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InfluenceWatch Podcast

By: Ricochet
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  • The podcast where we go beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from our website InfluenceWatch.org, the Capital Research Center's online encyclopedia of the donors, non-profits, and influencers driving politics. You can watch the video version of the podcast at: http://bit.ly/2rnQygY
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Episodes
  • Episode 267: Weingarten Will Not Be Apologizing

    Episode 267: Weingarten Will Not Be Apologizing
    Apr 28 2023
    I’m Sarah Lee, and this is the Influence Watch podcast. Yesterday, three years after the COVID pandemic lockdowns began, American Federation of Teachers union president Randi Weingarten, who many feel was the public face of extended school lockdowns, testified in front of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Weingarten, who had spent most of her time during the pandemic loudly decrying attempts to reopen schools – calling plans from the last administration to reopen in late 2020 “callous” and “cruel” -- struck a decidedly different tone before Congress, insisting her goal was always getting kids back to in-person instruction, an assertion that was rather hilariously fact-checked by Twitter’s community notes Thursday. Here to discuss the hearing are my colleagues Mike Watson and Parker Thayer.

    Weingarten Tweet

    Free Beacon Tweet

    Beware Teachers Unions Bearing School Reopening Talk

    Randi Weingarten says 'Biden transition team’ was first to solicit union’s advice on schools reopening
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    25 mins
  • ESG in 2023

    ESG in 2023
    Apr 21 2023
    If the “ESG”—environmental, social, and governance—movement had a guiding text, it would the Proxy Preview. Put out by the corporate social responsibility investing nonprofit As You Sow, the Proxy Preview details all the ESG “shareholder resolutions” that activist shareholders, government worker and labor union pension funds, and left-of-center nonprofits want American businesses to adopt. Joining us to discuss the Proxy Preview and the organizations behind it is our colleague, Capital Research Center research specialist Robert Stilson.

    Sources:

    The Proxy Preview: ESG in 2023
    Influence Watch ESG Activism Hub
    As You Sow

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    27 mins
  • Episode 265: Athenai Institute Battles CCP Disinformation

    Episode 265: Athenai Institute Battles CCP Disinformation
    Apr 14 2023
    The Athenai Institute is a college student-led organization that seeks to limit the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on U.S. college campuses. Since their inception in 2020, they have worked to help young people understand not only the often-underreported billion dollar financial relationship between the U.S. academic sector and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but how the CCP exports their surveillance state techniques -- through apps like the infamous TikTok -- that serve to both downplay the regime's human rights abuses for American students, but to keep Chinese students studying in the U.S. in line and loyal to the CCP. Joining Sarah Lee on the podcast today to discuss these subjects and Congress' new moves on China is John Metz, co-founder, current board member, and former president of the Athenai Institute. Links: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/athenai-institute/ https://athenai.org/ https://thepienews.com/news/chinese-student-pro-democracy/ http://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/3.15.23-UPenn-Letter8.pdf Follow us on our Socials: Twitter: @capitalresearch Instagram: @capitalresearchcenter Facebook: www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter YouTube: @capitalresearchcenter
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    32 mins

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