Action Archive

As the race to replace Tom DeLay as House majority leader heated up, we created "mock campaign ad" for Reps. John Boehner, R-Ohio, Roy Blunt, R-Mis., and John Shadegg, R-Ariz. Using web advertising and our supporters' spreading the word, these ads exposed the fact that the three men vying for Majority Leader are cut from the same corrupt cloth as Tom DeLay.

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President Bush's No. 1 domestic priority, privatization of Social Security, was stopped dead in its tracks in 2005. On Friday, December 2, the Campaign for America's Future held a forum at the National Press Club to remind the media about the citizen uprising—organized by CAF and Americans United to Protect Social Security—that made democracy work and turned the public against privatization. more »

The Campaign for America's Future sent a letter – along with a postage-paid envelope addressed to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Relief Fund – requesting that all members of Congress who accepted money from Tom DeLay donate their contribution to Katrina survivors. Tens of thousands of our supporters contacted their member of Congress and asked them to give the contribution DeLay gave to them to charity. more »

We empowered our supporters to send a message of their choice to Wal-Mart -- through a prominent billboard that we reserved less than one mile from Wal-Mart's Bentonville, Ark., World Headquarters. We received thousands of excellent slogan submissions, and narrowed the field to ten finalists. more »

To complement the Wal-Mart film's premiere week, we created a comprehensive action website to allow people to confront the high costs of Wal-Mart's deceptive low-price image in one of four ways:

• Pressure Congress to enact legislation requiring Wal-Mart to provide healthcare for their employees;
• Write letters to the editor to expose the high costs of Wal-Mart's low prices;
• Pressure local government officials to stop diverting local tax dollars to pay corporate welfare to Wal-Mart;
• Recruit friends to the fight.

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The campaign to expose the truth about Wal-Mart began with the promotion of the Robert Greenwald documentary, "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price." Working with Brave New Films, Campaign for America's Future joined a coalition that sponsored over 7,000 citizen screening parties, giving the documentary a true people's premiere. more »

The first step President Bush took after Hurricane Katrina struck was to eliminate the prevailing wage in reconstruction contracts. We joined with the AFL-CIO and others groups to challenge a policy that would undermine recovery in the area. Our supporters flooded Capitol Hill with tens of thousands of letters opposing President Bush's decree. more »

On October 25, 17 residents of Gulf states who had survived Hurricane Katrina came to Washington for a Capitol Hill "town meeting" hosted by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and then lobbying visits to the offices of other members of Congress. more »

In 2005, we launched multiple email campaigns encouraging our supporters to lobby Congress to block cuts to Pell Grants and other education program cuts proposed in President Bush's 2006 budget. The first, in October 2005, urged supporters to ask Congress to reject a proposed a drastic cut to college loan and grant programs. more »

On the eleventh anniversary of the signing of Newt Gingrich's Contract with America in late September, we flooded media outlets with thousands of letters highlighting the hypocrisy of the so-called Republican "reformers." Accenting our point that the Republicans who came in as reformers created a racket – just one day later, Tom DeLay was indicted on criminal conspiracy charges. more »