Last week Art Pope was appointed by the UNC Board of Governors, the body that oversees NC's public university system, to the UNC Advisory Committee on Strategic Directions, which decides spending and academic priorities for the UNC system for the next 5 years.
This Thursday (Sept. 27) at 11am, join NC State students and supporters of higher education are picketing Art Pope's speaking event at the Doubletree Hotel (1707 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh).
For more information on Art Pope, see this flyer by Democracy NC.
RSVP to the event on Facebook and spread the word: Art Pope, hands off our higher education!
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In 2011, the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy -- a nonprofit named after the father of Republican benefactor Art Pope, and predominantly funded by Pope's family foundation -- issued a report saying that big donors to universities should have a bigger say in how their money is used.
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Art Pope's powerful conservative political network has long played a lead role in challenging mainstream climate science in North Carolina. Now it's also raging against the related science of sea level rise, using similar tactics of distortion, misrepresentation and just plain bad reporting.
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Republican mega-donor Art Pope once called himself a libertarian. But his money was instrumental to the success of the anti-gay marriage amendment which passed this week in North Carolina, which the state Libertarian Party called "repugnant."
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An activist who has worked with a group financed by leading North Carolina conservative benefactor Art Pope to discredit wind power in the state has been discovered at the center of a plot aimed at subverting the renewable energy industry nationally.
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NC Real Solutions, the ad campaign launched by the Art Pope-backed Americans for Prosperity Foundation and Civitas Institute and largely discredited by the media, has hit the road with a mobile billboard driving across the state. But the message has fallen flat.
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Republican legislative leaders and the propaganda outfits that support them are in overdrive trying to convince voters that the budget the GOP-led General Assembly passed last summer did not damage public schools. There’s the $500,000 television ad campaign from Americans for Prosperity and the Civitas Institute that implies that the budget added teachers to classrooms. The groups are now on a tour promoting the commercial and reinforcing its claims.
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After running deceptive ads about the state budget that the media called "egregious," two Art Pope organizations -- the Americans for Prosperity Foundation and Civitas Institute -- are following it up with a speaking tour. The headline act? A member of a for-profit Tea Party pyramid scheme.
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Right-wing donors like the Koch brothers and Art Pope rail against the use of public money to level the campaign finance playing field. But their use of nonprofit charities -- which benefit from government subsidies -- for political activities is coming under growing scrutiny.
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This week Brave New Foundation hosted the world premiere of its documentary film "Koch Brothers Exposed," which shows how the billionaire brothers who head the Koch Industries oil and chemical conglomerate have built their wealth by using their money to manipulate the political process.
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