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Eric Michelman is a computer scientist and angel investor who is also a left-of-center activist. Michelman is the creator of the Climate Change Education Project and the More Than Scientists organization and project. Michelman is a former employee of Microsoft and Apple. While working at Microsoft, Michelman
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Health Feedback is a fact-checking service under the auspices of Science Feedback, which operates multiple left-leaning science-related fact-check services including Climate Feedback. 1 Science Feedback, and by extension Health Feedback, was chiefly supported by the Center
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Science Feedback is a left-of-center publishing organization that operates the blogs Climate Feedback and Health Feedback. Both websites publish opinion articles claiming to assess the scientific merit of popular media articles and scientific claims. Background Science Feedback, registered as a not-for-profit organization in France, was formed in 2015 by Emmanuel
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By the People is a project of the lobbying group Americans for All Of Us Action and works with other left-of-center groups to push for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. By the People has encouraged Democratic leadership to broaden the scope of impeachment investigations to include comments made
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The Future Coalition is a network of youth-led left-wing organizations that work to promote left-wing views on policy issues from gun control to environmentalism. It had received sponsorship from political organization March On and is seen as the organization’s unofficial youth arm. The Future Coalition organized climate change demonstrations
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Strike With Us is a movement made up of over 100 environmentalist groups that plans to start a week of strikes beginning on Friday 20, 2019. The movement aims to carry out more strikes leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
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Shut Down DC is a coalition of environmentalist activist groups which announced plans to significantly disrupt traffic in Washington, D.C. on September 23, 2019 to bring awareness to climate change. The group has stated that it aims for its demonstrations to affect the most powerful people in the city by
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Extinction Rebellion Washington DC is the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Extinction Rebellion (XR) radical environmentalist “direct action” demonstration campaign that was launched in the United Kingdom in 2018. The chapter participates in XR’s strategy of disrupting public life to coerce the public to adhere to the group’s policy
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Black Lives Matter DC (BLM DC) is a radical group affiliated with the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement. It seeks to dismantle what it sees to be white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism in the United States by organizing direct actions, including occupations, highway shutdowns, disruptions, blockades, accountability campaigns, and
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Rising Tide North America is a radical environmentalist organization that pushes for a “zero carbon” society. for the group takes a “no compromise” position on climate change and pollution, targeting corporations and rejecting environmental remediation solutions proposed by businesses. The organization is the North American affiliate of the radical environmentalist
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Beyond Extreme Energy (BEX) is an organization that actively organizes protests against conventional energy and nuclear power, in support of environmentalist energy sources. They are best known for organizing a week long protest of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in 2014.
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350 DC is the District of Columbia chapter of the far-left radical environmentalist group, 350.org. The chapter, like its parent organization, is opposed to the extraction and use of conventional energy. The organization supported the Shut Down DC environmentalist protest on September 23, 2019, that blocked and slowed
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The Vulcan Inc. is a Seattle-based private investment company that conducts a wide-range of projects related to science, public policy, technology, art, and real estate. Vulcan also gives funds toward environmentalist research and climate change policy efforts. Background The company was created in 1986 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft
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Nicholas Gregory “Greg” Mankiw is an American economist and the former Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw was appointed as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in 2003 by President George W. Bush and worked as an economic adviser to Mitt Romney during his presidential
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as “AOC,” is a Democratic politician and leader of the radical left of the Party. In 2018, she was elected U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th District located in the Bronx and Queens. First elected at 28 years old, Ocasio-Cortez is as of mid-2020 the youngest
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Corridor Partners is a left-of-center consultancy group focused on providing clients with environmentalist-aligned strategies to address climate change, including promoting the reduction and elimination of the use of conventional energy sources. Background Corridor Partners is a for-profit consultancy group that advises donors and other clients on strategies to achieve left-of-center
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Wisconsin Conservative Energy Forum (WICEF) is an environmentalist energy advocacy organization created in 2017 that is funded by the Conservative Energy Network (CEN), an umbrella organization that receives grants from left-leaning foundations including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Turner Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation.
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Sean McElwee is an activist and political consultant who advocates for the Democratic Party to endorse more left-progressive policy platforms. He is the co-founder and executive director of Data for Progress, a left-of-center public research group and a project of Tides Advocacy. McElwee is also the director of
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The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust is the private grantmaking foundation of the late real estate developer and philanthropist Bernard Spitzer and his wife, Anne, whose children include former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D). The foundation is a major contributor to left-of-center nonprofits. Background Formed in 2001
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The Deer Creek Foundation is a grantmaking organization which funds left-of-center causes, especially those related to the environment and legal issues. 1 While the Deer Creek Foundation does not limit its giving geographically, it is especially focused on issues
