In today's Vortex that I'll embed below, you'll see highlighted a DC-area grantee called EmpowerDC. In addition to the fact that EmpowerDC is giving prostitutes "advice" for plying their trade, I learned some disturbing facts about them that you can read in these posts.
Giving aid and comfort to prostitutes is nothing new for area CCHD grantees. Remember this? Three years ago, this Baltimore ACORN office, a grantee of the Baltimore CCHD, was caught giving their sage advice to reporters posing as pimps.
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Showing posts with label EmpowerDC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EmpowerDC. Show all posts
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
ReformCCHDNow Rebukes EmpowerDC
I've written a bit on EmpowerDC, the left-wing "community organizing" bunch that seems to have an overly cozy relationship with St Augustine Church in DC. ReformCCHD now, a coalition of organizations that are faithful to authentic Catholic teachings (including us) are demanding that EmpowerDC return the $50k grant it received from the CCHD. RCN has issued a press release to that effect, to which we agree. We'd only add that St Augustine Church must hand to EmpowerDC its eviction notice immediately.
In the meantime, please boycott all upcoming CCHD collections.
In the meantime, please boycott all upcoming CCHD collections.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
ALL Releases Report On 2011-2012 CCHD Grant Recipients
On Saturday October 13, Michael Hichborn of American Life League was a guest on blog-talk radio. During that interview he announced the upcoming release of ALL's latest report on the CCHD grantees. He highlighted some of the more blatant violations of CCHD guidelines by several grantees. You can listen to the program here.
American Life League has just published its latest report on the CCHD grantees on the Reform CCHD Now site. On that main page you'll notice bar graphs to the right. Note that during these past few years the total number of grantees has been decreasing. Conversely though, note that the number of grantees in violation of CCHD guidelines has been increasing.
On the main page, click on the "Reports on Grantees" tab. You'll see an introduction, the main report itself and a moral theologian's review of the report. The theologian is Dr. William Marshner of Christendom College. The main report lists the problematic grantees; the names are hyperlinked to take you to the appropriate detail.
A rather troubling DC-are grantee is Empower DC. Hichborn talked a bit of this one on the radio program. As you look at the "problem" section at the top of the page, please note that EmpowerDC itself took these anti-life positions; they weren't merely partners with other organizations that did so (although that itself would have been problematic to say the least). In his theologian's report, Dr Marshner stated that the act of granting funds to EmpowerDC placed CCHD - and thus the Church itself - in a position of formally cooperating with grave moral evil. But there's more!
On July 17th I did a blog piece on EmpowerDC and its utter unworthiness of receiving CCHD funds and found even more unsavory alliances. I was surprised by what I discovered in doing my research: that EmpowerDC and St Augustine Catholic Church in DC use the same street address. If you listen closely to the radio program, you'll hear that Hichborn wasn't aware of that unsavory fact. Now consider - without the knowledge of the shared address, Dr. Marshner concluded that the donation of money to EmpowerDC placed the Church in formal cooperation with grave moral evil. Now we know that not only did the Church contribute $50k to this anti-life bunch, but they lent use of a Church address to the same. Might they also have lent office space, staff etc to them? What that means, ladies and gentlemen, is that the degree of formal cooperation is even more profound than originally realized.
Within the next day or two I will be posting more on this. Of course I reiterate my clarion call to abolish the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. All November collections to CCHD should be boycotted.
American Life League has just published its latest report on the CCHD grantees on the Reform CCHD Now site. On that main page you'll notice bar graphs to the right. Note that during these past few years the total number of grantees has been decreasing. Conversely though, note that the number of grantees in violation of CCHD guidelines has been increasing.
On the main page, click on the "Reports on Grantees" tab. You'll see an introduction, the main report itself and a moral theologian's review of the report. The theologian is Dr. William Marshner of Christendom College. The main report lists the problematic grantees; the names are hyperlinked to take you to the appropriate detail.
A rather troubling DC-are grantee is Empower DC. Hichborn talked a bit of this one on the radio program. As you look at the "problem" section at the top of the page, please note that EmpowerDC itself took these anti-life positions; they weren't merely partners with other organizations that did so (although that itself would have been problematic to say the least). In his theologian's report, Dr Marshner stated that the act of granting funds to EmpowerDC placed CCHD - and thus the Church itself - in a position of formally cooperating with grave moral evil. But there's more!
On July 17th I did a blog piece on EmpowerDC and its utter unworthiness of receiving CCHD funds and found even more unsavory alliances. I was surprised by what I discovered in doing my research: that EmpowerDC and St Augustine Catholic Church in DC use the same street address. If you listen closely to the radio program, you'll hear that Hichborn wasn't aware of that unsavory fact. Now consider - without the knowledge of the shared address, Dr. Marshner concluded that the donation of money to EmpowerDC placed the Church in formal cooperation with grave moral evil. Now we know that not only did the Church contribute $50k to this anti-life bunch, but they lent use of a Church address to the same. Might they also have lent office space, staff etc to them? What that means, ladies and gentlemen, is that the degree of formal cooperation is even more profound than originally realized.
