Projects - Advocacy tech

No Tech for Apartheid

No Tech For Apartheid is a worker-led campaign of Google and Amazon workers organizing against the companies' $1B Project Nimbus cloud computing contract with the Israeli government and military.

FloodGen

New York City

A flood advocacy tool that uses generative AI to visualize photorealistic images of potential flood scenarios

floods

Veeto

San Francisco

Veeto is a civic tech platform that turns small-dollar contributions into verified lobbying actions.

Surge Africa

Kano

We work at the intersection of policy, media & resilience.

Climate action

Everyone Hates Elon

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Pissing off Elon Musk one small action at a time.

Project 2025

Our country is in crisis. Services and the rights we care about are under attack as those in power move closer to a dangerous authoritarian rule. The All of US Directory offers you the opportunity to respond.

Project 2025

My Voice Counts

Georgia (Sakartvelo)

My Voice Counts is a civic-tech platform that empowers people to safely and anonymously participate in verified issue-based voting and protest support

apps

r/50501

#50501 Movement's original subReddit

#ReaffirmTheOath on Law Day

United States of America (the)

On May 1, 2025 (Law Day), lawyers across the country are encouraged to participate in #ReaffirmTheOath—a nonpartisan, nonpolitical national grassroots effort empowering lawyers in communities large and small to speak out, stand together, and publicly renew their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law.

Hong Kong Accountability Archive

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Accountability Archive (HKAA) is an independent, searchable, and secure database that documents the policing of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

#50501

United States of America (the)

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 UK

Washington, DC

A Tool for Researching Corporate Regulatory Infringements in the United Kingdom

Violation Tracker Global

Washington, DC

Violation Tracker Global is the first wide-ranging database on corporate misconduct around the world.

Subsidy Tracker

Washington, DC

Discover Where Corporations are Getting Taxpayer Assistance Across the United States

Amazon Tracker

Washington, DC

Discover How Much the Public is Subsidizing One of the Largest Retailers

Amazon

Good Jobs First

Washington, DC

Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.

Stop AI giants stealing our work

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Good Law Project is ready to help creatives fight back.

No Azure for Apartheid

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.

Activism Glossary

by Mehran Khalili

TRILLIONAIRE$ FOR TRUMP

United States of America (the)

Parody protest campaign

Global Network for Social Justice and Digital Resilience

Global

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.

Scanning the Horizon

Global

The 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.

reports

The Great Battlefield Podcast

United States of America (the)

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, MA

We build software solutions for Democratic campaigns and organizations, focused on compliance and data management.

partisan

People vs. Big Tech

Brussels

People vs Big Tech is a movement fighting to overturn the predatory business model of giant tech corporations and change the internet for good.

Make Votes Matter

London

Make Votes Matter is the [UK] national movement for Proportional Representation

Public Rights Project

Oakland, CA

Since 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

Global Nonviolent Action Database

Swarthmore College

Powering Learning about Nonviolent Action. Last updated 2011.

A customisable pipeline for the semi-automated discovery of online activists and social campaigns on Twitter

X (Twitter)

Using AI Now to Improve Movements’ Effectiveness: A Basic Introduction Guide for Social Activists

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Freddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies

guides

Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Analyzes 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

Israel Palestine

How AI Can Support Democracy Movements: Summary Report of a Research and Practice Workshop

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

This report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.

Protect My Public Media

Campaign to urge Congress: Protect Public Media Funding

Project 2025

Department of People who Work for a Living

Washington, DC

We’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.

Project Moonshot (@projmoonshot)

United States of America (the)

Political edu on resistance. Stand w/ federal workers. Stop the authoritarian takeover. Organizing a positive vision for public good. Get on the bus 🚌

Project 2025

The Outrage

Washington, DC

The 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.

partisan

Federal Workers Against DOGE

United States of America (the)

Standing with federal workers against a corporate-backed coup led by DOGE.

AI and Democracy Movements Project

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

The AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements.

Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

The Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast brings you the latest research, insights, and ideas on how nonviolent action can — or sometimes fails — to transform injustice.

podcasts

Nonviolent Action Lab

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

The 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.

Make It Fair campaign

London

The 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.

Stop AI theft

Twin Cities Innovation Alliance

Minneapolis

Our 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.