- Announcing – Progressive Hub!
We’re very excited to announce the launch of Progressive Hub, a pathbreaking website. We hope you’ll visit now and bookmark it as a daily destination.ProgressiveHub.net combines the need to learn the latest with the imperative to take action.
Email Your Senators: No to Rahm!
President Biden has announced that he is nominating Rahm Emanuel to be the U.S. ambassador to Japan.Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”
Tell Your Senators, Representative and President Biden: Grant Asylum to Afghan Refugees
As the humanitarian crisis escalates in Afghanistan, urge the U.S. government to grant asylum to Afghan refugees.With one click, send an email to your senators and representative as well as President Biden.
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.
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
- Minnesota Law Enforcement Shared Intelligence on Protest Organizers With Pipeline Company
Documents reveal Enbridge’s close relationship with police, including offering training on responding to protests.
more - Afghan-Led Coalition Gives Biden Admin a Blueprint to 'Prevent Further Harm' to People of Afghanistan
"After pursuing 20 years of failed policies that have done incredible harm to Afghans, the United States and its NATO allies have a responsibility to accept every Afghan seeking refuge."
more - The Contemporary U.S. Right’s Roots in 1930s Union-Busting
The roots of the modern US right lie in the California fields of the 1930s, where large growers ferociously resisted farmworker organizing. It’s a reminder that opposing working-class power has been central to the US right from the very beginning.
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TESTIMONIALS
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"It's a real pleasure to join in celebrating ten years of impressive accomplishment of RootsAction -- in stemming the tide of reaction and pressing forward toward the kind of world to which we aspire and that we can and must achieve. The challenges we face are daunting. RootsAction is needed more than ever. On to what lies ahead with energy and commitment, and mutual support." -- Noam Chomsky
Action for a Progressive Future (the organization that runs RootsAction) is a nonprofit, progressive, public policy advocacy group.
