USAction

USAction was a 501(c)(4) federation of progressive community organizing groups.[1] It was founded in 1999 by Heather Booth.[2] Its 501(c)(3) counterpart was the USAction Education Fund.

USAction
Merged intoPeople's Action
Formation1999
Executive Director
Fred Azcarate
Websitewww.usaction.org

In September 2007, TrueMajority and its related organization TrueMajorityACTION merged with USAction.[3]

Activities

In 2008, USAction joined Health Care for America Now, a coalition of labor unions and liberal advocacy groups pushing for affordable health care and stricter regulation of the health insurance industry. USAction committed at least $500,000 to the group's efforts.[4]

In 2009, USAction launched a campaign to "Dog the Blue Dogs." The Blue Dog Coalition is a caucus of United States Congressional Representatives from the Democratic Party who identify themselves as moderates and conservatives.[5]

In 2012, USAction was part of a coalition of liberal advocacy groups that announced that companies making direct corporate contributions to influence elections would face consumer boycotts, campaigns to divest pension fund money, stockholder lawsuits, actions at stockholder meetings and widespread social media exposure.[6]

gollark: Here is my actually good*, elegant** solution:```pythondef gollariosolver(n): #print(n, "is n") x = bisect.bisect_left(fibs, n) out = set() z = 0 for i in range(x, 0, -1): #print("gollario", i, z, fibs[i]) if (y := fibs[i] + z) <= n: z = y out.add(i) if z == n: return out```
gollark: I actually just ran out of time to do a cool solution, so I took the most working python thing I had, ported it to C in a way which was technically wrong but also worked due to a coincidence I found out about after reanalyzing it internally, and then quickly shoved together a thing to replace all the tokens with bits of the navy seal copypasta.
gollark: I don't understand what ridiculous nonsense you did but stop doing it, retroactively.
gollark: Okay, so Kit was *not* bluffing?
gollark: ...

References
  1. Jamieson, Dave (May 16, 2013). "Fred Azcarate Leaves AFL-CIO To Head Community Organizing Network USAction". Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  2. McNary, William. "Statement From the President". USAction. Retrieved September 12, 2009.
  3. USAction website, "History and Achievements," "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-07-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Evans, Will (September 10, 2008). "Profile: Health Care for America Now". NPR. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  5. Smith, Ben (April 8, 2009). "Common Purpose". Politico. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  6. Froomkin, Dan (March 12, 2012). "Secret Campaign Spending Under Attack By Reform Groups". Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 February 2015.



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