Corporate-Funding

Moral Majority Founded - Corporate Agenda Masked by Religious Cultural Warfare

1979-06-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

In June 1979, Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority during a meeting at a Holiday Inn in Lynchburg, Virginia, with Weyrich coining the term “moral majority.” The organization represented a strategic alliance between corporate interests and religious conservatives, …

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National Right to Work Committee Founded to Coordinate Anti-Union Corporate Lobbying

1955-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Fred A. Hartley—co-sponsor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act that enabled state right-to-work laws—founds the National Right to Work Committee (NRTWC) as a coordinating organization for corporate anti-union lobbying efforts. The organization brings together “hard-core conservatives, anti-communist …

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Mont Pelerin Society Founded with Volker Fund Support, Launching International Free-Market Network

1947-04-10 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

Friedrich Hayek organizes the founding conference of the Mont Pelerin Society in Switzerland, establishing an international network of free-market economists and intellectuals that becomes the intellectual foundation for neoliberal economic policy worldwide. The William Volker Fund provides crucial …

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Arkansas and Florida Become First States to Pass Right-to-Work Laws Through Racist, Anti-Semitic Campaign

1944-11-07 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Arkansas and Florida become the first two states to enact “right-to-work” laws on November 7, 1944, following campaigns led by Vance Muse and the Christian American Association that explicitly frame anti-union legislation as essential for maintaining racial segregation and Jim Crow labor …

Vance Muse Christian American Association Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation Southern oil companies William Ruggles +1 more right-to-work labor-suppression structural-racism anti-semitism jim-crow +1 more

American Enterprise Association Moves to Washington to Oppose New Deal, Precursor to AEI Think Tank

1943-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

The American Enterprise Association (AEA) moves its main offices from New York City to Washington, D.C. in 1943 to more effectively oppose the New Deal and capitalize on Congress’s need for help making sense of its vastly increased wartime portfolio. AEA was founded in 1938 by a group of New …

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