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Lynn Forester de Rothschild is a British-American businesswoman and chief executive officer of the investment firm E.L. Rothschild, LLC. She is also the founder of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, an alliance of business interests, activist groups, and political figures which aims to leverage market forces to implement left-of-center
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Deborah Axt, a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, works as the co-executive director of Make the Road New York, a left-of-center community organizing group aligned with liberal expansionist immigration policy and left-of-center labor union interests. Early Life Axt earned her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University
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Howard Zinn was a professor of history at Boston University and a left-wing political activist who described himself as “something of an anarchist, something of a socialist” and “maybe a democratic socialist.”
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Andrea Mitchell is a television journalist who is the host of “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on cable news network MSNBC. 1 She is also the chief Washington correspondent and the chief foreign affairs correspondent
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Michael Podhorzer is the assistant to the president for strategic research for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. 1 Podhorzer was
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Andy Stern is the former president of the Service Employees International Union. A longtime union official, Stern rose to the presidency1
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Sheldon Whitehouse (born 19551) is a Democratic politician and the junior U.S. Senator for Rhode Island, serving since 2007. 2 He
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CREDO Mobile (formerly Working Assets) is a cell-phone company that explicitly uses its profits to support left-wing causes. Through doing business with CREDO its customers “fund progressive causes and power social activism.” 1 Left-of-center groups
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The A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) is a 501(c)(3) “constituency group” of the AFL-CIO for African-American union members. APRI was founded in 1965, and advocates for the agenda of the AFL-CIO at the state and federal level, using litigation and legislative pressure. Organization Overview The A. Philip Randolph Institute
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The New Israel Fund (NIF) is a left-of-center grantmaking nonprofit which supports left-of-center social goals related to Israel. The organization refers to the Israeli Declaration of Independence as a philosophical foundation. The NIF is legally based in the United States but primarily focuses on developing Israeli civil society. The group
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The American Center for International Labor Solidarity (commonly referred to as Solidarity Center) was founded in 1997 by the largest federation of labor unions in the United States, the AFL-CIO. Solidarity Center has offices all over the world and claims to be working with more than 400 labor unions
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The Foundation for the Carolinas (FFTC) is a donor-advised fund provider established in 1958 that manages funds for 2,700 separate charitable individuals, families and organizations. 1
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Jesse Jackson is a left-wing activist, preacher, former associate of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Democratic Party politician. Jackson was born in 1941 and ordained a Baptist minister in 1968. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1984 and
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Keith Ellison is a Democratic politician and lawyer who currently serves as Attorney General of Minnesota. 1 He is a former U.S. Representative and Minnesota state
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The Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) is a left-of-center advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C., that promotes funding of domestic welfare programs by the federal government and opposes Republican-backed proposals to cut or reform entitlement programs. The group was founded in 1981 in opposition to President Ronald Reagan’s proposal
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Jobs with Justice Education Fund (JWJEF) is a project of Jobs with Justice (JWJ), a left-of-center labor group primarily funded by labor unions
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Young Invincibles (YI) is a left-of-center youth advocacy, research, grantmaking, and lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C. 1 Co-founded in 2009 by Ari Matsuiak, a special assistant to the President during
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The Windward Fund is an environmentalist fiscal sponsor organization in the network of “dark money” organizations controlled by philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Fund was created in February 2015 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with startup funding of $5.25 million provided by an unknown source. According to its bylaws, Windward
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The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union representing agricultural workers, mostly in the state of California. Cesar Chavez, a Mexican-American organizer and leader of the Chicano movement, founded the union; Chavez would become one of the best-known leaders of labor unionism in the 20th century through
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Unite Here (sometimes styled UNITE HERE or Unite HERE) is a major labor union principally organizing employees in the hotel, restaurant, and gaming industries. Unite Here was formed in 2004 from a merger between the Hotel Employees-Restaurant Employees (HERE) union and Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) and
