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Wonkette is an online publication featuring political reporting and D.C. gossip, started in 2004 by progressive blogger Ana Marie Cox and now-defunct online media company Gawker Media. The publication takes a liberal standpoint and a sarcastic tone laced with personal attacks and sexualized insults. The site achieved infamy in 2011,
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Workers’ Council of the United States was a small organized faction of the Socialist Party of America. It called for an open communist party during the 1920’s and helped create the Workers Party of America.
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Working Maine is an online action page that shows voting results of Maine’s district representatives and senators on left wing voting issues.
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WorkIt is an organized labor smartphone app that aims to distribute information about workers’ rights, labor unions, and the labor movement to the public. It was founded by labor activists Catherine Huang and Andrea Dehlendorf in 2016
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World 5.0 is an advocacy group that concentrates on social change by transforming governance, localism, economic systems, and learning through inner peace and love toward others. World 5.0 calls for supporting unions, establishing organic only food systems, and worldwide peace.
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World Climate Report is an online climate change newsletter that provides a response to global change reports. It advocates that climate change is largely overblown and promotes the idea of modest changes to improve the environment.
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The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) facilitates environmental research about climate change. It currently has offices in Norway, China, India, Germany, Sweden, South Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. 1 The organization is
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World Enabled is a consulting group that engages with other organizations and governments to advocate in favor of urban policies that promote inclusion of those living with disabilities. 1
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World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) is a Brussels-based 1 federation that claims to represent client-side marketers 2
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World Fellowship Center, or New Hampshire World Fellowship Center Inc, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It functions as an intergenerational retreat and conference center. It promotes connecting and educating individuals on social justice issues through recreational camps.
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World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) is an annual event that hosts roundtable discussions on the present state and future of the Islamic world and its economies. It is organized by the World Islamic Economic Forum Foundation, whose board of trustees is supported by an international advisory panel as well as
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The World Nuclear Association (formerly the Uranium Institute) is a London-based non-governmental membership association that advocates for pro-nuclear-energy policies. Background The Uranium Institute was founded in London in 1975 as a trade association to represent the interests of the world’s uranium producers. Initially, the institute focused on advocacy campaigns that
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The World Peace Council is an international organization that advocates universal disarmament, sovereignty and independence and peaceful co-existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass destruction and all forms of discrimination.
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The World University Service of Canada (WUSC) is a left-of-center philanthropic organization which sponsors refugees to place them into Canadian schools and universities. It also supports various educational initiatives around the world while conducting advocacy to shape public opinion in Canada to favor migrant resettlement. Founded in the 1920s, the
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Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) is an international association of grantmaking organizations based in Sao Paulo, Brazil that hosts conferences and provides resources targeted to grantmaking organizations, board members, and staff. The group consists of over 190 members that include some of the most notable U.S.-based left-of-center grantmakers as
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Worn is a mission based creative agency based in New York City that promotes women’s employment and success in business. It designs product, produces content, brand names, and creates strategies for various clients. Its notable clients are Bumble, Makers, and Planned Parenthood.
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Y Combinator is an investor in startup companies and initiatives. It provides $500,000 to each company in which it decides to invest after a vetting process. It invests in companies that have not been launched as well as those that have been in operation for a year or more. Since
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Young Global Leaders is a program of the World Economic Forum (WEF), a business league that primarily organizes annual meetings of international business and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland. It aims to create a network of potential leaders in business, technology, education, activism, journalism, and politics.
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Young Lords Party was a revolutionary left-wing Latino political party in Puerto Rico.
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Youth Art and Self-Empowerment Project (YASP) is an activist group based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that advocates left-of-center criminal justice policies. This includes opposing the construction of detention facilities, ending the prosecution of minors as adults, and diverting criminals into so-called “restorative justice” programs instead of trial and sentencing. The group
