Preparing for Project 2025:

Conservative Philanthropy's Plan for a Corporate Coup

This critical conversation explored how Project 2025, if implemented, could gut government agencies, reduce government accountability, and further ensure corporations and the wealthy are the only beneficiaries of the public good. The blueprint, funded by conservative donors and philanthropists, includes using public dollars to target "enemies" of the right, including government workers, corporate regulators, environmentalists, union leaders, scientists, racial justice advocates, educators, and more.

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Marisa Franco

Marisa Franco is the executive director and co-founder of Mijente and Mijente Support Committee, a digital and grassroots organizing hub for Latinx and Chicanx people. ‍In her nearly 20 years of work as an organizer and movement builder, Marisa has helped lead key, innovative, and effective grassroots organizing campaigns rooted in low-income and communities of color. She is a trusted leader across sectors and on issues of campaigns, movement building, and political analysis. Marisa was named a New York Times "visionary" in 2018 and has been featured in media such as CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, Univision, Politico, and Democracy Now. ‍

George Goehl

George Goehl

George Goehl is an organizer with Addition Collective, which launches new working-class organizing, teaches and trains people how to do it, and tells the story of what becomes possible when we broaden whom we invite into a “bigger we.” Through this work, he believes we can dramatically broaden who our organizing is designed to reach. Previously, George has helped organize campaigns to win federal financial reform, to win tens of billions in mortgage relief for ripped-off homebuyers, to reform federal housing programs and to win a hundred-million-dollar lending agreement. He also fights to get alleys paved and new trash cans put in and to win rodent abatement.

Maurice Mitchell

Maurice Mitchell

Maurice is the national director of the Working Families Party, a political home for a multiracial working-class movement. He is a nationally recognized social movement strategist, a visionary leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and a community organizer for racial, social, and economic justice. Born and raised in New York to Caribbean working-class parents, Maurice began organizing as a teenager—and never stopped. Maurice went on to work as an organizer for the Long Island Progressive Coalition, a downstate organizing director for Citizen Action of NY, and the director of the NY State Civic Engagement Table.

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