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The break-up of the AFL-CIO could affect NED.

BTW Glad you are NED!

Looking ahead, AFL-CIO leaders and union officials said the growing division in their ranks could drain the federation's finances and complicate everyday union activities, from lobbying in Washington to bargaining and working on the job.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0507260128jul26,1,1242587.story?coll=chi-business-hed

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has extensive ties to the AFL-CIO trade union bureaucracy that was identified during the 1960s and 1970s for its efforts to topple governments deemed unfriendly to Washington.

The most notable of NED's "conquests" in recent months took place in Kyrgyzstan. In his March 30 article, "US Helped to Prepare the Way for Kyrgyzstan's Uprising", New York Times correspondent Craig S Smith pointed out that the US maintained the largest bilateral pro-democracy program in Kyrgyzstan because of the Freedom Support Act, passed by Congress in 1992, to help the former Soviet republics in their economic and democratic transitions.

Money earmarked for democracy programs in Kyrgyzstan totaled about $12 million last year. Hundreds of thousands more filtered into pro-democracy programs in the country from other US government-financed institutions like the National Endowment for Democracy, Smith added. "That does not include the money for the Freedom House printing press or the Kyrgyz-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a pro-democracy broadcaster," he states.

Kyrgyzstan's "Tulip" revolution - though it seems far from being complete and has in fact shown signs of withering under the summer sun - was orchestrated through one of the major non-government organizations (NGOs) working with the opposition to Askar Akayev's government, the Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society (CDCS). CDCS received the bulk of its funding from the National Democratic Institute in Washington, which is financed by the US government.

Until recently, another Kyrgyz NGO, Civil Society Against Corruption (CSAC), received funding from the NED. The NED has extensive ties to the AFL-CIO trade union bureaucracy that was identified during the 1960s and 1970s for its efforts to topple governments deemed unfriendly to Washington.
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The USA'S National Endowment For Democracy (NED): An Update
Attached are the details of the grants distributed by the NED during 1999--either directly or through its associate organisations such as the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), the Centre For International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the Free Trade Union Institute (FTUI)--ostensibly for the promotion of democracy and trade union and other human rights in Asia.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Z9PgqgoqheEJ:www.saag.org/papers2/paper198.htm+National+Council+o....