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Corporate Sponsors to "Black Lives Matter": Giving to a "Cause", a "Brand", or Official BLM Organizations
At least 80 companies have collectively pledged over $120 million to "Black Lives Mater" related organizations, and $200 million to internal corporate programs addressing African American advancement through the company. The major industry pledges include:
Apparel: $47 million
Tech: $42.5 million, plus $100 million internal programs
Retail Chains: $11 million, plus $100 million internal programs
And more from Beauty, Food, Gaming, Health, Media companies
Corporate giving programs are pledging to organizations directly affiliated to Black Lives Matter (BLM, BLM Global Foundation, individual BLM chapters, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational, etc). But they are also pledging to groups that are not affiliated, including in Social Justice, Traditional African American advancement groups like Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Black-Owned Businesses, and local groups. In all, there are 47 groups publicly named - many of which are not affiliated to "Black Lives Matter" organization. Additionally, 32 corporate giving programs are pledging to "unidentified" organizations to advance related causes.
Of these companies, 19 corporations have operations, manufacturing, sales, or relations in China. China is notorious for slavery, including child slavery, to date. As a result of the Chinese slavery issue, and other matters in U.S.-China economic tensions, many companies are reviewing their current operations in China, in effort to reduce exposure to related risk.
There are brewing suggestions that China is behind the "Black Lives Matter" initiatives, but no concrete evidence in "open source" (public information) found, as of the date of this podcast. However, China has reached out to Black Lives Matter and Antifa welcoming talks... China has also been attempting to send weapons and weapons parts to the United States, including in Seattle, but those shipments have been blocked and seized by Customs Border Protection (CBP).
This podcast also stresses the differential between "Black Lives Matter" and "Antifa" which, as explained in earlier podcast, are two (2) separate networks, however intermingled on the basis of incidents, initiatives, individuals. The distinction has in no way prevented the predominantly White "Antifa" members from exploiting the "Black Lives Matter" brand in the name of their excessive violence.
This podcast also encourages anyone to denounce the Violence, and be wary of the "semantics game" that can enable continue risks to Public Safety.
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By Velma Anne Ruth, M.Ed.At least 80 companies have collectively pledged over $120 million to "Black Lives Mater" related organizations, and $200 million to internal corporate programs addressing African American advancement through the company. The major industry pledges include:
Apparel: $47 million
Tech: $42.5 million, plus $100 million internal programs
Retail Chains: $11 million, plus $100 million internal programs
And more from Beauty, Food, Gaming, Health, Media companies
Corporate giving programs are pledging to organizations directly affiliated to Black Lives Matter (BLM, BLM Global Foundation, individual BLM chapters, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational, etc). But they are also pledging to groups that are not affiliated, including in Social Justice, Traditional African American advancement groups like Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Black-Owned Businesses, and local groups. In all, there are 47 groups publicly named - many of which are not affiliated to "Black Lives Matter" organization. Additionally, 32 corporate giving programs are pledging to "unidentified" organizations to advance related causes.
Of these companies, 19 corporations have operations, manufacturing, sales, or relations in China. China is notorious for slavery, including child slavery, to date. As a result of the Chinese slavery issue, and other matters in U.S.-China economic tensions, many companies are reviewing their current operations in China, in effort to reduce exposure to related risk.
There are brewing suggestions that China is behind the "Black Lives Matter" initiatives, but no concrete evidence in "open source" (public information) found, as of the date of this podcast. However, China has reached out to Black Lives Matter and Antifa welcoming talks... China has also been attempting to send weapons and weapons parts to the United States, including in Seattle, but those shipments have been blocked and seized by Customs Border Protection (CBP).
This podcast also stresses the differential between "Black Lives Matter" and "Antifa" which, as explained in earlier podcast, are two (2) separate networks, however intermingled on the basis of incidents, initiatives, individuals. The distinction has in no way prevented the predominantly White "Antifa" members from exploiting the "Black Lives Matter" brand in the name of their excessive violence.
This podcast also encourages anyone to denounce the Violence, and be wary of the "semantics game" that can enable continue risks to Public Safety.