A Washington state grocery chain is asking customers to donate to DEI Awareness at checkout.
Photos obtained by FOX News show a self-checkout screen at a Haggen Food and Pharmacy — a chain owned by food giant Albertson’s — asking customers, “Would you like to donate to help raise DEI awareness?”
It suggests customers add a donation of $1, $3, $5, or any other amount to their total, but they also have the option to decline the donation.
There was also a sign behind the self-checkout kiosk advertising Haggen’s charity, the Haggen Foundation, advising customers that from June 14 through August 8 they can donate to “any till” to ” To support organizations that bring about positive social change in order to protect the community of all”. Members lead healthy and fully inclusive lives.’
But their efforts come just weeks after retail giant Target came under fire for supporting an LGBTQIA+ group that helps children secretly change their gender and another group that wants to shut down Mount Rushmore.
Photos obtained by FOX News show a self-checkout screen at a Haggen Food and Pharmacy asking customers, “Would you like to donate to help raise DEI awareness?”
Haggen is a major Washington state grocery chain owned by grocery giant Albertson’s
According to the Haggen Foundation’s website, donations made through the DEI Prompt support charities like the American Cancer Society, as well as others that support people with intellectual disabilities, like Chinook Enterprises and Faces Northwest.
But it also benefits charities that support wake policies, such as the Northwest Justice Project, which aims to “tackle and promote structural and racial inequalities.” [the] Long-term well-being of low-income individuals, families, and communities throughout Washington state.
The Northwest Justice Project says on its website, “As a dynamic, nationwide law firm, we pursue our mission through legal advice and representation, community partnerships and education to empower clients and fight injustice in all its forms.”
“NJP supports and is a signatory to the principles and commitments of the Race Equity and Justice Initiative,” it said.
Over the past year, the Haggen Foundation has also supported other Woke organizations such as the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project and Empower Next Generations.
The Northwest Immigrants Rights Project seeks to “reverse systemic oppression,” according to its website.
“We are bound by our common humanity, by global forces affecting our lives, and by historical patterns of oppression, discrimination and inequality,” the mission page reads.
“For society to be just and whole, we must work together to eliminate systemic oppression in its many forms.”
Empower Next Generations, meanwhile, calls its three core values “social justice, cultural diversity”. [and] Recording.’
“It is our social responsibility to each other to provide equitable access to resources, information, technology, financial and social capital in a fair and safe manner.”
When asked by whether he thought Haggen should support these types of organizations, a spokesman apparently sidestepped the question, instead pointing to the less controversial organizations Haggen funds.
“The fundraiser currently being held in Haggen, Washington benefits charitable organizations such as the Down Syndrome Center of Puget Sound, Special Olympics Washington, Disability Rights Washington, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the American Cancer Society.”
Last year, the Haggen Foundation donated to Empower Next Generations, whose three core values are “social justice and cultural diversity.” [and] Recording’
The grocery chain also supported the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
The decision to hold the fundraiser comes just weeks after it was revealed that Target has funded a radical education group that is campaigning for guidelines for “Woke School” despite strong backlash for the release of its LGBTQ Pride product.
The brand says it’s “proud” of its association with K-12 education group GLSEN, which is pressuring school boards to allow children to transition secretly without parental consent and to make sexually explicit books available in classrooms.
It also includes guidance for teachers on how to transform classes like math and science to be “more inclusive of trans and non-binary identities,” including using “they/them” pronouns in lesson plans, reports Fox News.
“GLSEN is leading the movement in creating affirmative… and anti-racist spaces for LGBTQIA+ students,” Target said. “We are proud of the more than 10 years of cooperation with GLSEN and continue to support their mission.”
According to its website, in 2022 the company also funded the NDN Collective, an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power.
Target has ramped up its diversity program with new boss Kiera Fernandez, who previously said “white women” should get to work fighting systemic racism
The NDN Collective is demanding the return of the sovereign land on which Mount Rushmore sits to the Lakota people.
She also supports Israel’s opening up to those identifying as Palestinian refugees and reportedly takes a “hostile stance” on the military for ensuring that the United States is “demilitarized.”
“The closure of Mount Rushmore, the return of this land and all public lands in the Black Hills, South Dakota, is our ultimate struggle,” NDN said of its LANDBACK campaign.
“Mount Rushmore not only sits at the heart of the sacred Black Hills, but is also an international symbol of white supremacy and colonization.” To truly dismantle white supremacy and systems of oppression, we must go back to basics. For us, that means tribal lands are getting back into tribal hands.”
As for the US military, the NDN said that “violence is fundamental to maintaining its presence for the US.”
‘[T]”The U.S. military’s mission is explicitly to take lands from communities around the world and use their presence on their lands to implement their own plans for the residents of that area,” it said.
“Violence is fundamental for the US to maintain their presence and the military is how they establish dominance at home and abroad, wherever they are.”
The NDN added: “However, the purpose of these informal militias was not to keep police or protect citizens, but to rid the country of as many natives as possible by killing indiscriminately and capturing runaway enslaved Africans.”