Fiscal Sponsorship Spotlight: Money to Movements
WTO Protesters to Donate Class Action Settlement Funds through
‘Money to Movements’
In a landmark decision for First Amendment rights, a Seattle civil jury found that police acted unconstitutionally in arresting more than 175 peaceful protesters in downtown Seattle’s Westlake Park, as part of the World Trade Organization protests in 1999, which drew more than 50,000 protestors. Now members of that class-action lawsuit have joined forces to ensure that a portion of settlement funds will be used help to fund organizations carrying on the work of the global justice movement through the Money to Movements project, which is proudly fiscally sponsored by the Agape Foundation. (more…)