Projects - Advocacy tech

Make Votes Matter

London

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

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

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.

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

X (Twitter)

Global Nonviolent Action Database

Swarthmore College

Powering Learning about Nonviolent Action. Last updated 2011.

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.

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

Protect My Public Media

Campaign to urge Congress: Protect Public Media Funding

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Restore the Gulf of Mexico

Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.

TeslaTakedown

A distributed campaign against Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's role shutting down various parts of the US government

Project 2025

Datack

Paris

Agence de communication et relations publics, Datack est spécialisée dans les stratégies de mobilisation et d’engagement des publics

AI and Campaigning: The Future of Influence

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

Report by Hannah O’Rourke for Campaign Lab

AI & Campaigning Handbook

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

Campaign Lab's handbook is for any campaigners working across the progressive ecosystem who are interested in using new AI Tools.

Making TikTok, tick

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Using our AI-assisted research methodologies we examined more than 30,000 videos relating to mainstream political discourse in the UK

Inescapable AI

Los Angeles, CA

Employing 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.

کارزار (Karzar)

Tehran

The largest Persian e-petition platform in Iran

TechTonic Justice

Los Angeles, CA

A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power among the people and communities that AI is leaving behind.

Reduced inequalities

Stop AAPI Hate (SAH)

Asian and Pacific Islander

IDREAM (Incubator for Defenders Remaining in Exile to Advance Movements)

St. Paul, MN

A collaborative and global capacity development project designed to help address the unique needs of HRDs living in exile.

diaspora

Atlas by Murmuration

United States of America (the)

Atlas by Murmuration is seamlessly integrated into our tools, providing the data that community-focused organizations need to drive change.

Organizer by Murmuration

United States of America (the)

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.

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Irídia

Barcelona, Spain

A Irídia defensem els drets civils i polítics. Denunciem la violència institucional i promovem canvis en les polítiques públiques. Actua!

Pro-Democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations

A paper published in SSRN by Erica Chenoweth, Zoe Marks

Project 2025

10X Your Vote

United States of America (the)

Find 10 friends who don't vote and we win.

apps

SwipeBlue

United States of America (the)

SwipeBlue is fun and easy - it's Tinder for Democratic organizing! Just swipe blue (left) to send your friends a helpful voting text.

CampaignSidekick

United States of America (the)

Supercharge your ground game. Fast. Preferred GOP Vendor and Trump campaign as a client.

캠페인즈에 뱃지가 생겼어요! (Campaign badges)

43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Gamification features on the Parti Campaigns platform

Economic Change Unit

London

The Economic Change Unit (ECU) campaigns to change the way the economy works so that everyone has the freedom and security to

Decent work and economic growth

Activists Resource Hub

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

We’ve put this guide together to point you to some of the brilliant resources available for UK activists.

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Hand-written Petition Scanner

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

An AI-powered tool designed to efficiently digitize handwritten petition sheets, transforming them into organized, upload-ready CSVs to streamline data management and optimize volunteer efforts.