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American Wind Power Made In China? Let's Create Jobs Here

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Our stimulus money could end up being used to send green jobs to China. With unemployment in America just having surpassed 10 percent, that is economic malpractice.Tell Energy Secretary Steven Chu: Don't send our Recovery Act tax dollars overseas. American stimulus funds must create American green jobs. read more »

August Health Care Event Calendar

This widget from FireDogLake is a crowd-sourced compilation of health care events and congressional town halls scheduled during the summer 2009 congressional recess. Click here to add a link to the calendar.

Stand Up For Health Care Reform

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No Surrender On Public Option

Talk of compromise in the White House and among Democrats in Congress does not change this basic fact: There is no reform without a public health insurance plan. This week, we are refusing to back down.

Read Monica Sanchez's remarks at Netroots Nation: The public option is the compromise. Here's five reasons why we must have it. | Earlier: The Co-Op Co-Opt.

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Don't Let Special Interests Use Town Halls To Block Change

The battle for health care reform has moved to town halls during the August congression read more »

Health Care for All: We Can't Afford Not to Act Now

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More than 300 economists, business leaders and health care experts have signed a petition asking President Obama and Congress to act now to reform the nation's health care system—"to move boldly to cover all Americans with health insurance, to bring down health care costs and create improved quality and value within the health care system for families, businesses, and taxpayers." read more »

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Click here to see recent posts that CAF staff and OurFuture community members have flagged as “must-reads”. Please take a look, judge for yourself, and help spread the word. Click “Broadcast” on any post you’d like to share with friends or publish on popular social networks. read more »

Start Making Sense

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Check out "Making Sense" -- our guide to kitchen-table issues, including tools and resources you can use to make the case for progressive solutions to our nation's problems. read more »

Check out the results of our past action campaigns...

I.O.U.S.A. Is Not OK

January 2009

During one weekend in January, CNN turned over a total of four hours of programming to the financial backers and stars of the anti-investment documentary “I.O.U.S.A." We demanded that CNN give equal time to public investment strategies that will put our economy back on a sound footing. read more »

The Debate We Need

September-October 2008


Debate We NeedThe American Dream is slipping out of reach for more and more families. Yet instead of addressing the root crises, our national debate has been hijacked by pigs, lipstick and tabloid gossip.

In response, the Institute for America's Future launched a 7-week campaign to demand a debate worthy of a great nation in trouble. It started with a New York Times ad series demanding a debate worthy of America. We then stepped up pressure for the debate we need by launching a petition drive aimed at the moderators of the presidential and VP debates: Tom Brokaw, Gwen Ifill, Jim Lehrer, and Bob Schieffer. By the end of our campaign nearly 13,000 progressives signed our petition, which helped us send a clear signal to the moderators: we deserve a debate worthy of a great nation in trouble. read more »

Tell Fox News – They Don’t Own Patriotism

June-July 2008


Tell Fox News -- They Don't Own PatriotismIn response to repeated attacks on the patriotism of progressives by right-wing media outlet Fox News, Campaign for America's Future launched the "Tell Fox News – They Don’t Own Patriotism" campaign. The goal of the campaign was to send a clear message to Fox News team in a format to which they'd be receptive: namely, personalized declarations of patriotism, each attached with a genuine Made-In-the-USA flag pin. The thrust of these personal declarations was that progressives are patriotic Americans too, and that no one holds a monopoly on patriotism. read more »