Loading ...Homeland Security awards $20 million in grants to police, mental health networks, universities, churches and school districts to help identify Americans as potential ‘extremists’
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on September 6 that $20 million in federal grants (your tax dollars) will be handed out to 34 organizations to “prevent targeted violence and terrorism.”
Since today is the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, you might think these 34 organizations will be focused on al-Qaeda, ISIS or the Iranian Republican Guard Corps. But you would be wrong. They are focused on Americans who dissent from the prevailing narratives coming out of the federal government and its collaborating partners in the corporate media and major social media platforms.
Whether it’s Covid and vaccines, the war in Ukraine, immigration, the Second Amendment, LGBTQ ideology and child-gender confusion, the integrity of our elections, or the issue of protecting life in the womb, you are no longer allowed to hold dissenting opinions and voice them publicly in America. If you do, your own government will take note and consider you a potential “violent extremist” and terrorist.
Recipients highlighted by name, grant amount and goals of each organization will accomplish………..
Who would have guessed?
John McCain Institute?
$770,610.00
Boise State University $260,000
Cherokee Nation $290,000
Colorado Information Analysis Center, Colorado Department of Public Safety $775,720
Connecticut Center for School Safety and Crisis Preparation/ Western Connecticut State University $362,665
Education Services District 123 (Washington) $1,185,153.00
Hampton University?(Hampton, VA) $150,000
Health Quality Partners of Southern California? $231,859.00
John Jay College $126,764.00
Michigan State Police Michigan Intelligence Operations Center $425,845.00
Minnesota Department of Public Safety Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension $700,659.00
Minneapolis Health Department $287,147.00
Mississippi Office of Homeland Security $658,746.00
New York Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management $296,566.00
One World Strong $1,140,067.00
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office $600,000.00
Parents for Peace $832,000.00
Search for Common Ground $505,097.00
Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League $530,000.00
University of Buffalo, Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention $233,955.00
University of California, Irvine $684,006.00
University of Colorado Denver $606,624.00
University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Medicine $981,916.00
University of Texas, El Paso $296,806.00
The University of Vermont $943,976.00
Urban Rural Action $799,201.00
Xavier University $54,000.00
Innovation grants
American University Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab $784,276.00
Boston Children’s Hospital $820,990.00
Columbia University $820,332.00
Institute for Strategic Dialogue $817,129.52
John McCain Institute $770,610.00
Peoria Regional Office of Education #48 $691,610.00
The University of Colorado Boulder $868,875.00
University of North Dakota $386,682.78
Columbia University grant request seems particularly inventive and makes me curious as to whether CU even has to “write the stories down” or can they just “think of them in their heads”?? The writer of the grant application deserves credit for writing such a story and obtaining ~$800K of taxpayer cash for such creativity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Columbia University will design an interactive program focused on storytelling for educators and educational staff to learn about strategies to engage in story creation.
The project will involve researching, developing, and presenting stories.
THE PROJECT WILL INVOLVE RESEARCHING, DEVELOPING AND PRESENTING STORIES (worth repeating so no one misses this)…..
The project will focus on educational displacement in physical, virtual, and social spaces of learning within and beyond schools.
It also will include curating and co-creating educator stories of adapting to challenging situations, supporting the storytelling of educators who bring unifying narratives from their local communities, and leading the sharing of these stories at Teachers College, Columbia University.
The program will study and integrate protective storytelling by activating educator voices to amplify protective factors against targeted violence.