Action Archive

On April 26, 2005, Americans United to Protect Social Security — a coalition including the Campaign for America's Future — organized hundreds of rallies across the country to stop privatization and protect Social Security. Thousands of Americans gathered at rallies across the nation to say NO! to President Bush's privatization plan.

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In April 2005, we launched a TV ad campaign against Tom DeLay that was, at the time, the largest in our organization's history. This ad ran over 700 times in Tom DeLay's Houston district and in Washington DC. The ad called out DeLay's corruption for hundreds of thousands of households full of his own constituents and colleagues.

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Responding to Bush's 2005 State of the Union declaration that Social Security privatization was his top legislative priority, we sprung into action, immediately highlighting the corruption of the chair of the Social Security subcommittee, Rep. Jim McCrery. The following week we unveiled a research analysis exposing that Rep. Jim McCrery, the newly appointed head of the Social Security Subcommittee in the House, had taken over $200,000 from the securities and commercial banking interests that stand to benefit from privatization of Social Security.

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Following his State of the Union address, President Bush set out on a multi-state tour to outline his No. 1 domestic priority: privatizing Social Security. Along with our coalition partners, we organized rallies and press conferences at each stop to tell him, "Hands Off Social Security!"

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Following President Bush's State of the Union address, which talked about Social Security as if the sky were falling, the Campaign for America's Future organized a letter-to-the-editor campaign to make it clear that privatization is the only Social Security crisis. Nearly 3,000 people wrote letters to newspapers in all 50 states. more »

In the last two weeks of February 2005, we launched a multimedia advertising blitz to expose the Wall Street conflict of interest of Rep. Jim McCrery — the man charged with pushing Social Security privatization through the House of Representatives. more »

Hundreds of Campaign for America’s Future supporters raised over $20,000 to enable our Senior Truth Squad to expose the outrages of the Bush Medicare law.  We purchased ads in 20 Iowa and Wisconsin newspapers, blanketing the crucial battleground states. more »

The Institute for America's Future and the Center for American Progress created a national Task Force to ensure excellence in public education — co-chaired by Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, Philip Murphy, Senior Director of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian and former Washington, D.C. School Board member Roger Wilkins. more »