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Here's What Bernie Sanders Has to Say About the Koch Brothers:

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Here's What Bernie Sanders Has to Say About the Koch Brothers:

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https://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers

(Kara)

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The Koch Brothers are allies with Betsy Devos.

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The Koch Brothers are allies with Betsy Devos.

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But it would be hard to find a better representative of the “donor class” than DeVos, whose family has been allied with Charles and David Koch for years. Betsy, her husband Richard, Jr. (Dick), and her father-in-law, Richard, Sr., whose fortune was estimated by Forbes to be worth $5.1 billion, have turned up repeatedly on lists of attendees at the Kochs’ donor summits, and as contributors to the brothers’ political ventures. In 2010, Charles Koch described Richard DeVos, Sr., as one of thirty-two “great partners” who had contributed a million dollars or more to the tens of millions of dollars that the Kochs planned to spend in that year’s campaign cycle.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/betsy-devos-trumps-big-donor-education-secretary
-Michaela Tangeman

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How The Koch Brothers Are Buying Their Way Into The Minds Of Public School Students

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How The Koch Brothers Are Buying Their Way Into The Minds Of Public School Students

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The official mission of Youth Entrepreneurs ( a nonprofit group created and funded primarily by Charles G. Koch, the billionaire chairman of Koch Industries) is to provide kids with “business and entrepreneurial education and experiences that help them prosper and become contributing members of society.” The underlying goal of the program, however, is to impart Koch’s radical free-market ideology to teenagers.

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Advancing liberty and freedom

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- Born in Wichita, Kansas.
- Two of four sons.
- Born wealthy due to their father's oil refinery business.
- Both have degrees in chemical engineering from M.I.T.

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- David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.
- When he ran in 1980, David Koch supported abolishing the minimum wage, Medicare, and Medicaid. At the time these were unpopular and extreme viewpoints, but after donations these are now mainstream Republican viewpoints.
- Used their massive amount of wealth to pass the HB2 law in North Carolina, which prevents transgender individuals to use public restrooms corresponding to their gender identity.
- In Wake County, North Carolina, the Koch brothers funded Republican school board candidates that targeted less wealthy neighborhoods and caused re-segregation.

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2nd largest privately owned company in America.

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Tried to fight to get North Carolina schools re-segregated.

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Brave New Foundation exposes how the right wing billionaire Koch Brothers have funded and pushed for school segregation in Wake County North Carolina. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss. The Largest Online News Show in the World. Google+: http://www.gplus.to/TheYoungTurks Facebook: Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=theyoungturks Support TYT for FREE: http://bit.ly/eWuu5i http://kochbrothersexposed.com/education/

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-Spent tens of millions of dollars to get their point of view instilled in classrooms and in students
-They have influence on who the teachers are and what they say in the classroom
-They have financial agreements with over 150 colleges and universities
-check out 3:15. There is a list of universities with Koch Foundation Grants (Ball State being one of them)

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Few years outdated, but still relevant. Interesting take on how the Koch brothers give grants to schools to serve their agenda

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Koch University: Rewriting Your Education • Koch Brothers EXPOSED 2014

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Watch the full film FREE! http://www.bravenewfilms.org/koch_filmsignup Watch more videos about the KOCH BROTHERS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzv4ZCUSuaA&list=PLQ9B-p5Q-YOM4h_IeoMQRaOdL0dKUPohR NEW VIDEOS EVERY WEEK: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy1UzIJf_Dog0vzLJUPLXHA?sub_confirmation=1 Chapter 3 of Robert Greenwald's investigative documentary KOCH BROTHERS EXPOSED: 2014 EDITION looks at the ideological restrictions and hiring guidelines the Koch's place on the academic institutions to which they donate.

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They try to create a think tank which values academics and a non profitable organization in order to disseminate their ideas.

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They typically put their fortune towards political efforts that affect education.

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Thirteen colleges and universities received six-figure donations from the Koch Brothers in 2014. “Almost all of the higher education programs the Koch foundations fund cleave to the brothers’ philosophy of promoting free markets and laissez-faire capitalism in the United States.”

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“In some cases, the Koch foundations have attempted, or succeeded, in attaching certain strings to their contributions, such as control over curriculum, and more recently, obtaining personal information about students.” They also want input on the advisory committee as well as the professors who will teach. This same dilemma is occurring now at BSU with the new Health Center going up on campus.

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The Koch brothers spent at least $68 million between 2005 and 2013 on college and university campuses. They helped fund faculty, research and publications. Sounds good right? But when you dig deeper you discover that the Koch brothers hope to use their money to gain influence on college campuses to, " limit the rights of teachers, firefighters, police and other public workers through ‘right to work’ legislation and the elimination of fair share.” -Larry Sand

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They used a lot of money in order to try to control the American government by employing politicians who agree  with Koch Brothers' opinions.

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Koch Industries is the second-largest privately owned company in the United States.