Thread: Help Me Complain to the Marines - No Money to La Raza!

As many of you have seen, the Marines are corporate sponsors/donors to La Raza. I called the community relations department at the Marine Corp and was treated poorly...the lady was not at all interested in what I was saying. She asked me for proof which I didn't have at the moment.

I have provided a link ot the Marines website that gives a lot of contact info. I have also found some great backup documentation that can be used to demonstrate La Raza's motives.

http://www.marines.mil/comrel/120day.nsf/ContactUs

Please contact the Marine Corp any way you can and POLITELY complain about their sponsorship of La Raza. Please do not get angry at the people you deal with so that our requests are not filed in the "bunch of crazies" file.

Thank you and please post what you find. Also thanks to discoverthenetwork.org for the info!

http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/group ... ?grpid=153

Here are two of my points to use if you want - the rest is from the website above:

1.) La Raza means "The Race" in spanish. I don't think tax payor dollars should go to any group with a name like that.

2.) The Marine Corp is the ONLY military service to give money to La Raza. Maybe there is a reason for that?

-Largest Hispanic organization in the U.S.

-Lobbies for racial preferences, bilingual education, stricter hate crimes laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens

-Named as a key member of the Open Borders Lobby in the pamphlet The Open Borders Lobby and the Nation's Security After 9/11, written by William Hawkins and Erin Anderson

-Principally funded by the Ford Foundation

Currently the largest Hispanic organization in the U.S., the National Council of La Raza ("the Race") was established originally in 1968 as the Southwest Council of La Raza, for the purpose of "improv[ing] life opportunities for Hispanic Americans."The group was initiated by a research project funded by the Ford Foundation. Today La Raza has more than 270 formal affiliates serving 40 states, and a broader nationwide network of more than 30,000 groups and individuals who reach at least 3.5 million Hispanics in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Notwithstanding this large base of support, more than two-thirds of La Raza's funding comes from corporations and foundations, and much of the rest stems from government sources. Between 2001 and 2003, the Ford Foundation alone gave La Raza some $9.83 million, including a single grant of $8.05 million.

In turn, each year La Raza grants large amounts of this money to "Hispanic cornmunity-based organizations," some of which are quite obscure. Of the $1.3 million it gave out in 1996, for instance, $126,000 went to El Hogar del Nifio, $9,000 went to Chicanos por la Causa, and $30,000 was earmarked for Cabrillo Economic Development.

La Raza's politics are at the far left of the political spectrum. Its Policy Analysis Center lobbies for affirmative action, bilingual education, stricter hate crimes laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens. La Raza characterizes increased immigration control as a violation of civil rights, and the reduction of government handouts to immigrants as "a disgrace to American values."

La Raza was a signatory - along with more than 120 other leftwing organizations - to a 2000 campaign to increase the minimum wage. La Raza was also a signatory to a March 17, 2003 letter exhorting members of the U.S. Congress "to oppose the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (DSEA), also known as 'Patriot [Act] II,'" which was then under consideration. These signatories stated that the new legislation "fail[ed] to respect our time-honored liberties," and "contain[ed] a multitude of new and sweeping law enforcement and intelligence gathering powers . . . that would severely dilute, if not undermine, many basic constitutional rights." In addition, La Raza has given its organizational endorsement to the Community Resolution to Protect Civil Liberties campaign, a project of the California-based Coalition for Civil Liberties (CCL). The CLL tries to influence city councils to pass resolutions creating Civil Liberties Safe Zones; that is, to be non-compliant with the provisions of the Patriot Act.

La Raza has also endorsed the December 18, 2001 "Statement of Solidarity with Migrants," which was drawn up by the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The statement called upon the U.S. government to "[r]ecognize the contribution of immigrant workers, students, and families, and [to] end discriminatory policies passed on the basis of legal status in the wake of September 11"; to "[g]uarantee and provide relief to the loved ones of the victims and those unemployed in the World Trade Center attacks, regardless of immigration status, without intimidation or threat of deportation"; and to adopt "the Plan of Action from the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance" - which was largely a forum for angry anti-American and anti-Israel tirades.

Furthermore, La Raza endorsed the Civil Liberties Restoration Act (CLRA) of 2004, which was introduced by Democratic Senators Ted Kennedy, Patrick Leahy, Russell Feingold, Richard Durbin, and Jon Corzine, and Democratic Representatives Howard Berman and William Delahunt. The CLRA was designed to roll back, in the name of protecting civil liberties, vital national-security policies that had been adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

La Raza is also a sponsoring organization of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which seeks to secure ever-expanding rights and civil liberties protections for undocumented workers, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and policy reforms that diminish or eliminate restrictions on immigration.

