Links & Resources

 

The Academic Capture Warning System (ACWS) tracks institutions and individuals that have engaged in clear violations of well-accepted academic norms involving financial donations to colleges and universities. If you have information on donors, colleges, universities, departments, centers, or institutes that should be featured in this database, please submit tips via email at acws@academiccapture.org.

Arizona’s Request to Speak System (RTS) is an online tool that lets everyday citizens give Arizona state lawmakers our feedback on bills. It’s an easy way to get involved in state politics, stay informed on the bills that directly affect us, and make sure our elected officials honor the wishes of us, their constituents.

BACKPACS is Bay Area Collective Keeping Privatizers Away from Community Schools.

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a nationally recognized watchdog that leads in-depth, award-winning investigations into the corruption that undermines our democracy, environment, and economic prosperity. They are recognized for exposing ALEC in 2011. https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

The Center for Public Integrity “is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom investigating democracy, power and privilege. Our reporting focuses on the influence of money and the impact of inequality on our society.”

The Corporate Genome ProjectWe seek to document how networks of corporate donors manufacture political narratives and public policy for private gain. The Corporate Genome Project will provide a growing body of investigations, web reports, and data visualizations designed to increasingly decode this complex political activity. It will be a resource for those trying to understand or confront its manifestations in their own communities.” 

DeSmog Blog launched in January 2006 and quickly became the world’s number one source for accurate, fact-based information regarding global warming misinformation campaigns including this lengthy profile on Koch.

In The Public Interest focuses on privatization efforts in the US.

Koch Docs.org is a searchable database of documents and analyses about the billionaire Charles Koch and his empire, agenda, networks, and impact on you. Here, all in one place are hard-to-find documents about Charles Koch, his empire, and his agenda.

PolluterWatch is a project of Greenpeace that holds polluters accountable for the work they’re doing to block the transition from the dirty fossil fuels of the past to the clean energy sources of the future.

Save Our Schools Arizona Network is a registered non-partisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to research and education around public education.

Students For Transparency - is a UA student group concerned about the UA Freedom Center.

True North Research - “is an investigative watchdog whose focus is on front groups, corporations, and people underwriting a reactionary agenda that undermines our nation’s commitment to core principles.” They also curate Koch Docs.

Unchain Our Democracy is inspired by Nancy MacLean’s book, Democracy in Chains. They ask everyone who wants to end the tyranny of the Koch network to assist Counter-Koch groups and engage in political or reform activity that counters the actions of the Koch network.

Unkoch My Campus is a national cooperative campaign to expose and expel undue donor influence on colleges and universities nationwide. They are working to put a halt to corrupt donor agendas that bias corporate priorities over academic integrity and social welfare, and to preserve our democracy through protecting higher education from actors whose expressed intent is to place private and corporate interests over the common good.