Arc of Justice, formerly The Benjamin Fund, is a private foundation associated with Code Pink (styled CODE PINK) founder Medea Benjamin and her family that funds far-left organizations including Code Pink, Global Exchange, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). ¹² Benjamin is also a co-founder of Global Exchange. ³

Arc of Justice’s money reportedly comes from the estate of Rose Benjamin,⁴ ex-wife of the late Long Island real estate developer Alvin Benjamin and mother of Medea. ⁵ Prior to his death, Alvin Benjamin provided money to the Fund. ⁶

Funding Activities

Arc of Justice invests millions into many left-of-center organizations, including to Medea Benjamin’s far-left demonstration group Code Pink. Code Pink has used those donations to invade and provoke Israel in 2011 and demonstrators aligned with the group called for the elimination of Israel in 2015. It also participated in a Holocaust deniers’ conference led by the Iranian regime in 2014. ⁷

Another recipient of Arc of Justice revenues is the other Medea Benjamin-founded left-of-center group, Global Exchange (GE). ⁸ After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Global Exchange claimed that U.S. policies on Middle East oil and support for the State of Israel triggered the attacks. Global Exchange is a self-described “anti-corporate globalization” organization that supports open borders, amnesty for illegal immigrants, opposes capitalism and was the catalyst for the riots at the 1999, WTO conference in Seattle. ⁹

Arc of Justice donates significant funding to One DC, a grassroots organization that claims to represent low-income populations within Washington D.C. Its manifesto claims that housing, wellness, and income human rights, while further advocating for “non-imperialistic” education as well as the abolition of prisons and regaining land it claims was lost to gentrification and developers. ^{10 8}

People’s Hub receives Arc of Justice funding and charges communities for training services. It claims to train people to achieve progressive change through the four R’s which are resistance, resilience, restoration, and re-imagination. It promotes education with anti-racist and anti-oppressive strategies for marginalized communities to build power. ¹¹

In 2022, Arc of Justice gave $500,000 to Social Good Fund, which applies its Arc of Justice donations into fiscal support of left-of-center projects that support environmentalism activism, illegal immigration advocacy, abortion and LGBT causes. ^{12 13}

In 2022, Arc of Justice gave $500,000 to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which claims to support communities under threat to combat oppression, racism, and injustice through vigorous legal advocacy. ^{14 13}

Leadership

Susan Benjamin is the president of the Arc of Justice. ¹³

Maya Danaher, the daughter of Medea Benjamin, serves as treasurer of Arc of Justice. Medea Benjamin has opposed the United States’ foreign policies and supported Fidel Castro’s regime, the Communist Viet Cong in Vietnam, the Nicaraguan revolutionary Sandinistas, and anti-U.S. Iraqi forces. During the battle of Fallujah in the Iraq war in 2004, Benjamin provided $600,000 to aid Iraqi forces. She is also aligned with the former Weather Underground extremist Bill Ayers in The International Solidarity Movement. ⁴ While leading Global Exchange, Medea Benjamin co-organized anti-World Trade Organization demonstrations that devolved into riots that caused mayhem in Seattle in 1999. ⁹

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6. Benjamin Fund, Return of a Private Foundation (Form 990-PF), 2003, Schedule B
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10. “The People’s Platform Manifesto.” ONE DC. Accessed July 23, 2019. https://www.onedconline.org/peoplesplatform.
11. “About.” PeoplesHub. Accessed July 23, 2019. https://peopleshub.org/about/.
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14. “Mission and Vision.” Center for Constitutional Rights. Accessed July 23, 2019. https://ccrjustice.org/home/who-we-are/mission-and-vision.