USAID-Funded “Revolution Consultants” Are Training Activists Inside the United States

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USAID-funded “revolution consultants” training protesters how to topple governments and advance left-wing social causes are embedded across U.S. universities and training American activists how to carry out the same operations in the U.S. The Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), headquartered in Serbia, openly markets its expertise in “building and running successful non-violent movements.” They aim to “engage with students as much as with activists.”

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CANVAS received funding from USAID, which has historically used these same protest tactics to topple regime across the world. The money came through the Civil Society Engagement Program in Georgia, a five-year program that started on November 1, 2021. The program is worth $17 million. What makes CANVAS extraordinary is not merely that it receives USAID support but that the same USAID-funded training model has been embedded inside American universities and U.S.-based activist programs.

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