Action for a Progressive Future, doing business as RootsAction, is an online progressive public-policy advocacy initiative founded in 2011 by journalists/organizers Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen. RootsAction mobilizes supporters through petitions, email campaigns, commentary and targeted pressure campaigns to advance economic fairness, civil liberties, environmental protection, anti‑war foreign policy and to challenge corporate influence in U.S. politics.
Progressive economic policy (Medicare for All, higher minimum wage, taxing the wealthy), climate and Green New Deal advocacy, anti‑war and reduced military spending, debt relief and student loan cancellation, voting rights and electoral reform, civil liberties and criminal justice reform, labor rights, opposition to corporate influence and certain fossil/nuclear energy policies
Primarily funded by individual online donations and small‑dollar contributors, supplemented by occasional grants and other reported income sources reported on its Form 990
Founders and high‑profile individuals associated with RootsAction include Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen; the organization operates alongside a related 501(c)(3) RootsAction Education Fund and counts endorsers and frequent allies such as Cornel West, Naomi Klein, Daniel Ellsberg and Jim Hightower
Nonprofit (501(c)(4) social welfare / public policy advocacy organization)
