Email Your Rep. and Senators to Pass Medicare For All
Most rich countries spend much less on healthcare and provide it for everyone. They use non-profit systems like single-payer that cut out the middleman, the bureaucracy, the advertising, and the profit motive.Email your Representative and Senators.
Ask your Representative to commit to voting No on any bills that fund militarism at over 90% of the current level
Tell Your State Legislators to Abolish the Death Penalty
The death penalty's slow death is accelerating.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Let's fix the Electoral College problem now.
What do you say we stop allowing candidates who lose the national popular vote to ever enter the White House as president again?
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell your Representative to end U.S. war in Afghanistan
We've heard "We don't want to leave too quickly" for nearly 20 years. Enough is enough.
Email your Representative and Senators.
Ask your Rep. and Senators to join the "Defense" Spending Reduction Caucus
Military spending is more out of control than ever. Funding is needed for human and environmental needs more than ever.
Email your Representative and Senators.
Make Voter Registration Automatic in Your State Too
Every election season, thousands of volunteers toil endless hours on a task that need not exist at all: registering voters. And voters are denied the right to vote when told they are not registered.
Blasts From the Past
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News and Views
- The Intellectual Property on Covid-19 Should Be Shared as Rapidly and Widely as Possible
The governments of South Africa, India, and dozens of other developing countries are calling for the rights on intellectual property (IP), including vaccine patents, to be waived to accelerate the worldwide production of supplies to fight COVID-19.
more - James Bradley, Author of Flags of Our Fathers, #1 New York Times Best-Seller, Speaks Out Against the U.S. Military Encirclement of China
James Bradley is best known as the author, with writer Ron Powers, of Flags of Our Fathers (2000), a New York Times #1 best-selling book that was made into a movie by Stephen Spielberg and Clint Eastwood.
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"If we do not organize the great grassroots, we are doomed to be under the total control of corporate America. We have regressed to the days of the robber barons in the early last century -- but this time, these corporate thieves own and control the mass media. We need to organize to prevent an invasion of Iran and to extract ourselves from Iraq and Afghanistan. And we must begin to take care of our citizens." - Former U.S. Senator Jim Abourezk, early endorser of RootsAction.org
Action for a Progressive Future (the organization that runs RootsAction) is a nonprofit, progressive, public policy advocacy group.
