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Power Research for Just Futures

Building stronger, more strategic campaigns to help us win what our communities need to thrive.

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New Resource: Fossil Fuel Finance Hub
How does Wall Street drive the climate crisis? Learn about the role of the financial industry in propping up fossil fuels. Plug into ongoing campaigns resisting fossil finance. Locate tools and resources so you can research Wall Street actors.

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New Research: The Genocide Gentry
Educational and cultural institutions have granted prestigious positions to weapons manufacturers’ executives and directors, entrusting them with tremendous influence over how institutions respond—or don’t respond—to the destruction of life across our planet.

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Training Series: Research Tools for Organizers
Level up your toolkit and bring a new perspective to your campaigns by incorporating practical research techniques and a corporate power analysis into your campaign development every third Thursday starting April 18, 2024.

LittleSis Power Research Database

LittleSis is a free, open-source research platform. It is a database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government and a powerful tool for strategic research.

Map the Power Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to provide people organizing for social change in their communities with the resources, tips, and framework they need to conduct power research for building campaigns.

Upcoming Trainings

LittleSis leads trainings and workshops, both in person and online, on how to do power research – to help researchers, activists, and journalists learn skills to map out the networks of power that shape our society, politics and economy.

News: Eyes on the ties

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Mapping the Billionaire Winners of the 2024 Election

By Derek Seidman

Wall Street, crypto and fossil fuel billionaires – and of course Elon Musk – are set to benefit from a new Trump administration.

Power Research for Labor: How Research Advanced the Justice for Janitors Campaign

By Maggie Corser, Popular Democracy

Strategic research supported the historic J4J campaign — and we can learn from this today.

Power Research for Palestine: How Campus Organizers Are Using Research to Oppose the War Machine

By Derek Seidman

Graduate workers and student groups across the US are mapping university ties to militarism and Israel’s war on Gaza.

Reports

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  • CorpU

    Researching Corporate Influence on College & University Boards

  • The Darker Side of Consumers Energy

    Extracting Profits, Causing Harm, and Damaging Democracy

  • New York’s Double Agents

    Top fossil fuel lobbyists also work for environmental groups, hospitals, and leading cultural institutions