AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter has $42 million in assets
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NEW YORK (AP) — The foundation started by organizers of the Black Lives Matter movement is still worth tens of millions of dollars, after spending more than $37 million on grants, real estate, consultants, and other expenses, according to tax documents filed with the IRS.

This is what happens when you donate to a lib organization, they’ve definitely done a few good things w the money but really weird uses including basically a content house, paying consultants millions who were family / closely related to the people in charge of the $ and having a ton of money in stonks

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Becoming part of the NGO-industrial complex won't "decolonize" anything, it just means you either sell out or start scamming the people who actually care.

    Not trying to sound harsh but this is essentially how the system absorbs genuine grassroots activists and turns them into cogs. I think Adam Johnson has made comments this was his experience working for some prison abolition/reform NGO in San Francisco as well.