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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

Non Profit Quarterly

In 2020, multiple platform companies, including Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and Postmates, spent over $205 million to pass Proposition 22 in California , a law that classifies platform workers as independent contractors, not employees. It all begins with working-class solidarity between labor unions and the growing worker cooperative movement.

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Leading the Resistance: 28 Organizations You Can (and Should) Support Today

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The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund's mission is to change the face and voice of America's politics and achieve equality for LGBT Americans by increasing the number of openly LGBT officials at all levels of government. Southern Poverty Law Center. Lakota People's Law Project. National Immigration Law Center.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I think in the United States, the environmental movement is seen very much as a movement that is about protecting species, and is in a way almost a privilege of an upper class white elite. How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that? That isn't the case in the developing world.

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