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The advocacy fund is linked in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_Foundation#Advocacy_Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_Foundation#Advocac
by mellosouls 4y ago
The advocacy fund is linked in the article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_Foundation#Advocacy_Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_Foundation#Advocacy_Fund
Tides Foundation is an American public charity and fiscal sponsor working to advance progressive causes and policy initiatives in areas such as the environment, health care, labor issues, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights and human rights.
While those policy areas are not in themselves necessarily negative, they have a clear political slant which is the ground associated with woke activism.
It's not obvious what it has to do with Wikimedia.
- happymellon 4y agoNone of those sound bad, but one organisation that tries to focus on all of them? You'll end up trying lots of things but poorly, or find that they cross influence to make things efficient. Why work on labour issues when you can deal with women's labour issues? And especially if they are being funded via manipulation, such as paying for Wikipedia's servers, means they would lack the oversight from donors which is not an effective way.
- chris_wot 4y agoIt’s also an American organisation, and yet the WMF has a global remit.
- Ekaros 4y agoAlso they sound extremely localised. As someone outside extremely wealthy and rich USA why should my money go to that sort of political organizations there. Why don't they use their own money for it?