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Defending Rights and Dissent (DRAD) is a civil liberties activist organization that aims to educate the public on their civil rights through presentations and online forums, encourage organizing, and campaign and communicate with local and federal governments to protect the right to protest and to oppose government surveillance of individuals
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The Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR) is a Boston-based affiliate of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USPCR). USPCR is a nationwide network of left-of-center activists and pressure groups pushing to limit Israel’s political and military influence over neighboring territories and limit U.S. support for the Jewish state.
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The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), legally known as Caidp, is a think tank and advocacy group dedicated to regulating the development of artificial intelligence (AI). CAIDP supports slowing AI development with an emphasis on legal guidelines to encourage AI alignment with democratic principles. The organization’s policy goals
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Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA) is a human rights organization focusing on Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. AHRCA monitors events and advocates for political prisoners, torture prevention, the rule of law, labor rights, internet and human rights, and art and human rights. AHRCA
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The Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC), which became Defending Rights and Dissent in 2015, was a civil liberties activist organization focused on defending the right to protest and limiting the government’s right to monitor individuals or groups. It was originally formed to fight the Patriot Act, claiming that its
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The Federalist Society is an educational organization for more than 75,000 mostly conservative and libertarian lawyers and law students. It is active at more than 200 law schools and hosts more than 1000 events each year. Membership in the Society and attendance at its events is open to anyone (including
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The InterReligious Task Force on Central America and Colombia (sometimes referred to as InterReligious Task Force on Central America or IRTF) was founded in 1980 as a response to President Ronald Reagan’s efforts to contain the spread of communism in Central America. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, IRTF is a far-left
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Demand Justice is a left-of-center advocacy group created in early 2018 that aims to influence the political leanings of America’s courts by supporting the appointment of liberal judicial nominees and opposing right-of-center nominees. The organization acts primarily through media campaigns against nominated and unconfirmed judicial nominees. Demand Justice was established
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Also see Jonathan Soros (Person) The Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation (JJASF) is a grantmaking foundation created in 2009 by left-wing philanthropist Jonathan Soros and his wife, Jennifer Allan. Jonathan Soros is the chairman of the JJASF and the third child of left-leaning billionaire activist George
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (also known as the MacArthur Foundation) was the twelfth largest foundation in the United States in 2014 with total assets over $6 billion.
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Witness Against Torture (WAT) is a grassroots volunteer activist organization that began in 2005 with the goal to close the U.S. detention center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba and to release the remaining detainees. Each January, WAT fasts, organizes protests, and conducts civil resistance before the White
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The Muslim Counterpublics Lab (MCL) is a left-of-center activist organization that focuses on Muslim issues and is rooted in the critical race theory-influenced concept of liberation. 1 A project of the left-of-center activist organization
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No More Guantanamos is a left-of-center activist organization that supports the closure of the detention camp for captured terrorism suspects at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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BlackOUT Collective is a direct-action organization founded in 2014 in the wake of anti-police riots that started in Ferguson, Missouri, after the police shooting of Michael Brown that offers training and support to anti-police and other radical-left protesters. It is associated with the broader Black Lives Matter movement, and though it
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Kavod Boston, a fiscally sponsored program of the Social Good Fund, was established in 2005 as a spiritual and political home for young left-of-center Jews. 1
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Yanis Varoufakis is a radical-left Greek economist and politician who served as Greece’s finance minister in 2015. 1 Varoufakis
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Michael Harrington (full name Edward Michael Harrington) was an influential left-wing activist. He founded the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), an organization which works to advance far-left politics, including within the Democratic Party, and claims to be the largest socialist group in the United States. He was also involved
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Funders’ Initiative for Civil Society (FICS) is a left-of-center donor affinity group that is a project of the London-based philanthropic support program Global Dialogue. 1 The initiative brings together funders to address what the organization
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Associated Press (AP) is major media cooperative that operates as a newsgathering nonprofit organization. 1 AP operates in all 50 states and at 250 locations in 100 different countries,
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Teen Vogue is an online journal publication produced by Conde Nast in 2003 as a spinoff of Vogue to build brand loyalty with adolescent women.
