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<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://yyy.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/10/proud-boys-far-right-<b>givesendgo</b>-christian-fundraising-site</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">guk</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>proud Boys and other far-right groups raise millions via Christian funding site</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This article is more than 5 months old</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Revealed: groups banned from other sites fundraising on GiveSendGo as data breach identifies high-dollar donors</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was arrested on 4 January, a fundraiser billed as a ‘defense fund’ made $113,000 in just four days.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jason Wilson</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">@jason_a_w</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sat 10 Apr 2021 0</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A data breach from Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo has revealed that millions of dollars have been raised on the site for far-right causes and groups, many of whom are banned from raising funds on other platforms.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chats indicate white supremacists are aiming to leverage the group’s success in recruiting disillusioned supporters of former President Donald Trump and the ‘QAnon’ conspiracy movement.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[How the far-right group ‘Oath Enforcers’ plans to harass political enemies</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Read more]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It also identifies previously anonymous high-dollar donors to far-right actors, some of whom enjoy positions of wealth, power or public responsibility.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some of the biggest beneficiaries have been members of groups such as the Proud Boys, designated as a terrorist group in Canada, many of whose fundraising efforts were directly related to the 6 January attack on the United States Capitol.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The breach, shared with journalists by transparency group <b>Distributed Denial of Secrets,</b> shows the site was used for a wide range of legitimate charitable purposes, such as crowdfunding medical bills, aid projects and religious missions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the site’s permissive stance towards far-right actors meant groups who had been banned from other fundraising platforms and payment processors following episodes of hate speech and violence have also used the platform.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Across at least 11 crowdfunding campaigns associated with the Proud Boys, members of the group, including some now facing conspiracy charges related to the Capitol attack, raised over $375,000. Some of these fundraisers netted large amounts of money in a short period.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>After the Proud Boys chairman, Enrique Tarrio, was arrested on 4 January on charges related to firearms and the vandalism of a black church at a previous rally, a fundraiser billed as a “defense fund” made $113,000 in just four days.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>A large proportion of that money came from a number of high-dollar donors who elected to be anonymous on the website, but whose identifying details were nevertheless preserved by GiveSend</b>Go.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The anonymous donations included $1,000 from an email address associated with<b> Gabe Carrera, a Florida-based personal injury lawyer who bills himself as the attorney who rides</b>. Another $1,000 which came to Tarrio was associated with an email address belonging to Paul C Gill, a Honolulu-based Hawaiian Airlines employee and former pilot who has previously made donations to Donald Trump’s campaigns and to the Republican party, and who has offered public political commentary in the form of letters to the editor in local newspapers.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of Tarrio’s donors, none immediately responded to requests for comment except for Gerardo G Gonzalez, who anonymously donated $1,000 to Tarrio on 7 January.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Public records show that Florida-based Gonzalez is a former pharmacist who owns at least six properties in Miami Beach and Homestead, Florida. His apartments, apartment buildings and an acreage lot have an assessed value in excess of $2.4m, and in prior decades has sold other properties worth millions more.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In a telephone conversation, Gonzalez said that his support of the Proud Boys was motivated by his belief that “there is no systemic racism in this country”, and his opposition to “BLM and Antifa” who he said represented “the real extremism” in the United States. He also used derogatory terms for Latinos and Democrats.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other Proud Boy fundraisers raised large amounts, and attracted a similar range of high-value anonymous donations.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Following the Capitol riots, a fundraiser in the name of “<b>Medical Assistance to DC Proud Boy victims</b>” made $106,107 on just 6 and 7 January. One anonymous donation for $5,000 was associated with an email address belonging to Ou Yin Lu, a Hacienda Heights, California, resident and businesswoman who had previously donated $14,640 to Trump’s campaign funds, the Republican National Committee and a former California state representative Bob Huff during the 2020 campaign funding cycle.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Also, after charges were laid on the Proud Boys organizer Joe Biggs for his alleged role in the Capitol attack, an anonymous donation for $1,000 came from an email address belonging to a New York woman whose social media accounts list her as a state-employed special education teacher. Overall, Biggs raised over $6,000 on the site.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other Proud Boy-related fundraisers included one for <b>North Carolina Proud Boy, Jeremy Bertino, also known as Noble Beard, who was stabbed at a contentious rally in Washington DC</b> on 12 December. Between 16 and 19 December, the effort netted $61,355.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Several parallel fundraisers sought to finance travel and equipment for Proud Boys who sought to attend the 6 January rally in person.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Two separate fundraisers asked patrons to fund protective gear and communications equipment for regional Proud Boys chapters, raising $4,876 and $12,900 respectively.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Later, fundraisers were mounted in the name of individual activists who are now facing serious charges arising from the events of 6 January.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One that netted $6,475 in just one day was for the benefit of the Washington state Proud Boy and national elder Ethan Nordean also known as Rufio Panman. Another for Nick Ochs, the self-described leader of the Proud Boys’ Hawaiian chapter, brought in $19,687 between 8 and 13 January.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Candyce Kelshall, the president of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies-Vancouver, who at at <b>Simon Fraser University researches violent transnational social movements,</b> said that far-right crowdfunding on GiveSendGo was just “the tip of the iceberg”, and similar efforts were happening across up to 54 other crowdfunding sites that her research had revealed.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She said, however, that GiveSendGo was “particularly insidious” due to its presentation of such crowdfunding in the guise of religion-based charity.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to a report from USA Today, the Proud Boys were the recipients of <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/05/04/proud-boys-chinese-americans-community-support-donations/7343111002/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">a flood of donations</a> after they were involved in Washington, D.C. street skirmishes in late December -- just weeks before the Jan. 6th Capitol insurrection.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of note, the reports states, is the fact that more than 80 percent of the money that came through the Proud Boys' GoSendGo crowdfunding page came from contributors with Chinese surnames.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">USA Today is reporting that, based on information provided to them by the whistleblower site <a href="https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Distributed Denial of Secrets</a>, $106,107 was raised for medical costs with the bulk coming on late in the evening of Dec 17th.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the report, "A donor named Li Zhang gave $100. A few minutes later, someone named Jun Li donated $100. Then Hao Xu gave $20, followed shortly by $25 from a Ying Pei. In all, almost 1,000 people with Chinese surnames gave about $86,000, which the led USA Today's Will Carless to write, "Why would people from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and members of the Chinese American community, donate to an organization with deep <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/12/proud-boys-splintering-after-capitol-riot-revelations-leader/6709017002/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">ties</a> to white supremacists, whose members flash white power signals and post racist memes on social media?"</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The answer, he suggests, has to do with the Proud Boy's antipathy toward communism, which is shared by many in the Asian community.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Some Chinese Americans have bought in to the rhetoric spread by the Proud Boys, conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and conservative commentators that America is under attack from communism," Carless wrote. ' They believe the Proud Boys are on the vanguard of protecting the country from a communist army controlled by Antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement — claims that have been <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/antifa-rumors-spread-local-social-media-no-evidence-n1222486" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">widely</a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-elections-james-comey-politics-bdd3b6078e9efadcfcd0be4b65f2362e" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">debunked</a>. "</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Rebecca Kwan, who pitched in $500, "You have to understand how we feel — we came from communist China and we managed to come here and we appreciate it here so much. The Proud Boys are for Trump and they are fighting Antifa, and can you see anything good that Antifa did except destroy department stores and small businesses?"</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report notes that Kwan's sentiments were echoed by many who donated and included messages such as, "You are the true heroes and patriots!" and "Thank you for your courage to fight for our freedom!!"</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Jennifer Ho, president of the Association for Asian American Studies, the Proud Boys hold a certain appeal to those who believe in traditional gender roles.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Proud Boys are a very attractive place for men of any ethnic background who are part of a toxic masculinity," Ho said. "Because what they share is a fundamental belief in their maleness — a fundamental belief that U.S. society has gone off the rails."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The USA Today report comes one day after the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/proud-boys-canada-dissolves-itself-says-it-was-never-white-supremacy-group-2021-05-02/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Proud Boys' Canadian offshoot disbanded</a> after that government there labeled them a "terrorist group."</font></p><div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="from-your-siteheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FROM YOUR SITE ARTICLES</font></div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 589.446px; list-style: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li class="from-your-siteitem"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/03/proud-boys/" class="from-your-sitelink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Latest Proud Boys facing charges for Capitol riots have deep ties to ... ›</a></font></li><li class="from-your-siteitem"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/02/proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-suggests-he-may-be-running-for-office/" class="from-your-sitelink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio suggests he may be 'running for ... ›</a></li><li class="from-your-siteitem"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/proud-boys-video/" class="from-your-sitelink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">The Proud Boys mark their threatening return in Oregon - Alternet.org ›</a></li></ul><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</font></div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 589.446px; list-style: none;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman" /><li class="around-the-webitem" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/proud-boys-celebrate-after-trump-s-debate-call-out-n1241512" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Proud Boys celebrate after Trump's debate callout ›</a></font></li><li class="around-the-webitem" style=""><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54352635" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">US Election 2020: Who are the Proud Boys - and who are antifa ... ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem" style=""><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-are-proud-boys-11601485755" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Who Are the Proud Boys? 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