And supplies them with military-level supplies, equipment and provisions.
Here’s what one Signal message uncovered.
I messaged a group admin asking how my family in NJ could help the Delaney Hall protesters. Within minutes she sent me a supply list and a Venmo donation link.
The supply list wasn’t water bottles. It was P100 respirators (tear gas grade), military-spec impact goggles, welding gloves for picking up hot tear gas canisters, helmets, body armor, and Sudecon chemical decontamination wipes. That’s a military/law enforcement product most people have never heard of.
The Venmo link: @cosechanj. That account belongs to Jenny Garcia. She’s the main organizer of the Delaney Hall protests.
Quoted in the American Prospect, Newsweek, and TIME. Listed as the official press contact.
She is not a volunteer. She is a professional organizer.
Venmo feeds are public. I pulled hers.
Payments labeled “Commissary” (money for detained immigrants to buy food inside the facility). “Commissary / phone accounts fund” (keeping detainees’ phones active). “DSA meeting” (Democratic Socialists of America). “Mutual aid.” “F ICE.”
Same account. Uber rides. Cumbia dance classes. A cafe called Pika’s Fika.
Protest donations and personal spending. One feed. No separation.
So who pays Jenny Garcia?
She holds three titles at three organizations.
Detention Watch Network. DC-based. $7.2 million in assets. Ford Foundation funded.
AFSC. Classified as a church. No public donors. Tides Foundation gave them $221K.
Cosecha NJ. The @cosechanj Venmo name. Files two 990s. Reports $0 in salaries. Every year. Every officer. Nobody gets paid.
Foundation money pays Garcia through DWN and AFSC. She organizes under Cosecha’s name. Cosecha claims to pay nobody.
More coming.
These are not grassroots demonstrators, but bought and paid for Insurrectionists, being paid for destroying property, injuring government personnel and bystanders, and creating mayhem and chaos. The Federal Department of Homeland Security operates these facilities. It is way past time for them to stop letting this happen. They need to start fighting back, with all the methods open to them. Not ONE rioter should be left on the streets. They have non-lethal methods available, specifically water cannons, which can shoot dyed water at the rioters, thereby moving them away AND indelibly identifying any that get away, so they can be picked up later. Every one of these evil insurrectionists needs to be incarcerated in Federal Prison until tried, convicted, and imprisoned for a good long time.
The Feds should also be going after their funding organizations, and taking them down. Freeze ALL their assets, and disband them forever. We should NOT be funding terrorists!!
[By the way, per Andy Ngo, who checked with PayPal, who owns Venmo, they have NO rules against funding terrorists. Readers, if any of you use PayPal OR Venmo, perhaps you should stop. Do you want to be funding terrorists? Same for anyone who owns stock in the company. Maybe you should SELL your stock and urge others to do the same.]