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FIVE CONTROVERSIAL USED CLOTHES COLLECTORS IN AMERICA COULD BE DIVERTING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM REAL CHARITIES:

* GAIA Movement (in the area!)

* U’SAgain (in the area!)

* Campus California TG (CCTG) (in the area!)

* Planet Aid

* Institute for International Cooperation & Development (IICD)


GAIA Movement, U'SAgain and CCTG HAVE HUNDREDS OF CLOTHES DONATION BINS PLACED THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA.

CCTG and IICD VOLUNTEERS COULD BE SOLICITING MONEY AT RETAILERS OR DOOR-TO-DOOR.

These groups CLAIM they help the disadvantaged. But critics say most clothes placed in their bins DO NOT go to charity, but are sold FOR-PROFIT overseas.

Critics also say all the five organizations are run by an alleged CULT in Denmark called TVIND, or TEACHERS GROUP (TG).

In 2003, eight of TG’s leaders were prosecuted in Denmark for serious financial crimes. Upon their acquittal, five of them fled to avoid an appeal trial, in which a TG leader was convicted of fraud.

These five TG leaders are now international fugitives wanted in connection with a $22 million tax fraud and embezzlement scheme.

IICD and CCTG also CLAIM that they train volunteers for humanitarian projects in Africa; the volunteers sak for cash door-to-door and at retailers. But critics say these volunteers are taken advantage of as free labor benefiting TG-run businesses worldwide.

The Better Business Bureau has issued warnings about GAIA Movement, U'SAgain and Planet Aid that compete with well-respected charities like The Salvation Army and Goodwill Industries.

U'SAgain, a foreign-owned, *for-profit* company, has a long history of posing as a charity.
The Public Prosecutor for Serious Economic Crime in Denmark claims that TG controls U'SAgain, as well as Humana People-to-People — a questionable European charity that the French and Belgian governments call a cult.

(Humana People-to-People isn't affiliated with the American health insurer Humana)

The USDA awards Planet Aid large grants, most of which are then given to TG-run humanitarian projects in Africa, that former volunteers say exploit Africans and do very little for communities.

Former associates of alleged TG-run organizations report psychological and physical abuse.


[www.tvindalert.com]*** [www.culteducation.com]


WANT TO HELP FIGHT THIS MASSIVE FRAUD?

Did you donate clothes to GAIA, U'SAgain or CCTG, or did you give cash to CCTG or IICD in this state? If you are a business or property owner, did you agree to host one or more of U'SAgain's bins after its representatives told you U'SAgain is a charity? If you answered YES to any of these questions, and you feel one of these groups deceived you, the State Attorney General's Charities Division would like to hear from you.

For more information about how to file a complaint against the above groups, please visit:

[ag.ca.gov]


The five alleged TG-run clothes collecting organizations are notorious for sometimes placing their 500 lb. donation bins on private property without first obtaining the property owner's permission to do so. If GAIA, U'SAgain or CCTG has in fact placed one or more of its bins on your property without your permission, it may be within your right to HAVE THE BIN(S) REMOVED IN ANY MANNER YOU SEE FIT. Check local and state laws.


TVIND / TEACHERS GROUP ORGANIZATIONS IN THE NEWS:

The San Diego Reader recently published a good in-depth article about the Tvind Teachers Group:

[www.sandiegoreader.com]#


WTTG Fox 5 News in Washington, D.C. aired an investigation of Planet Aid last year:

[www.myfoxdc.com]


Last year KIRO 7 Eyewitness News in Seattle aired an investigation of U'SAgain:

[www.kirotv.com]


KIRO 7's follow-up story (Local Mayor Wants U'SAgain Out):

[www.kirotv.com]


A reprint of an article about CCTG in The Pioneer Press newspaper, Fort Jones, CA:

[www.culteducation.com]


The Chicago Tribune’s investigation of GAIA Movement:

[articles.chicagotribune.com]


IICD-Watch website:

[iicdwatch.bravepages.com]


The following link is to the actual court case summary against TG, (translated into English) from the Public Prosecutor for Serious Economic Crime in Denmark. In the document (near the bottom of page 4) Danish authorities claim that U'SAgain is part of the TG money laundering empire:

[www.tvindalert.com]


Are the GENEROUS CITIZENS of the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA UNKNOWINGLY HELPING to PAY for this PRIVATE POOL in MEXICO? (Image at lower right)

SEE MORE of the LUXURIOUS HEADQUARTERS the TVIND TEACHERS GROUP ELITE BUILT in TRIBUTE to ENDING POVERTY (their OWN).

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