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#50501
United States of America 🇺🇸The first #50501 protests were a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies. The idea—50 protests in 50 states on 1 day—was born on r/50501 and spread rapidly on social media.
Violation Tracker Global
Washington, DCViolation Tracker Global is the first wide-ranging database on corporate misconduct around the world.
Good Jobs First
Washington, DCGood Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.
Amazon Tracker
Washington, DCDiscover How Much the Public is Subsidizing One of the Largest Retailers
Subsidy Tracker
Washington, DCDiscover Where Corporations are Getting Taxpayer Assistance Across the United States
Violation Tracker UK
Washington, DCA Tool for Researching Corporate Regulatory Infringements in the United Kingdom
Stop AI giants stealing our work
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Good Law Project is ready to help creatives fight back.
Join the growing No Tech for Apartheid movement and demand that Microsoft live up to its own purported ethical values—by ending its direct and indirect complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide.
TRILLIONAIRE$ FOR TRUMP
United States of America 🇺🇸Parody protest campaign
Scanning the Horizon
GlobalThe report serves as an entry point to this ‘forecasting’ stream of work that organizations working in the digital rights ecosystem often overlook, especially when resources are scarce, and they are focused on current challenges and ongoing projects.
We are a network of ten established organizations working in the global majority, that collaborate to strengthen the digital resilience of the social justice ecosystem.
The Great Battlefield Podcast
United States of America 🇺🇸A podcast about the political entrepreneurs and other progressive leaders who are finding new and improved ways to fight.
Data Management and Compliance, Inc.
Lexington, MAWe build software solutions for Democratic campaigns and organizations, focused on compliance and data management.
Make Votes Matter
LondonMake Votes Matter is the [UK] national movement for Proportional Representation
Public Rights Project
OaklandSince 2017, we've recovered over $46 million in relief for marginalized people; built a network of over 1,300 government offices, elected officials, and community-based organizations in 50 states; trained 130 prosecutors and government lawyers in 24 states; and secured court victories on abortion, immigrant, workers’, and voting rights
People vs. Big Tech
BrusselsPeople vs Big Tech is a movement fighting to overturn the predatory business model of giant tech corporations and change the internet for good.
Global Nonviolent Action Database
Swarthmore CollegePowering Learning about Nonviolent Action. Last updated 2011.
How AI Can Support Democracy Movements: Summary Report of a Research and Practice Workshop
Harvard University, Cambridge, MAThis report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024
Harvard University, Cambridge, MAAnalyzes the size, rhetorical nature, and non-violent nature of the pro-Palestine protest wave, which it finds to be "the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event" since their data became available in 2017. Published in Social Movement Studies
Using AI Now to Improve Movements’ Effectiveness: A Basic Introduction Guide for Social Activists
Harvard University, Cambridge, MAFreddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies
Protect My Public Media
United States of America 🇺🇸NPR and PBS have teamed up to fight US Congress's elimination of $1.1 billion in already-approved funding for public media
The Outrage
Washington, DCThe Outrage is a hub for activism. We’re leveraging the power of community + fashion to mobilize our growing network of activists to shift the political landscape of our country and change the world we live in.
Federal Workers Against DOGE
United States of America 🇺🇸Standing with federal workers against a corporate-backed coup led by DOGE.
Project Moonshot (@projmoonshot)
United States of America 🇺🇸Political edu on resistance. Stand w/ federal workers. Stop the authoritarian takeover. Organizing a positive vision for public good. Get on the bus 🚌
Department of People who Work for a Living
Washington, DCWe’ll be ensuring the federal government works for working people and isn’t destroyed by billionaires like Elon Musk. We’ll report on the facts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts and what you can do to fight back.
¡Reclamo!
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)The All In One Platform To Help Workers Recover Stolen Wages JOIN US
AI and Democracy Movements Project
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MAThe AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements.
Nonviolent Action Lab
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MAThe Nonviolent Action Lab is an innovation hub for activists, researchers, and supporters who share common goals around defending and advancing democracy worldwide through civil resistance — protests, demonstrations, and other actions.
Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MAThe Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast brings you the latest research, insights, and ideas on how nonviolent action can — or sometimes fails — to transform injustice.
Make It Fair campaign
LondonThe UK news industry is calling on the government to ensure creatives are rewarded properly so as to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the creative industries.
Twin Cities Innovation Alliance
MinneapolisOur mission is to build and develop a problem-solving ecosystem fueled by a critical mass of diverse, highly engaged residents, policymakers, and entrepreneurs made up of Black Indigenous and People of Color, in addition to other marginalized groups traditionally identified as the end-users and consumers of innovation and design, and transforming them into the innovators, purveyors, and beneficiaries.
Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.
A distributed campaign against Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's role shutting down various parts of the US government
Making TikTok, tick
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Using our AI-assisted research methodologies we examined more than 30,000 videos relating to mainstream political discourse in the UK
AI and Campaigning: The Future of Influence
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKReport by Hannah O’Rourke for Campaign Lab
AI & Campaigning Handbook
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKCampaign Lab's handbook is for any campaigners working across the progressive ecosystem who are interested in using new AI Tools.
Inescapable AI
Los AngelesEmploying a broad definition of AI, this report represents the first known effort to comprehensively explain and quantify the reach of AI-based decision-making among low-income people in the United States.
TechTonic Justice
Los AngelesA multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power among the people and communities that AI is leaving behind.
A collaborative and global capacity development project designed to help address the unique needs of HRDs living in exile.
Organizer by Murmuration
United States of America 🇺🇸Organizer provides community-focused organizations with the data and tools they need to foster meaningful connections and activate communities, so they can change the systems that are failing us.
Atlas by Murmuration
United States of America 🇺🇸Atlas by Murmuration is seamlessly integrated into our tools, providing the data that community-focused organizations need to drive change.
Irídia
BarcelonaA Irídia defensem els drets civils i polítics. Denunciem la violència institucional i promovem canvis en les polítiques públiques. Actua!
A paper published in SSRN by Erica Chenoweth, Zoe Marks
SwipeBlue
United States of America 🇺🇸SwipeBlue is a relational organizing app that matches your phone contacts to the voter file and shows you their party and districts. Just swipe blue (left) like Tinder to text them to register, donate, attend an event, or vote!
Pulsar
United States of America 🇺🇸Supercharge your ground game. Fast. Preferred GOP Vendor and Trump campaign as a client.
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