Interrelated Organizations that Counter the Koch Network (Reference Page)
NOTE: this is not a complete list, just groups we know about. Please write to us with additions or corrections.
NOTE: this is not a complete list, just groups we know about. Please write to us with additions or corrections.
BUILD DONOR NETWORK
- AFL-CIO, NEA, SEIU, etc?
- Democracy Alliance and Committee on States?
- Progressive foundations
DEVISE STRATEGY, POLICY, AND TACTICS for each stage of the plan:
- Center for American Progress
- Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Center for Media & Democracy
- Checks and Balances Project
- Color of Change
- Demos
- Economic Policy Institute
- Institute for New Economic Thinking
- In the Public Interest
- Institute for Policy Studies
- Institute for Women’s Policy Institute
- Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- National Employment Law Project
- Political Research Associates
RECRUIT & TRAIN TALENT TO CARRY OUT AGENDA
- Roosevelt Institute
- Scholars Strategy Network
- Scholars for Social Justice
- Union Summer*
- UnKoch My Campus
ORGANIZE TO REGAIN STATE-LEVEL & LOCAL POWER & PROMOTE SELF-REINFORCING POLICY
- ALICE*
- Center for Popular Democracy
- Committee on States
- EARN
- Jobs to Move America
- Jobs with Justice
- LAANE, CCNE*, etc.
- Local Progress
- Our Revolution
- People’s Action
- State Innovation Exchange (SIX)
- State Priorities Partnership
- Unions
- Working Families Party
EXPAND THE ELECTORATE & DEFEND VOTING RIGHTS & PARTICIPATION
- AFL-CIO
- America Votes
- Brennan Center
- Campaign Legal Center
- Democracy Initiative
- Democracy North Carolina and equivalents elsewhere
- Every Voice
- Indivisible
- League of Women Voters
- MoveOn
- NAACP
- Our Revolution
- Working Families Party
DE- SACRALIZE THE RIGHT’S AGENDA by cultivating religious allies & advance a pro-public one
- Faith in Action
- Faith Partnerships*
- Interfaith Worker Justice
- National Council of Churches
- Repairers of the Breach
EXPOSE THE KOCH CONTERFEIT RIVALS OF PROGRESSIVE GROUPS to media & rally originals
- AARP
- Generation Opportunity: United States Student Association, etc.
- Independent Women’s Forum: IWPR, Ms. Foundation, NOW, NARAL, PP, etc.
- Libre: National Council of La Raza, MALDEF
USE WEDGE ISSUES TO BREAK UP THE KOCH PHALANX AND PEAL OFF THEIR SUPPORTERS
- Faith groups and leaders – enlist National Council of Churches etc. to convey the libertarian ethical agenda
- Veterans administration privatization – Concerned Veterans of America pushing for privatization of VA against all the venerable, real vet groups, including VFW and AL.
- Corporate interests and investors hurt by climate change (agriculture, green energy, insurance, tourism, etc.)
- AARP – expose stealth bid to privatize Social Security and Medicare
- Common sense gun control – organize union veterans and hunters against the NRA?
- Environment – strong majorities of Republican voters, too, still support protection of air and water quality, western lands and monuments, etc., so expose what the GOP is trying to do quietly and administratively
DOCUMENT KNOWING MISINFORMATION FOR THE KOCH AGENDA TO EDITORIAL BOARDS
- Brennan Center
- Climate Investigations
- DeSmog Blog
- Greenpeace
- Public Citizen
- Sierra Club
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- UnKoch My Campus
SUPPORT MEDIA THAT DO OR COULD EXPOSE AND COUNTER FOX, BREITBART, & THE REST
- Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
- Center for Media and Democracy
- DeSmog Blog & international contacts (e.g. on Mont Pelerin Society & Atlas Network)
- Little Sis
- Etc.
DEFEND HIGHER EDUCATION BY EXPOSING THE DONOR GAMBIT TO RUIN IT
- AAUP
- AAUW
- AFT
- NAACP youth groups
- NEA
- PIRGs
- Students against Sweatshops (United Students Against Sweatshops?)
- UnKoch My Campus
- United States Student Association (Facebook)
USE VOTER ACTION & PROGRESSIVE DONOR INFLUENCE TO KEEP DEMOCRATS HONEST AND ACCOUNTABLE TO VOTERS AND “MUST-HAVE” PRO-DEMOCRACY STRUCTURAL REFORMS
- Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
- Center for Popular Democracy
- Climate Hawks
- Indivisible
- League of Women Voters
- Our Revolution
- Working Families Party
THWART THE ARTICLE V CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION & ENGAGE PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERS AND PROGRESSIVE LAW SCHOOL FACULTY TO DEVISE LEGAL STRATEGY TO BETTER PROMOTE DEMOCRACY
- ACLU
- American Constitution Society
- Common Cause
- End Citizens United
- Equal Justice Initiative
- League of Women Voters
- Public Citizen
- Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
- [various law schools’ legal clinics]
BUILD GLOBAL INFO EXCHANGES & RELATIONSHIPS TO BLOCK “EXIT THREATS” & LIFT FLOORS
- Amnesty International
- EU folks dealing with Brexit, etc.
- Greenpeace
- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [Panama Papers team]
- SEIU and other unions forging international partnerships
- Solidarity House
- Tax Justice Network
- Tri-continental
**** other possible state and local partners at Field Guide to the Democracy Movement: http://www.fieldguidetodemocracy.org/
*Could not find or too many choices
*Could not find or too many choices
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