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Reveal News speaks up after 3-year lawsuit by Planet Aid

Nov 7, 2019

Reveal News: “Planet Aid’s actions in its lawsuit against Reveal are a manifest example of what deep-pocketed interests can do to a news organization even when the facts are on the journalists’ side.”

Two federal investigations target ‘Planet Aid’, even as official funding continues

Apr 15, 2017

Planet Aid is being investigated by the USDA’s Office of Inspector General, and the US Department of Justice, according to government documents obtained by Reveal News.

U.S. humanitarian aid follows ‘twisted access path’ to Tvind’s coffers

Mar 29, 2017

Reveal News publishes list of people, groups and relationships mapping flow of U.S. taxpayer funding obtained by U.S.-based Planet Aid to Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) in southern Africa, and then to a private trust in Switzerland.

UNESCO revokes prize money to controversial African aid group

Mar 29, 2017

UNESCO has rescinded its prestigious education prize and severed ties with Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Malawi, after UNICEF and the British government both cut off funding to the organisation following allegations of fraud.

USDA says it was unaware of ‘Planet Aid’ controversies. Documents show otherwise.

Feb 1, 2017

The USDA has since 2004 granted over $133 million to ‘Planet Aid’, despite warnings that the charity is linked to an alleged cult whose leaders are on Interpol’s global most-wanted list. The USDA insists that it never knew. But agency records obtained by Reveal News show otherwise.

Planet Aid under pressure after US radio investigation accuses it of playing $130M ‘shell game’ in Africa

Mar 19, 2016

Listen to the broadcast ‘Alleged Cult Leader Plays Shell Game with US Foreign Aid’ by the Center for Investigative Reporting in the USA, which has spent more than a year digging into Planet Aid Inc and the Tvind Teachers Group.

The ten charities that always work together

Nov 5, 2015

The ten names the Teachers Group uses for its charities and good causes. They are all apparent good and progressive causes. All are part of the Teachers Group and are controlled by it. They tend to work together, internationally, on several levels.

A to Z of Teachers Group used clothes enterprises worldwide

Aug 30, 2015

1. Planet Aid – in the U.S., an enormous, ‘nonprofit’, used clothes re-selling enterprise with yellow donation bins across the country. In Britain, Planet Aid UK is a smaller, for-profit company. Both are linked to a Swiss joint-stock company. 2. Humana... read more

“Planet Aid legal action will swamp USA with bins”

Aug 13, 2015

The Los Angeles Times reports on legal action being taken by Planet Aid against several US cities, which it says could lead to communities being ‘swamped’ by unwanted charity collection bins

Where’s Amdi? Let’s ask Mikael Norling of Planet Aid

Sep 1, 2014

Mikael Norling has been a supporter of the Tvind Teachers Group for more than 35 years. He is the most senior member of the organisation in the USA. He was in at the start, one of 131 people who in 1977 signed the deed for a trust fund that in Danish was called Den... read more

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5 months ago

SHOPPING WITH AMDI. Finally, our summary of BT’s article series on Tvind, from last month, which began with new video footage of Amdi Petersen and two top aides shopping at a Costco supermarket in Ensenada, on Mexico’s Baja coast.Sorry to have taken so long with this. But the translation of seven of BT’s nine articles took a few weeks. Then came the task of boiling down and summarising. Then we contributed many further details for a more complete perspective. We were also waiting to see whether we could get a copy of an internal Tvind ‘vision statement’ document that BT obtained and reported precious little about. So far, no luck. ... See MoreSee Less

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6 months ago

BY THOR’S HAMMER, WHAT A SAVINGS. This week, the Danish newspaper B.T. published a story with video footage of alleged cult kingpin, Mogens Amdi Petersen, and two high-ranking aides shopping at a Costco in Ensenada, Mexico. The video was shot by Thomas Vann Altheimer in October 2019.Petersen is founder and leader of the Tvind Teachers Group, and for the past 14 years he and four of his top aides have been wanted by the judicial authority of their native Denmark for serious financial crimes. Since August 2013, the five have been listed on the Interpol website's 'Red Notices' database for wanted persons. The two women shown with ‘Amdi’ are Ruth Sejerø-Olsen and Marlene Gunst, who — since 1992 and as far as we know, still — form the cult's 2nd-level management, 'TG Finance', directly below Amdi and his girlfriend, Kirsten Larsen.Amdi, Gunst, and Larsen are three of the five TG leaders who are Interpol-listed fugitives.Ensenada is a 145 km/90 mile drive south of San Diego. Tvind's high-security, luxurious headquarters, 'TG Pacifico', lies 72 km/45 miles further south on the Baja coast. Amdi and several senior TG members are known to have been living there at least part-time for several years.B.T. has also posted several follow-up stories this week, and we’re now working on a summary article in English. For the time being, non-Danes can at least watch the video! ... See MoreSee Less

