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Following are some selected news articles which referred to PDA:
Conyers endorses national effort to impeach Bush, Cheney
05/29/2007
DETROIT (AP) — U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., said Tuesday he supports a national effort calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, but stopped short of pledging to take action to back it...
"There's a lot growing in support," Tim Carpenter, director of the liberal group Progressive Democrats of America, told McClatchy Newspapers for a Tuesday story. "Whether Congress will respond, that's another question."
Edwards takes political gamble with holiday offensive
05/28/2007
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Laura Belin plans to take her children to a Memorial Day parade Monday. There, at the urging of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, she expects to join others protesting the war in Iraq...
Tim Carpenter, the director of the group Progressive Democrats, said his group was encouraged to see Edwards speak out...
Dancing Into the Majority
05/23/2007
...PDA’s innovative approach
That’s the goal of PDA, perhaps the national organization that most closely reflects the model posited by Heaney and Rojas. Founded in Roxbury, Mass., during the 2004 Democratic National Convention—primarily by delegates and activists from the campaigns of Howard Dean and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)...
A Widening Chasm Between Congressional Democrats and Voters on Impeachment
05/21/2007
...Many of these resolutions have been the work of the Progressive Democrats of America organization. Others have been promoted by ad hoc groups...
Putting Impeachment On the Table
05/17/2007
From my perch as a consultant to Progressive Democrats of America, I see mounting pressure to put impeachment on the table. Momentum is building due to continuous revelations of an imperial White House bent on undermining our system of justice (now, with sick-bed coercion)...
Progressive Dems of America Set to Raise its Voice
05/15/2007
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The rabble-rousers, those asking the toughest questions of the presidential candidates at this weekend’s state Democratic convention in San Diego, are likely to be wearing green stickers and black lapel pins.The stickers demand an end to the “occupation of Iraq,” and the pins urge the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Emboldened by the November national election and a public embracing a rapid end to U.S. involvement in Iraq, a new faction of the Democratic Party’s liberal wing is hoping to attract attention inside and outside of the convention hall...
April 2007 is National Martin Luther King, Jr. Healthcare Month
04/04/2007
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.” --Martin Luther King, Jr.
On April 4, 2007, the anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, please join PDA and Healthcare NOW! in honoring his life and legacy by calling your Congressional representative to sign on to the only national plan to end this injustice - H.R. 676, the “National Health Insurance Act/Expanded and Improved Medicare for All.” ...
Progressive Democrats of America: Disappointed in Democratic Leadership
04/03/2007
WASHINGTON - March 22 - As the House debates the Iraq Supplemental, