The Peace & Security Funders Group is an association of 64 left-wing funders that condemn American militarism and support radical environmentalist causes.

The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has referred to Barack Obama as a “Saul Alinsky radical” whose values run counter to those of America’s founders. Who was Saul Alinsky? What was his message? What influence did it have on Obama?

A U.S.-based organization calls for boycotts and divestment initiatives against Israel, to punish the Jewish state for allegedly subjecting the Palestinians to “racial discrimination” and “apartheid.”

The Fair Immigration Reform Movement believes that the U.S. is a racist country which needs to be radically transformed in a manner consistent with the vision of President Obama. One of its top priorities is to fix “America’s broken immigration system.”

In 1995 William Ayers appointed Barack Obama as board chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which aimed to infuse students with a radical political commitment and emphasized social activism far more than academic achievement and test scores.

Deir Yassin Remembered is a nonprofit organization that condemns Israeli “apartheid” and asserts, falsely, that in April 1948 Jews engaged in the “systematic murder” of innocent civilians in Deir Yassin, a Palestinian-Arab village near Jerusalem.

The U.S. Peace Council was originally launched as a Soviet front, for the purpose of blaming American “war-mongering” for all the tensions of the Cold War.

Teaching For Change co-sponsors an education project modeled on the writings of the late Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, a Marxist tract that describes America as a predatory, repressive, racist nation.

Pax Christi USA views the United States as a nation that scapegoats Muslims and nonwhite immigrants, a land of inequitable wealth distribution, and a snake pit of “systemic racism” and “white skin privilege.”

After three decades in Congress, Rep. Barney Frank, the very embodiment of modern leftism, has announced that he will retire after completing his current term.

The Catholic Worker Movement condemns capitalism for “pitting owners against workers,” “widening the gap between rich and poor,” and infecting the human heart with “spiritual destitution.”

Founded by a former professor who portrays Israel as “a racist, apartheid state,” the website RighteousJews.org praises Jews who believe that Palestinians are being “humiliated, tortured, and murdered in the name of political Zionism.”

With his deep socialist ties, United Steelworkers president Leo Gerard is delighted to be called the ”No. 1 scourge of free traders.”

Sixty-nine-year-old Kalle Lasn, a lifelong “student of revolution,” issued the initial call for the OWS protests in an effort to topple “the current monster” of capitalism, on the theory that America was “ripe” for a mass uprising rooted in “despondency” and sustained by ”rage.”

The legendary community organizer Lisa Fithian has long operated in the world of anarchists, antiwar protesters, and union thugs. Thus she feels right at home in her current role as OWS’s leading street-level organizer.

Portions of New York City’s financial center have been infested by swarms of leftist protesters denouncing capitalist “greed.” A group calling itself “Occupy Wall Street” is a key leader of the demonstrations.

The newly formed “October 2011″ movement will stage its kickoff rally in DC next Thursday. Calling on the U.S. government to end all economic policies “which foster a wealth divide,” this organization vehemently opposes federal spending cuts — favoring instead massive government expenditures for the purpose of “creating jobs.”

The Applied Research Center views the United States as a nation where “structural racism” is deeply “embedded in the fabric of society.” As such, the organization demands “concrete change from our most powerful institutions to build a fair and equal society.”

During each election cycle, Americans For Democratic Action aggressively promotes those candidates who adhere most closely to its own clearly defined left-wing positions on a wide variety of issues.