Gravel Institute

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The Gravel Institute is an American crowd-funded non-profit "creating short videos to combat right-wing disinformation and bring left ideas to new audiences."[1] It was founded in 2019 with left-over funds from the Mike Gravel 2020 presidential campaign.[2] The Gravel Institute is intended as a left-wing answer to the right-wing propaganda outlet PragerU.

Participants

The Gravel Institute works together with prominent left-wing voices to present their videos. These have included and will include H. Jon Benjamin [1], Briahna Joy Gray [2], Zephyr Teachout [3], Matt Karp [4], Bernie Sanders,[3] Chelsea Manning,[3] Cornel West,[3] Slavoj Žižek,[3] Richard D. Wolff,[3] Stephanie Kelton,[3] Nick Estes,[3] and Gravel himself.[3]

See also

References

  1. "The Gravel Institute". Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  2. Bonn, Tess (2019-08-02). "Gravel to form liberal think tank after suspending campaign" (Text). TheHill. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 How to Defeat PragerU: Introducing the Gravel Institute. 2020-09-28. Event occurs at 1:11. Retrieved 2020-10-29.