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The '''American Values Network''' ('''AVN''') is a [[progressive Christianity|progressive]] [[Christianity|Christian]] lobbying organization in the [[United States]], based in [[Washington, D.C.]] AVN was founded in 2010.
== Overview ==
The President of AVN is [[Burns Strider]], with [[Eric Sapp]] as the Executive Director and Rachel Johnson as Programs Director. AVN also sponsors a National Advisory Committee, whose members include Reverend [[Leah Daughtry]], [[Donald Fowler|Don Fowler]], Brenda Gullett, [[Kathleen Kennedy Townsend]], and Gloria Williamson. It is affiliated with the [[American Values Network Educational Foundation]] and the [[Mississippi Values Network]].<ref name="americanvaluesnetwork_a">{{cite web|title=About Us |url=http://americanvaluesnetwork.org/about-us/ |work=American Values Network |accessdate=6 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529163115/http://americanvaluesnetwork.org/about-us/ |archivedate=29 May 2013 }}</ref>
According to Strider, AVN was formed to "build a national organization committed to grass-roots building, networking, communicating, and activating a mainstream and authentic voice that would organize and speak out for progressive policy and issues from a faith and values perspective." AVN works alongside similar progressive faith groups such as Sojourners, Faith and Public Life, and [[Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good]].<ref name="usnews">{{cite web|last=Gilgoff|first=Dan|title=Exclusive: Former Hillary Clinton Aide Launches New Progressive Faith Group|url=
Organized as a [[501(c)(4)]], AVN can participate in issue-based organizing, advertising, and lobbying and raises its funds through non-tax deductible donations.<ref name="soultalkradio">{{cite web|title=Eric Sapp on his work with the American Values Network |url=http://www.soultalkradio.com/2011/07/11/eric-sapp-on-his-work-with-the-american-values-network/ |publisher=Soul Talk Radio |accessdate=6 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608025021/http://www.soultalkradio.com/2011/07/11/eric-sapp-on-his-work-with-the-american-values-network/ |archivedate=8 June 2013 }}</ref>
==Issues==
AVN has been active in the issues of nuclear non-proliferation, the Arms Trade Treaty, climate change, caring for the poor in government budgets, universal health care, and countering hypocrisy on the Christian right.
=== Nuclear
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In 2010, AVN worked to support the [[New START]] treaty, a bilateral treaty which reduced the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers in the United States and Russia by half. AVN's "Daisy Ad"<ref>{{cite web |title=Daisy Ad|publisher=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as1cTOx8Hrk|accessdate=23 January 2014}}</ref> highlights the risk of nuclear weapons. It accumulated tens of thousands of views on YouTube and garnered press coverage in [[NPR]], ''[[Politico]]'', ''[[Huffington Post]]'', and ''[[The New York Times]]''.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
=== The Arms Trade Treaty ===
AVN is a strong supporter of the [[Arms Trade Treaty]], the [[multilateralism|multilateral]] treaty negotiated under the auspices of the [[United Nations]] in 2012 that aims to regulate the international trade in conventional weapons. AVN created seven [[YouTube]] videos for Senators [[Jerry Moran]]<ref name="youtube">{{cite web|title=Kids to Sen. Moran: Please Choose Us, Not Dictators|url=
===Climate===
In 2010, AVN released a series of ads on American cable news networks [[CNN]], [[Fox News]], and [[MSNBC]] that targeted [[Lindsey Graham|Senator Lindsey Graham]]’s change in position on environmental legislative reform.<ref>{{cite web|last=AmericanValuesNet|title=Back Then|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxrjpPhb3NU|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=24 June 2013}}</ref> Leading up to 2010, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham supported climate legislation but then flip-flopped on the issue. AVN's ads called out Senator Graham and highlighted the hypocrisy.
In 2013, AVN began an initiative called the Good Steward Campaign,<ref>{{cite web|title=Good Stewrad Campaign|url=http://goodstewardcampaign.org|accessdate=23 January 2014}}</ref> which is a faith-based environmental organization focused primarily on college campus outreach. In the fall of 2013, The Good Steward Campaign organized on 30 college campuses in an attempt to get Christian students to think about and address climate change from a faith perspective. They also support [[fossil fuel divestment]] campaigns.
===Budget===
American Values Network roots their views on budget in the Biblical tradition of caring for the poor and vulnerable. They believe that the government has a responsibility to protect "the least of these" and that this call is too strong for Democratic leaders to ignore.
===Countering the Right===
AVN has run a handful campaigns with the goal of either correcting conservative misinformation or exposing conservative hypocrisy. These include their "Tea Party Jesus"<ref name="Tea Party Jesus">{{cite web|title=Tea Party Jesus|url=http://teapartyjesus.org/|work=American Values Network|accessdate=23 January 2014}}</ref> and "Christians Must Choose: Ayn Rand or Jesus
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In 2009, the American Values Network worked with [[Sojourners]] to create a compelling ad about the danger and suffering that people without health insurance face each time they become sick or hurt. The ad was written about in ''[[Christianity Today]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Health Care Cacophany|last=Christianity Today|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/octoberweb-only/143-51.0.html|publisher=Christianity Today|accessdate=23 January 2014}}</ref> as well as [[Huffington Post]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Huffington Post|title=American Values Network Makes Religious Case For Health Care Reform (VIDEO)|website=[[HuffPost]] |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/american-values-network-m_n_322486.html|accessdate=23 January 2014}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:American Christian political organizations]]▼
[[Category:Christian organizations based in the United States]]▼
▲[[Category:Christian political organizations]]
[[Category:501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations]]
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