Billionaire backers were behind the nationwide “Workers Over Billionaires” protest on Labor Day, which took aim at the Trump administration’s policies and called for an end to what organizers described as a “billionaire takeover.”
More than 1,000 protests across the country on Monday drew over half a million people, according to May Day Strong, the coalition that organized the events. Despite the protests being promoted as grassroots movements of working-class Americans, one of the coalition’s central organizers — the Working Families Organization Inc. — is itself heavily funded by billionaires, including the Soros family.
The Working Families Organization — a 501(c)(4) nonprofit — and its project, Organized Power In Numbers, were key members of the May Day Strong coalition.
“The Billionaires are taking over the government and using it against us. Whether they get away with it is up to us,” the Organized Power In Numbers website says. “We cannot let this chaos and war on working-class people paralyze us. They have the money, but we have the people.” (RELATED: Democrats Are Reportedly Paying $8,000 A Month To Rent Fake Friends Online)
Yet, the Open Society Foundations, founded by billionaire megadonor George Soros, has doled out $23,700,000 to the Working Families Organization since 2016, according to the foundation’s website.
The organization has also received $950,000 since 2021 from Democracy Fund Voice, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit funded by billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, tax filings show. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s Open Philanthropy also gave $1.44 million to the Working Families Organization in 2019, and another $1.5 million in 2021.
The Working Families Organization has also received millions from Democrat-aligned “dark money” groups, which funnel hard-to-track dollars into liberal political organizations and advocacy groups. For example, the Tides Foundation has directed over $65 million to the group since 2018, while the Sixteen Thirty Fund has also contributed hundreds of thousands to the group, according to financial disclosures.
Corporate media outlets largely overlooked the billionaire ties of rally organizers, with The Washington Post describing Organized Power In Numbers as a “local worker protection group” in its coverage of the protests.
Several prominent Democrats joined the “Workers Over Billionaires” rallies, including Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who demanded “no federal troops in Chicago!” in response to the president’s threats to deploy the National Guard to address rampant crime in the city. Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna of California also made an appearance at a protest in New Hampshire.
Neither the Working Families Organization nor Organized Power In Numbers responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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