Se videoen: Her er Mogens Amdi Petersen

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1 years ago

THE GOOD FIGHT. After three years, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting finally speaks out: “Planet Aid’s actions in its lawsuit against Reveal are a manifest example of what deep-pocketed interests can do to a news organization even when the facts are on the journalists’ side.”Reveal is to be commended for standing up to corporate bully Planet Aid, which is Tvind’s largest used clothing collector in the United States. Clearly, Planet Aid’s frivolous libel lawsuit is a desperate attempt to use litigation to silence the legitimate criticisms in Reveal’s excellent reporting.Reveal isn’t alone. In the past, TvindAlert’s editors, too, have endured libel lawsuits brought against them by different Tvind companies. But Tvind lost all of those cases. We hope Reveal will soon have the same outcome. ... See MoreSee Less

Reveal has been fighting a lawsuit for three years. Now we’re speaking up about it

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1 years ago

WEEK IN 'UTOPIA'. Interesting account by British writer who as a young man spent a week in 1975 with the Tvind collective near Ulfborg in western Denmark. The writer, Ken Worpole, is currently a Senior Professor at The Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University.We need to correct one glaring inaccuracy in Prof. Worpole’s account: He writes that “The Danish government has never managed to successfully prosecute any of the individuals associated with Tvind …“Actually, two senior Tvind members have been convicted, although they got off quite lightly. The highly publicised Tvind trial began in March 2003 at the district court in Ringkøbing, Denmark. Three years later, in August 2006, Tvind leader Mogens Amdi Petersen, spokesman Poul Jørgensen, top aides Kirsten Larsen and Ruth Sejerøe-Olsen, former chairperson for Tvind's 'Humanitarian Fund' Bodil Ross Sørensen, financial director Marlene Gunst, and lawyer Kirsten Fuglsbjerg (aka 'Christie Pipps') were all acquitted of charges. However, another former chairperson of Tvind's 'Humanitarian Fund,' Sten Byrner, was partially acquitted but found guilty of debtor fraud and given a one-year conditional sentence [i.e. slap on wrist].The Danish Public Prosecutor immediately appealed the verdict to a higher court. But the appeal is still pending for Petersen and four of the accused, all of whom fled Denmark shortly after being acquitted by the lower court.Poul Jørgensen, who had remained in Denmark for the appeal trial, was found guilty of tax fraud and embezzlement in January 2009, and sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment. According to Danish prosecutors, Jørgensen diverted millions of dollars earmarked for charitable use into private businesses owned by Tvind leaders. Jørgensen is thought to have served only half of his sentence. ... See MoreSee Less

Six days in a 70s utopia

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Was the Danish radical schooling project known as Tvind a liberating new fr...

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1 years ago

‘WE WENT THROUGH HELL’. A UK newspaper has uncovered new allegations of abuse at a Tvind-run school for troubled children in England, which operated from 1984 until 1998, when it was shut down by the authorities after the UK’s Charity Commission found 'serious financial impropriety' and investigated 'serious concerns about the safety and welfare of children.' Pt. 1: tinyurl.com/y3drl7xz / Pt. 2: tinyurl.com/y6t44nda ... See MoreSee Less

Revealed: Fresh abuse allegations at children's 'home of horrors' with links to 'cult-like' group

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Former pupils at a Norfolk school have today called for a fresh police inve...

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Planet Aid

Reveal News speaks up after 3-year lawsuit by Planet Aid

Two federal investigations target ‘Planet Aid’, even as official funding continues

U.S. humanitarian aid follows ‘twisted access path’ to Tvind’s coffers

UNESCO revokes prize money to controversial African aid group

USDA says it was unaware of ‘Planet Aid’ controversies. Documents show otherwise.

Planet Aid under pressure after US radio investigation accuses it of playing $130M ‘shell game’ in Africa

The ten charities that always work together

A to Z of Teachers Group used clothes enterprises worldwide

“Planet Aid legal action will swamp USA with bins”

Where’s Amdi? Let’s ask Mikael Norling of Planet Aid

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