Obama Helped Fund ‘Alinsky Academy’

A Chicago nonprofit on which President Obama served as paid director provided startup capital and later funding to Midwest Academy, an activist organization described as teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation, WND has learned.

Also, in 1998, Obama participated on a panel discussion alongside Midwest Academy founder Heather Booth, an extremist organizer and dedicated disciple of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky.

The Woods Fund, a nonprofit on which Obama served as paid director from 1999 to December 2002, provided startup funding and later capital to the Midwest Academy. WND first reported Obama sat on the Woods Fund board alongside William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization.

Midwest was co-founded by Booth’s husband, Paul Booth, a founder and the former national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society, the radical 1960s anti-war movement from which Ayers’ Weathermen splintered.

In 1999, Booth’s Midwest Academy received $75,000 from the Woods Fund. In 2002, with Obama still serving on the Woods Fund, Midwest received another $23,500 for its Young Organizers Development Program.

Midwest describes itself as “one of the nation’s oldest and best-known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive social change.”

Read More: By Aaron Klein, WND

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Comments

  1. WHY COMMENT, You won't print??

  2. WELL WELL. Hello
    obama is a soldier for radicals !! nothing more.

  3. Lee Blair says:

    Everybody has been warned about BHO. It's always been important to think for oneself and not let others, particularly journalists do it for you. Otherwise we end up where we are now. Polarized and unhappy like at no other time in modern history.

    By the way? Whatever happened to – "It's the economy stupid?"

    Well — I've always maintained that IGNORANCE IS NEVER BLISS!

  4. MichaelG says:

    I have heard of Obama complaining of the status quo of the past. Bit there is a much older status quo that Obama is incorporating along with another failed ideology of the past. Going about getting what Obama wants is a socialistic agenda with Alinsky's tactics. That is what is known as Chicago style political thuggery.

  5. Robert Beaty says:

    The euphemistic name for our illustrious President is "Husein Capone!

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