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PDA members and leaders from across the country will convene in Washington, DC for a long weekend of organizing and lobbying May 20-25. Executive Director Tim Carpenter, National Field Director Sherry Bohlen, Issue Working Group Coordinator Laura Bonham, and National Board Vice Chair Steve Shaff and Board Member Joe Libertelli will welcome PDAers to the Firebird Inn on the University of DC Van Ness Campus.
Saturday May 20th, our Chapter and Congressional District Organizers, Working Group Members, and National Board Members will convene to finalize our six-month electoral campaign. Building on several exciting accomplishments, PDA will implement plans to organize and strengthen a powerful progressive movement inside the Democratic Party, and deliver electoral victories in November.
PDA invites all progressives to join with us Sunday morning May 21st for a National Organizing Session featuring state meetings, panels on Impeachment, Organizing and Delivering the Progressive Vote to Elect a Progressive Majority to Congress, and building PDA at the Local, State, and National levels. National Board Chair Mimi Kennedy, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, David Swanson and Steve Cobble, Maryland Democratic Party Chair Terry Lierman, Congressional Progressive Caucus Executive Director Bill Goold, PDA leaders Dr. Bill Honigman, Stephen Spitz, and Dan O'Neal and PDA endorsed Candidate for Congress Tony Trupiano will participate on panels to inform and energize PDA activists.
United for Peace and Justice joins PDA Sunday afternoon to plan and prepare our joint lobbying efforts. On Monday the 22nd, PDA and UFPJ members will visit congressional offices to discuss important legislation to extricate US forces from Iraq and end the occupation. Last September, hundreds of PDAers followed up the Peace March and a National planning session with extremely successful lobbying meetings, and we expect to duplicate those efforts this May.