Within the next day or two I will be posting more on this. Of course I reiterate my clarion call to abolish the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. All November collections to CCHD should be boycotted.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
EmpowerDC - Recipient of DC's CCHD Funds
EmpowerDC has been a regular recipient of CCHD funding from the Archdiocese of Washington. They are an organization that claims to be for grassroots organizing for the plight of poor people. As with many recipients of CCHD funding (and thus of Catholic donations) questionable connections abound. Although they do have a website, I find that their Facebook page lists their mission statement, address and key players in one succinct place. As you look down their list of campaigns on the right side, their goals all have to do with getting the DC government to spend more and more money - money that the DC government just doesn't have. Now recall what I posted earlier about the Cloward-Piven Strategy. You see it in play here - this is a key feature of Alinskyan organizing, whether or not the EmpowerDC folks are conscious of it.
Daniel Del Pielago, their "quality education organizer", has given workshops sponsored by DC Jobs for Justice and Washington Peace Center. As you look to the left of the WPC webpage, you'll see some planned events - including Bank of America's Week to Pay. We all know from the riot that "community organizers" (really labor-union types) staged on the front lawn of a Bank of America official in Chevy Chase what "payment" can entail. I have to admit that I am somewhat intrigued about the idea of a "Sleepful Protest". Does that means the protest is boring? A perusal of the coalitions of DC Jobs for Justice lists not only EmpowerDC but other sordid little cabals such as: DC Democratic Socialists of America, DC Trans Coaltion, Feminism Without Borders and sundry big-labor unions.
On Empower's "grassrootsmedia" page, we see a link to DC's Independent Media Center. Click on that. On the left side we see "calendars and feeds". Scroll down to "Machination.org's clippings" to see a most ominous title: Why We Must Ration Healthcare. It is a New York Times op-ed piece, written in 2009 by Peter Singer, the notorious anti-life Princeton professor. This is indicative of how EmpowerDC values (or doesn't value) the lives of the ill and elderly, allowing for imperious bureaucrats to determine who receives medical care. So much for championing the disenfranchised.
EmpowerDC has another connection to another entity - one that I hope not too many of these Alinskyan organizations have. It's so unique that I was taken aback. If you look at Empower's Facebook page, you'll see that its street address is 1419 V Street, NW in DC. That address is identical to that of St Augustine Catholic Church in DC.
My, my! Doesn't this just raise a bunch of questions?
Daniel Del Pielago, their "quality education organizer", has given workshops sponsored by DC Jobs for Justice and Washington Peace Center. As you look to the left of the WPC webpage, you'll see some planned events - including Bank of America's Week to Pay. We all know from the riot that "community organizers" (really labor-union types) staged on the front lawn of a Bank of America official in Chevy Chase what "payment" can entail. I have to admit that I am somewhat intrigued about the idea of a "Sleepful Protest". Does that means the protest is boring? A perusal of the coalitions of DC Jobs for Justice lists not only EmpowerDC but other sordid little cabals such as: DC Democratic Socialists of America, DC Trans Coaltion, Feminism Without Borders and sundry big-labor unions.
On Empower's "grassrootsmedia" page, we see a link to DC's Independent Media Center. Click on that. On the left side we see "calendars and feeds". Scroll down to "Machination.org's clippings" to see a most ominous title: Why We Must Ration Healthcare. It is a New York Times op-ed piece, written in 2009 by Peter Singer, the notorious anti-life Princeton professor. This is indicative of how EmpowerDC values (or doesn't value) the lives of the ill and elderly, allowing for imperious bureaucrats to determine who receives medical care. So much for championing the disenfranchised.
EmpowerDC has another connection to another entity - one that I hope not too many of these Alinskyan organizations have. It's so unique that I was taken aback. If you look at Empower's Facebook page, you'll see that its street address is 1419 V Street, NW in DC. That address is identical to that of St Augustine Catholic Church in DC.
My, my! Doesn't this just raise a bunch of questions?
- Neither St. Augustine nor EmpowerDC are up front about their shared address on their respective websites. Why?
- The DC real estate data base makes clear that the usage code is "religious". How is that justified with EmpowerDC's presence?
- Do any St Augustine staff members hold positions with EmpowerDC (and vice versa, too)?
- Under St Augustine's "social committee" webpage, we see WIN, that is, Washington Interfaith Network, listed.
- Why is that the only activity listed without its own contact person?
- What is the nature of the relationship between this parish's WIN and EmpowerDC?
- For the information of this blog's readers, WIN is an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation, founded by Saul Alinsky himself.
A little "aside" about St Augustine's - they have "liturgical dancers". That's a liturgical no-no.
I mention all this because next month, the weekend of Aug 11-12, the second collection will be for "Catholic Communication and Human Development". Yes, they're mish-mashing it again this year with another collection (Catholic Communications). It seems that they're trying to disguise the name a bit so you won't know that this is a collection to be boycotted. Please don't give one red cent to this collection. Give that money to a truly deserving charity.
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