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Other Group
The Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration (CADBI) is a community organizing group dedicated to ending life in prison without parole. 1 It became a Pennsylvania Domestic Unincorporated Association in 2019.
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Non-profit
The Coalition for Public Safety (CPS) is a nonprofit organization working for increased leniency in criminal justice at the community, state, and federal levels through advocacy, policy research, and public education. Founding and History Coalition for Public Safety was formed in February of 2015 to promote a more lenient criminal
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Non-profit
Straight Ahead is a left-wing Pennsylvania-based advocacy organization that specializes in criminal justice policy. It is the legislative, lobbying, and electoral arm of the Abolitionist Law Center, a left-wing criminal justice reform organization. The organization seeks the eventual abolition of prisons and the end of the incarceration of criminals. More
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Non-profit
Change the Ref (CTR) is an activist group that promotes gun control. Founders Manuel and Patricia Oliver combine art, disruption, and activism to encourage people to vote against politicians who support the Second Amendment right to bear arms and to engage in advocacy for gun control. Founder Manuel Oliver has
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Non-profit
TechFreedom is a libertarian-leaning tech policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. It supports technological innovation and the freedom to use the internet (both “socially” in terms of the content people post and “fiscally” in terms of the ability to monetize that content) without heavy government regulation through education and
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Other Group
Reclaim Our Democracy is a social action group at First Parish, a Unitarian Universalist church in Concord, Massachusetts. It is part of the Unitarian Universalist Association which supports left-of-center social action.
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Other Group
Hazmat America is a left-of-center Washington, D.C.-based agitation and advocacy organization. It is protests Republican lawmakers and conservative organizations using a balloon character in a hazmat suit called “Cleanup Carl,” which the group bills as a “superhero for democracy.”
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Non-profit
Movement Labs, formerly known as Resistance Labs, is a left-of-center nonprofit technology consultant that focuses on using peer-to-peer texting to promote left-of-center activist organizations and political candidates. The organization re-invests its revenue into “experiments for the movement,” creating “social welfare organizations,” and working pro bono for left-of-center activists.
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Non-profit
Americans United for Democracy, Integrity and Transparency in Elections (AUDIT USA) is a left-of-center election activism organization that co-signed a letter written by left-of-center Scrutineers and the National Voting Rights Task Force in support of the “For the People Act,” a Biden administration legislative priority that would federalize
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Non-profit
The Samdhana Institute is a group of activists and practitioners focused on supporting indigenous peoples and local communities in Southeastern Asia on social and environmental issues, including land rights and governance of natural resources. The Institute has locations in the Philippines and Indonesia.
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Other Group
Good Government Coalition of New Jersey is a political coalition comprised of mostly left-of-center groups that advocate for changes to the election system in the state of New Jersey. It recommends the introduction of “public campaign funding” for all state-level elected offices, increasing the amount of oversight and accountability on
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Non-profit
DC Vote (also known as the Coalition for D.C. Representation Education Fund) is an advocacy group that supports giving Washington, D.C. Congressional and Senatorial representation. DC Vote is a member of Declaration for American Democracy, a left-wing coalition under Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen Foundation.
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Non-profit
18by Vote is a youth-voter outreach organization that operates in six states. 1 Its activists are funded by grants from the left-of-center political action committee Progressive Turnout Project, and it circulates petitions in support
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Other Group
Impact Capital Managers (ICM) is an investment advisory firm that advises its member funds on “impact investing” in environmental and other left-of-center projects. It is a project of the left-of-center Crane Institute of Sustainability (CIS).
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Non-profit
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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Other Group
The International Drug Policy Consortium is a global network of 193 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academic institutions, professional networks, and think tanks including the Drug Policy Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, and Global Exchange, that supports broad liberalization of drug policies.
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Non-profit
Call To Action (CTA) is a radical-left institution associated with dissenters from certain Catholic Church practices that has independent affiliate chapters throughout the United States. In 1990, CTA issued a “Call for Reform of the Catholic Church” urging the religion to reevaluate its positions on priestly celibacy, birth control, homosexuality,
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Non-profit
RuralOrganizing.org is an advocacy organization that supports and trains left-of-center political activists and left-of-center political candidates running for office in rural America. 1 The organization claims to have organized over 700,000 left-of-center
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Other Group
Third Act is a left-of-center political advocacy group that aims to mobilize older voters. It was founded by prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben in 2021 with the guiding notion that, in his words, “older Americans are not stuck in the past” but are in fact “eager to take on the
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
