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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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Everybody Vs. Billionaires
Our latest research guide – Everybody Vs. Billionaires – outlines research tools and tricks you can use to identify and understand how billionaires are influencing how you live, where you live so that you can take them on.

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Hochul stalls climate action amid multi-million dollar lobbying effort by fossil fuel industry
A look at the multi-million dollar political influence campaign by fossil fuels and other polluters that has led Governor Kathy Hochul to abandon New York's plans to mitigate climate change.

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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Lessons from a Life of Power Research: An Interview with Mike Locker

By Derek Seidman

A deep-dive interview with the longtime power structure researcher Mike Locker.

Six Steps for Researching the Corporate Enablers of ICE

By Lauren Parker

Learn about how to research corporations collaborating with ICE in this new guide.

Everybody Vs. Billionaires

By Molly Gott

The LittleSis Guide to Exposing the Billionaires in Your Backyard

Reports

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  • The Primary Dealers of Genocide

    The 12 U.S. banks providing key services contributing to financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza

  • Everybody Vs. Billionaires

    The LittleSis Guide to Exposing the Billionaires in Your Backyard

  • Hochul stalls climate action amid multi-million dollar lobbying effort by fossil fuel industry

    Polluters seeking to undermine New York’s climate response have spent millions of dollars on lobbying firms that have deep ties to state government and have hosted high-dollar fundraisers for Governor Hochul