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Civil society organizations are on the entrance traces of advocating for or towards probably the most divisive points in the USA. The next checklist is organized by rights. The hyperlinks are nearly completely to civil society organizations preventing to guard the rights to free expression, free meeting, voting, replica, and work. Their civil society opponents on these points are famous underneath every part.
(I am positive there’s extra so as to add right here – be happy to ship additions to @mastodon.social@p2173 or remark under)
E book bans, academic censorship and assaults on free expression
Pen America stories there have been 86 state payments proposed that might censor a large swath of academic supplies and ban books, totally on Black folks, LGTBQ+ folks, and discussions of essential race and queer idea (faculty degree). An rising variety of these payments enable a single particular person to request removing of any variety of books, and for these books to be eliminated earlier than any sort of evaluation. Thirty-two states and greater than 150 college districts have applied e book bans.
Notable nonprofits for e book bans:
Mothers for Liberty, shaped in 2021, has 200 native chapters. It’s each a c3 and a c4.
Different nationwide teams with branches embrace US Dad and mom Concerned in
Training (50 chapters), No Left Flip in Training (25), MassResistance
(16), Dad and mom’ Rights in Training (12), Mary within the Library (9), County
Residents Defending Freedom USA (5), and Power2Parent (5).
One other
38 state, regional, or group teams advocating for e book removals
seem unaffiliated with the nationwide teams or with each other.
Notable nonprofits towards: PEN America, American Library Affiliation, many others
Protest bans and assaults on free meeting
Thirty-nine states have handed legal guidelines limiting protest. Whereas a handful of jurisdictions have handed legal guidelines limiting using facial recognition by police, most locations haven’t finished so. In 2021, half of the 42 US federal companies which might be a part of regulation enforcement owned or used facial recognition expertise. Company use of SLAPP lawsuits towards particular person protestors are rising in numbers. Open carry regulations for handguns exist in 36 states and you’ll carry a protracted gun overtly in 44 states. Weapons at protests are exhausting to sq. with the concept of peacable meeting.
Notable organizations selling protest bans: Police associations, Republican officers,
Notable organizations preventing towards them: Civil Liberties Protection Heart, ACLU, BLM
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/open-carry-states
Voting rights
As of 2021, nineteen states had handed legal guidelines making it tougher to vote. Eighteen states have been carrying over 152 payments to limit voting in 2022.
Notable organizations selling voting restrictions: People For Prosperity, Heritage Basis, ALEC
Notable organizations preventing towards restrictions: Voting Rights Alliance, ACLU, some election administration teams, Truthful Battle, Brennan Heart, Legal professionals Committee for Civil Rights
Reproductive rights
Have break up the U.S. in two – with 24 states banning entry to abortion. These states are additionally including vigilante bonuses and surveilling communications and journey.
Notable organizations selling reproductive restrictions: see this checklist
Proper to work
These legal guidelines, whose title implies one factor however which really deal with limiting the precise for labor to prepare, exist in 27 of the 50 states.
Notable organizations selling voting restrictions: People For Prosperity, Heritage Basis, ALEC, Republican Celebration
Notable organizations preventing towards restrictions: AFL-CIO, SEIU, Heart for American Progress, Democrats
Behind all of those organizations are donors. Some are closely supported by people, others by foundations, others by companies. Many depend on crowdfunding or on a mixture of all of those funding constructions. Behind every concern, on either side, is a mixture of 501c4 and 501c3 organizations – an strategy that makes it straightforward to cover the identities of donors whose pursuits are primarily political however who want anonymity. New case regulation on donor anonymity in such conditions, and conservative teams efforts to allow even better anonymity for political donors, additional complicates our capacity to know who’s funding what.
I haven’t got a conclusion to supply to this put up. But. As a substitute, view this as “first draft pondering” for Blueprint 2024. I welcome your suggestions.
