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Saving Our Own Lives: Grassroots Responses to COVID-19 Around the Globe

To what extent have these organizations proven better equipped to deal with the pandemic response, and what are the challenges that these associations face when organizing in the age of COVID-19? In addition, how can they seize this moment to turn their organizing into power and influence in political and economic life?

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Unlocking AI’s potential for social movements

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