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Introduction
Introduction
In order to help everyday citizens hold our leadership accountable, some organizations have created helpful trackers that alert the public to important issues such a environmental action, social justice, lobbying and other monetary movement within politics.
Please feel free to alert us to any other trackers that should be listed here.
Trackers by Region
Trackers by Region
The following are organized by region, by contient then region based on this system. Then alphabetically.
International
International
Climate Action Tracker (CAT) "is an independent scientific analysis produced by two research organisations tracking climate action since 2009. We track progress towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C."
Energy Policy Tracker "As governments across the world continue to invest hundreds of billions in the energy system to reboot their economies, our analysis is expanding to cover more countries and provide a more comprehensive global picture. Countries are also grouped by regions, which helps to identify trends and patterns in their local contexts."
North America
North America
Canada
Canada
Federal Oil & Gas Lobbying Bot / @FedLobBot "Automatically tweets when Big Oil lobbies the Canadian federal government, usually to get more subsidies and block #ClimateAction"
USA
USA
Agriculture Fairness Alliance: Ag Payments Tracker 🤠 "Uncover the Truth: Our (AFA’s) Interactive Tool Exposes Massive Fraud, Overpayment, and Negligence in the Livestock and Animal Feed Industry. You can pick any state, county, city, payee, farm name, address and see how much money every livestock, dairy and animal feed farmer is getting. Learn more here: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104397 "
ICE Warehouse Purchase Tracker 🧊 This site tracks a few things including Existing Detention Facilities, the number of beds that ICE currently has room for, amount of money wasted on these ware, as well as the environmental dangers to each facility - FEMA flood, heat death, tornadoes, wildfire risk, etc.
LittleSis "is a project of Public Accountability Initiative, a 501(c)3 organization focused on corporate and government accountability. We receive financial support from foundations and benefit from free software written by the open source community.
The code powering LittleSis is free & open source."OpenSecrets "is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Our mission is to track the flow of money in American politics and provide the data and analysis to strengthen democracy."
Oceana
Oceana
Australia
Australia
Fossil Fuel Watch "The demands for support from the fossil fuel lobby range from company tax cuts, to slashing Howard-Government era environmental legislation, support for import gas terminals and exploration projects, and cuts to mine workers’ pay and conditions.
Use the filter to see the different demands, who’s asking for them and their status."
Ways to Use This Information
Ways to Use This Information
Action & Activism
Action & Activism
The benefit of learning from trackers is that this information can help guide you on your journey to find actions you can take in your own life. This might include lifestyle changes or trying new types of activism. If you are already an activist, then the information may help you choose your next steps of style of activism.
Communication
Communication
Information found by tracking government activities can be useful when communicating about important issues, or the information itself may be so important that it needs to be communicated as its own issue.
Contact Your Representatives
Contact Your Representatives
Contacting your representatives about the topics that are important to you, helps them understand how they should vote and what you expect them to do as public servants.
We can use tracking apps to help us keep an eye on how well they are representing us and our interests, as well as the actions of their fellow politicians. Sometimes when we reach out to one leader, they can help sway or oppose other politicians who are not upholding the standards that we want from our leaders.
Whistleblowing
Whistleblowing
Whistleblowers can help keep trackers accurate and up-to-date.
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