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University of the Poor is an anti-capitalist educational and training resource for organizations involved in the socialist movement in the United States. It acted as the educational arm of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) for nine years until the groups formally separated.
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UnKoch My Campus is a project of Essential Information, a left-of-center nonprofit started by left-wing activist and politician Ralph Nader.
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Unrig Our Economy is a Sixteen Thirty Fund-backed left-of-center activist organization that opposes the interests of American businesses and supports higher taxes and greater government control of health care. Unrig Our Economy was formed in 2022 through the merger of Tax March (also known as Tax the Rich)
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Uplift Climate is a youth-led grassroots organization advocating for climate justice within the Southwest region of the United States. 1
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Uranium Watch is an environmental advocacy group that opposes uranium mining and milling in Western states, the expansion of nuclear power, and the transport and storage of nuclear waste. 1 Uranium Watch was one of the
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Urbamonde is a left-of-center international non-governmental organization headquartered in Switzerland that promotes housing and urban development around the world. It mainly provides support to local groups and actors that can exercise oversight and guidance toward development projects. Urbamonde also provides access to experts in relevant fields such as engineering and
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The Urban China Initiative (UCI) was a think tank based in Shanghai, China, focused on urban policy that was founded in 2011 and likely went defunct around 2021.
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Urban Ocean Lab is a left-of-center think tank that promotes environmentalist policies with the future of coastal cities in mind. It asserts that coastal cities in the U.S. will experience an average of a one-foot rise in sea levels over the next 30 years, and also focuses on purported racial
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The Vaclav Havel Library is a historical center based in Prague that contains the artistic and political work of filmmaker and former Czech Republica president Vaclav Havel, who passed away in 2011.
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Validate the Vote USA is an advocacy organization which recruits volunteers to review printouts of vote count totals from voting machines at polling locations—commonly referred to as poll tapes—after elections. The organization claims that its goal is to identify mistakes and make the public increase confidence in election results.
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Valiente Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking fund and a project for activist group Way to Rise. The project provides funding to activist organizations claiming to in the interests of the Latino Community within in the United States.
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Vecinas Feministas (sometimes known as Vecinas Feministas por la Justicia Sexual y reproductiva en America Latina y el Caribe 1 is a left-of-center group that supports feminist goals in Central and South
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Vermonters for Justice in Palestine (often initialized as VTJP) is a Vermont-based group aligned with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign notable for a nearly decade long campaign to pressure left-of-center ice cream company Ben and Jerry’s to cease selling their products in some parts of Israel.
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Veterans for Idaho Voters (VFIV) is an activist group pushing for ranked-choice voting in the state of Idaho. Previously known as the Idaho Task Force of Veterans for Political Innovation, VFIV had rebranded as of July 2023. It promotes a “Top 4” candidate ranking model, as well as the
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The Veterans Organizing Institute is a left-of-center training organization that provides community organizing and political advocacy training to veterans. The group is a training arm of Common Defense, a left-of-center organization that organizes veterans to support left-of-center political causes. Common Defense formed in 2016 by organizing “Vets Against Trump” protests.
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Victory Starts Today! is a volunteer organizing group of Democratic Party-aligned individuals based in West Los Angeles, California that was affiliated with the West LA Democratic Club. Background Victory Starts Today! was founded on April 2, 2017 as an affiliate of the West LA Democratic Club, a group jointly chartered
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Virginia Democracy Forward is an organization that was formed in 2016 to support left-of-center policies and candidates in congressional, state, and local elections in Virginia. 1 Background Virginia Democracy Forward, also known as VADF, was founded in Northern
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VisionForward is a nonprofit initiative dedicated to advancing gender equity by persuading female leaders to push left-of-center policies. It is housed in Drexel University, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1 Background VisionForward began as
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VOCAL-TX is an advocacy group focused on issues such as AIDS, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, and homelessness. The group claims these issues are due to “institutional oppression.” 1 It spun off from the Texas Harm
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Vote Captain is a voter mobilization website that claims to be non-partisan but is run by a left-of-center family that has been active in politics with ties to Democratic politicians. Vote Captain suggests apps and resources for getting people to vote that link to left-leaning voter projects. Social media programs
