship for several radical left wing causes domestically and beyond America’s borders. AFGJ seeks to destroy liberal democracies, and seeks to do this thru support of anti-American and anti-western global players. AFGJ seeks a non hierarchical new world order in which multipolarity reigns and American primacy dies. To summarize AFGJ seeks to dismantle America and the liberal democracies and individual rights of the western world — they have a treasonous mission and purpose.

It is the mission of the Alliance for Global Justice to achieve social change and economic justice by helping to build a stronger more unified grassroots movement. We recognize that the concentration of wealth and power is the root cause of oppression requiring us to work together across ideologies, issues and communities. The Alliance nurtures organizations seeking fundamental change in international and national conditions that disempower people, create disparities in access to wealth and power, poison the earth, and plunder its resources.
We support locally-based grassroots organizing by sharing political analysis, mobilizing for direct action, monitoring the centers of corporate and government power, expanding channels of communication, and sharing skills and infrastructure. Our commitment to solidarity and to non-hierarchical democratic process enables us to respectfully listen and respond to each other within the movement. — Alliance for Global Justice website

AFGJ has identified four main areas of interwoven struggle for liberation from Empire and for a better, more beautiful world:

Promote Economic Justice
Oppose US Militarism
Promote Real Democracy
Promote Ecological Integrity

What’s Their Origin Story?

Formed in response to the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua. An outgrowth of the Nicaragua Network, which served as the Marxist anti-imperial American-based interference into Nicaraguan politics. AFGJ received its IRS tax exempt status in 1998.

In 1993 we joined many other groups to form the 50 Years Is Enough campaign to create an “unhappy” birthday for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund whose policies were burying the Global South in unsustainable debt. We later became the first grassroots group on the 50 Years Steering Committee and in 1996, when the large environmental and development groups were ready to fold it up, we took over financial and staffing responsibility for the campaign. In 1994 we founded the Campaign for Labor Rights to organize against sweatshop labor violations in Central America and world-wide.
By 1998 it was becoming confusing for activists and donors alike that a group called Nicaragua Network was the “parent” organization for two projects with global reach. We had a contest for a new name and Alliance for Global Justice was the name selected. We incorporated under the new name and when we received IRS designation as a tax-exempt, non-profit, the Nicaragua Network gave up its own legal existence and transferred its assets to AfGJ, becoming a project of the Alliance.

What Do They Support?

AFGJ actively promotes and supports illiberal authoritarian communist regimes, it seek to destroy American hegemony. AFGJ has a history of close ties with Latin American authoritarian regimes. Katherine Hoyt, one of AFGJ’s national coordinators, moved to Nicaragua in the late 1960s and let guerrillas stockpile Molotov cocktails in her dining room. AFGJ has publicly declared support for the Venezuelan Bolivarian socialist regime of Nicolas Maduro, the Nicaraguan communist Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega, and the Cuban communist regime of Raul Castro … Stanisfield Smith writing for the AFGJ has even affirmed the propaganda of the gulag state of North Korea.1 AFGJ actively supports the dismantling of the southern American border. To summarise bluntly, Alliance for Global Justice seeks to support causes that contribute to the destruction of America and western liberal democracies.

Who Funds Them?

An investigative report by The Washington Examiner revealed AFGJs ties to violent extremist groups and groups with ties to listed terrorist organisations. AFGJ did damages control—held a press conference citing right wing media attacks and failed to address concerns. In fact, we’re more committed than ever to pushing back against the forces of imperialism and repression, states AFGJ as it affirms its support for Palestinian people.2 Investigations by OSINT and SOCMINT researcher Andy Lee revealed that AFGJ houses several Tides and Soros funded leftwing organisations in its building, which it owns.

Major contributions reported to the AFGJ on its 2021 Form 990 listed below.3

$5,916,794 from the Tides Center
$3,000,000 from the National Philanthropic Trust
$2,064,000 from the Tides Foundation
$1,999,999 from the JPB Foundation
$500,000 from the Clara Lionel Foundation
$500,000 from the Kolibri Foundation
$450,000 from the Marguerite Casey Foundation
$450,000 from the Women Donors Network
$360,000 from Liz Simons
$350,000 from the Minnesota Freedom Fund
$275,000 from the Greater Houston Community Foundation
$272,760 from the UltraViolet
$250,000 from Caitlin Heising
$225,000 from the Raikes Foundation
$214,000 from the Colorado Health Foundation
$162,000 from the Pink House Foundation
$160,000 from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
$159,661 from NEO Philanthropy
$155,350 from the Foundation for a Just Society
$150,000 from the New Venture Fund
$150,000 from the Tikkun Olam Foundation
$150,000 from the Wallace Global Fund
$147,723 from DC Action Lab LLC
$135,000 from the Solidaire Network
$130,000 from the Peterffy Foundation
$110,000 from the Riff Foundation
$105,000 from the Auburn Theological Society
$105,000 from the Pittsburgh Foundation
$105,000 from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
$100,000 from Good Nation
$100,000 from the Park Foundation
$100,000 from the New York Women's Foundation
$100,000 from the Schmidt Family Foundation
$100,000 from the SP Fund
$100,000 from Wend Il

So, let’s recap. AFGJ has an anti-imperial mission and seeks to erode American hegemony and dismantle capitalism. It does this by using American corporate foundation money and money from American donor advised funds to wage a coordinated agitprop campaign thru the support of radical organizations whose purpose involves the subversion of individual rights + free expression + democracy. The Alliance for Global Justice is using American hegemony and the American capitalist system to dismantle capitalism, to give an edge to non American superpowers. AFGJ has expressed support for Russia in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Many of the entitle saviour activists who operate these progressive agitprop groups possess a myopic vision about their social context in the global landscape as Americans.

Below are the views of the AFGJ on borders and sovereignty, taken from its website. The first statement says Russia should have borders and sovereignty and this justifies military actions against Ukraine and the second statement says America shouldn’t have either because America is bad and imperial and spread its influence and displaced people and therefore it’s okay to subvert America in a Robin Hood karmic act of western saviourism. Ultimately this phenomenon points to a somber realisatiion that the education system has failed North Americans.

“The Russian state, as do other nations, has a right to sovereignty and secure borders.”

“The concern over international terrorism has also been used to export this new style of [American militarised] border enforcement, incarceration and surveillance around the world.”

Smith, Stanisfield. “An Interview with North Koreans.” Alliance for Global Justice (blog), April 7, 2013. https://afgj.org/an-interview-with-north-koreans.

Palestinians are Arabs, who, via Islam, colonised Arabia, the Levant, and parts of Western Asia up to Constantinople. The land that is now called Israel, Gaza, West Bank is the ancestral homeland of Jewish people. Zion is an ancient word for Israel and Zionist is the Jewish attachment to the ancestral land of the Jews. Therefore, Zionism and the formation of Israel is decolonisation and land back, a successful example. Arabs are the colonisers and the settlers, not Jews. A majority of Jews in Israel are Mizrahi Jews, i.e. Jews expelled from Arab countries not European Jews. Arab countries are unwelcoming to and dangerous for Jews.

Courtesy of Influence Watch, based on 2021 IRS 990 filing

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