What is People for the American Way?
{{Infobox Non-profit | Non-profit_name = People For the American Way | Non-profit_type = [[Advocacy group]] | founded_date = 1981 | founder = [[Norman Lear]] | location = [[Washington D.C.]] | origins = | key_people = [[Norman Lear]] | area_served = [[United States]] | focus = Progressive advocacy | method = Media attention, direct-appeal campaigns | revenue = | endowment = | num_volunteers = | owner = | Non-profit_slogan = | homepage = [http://www.pfaw.org/ PFAW Official Website] | tax_exempt = yes | dissolved = | footnotes = }} '''People for the American Way''' (PFAW) is a progressive organization that is involved in political activism. Issues that it involves itself in are judicial nominations, church/state separation, civil rights, voting rights for [[Washington, DC]] in the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] and equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered ([[LGBT]]) people and promotion of civic participation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/press-releases |title=PFAW press releases |access-date=2010-03-16 |archive-date=2010-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301125136/http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/press-releases |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Purpose== PFAW says about its purpose on its website <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_mission |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-03-16 |archive-date=2010-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100307095032/http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_mission |url-status=dead }}</ref> :People For the American Way is dedicated to making the promise of America real for every American: Equality. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. The right to seek justice in a court of law. The right to cast a vote that counts. The American Way. :Our vision is a vibrantly diverse democratic society in which everyone is treated equally under the law, given the freedom and opportunity to pursue their dreams, and encouraged to participate in our nat