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Following are some selected news articles which referred to PDA:
Democrats to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan
11/16/2009
...The resolution was co-authored by writer and filmmaker Norman Solomon, key player in the "Health Care Not Warfare" campaign of Progressive Democrats of America who was an Obama delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, along with Karen Bernal, who chairs the party's Progressive Caucus, and congressional candidate Marcy Winograd. ...
Single-Payer Advocates Told to ‘Get Arrested’
11/16/2009
Sometimes experience speaks volumes. Such is the case when it comes to Tim Carpenter.
The fifth of six speakers who addressed the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis, Carpenter’s resume includes having served on the team that managed the unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). Today, he’s known as the executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, an ultra-liberal group pushing for the single-payer health care option. ...
Hail Mary: Long Shot to Get Kucinich Single-Payer Amendment Back In Bill
11/01/2009
... According to Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America, one avenue of appeal remains regarding these efforts:
Democratic House leaders can insert what is called a “Manager’s Amendment” into legislation, even when it is closed to any other amendments. The managers are the majority and minority members who “manage” debate for the bill on each side. ...
...Participants in the action are supported by the Single Payer Action Coalition, “SPAC” and members of Progressive Democrats of America, as well as allies in nursing, education and labor. The demonstration taking place in San Diego is coordinated with the nation-wide Mobilization for Health Care for All, which is in the midst of a wave of sit-ins and civil disobedience spanning 19 cities. ...
Kidder ventures north of border: Actress and activist still engaged in politics
10/30/2009
... After driving through snowy Montana, where she now lives, Kidder--a member of the grassroots organization Progressive Democrats of America--made a pit stop in Seattle en route to Victoria. It was to take part in a demonstration pushing for health-care reform in the U.S. ...
Pelosi, Congress, make Peace with Insurance Industry
10/29/2009
... Groups such as Progressive Democrats of America were quick to raised alarm bells because some of the most innovative responses to the health-care crisis are being forged at the state level. While single-payer proposals are being blocked at the federal level, PDA national director Tim Carpenter says the single-payer fight is ramping up in the states. ...
Kucinich Amendment Stripped from House Health Care Bill
10/29/2009
According to Progressive Democrats of America and this OpEdNews piece, the Kucinich Amendment to waive federal ERISA regulations that might hold up state single payer movements has been stripped out of the final House health care bill...
‘Direct Carbon Pricing’ Better Than ‘Cap and Trade’
10/24/2009
On October 21, Progressive Democrats of America finalized a months-long process with their endorsement of direct carbon pricing with revenue recycling as the preferred method for reducing carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. Read the statement here...
'Direct Carbon Pricing' Better Than 'Cap and Trade'
10/23/2009
Progressive Democrats of America Endorses Direct Carbon Pricing with Revenue Recycling as Preferred Mechanism to Combat Global Climate Change...
The growing movement for transparent carbon pricing to combat global warming reached a major milestone this week: Progressive Democrats of America, the nationwide grassroots voice for progressive values founded in 2004, has strongly endorsed direct carbon pricing to create incentives for a transition to renewable, low-carbon energy. PDA also advocates “recycling” substantial carbon revenues to households to counteract the potentially regressive effects of carbon pricing and to build long-term public support for carbon pricing...
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