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Friendfactor makes it easy for friends to help their gay friends achieve full legal freedoms

Friendfactor is pioneering a new model of online organizing that has brought new supporters to the gay rights movement. The online platform has the power to reach millions of friends and recently helped leverage supporters in legalizing gay marriage in New York. Friendfactor’s innovative NY campaign received attention in outlets from CBS News and New York Daily News to New York Times, New York Observer, and New York Magazine.

Friend Factor Final 11_8 from Friendfactor.org on Vimeo.

“The private social network that helped elect a president.”

From small projects to large organizations, NationalField is the backbone of some of the world’s most successful teams. A private social network for your team, you’ll have powerful tools to increase collaboration, open access to information, reduce emails, and eliminate meetings.

Introducing the new way to work. from NationalField on Vimeo.

Annie Leonard, who directs The Story of Stuff Project, was inspired to make the film The Story of Citizens United v. FEC after the disastrous 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC that permitted corporations to spend freely to influence American elections. The 8-minute film places corporate influence—not bad politicians—at the heart of Americans’ low confidence in the political process. The movie explores the history of the American corporation and corporate political spending, the appropriate roles of citizens and for-profit corporations in a democracy and the toxic impact the Citizens United decision has already had on our political process. It ends with a call to amend the U.S. Constitution to confirm that people—not corporations—make the decisions in a democracy.