From: jyanowit@mtholyoke.edu (Jason Yanowitz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Coors rumors (Re: Snapple linked to KKK, Operation Rescue?)
Date: 21 Jan 1993 10:32:30 -0500
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In article <1993Jan21.101302.16110@pony.Ingres.COM> sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney) writes:
>In article <r9h3-zn@rpi.edu> kollur@jec328.its.rpi.edu (Ramana Kolluri) writes:
>> 
>>My question: What are these "supposed sins" of Coors Brewing Company?
>>Anyone out there know anything ?
>>
>Well  there's bankrolling the Republican Party, for a start off.
>That and passing off the swill thy sell as beer.
>
>>Ramana
>>
>
>Tony "Brewed in the Rockies - from piss" Sweeney.
The Coors family funds many far right wing organizations, including the seed
money for the Heritage FOundation (and continued donations since then).  A
book (with actual documentation -- it is a meticoulously well reasearched
book) called the Coors Connection, by Russ Bellant (a reporter for the Boston
Globe) (1991, South End Press, Boston) traces all of this (And it's
quite complex).  They've started a number of right wing/white supremacsit
groups and solict funding for them. Here's a paragraph from the intro of
the book (I encourage anyone who's interested in this more to go read
the book (bad commercials notwithstanding) and please don't start
arguing with me, but post your own critiques of the book, as I'm
simply answering a query, and have no great interest in typing in huge
portions of this book):
  "Coors famliy philanthropy aims a financial silver bullet at the heart of
 democtartic pluralism in the United States.  The Coors family members have
 financed an interlocking network of ultra-conservative and far-right
 insitutions which have gaines respectrability during the past decade. 
 Few average citizens have read even a tiny portion of the mountian of
 literature produced by these rightist groups....
   Those who have benefited, directly and indirectly, from Coors family
 generosity include persons whose views reflect not only traditional
 conservatism, but also nativism, xenophobia, theories of racial
 superiority, sexism, homophobia, authoritatrianism, militarism,
 reaction, and in some cases out-right neo-fascism.
   These charges may seem shocking, but consider that Holly and Jeffrey
 Coors serve on the national board of the rightist Council for National
 Policy along with a former Ku Klux Klan leader and others who championed
 segregatinist policies.  In one notable case, a Coors-funded New Right
 leader, Paul Weyrich, sponsors the work of a convited Nazi collaborator,
 Laszlo Pasztor, a Hungarian-American who built a political network
 of persons and groups with fascist, racist, and anti-Semitic backgrounds."

that's all for now, folks...

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