Welcome to the Action Center!

Here you'll find alerts on healthcare, after-school, education and Clean Elections. Use the tools and information here to take action!

Tell Your Senator: Restore After-School Funding!

The Coalition for After-School Funding (CASF), which Citizen Action directs, is calling on the Legislature to add $30 million to after-school funding this year to maintain the state's commitment to after-school programs, consisting of:

• a $10 million increase for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program (see below);
• maintaining the Legislature's $13.9 million addition from last year; and
• increasing the Advantage After-School Program by $6.1 million. Click here to get CASF's 2008 Advocacy Agenda.

Tell your Senator to Invest in After-School! Click Here Now!

Pass Clean Elections in 2008!

Clean Elections- full public financing of elections is the key to making elections at all levels of government about voters, not big campaign donors.  It's also about making sure our elected officials are accountable to the needs of only their district - not the monied lobbyists and re-election funders walking the halls of our state and national Capitol.

Tell your Assemblymember to pass Clean Elections in the upcoming 2008 Legislative Session! Click here now!

Sign a Clean Elections Money Bag! We'll deliver your money bag to members of the Assembly to show them that government is about people, not about money and special interests. Click here to sign up online, or here to download a PDF.

 

Stop Bush From Gutting After-School!

President Bush is proposing a devastating $300 million cut to after-school funds and a drastic restructuring of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program that would convert it to a voucher program. To show the strong opposition to this proposal, we are urging you to join with after-school supporters from across the nation to stand up for after-school programs.

Send a message to your Member of Congress and Senators Clinton and Schumer now!