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Mark Dimondstein is a labor union activist who currently sits as president of the American Postal Workers’ Union (APWU). Dimondstein is a noted left-of-center activist who has repeatedly criticized Trump administration-aligned Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Prior to DeJoy’s appointment, Dimondstein urged U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) to
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Based in Seattle, Washington, APACEvotes (Asian Pacific Islander Americans for Civil Empowerment) is a project of the left-of-center Tides Advocacy. APACEvotes focuses on educating and mobilizing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in the Pacific Northwest during elections through regular programming and media outreach. About APACEvotes is an organization
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The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice, education issues, public pensions, dietary policy, and scientific research reform. The foundation
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National Public Radio (NPR) is a national nonprofit media outlet created and funded by the federal government. Though the organization claims to strive for objectivity, many media watchdogs consider NPR to have a left-of-center bias.
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50CAN (Coalition for Achievement Now) is a Washington, D.C.-based education advocacy group. In 2016, 50CAN merged with Students First, an education advocacy group formed by former chancellor of D.C. Public Schools Michelle Rhee.
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Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (better known by its acronym, BDS) is an international campaign to delegitimize the State of Israel as the expression of the Jewish people’s right to national self-determination by isolating the country economically through consumer boycotts, business and government withdrawal of investment, and legal sanctions. Critics allege
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Neighborhood Funders Group is a left-of-center philanthropic membership organization and grant maker. Its members and funding partners include some of the most powerful groups in left-of-center philanthropy. Its funding areas and strategies are influenced by concepts like critical race theory, decoloniality, organized labor, wealth redistribution, LGBTQ advocacy, and climate justice.
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The Action Network is an online tool for left-of-center outlets to organize, fundraise, and circulate petitions for liberal causes. Action Network was used to organize the left-of-center demonstration Women’s March, environmentalist protests against the Keystone XL pipeline, and the March for Our Lives events supporting gun control. The
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Voto Latino (also known as the Voto Latino Action Fund) is a left-of-center voter mobilization group targeted at Latino voters. Co-founded by Maria Theresa Kumar and actress Rosario Dawson, Voto Latino has registered hundreds of thousands of voters since 2004. The organization also advocates for abortion through its advertising and
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Linda Sarsour is a controversial Palestinian-American activist1 who promotes intersectional left-wing activism to address a wide-array of left-wing issues.
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The Fast Food Workers Committee (FFWC) is a labor union organized by and almost entirely funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as part of the Fight for $15 minimum wage and union organizing campaign.
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The “Fight for $15” is a corporate campaign principally orchestrated and funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which seeks to unionize the quick-service franchise restaurant industry and raise the federal minimum wage by more than double to $15 per hour, using the slogan “$15 and a union.”
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Also see Democracy Fund Voice (Non-profit) The Democracy Fund is a left-of-center public policy-oriented foundation chaired and soely funded by eBay founder and former chairman Pierre Omidyar.1
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Angelo Carusone is the president and CEO of Media Matters for America (MMfA), a left-of-center organization that purports to “fact check” conservative media and political commentators. 1 Carusone frequently discusses “fake news”
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Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington came to America in 1980 and quickly made a name for herself as a Manhattan “It Girl” among New York’s powerful. 1 In the mid-1980s
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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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Bill Gates is the founder and former CEO of technology giant Microsoft. He also founded the philanthropic Bill Gates Foundation, known since Gates’s marriage to Melinda Gates (nee French) as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Since founding Microsoft in the 1970s, Gates has become one of the world’s
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The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is an advocacy group which claims to advocate for nonpartisan action on behalf of the Iranian-American community in domestic and foreign policy issues. In reality, NIAC pushes for a range of left-wing policy positions, including an end to all sanctions on the Iranian regime
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John Podesta is a Democratic political operative who has served as White House Chief of Staff in the Clinton administration, Counselor to the President in the Obama administration, and chair of the Hillary Clinton 2016 Presidential campaign. He is also the co-founder and former president of the Center
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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