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Non-profit
Movement for Black Lives (MBL) is a coalition of more than 50 left-of-center racial-advocacy organizations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. Along with the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the MBL serves as a unifying umbrella organization to coordinate BLM activism and move towards concrete policy
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Non-profit
UndocuBlack Network is a left-wing advocacy group for illegal immigrants, primarily those who are black. UndocuBlack lobbies for repealing border security and immigration regulation policies, while also calling for more lenient criminal justice policies. These include ending life sentences without parole, ending mandatory minimum sentences, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, and
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Non-profit
Black Youth Project 100 (BYP 100) is a far-left advocacy group focused on black, queer, and feminist youth issues. It advocates for the abolition of the police and prison systems, the payment of “slavery reparations,” universal child care, guaranteed employment from the federal government, and other radical-left policies.
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Other Group
Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU) is a Black Lives Matter advocacy project founded in alignment with the Unitarian Universalist religious movement. Black Lives Matter activists established BLUU at the July 2015 Movement for Black Lives meeting in Cleveland, Ohio. In alignment with Unitarian Universalism’s left-of-center politics
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Non-profit
The Prison Journalism Project is a left-of-center nonprofit media organization that trains people in prison to write for its publication. 1 It trains incarcerated individuals to write stories that will be used to
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Other Group
NOlympics LA is an activist group that opposes the 2028 Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Los Angeles, California. It cites high costs, displacement of local populations, and climate change as reasons behind its opposition. 1
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Other Group
BLM Detroit is a left-of-center, critical race theory-oriented activist group based in Detroit, Michigan that supports what it calls “Black liberation.” 1 The group is a financially sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, a critical
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Other Group
The National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) is a radical-left activist organization that works on issues that it considers to be racist or targeting poor communities. 1 In 2021,
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Other Group
The Minnesota Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions Community (MN BDS Community) is a far-left, anti-Israel, and pro-Palestinian activist organization. MN BDS Community calls on the state to divest from Israel, claims a “genocide is happening today” in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and hosted events with numerous left-of-center organizations, including the
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Non-profit
Ohio Women’s Alliance is an abortion advocacy organization that helps Ohio residents access abortions and related services. The nonprofit has received over $1,600,000 from the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation.
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Non-profit
Hmong American Women’s Association (HAWA) is a support organization for Hmong women, girls, queer, and trans people that seeks “to champion gender justice and collective liberation.” 1 It provides domestic violence and sexual assault
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For-profit
Firebrand Collective LLC is a left-wing production company that “[creates] content at the intersection of culture and politics” co-founded by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Paola Mendoza, two of the co-founders of the Women’s March On Washington.
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Non-profit
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Minnesota is a state-level affiliate of CAIR, a prominent Muslim advocacy group founded by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad. CAIR and its founders have a history of association with and statements on behalf of pro-Hamas organizations.
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Other Group
Maine Morning Star is a left-of-center news operation reporting on politics and state-related issues such as tribal rights and the opioid overdose crisis. It aims to promote left-of-center social policy through its reporting. 1
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Non-profit
Mano Amiga is an activist organization that advocates for left-of-center criminal justice and immigration policies such as reducing incarceration rates and resisting jail expansion for illegal aliens and minorities in Texas. The group condemned President Joe Biden’s executive order allowing temporary border closures.
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Labor Union
The Inter Faculty Organization (IFO) is a government worker labor union representing the faculty of seven Minnesota state universities. It represents the faculty in collective bargaining and contract enforcement and conducts left-of-center policy advocacy and legislative lobbying at the state and federal levels.
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Other Group
The Janisha R. Gabriel Movement Protection Fund is a project of the Solidaire Network dedicated to providing financial support to left-of-center activists primarily associated with Black Lives Matter and other racial activist groups to defend against alleged targeting and violence from right-of-center organizations. The Fund’s namesake, Janisha Gabriel,
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Other Group
JusticeLA is a coalition of left-of-center groups that advocate for the reduction in incarceration rates and prevalence of jails in Los Angeles, California. 1 It is a coalition project of two left-of-center criminal justice policy
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Other Group
The Faith and Works Statewide Collective is a left-of-center activist and voter mobilization group based in Birmingham, Alabama. The organization describes itself as “non-partisan” and does not endorse any candidate or party, but uses justifications and language associated with left-of-center ideologies.
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Other Group
International Open Access Week is an annual online convention organized by the left-of-center SPARC organization and the Open Access Week Advisory Committee. 1 The purpose of the convention is to promote the publication of publicly accessible scholarly
