The Wall Street Journal 02/28/12 Jessica Firger
“Occupy Groups Get Funding”
A group of business leaders—including Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's ice cream and former Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg—are planning to pour substantial funds into the Occupy Wall Street movement in hopes of sustaining the protests and fostering political change.
Business leaders are planning to give substantial funds to the Occupy Wall Street movement in hopes of sustaining the protests, Jessica Firger reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal.
Their goal is to provide some ballast to an amorphous movement that captured the world's attention with nonstop, overnight protests in dozens of cities but has had trouble regaining momentum since most of those encampments were broken up by police in the past few months.
The latest Occupy supporters call themselves the Movement Resource Group and have raised about $300,000 so far to parcel out in grants to protesters, said Mr. Cohen. Their goal is to raise $1.8 million.
A little more than two-thirds was donated by the Ben & Jerry's Foundation and members of the group's steering committee, which includes Dal Lamagna, founder of the company Tweezerman, entertainment-industry executive Richard Foos and Judy Wicks, founder of the White Dog Café in Philadelphia, along with Messrs. Cohen, Greenfield and Goldberg.
The remainder—about $60,000—came from individual donors, including Norman Lear, a television producer and philanthropist, and Terri Gardner, former president and chief executive of Soft Sheen hair products.
"Many of us have been working for progressive social change," Mr. Cohen, a prominent supporter of liberal causes, said Monday. "There's been a critical ingredient missing."
Of the money raised so far, $150,000 will pay for rent and equipment for an office in New York for the national Occupy movement. An additional $100,000 has been set aside for individual project proposals, and a small portion of the money has been set aside to provide stipends for people Mr. Cohen describes as "core activists.”
Common Sense Review
Liberal rich people who are funding the Occupy Wall Street group seems funny…Apparently they don’t know they are the 1%
It is amazing to me that these educated people think that if you throw money at a social issue will solve the world’s ills. So far what has the Occupy Wall Street accomplished?
Anyone with a little sense knows that there is a group of people who make more money than the majority. Anyone with kids in school, know how expensive it is. Anyone who draws a breath knows how unfair life is.
So their cesspool camp filled with ignorance, marijuana and feces, really hasn’t produced anything nor changed anything…
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