In addition to the Ford Foundation, La Raza also receives funding from: the American Express Foundation; the AT&T Foundation; the Carnegie Corporation of New York; the Annie E. Casey Foundation; the Fannie Mae Foundation; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the Joyce Foundation; the W. K. Kellogg Foundation; the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Open Society Institute; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the Rockefeller Foundation; and the Verizon Foundation

Anyone interested in helping me complain??? I thought many of you were upset by this?

PLEASE HELP!

wait until i tell my marine buddy.... he's a cuban and is peeved at this stuff. im on board.

Yea I can help. However I am not doing polite letters anymore. The "polite" dance around the bush letters that have been going out to the four corners of the earth are (in my opinion) not getting us very far....


Letter sent:

Dear Sirs

It has come to my attention that the U S Marines contribute to militant groups like La Raza. And I find it appauling that our own military is sponsoring a group with such political views of our country, our laws and our citizens. The American public is outraged by the funding our military has given to La Raza and strongly urges the U S Marines to withdrawal further support of an organization that clearly has such anti American politics and beliefs. To do so is a traitoris act against the American people.

1.) La Raza means "The Race" in spanish. I don't think tax payer dollars should go to any group with a name like that.

2.) The Marine Corp is the ONLY military service to give money to La Raza. Maybe there is a reason for that?

Named as a key member of the Open Borders Lobby in the pamphlet The Open Borders Lobby and the Nation's Security After 9/11, written by William Hawkins and Erin Anderson

La Raza was also a signatory to a March 17, 2003 letter exhorting members of the U.S. Congress "to oppose the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (DSEA), also known as 'Patriot [Act] II,'" which was then under consideration. These signatories stated that the new legislation "fail[ed] to respect our time-honored liberties," and "contain[ed] a multitude of new and sweeping law enforcement and intelligence gathering powers . . . that would severely dilute, if not undermine, many basic constitutional rights." In addition, La Raza has given its organizational endorsement to the Community Resolution to Protect Civil Liberties campaign, a project of the California-based Coalition for Civil Liberties (CCL). The CLL tries to influence city councils to pass resolutions creating Civil Liberties Safe Zones; that is, to be non-compliant with the provisions of the Patriot Act.

La Raza is also a sponsoring organization of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which seeks to secure ever-expanding rights and civil liberties protections for undocumented workers, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and policy reforms that diminish or eliminate restrictions on immigration.

Furthermore, La Raza endorsed the Civil Liberties Restoration Act (CLRA) of 2004, which was introduced by Democratic Senators Ted Kennedy, Patrick Leahy, Russell Feingold, Richard Durbin, and Jon Corzine, and Democratic Representatives Howard Berman and William Delahunt. The CLRA was designed to roll back, in the name of protecting civil liberties, vital national-security policies that had been adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks

In addition, La Raza has given its organizational endorsement to the Community Resolution to Protect Civil Liberties campaign, a project of the California-based Coalition for Civil Liberties (CCL). The CLL tries to influence city councils to pass resolutions creating Civil Liberties Safe Zones; that is, to be non-compliant with the provisions of the Patriot Act.

The following websites are but a small example of what their true agenda is.
http://www.aztlan.net/la_gran_marcha.htm
http://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/aztlan.html

Sincerely

May I make a suggestion?

Contacting the marines is one option, and makes sense for individuals to try.

To have additional impact, I suggest people contact their local VFW's and ask them to help. You can also contact the state and national offices of the VFW, POW groups, etc.

This way one call or letter will go to agroup of people, veterans, probably some former marines, who may have contacts within the marine corps.

The truth is, calls to the general marine corps phone line will go to low level staff who in 9 out of 10 time could care less. They don't have any power and their imediate superior has no power. It's just more work for them.

This is a problem the top brass could solve quickly, if they wanted to or were pressured too. The funding is probably to keep Hispanic groups from squaking about them recruiting Hispanics for the marine corps. Or perhaps a former La Raza is now a top Marine officer.

There's always a reason for everyting...

Steve

As many of you have seen, the Marines are corporate sponsors/donors to La Raza.

What I don't understand is how the Marines can donate some of their funding when Congress has slated that money for their needs. Our armed forces shouldn't be pandering to private organizations. Geez, talk about a misappropriation of funds!

Yes Rock that was my thoughts too. As well as a political group. It would seem to me that such support would be prohibited.

Is it part of a Marine fund drive? I used to head up the fundraising in my group in the military way back when. We gave money to one of many organizations from our paychecks. They just may be one of their charities.

As many of you have seen, the Marines are corporate sponsors/donors to La Raza.

Since the word 'corporate' is in the quote, I assumed it wasn't just GIs making a simple donation. I thought it might have been coming from the Marine Corps itself.