Paid Protesters in Cleveland

Here's more info on the group that paid them I Ferguson...

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7855

In the summer of 2014, MORE launched a highly incendiary initiative called “Justice for Mike Brown,” named in memory of a black teenager who had been shot and killed by a white police officer on August 9th in Ferguson, Missouri. In the aftermath of the incident, MORE helped advance a false narrative which stated that the officer had killed Brown in cold blood while the latter's hands were raised in the air to indicate peaceful, submissive surrender. The organization was also a major force in leading a long series of contentious, sometimes violent, protests demanding that “justice” be served in that case. Further, MORE worked aggressively to free those pro-Brown demonstrators who had been jailed for acts of vandalism, arson, looting, assault, and rioting. When compelling ballistic, eyewitness, and forensic evidence eventually indicated that Brown in fact had assaulted the officer and tried to steal his gun just prior to the fatal shooting, MORE's fanatical rage over the incident was undiminished.

Also in 2014, MORE paid at least 80 individuals and organizations to participate in the Ferguson protests. Some of those protesters received $5,000 per month. Much of that money derived from the billionaire financier George Soros, who, according to the Washington Times, “gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations.”MORE is an organizational member of several national and local activist networks, including the Center for Popular Democracy, Missouri Jobs with Justice, the Missouri Organizing Collaborative, the New Economy Coalition, Rising Tide North America, and Right to the City.MORE's executive director is the former SEIU organizer Jeff Ordower, who previously headed ACORN's Midwest operations. In his online biography, Ordower states that he was “one of a group of founders of the Chicago-based organization Gender Just, which merged queer, class and racial justice.”

According to a Statement of Revenue that MORE provided to the IRS, in 2012 the organization received $21,460 in government grants.

For additional information on MORE, click here.
 

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