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Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) advocates for legalizing cannabis for adults and patients in the U.S. at both the state and federal levels. Founded in 1995, MPP supports ballot initiatives, promotes legislation, builds coalitions, and sponsors educational initiatives in an effort to end marijuana prohibition.
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European Policy Centre (EPC) is a Brussels-based tank that focuses on European issues and supports left-of-center policy positions such as “The Green Deal for real,” 1 decarbonizing” the European economy,
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Partnerships for Change is a nonprofit organization that primarily provides fiscal sponsorship to left-of-center “projects and issue-based media, films and documentaries.” 1 Partnerships for Change is associated with many left-of-center organizations and private grantmaking foundations including
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Ed Poindexter is a former leader of the National Committee to Combat Fascism (NCCF), a successor to the Black Panther Party, who is currently serving a life sentence for his involvement in the murder of a police officer in Nebraska. Poindexter was convicted after a bomb exploded in 1970
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The United States Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) is a network of left-of-center activists and pressure groups which pushes to end the political and military influence of Israel over its neighboring territories, the status of which is disputed between the Jewish state and Palestinian Arab nationalists. The organization also demands
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The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) is a left-of-center advocacy group critical of free-market economic systems and privatization. The group advocates for a larger government role in the economy to redistribute wealth.
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The Minneapolis Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that views the critical race theory-influenced concept of equity as its “responsibility.” 1 In 2021, the foundation
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#NoDAPL (No Dakota Access Pipeline) is a Twitter hashtag and social media campaign that supported protests and encampments attempting to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argued that the 1,172-mile-long pipeline’s construction would threaten the tribe’s drinking water and sacred sites due
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Heather Holdridge is a left-of-center digital strategist who since November 2021 has been the managing director of Real Voices Media, a news aggregator that operates a network of social media, community, and news websites that support Democratic candidates and policy positions. Holdridge previously worked for Planned Parenthood Federation of
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Natan Sharansky is a human rights activist, former Israeli government minister, author, and Soviet-era Jewish dissident. 1 Sharansky was imprisoned for nine years in
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Sheila, Dave, and Sherry Gold Foundation is private foundation started by the Gold family in 1998 and based in Los Angeles, California. 1 The Gold family holds left-of-center political views and the foundation provides
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Aryeh Neier is a left-of-center political activist, a co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society and Human Rights Watch, and the former president of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF). Early Life and Education Aryeh Neier was born in Berlin in 1937. His parents, both Jews,
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Access Now is a left-leaning internet access and digital rights advocacy group that works to decrease internet censorship and to curtail violations of privacy by businesses that collect the personal data of internet users. This group receives funding from some of the companies whose data collection practices it criticizes, such
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Susan Elizabeth Rice is a Democratic governmental aide, a former U.S. diplomat, and national security official. Under the Clinton administration, Rice held several positions on the White House National Security Council in addition to serving as Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton. From 2002 to 2008, she
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Lois Stainman is a left-of-center philanthropist. She is the wife of Arthur Stainman, a managing director at the asset management firm First Manhattan Company. They have contributed large amounts of money to numerous left-of-center advocacy organizations as well as Democratic political candidates and committees. She is the vice president of
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Ben Jealous is a political activist, president of the left-of-center advocacy group People for the American Way (PFAW) and People for the American Way Foundation, and the former president and CEO of the NAACP.
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IntoAction is a left-of-center communications organization that spreads left-of-center messages through internet memes and graphics through email and social media. It is a subsidiary of Task Force, a Los Angeles-based for-profit public relations company owned and run by former Obama administration official Yosi Sergent. IntoAction played a role in
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Blackbird is a progressive public relations organization that works primarily with aligned organizations and individuals to develop and promote publicity campaigns and materials. Movements that Blackbird has bolstered through its work include Black Lives Matter and Me Too (sometimes styled as #MeToo). Background In 2014, as the Black
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Squadbuck is a small, for-profit consulting firm consisting of a few former Obama administration officials and labor union activists, most of whom have also worked directly in Democratic politics. The company is headed by Ruthanne Buck, who served as Chief of Staff for Legislation and Congressional Affairs in the
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ProGeorgia is a left-of-center nonprofit group that drives civic participation and voter engagement among traditionally left-of-center constituencies. The organization coordinates multiple local groups’ efforts and messaging in favor of left-of-center causes. 1 Director Tamieka Atkins was one
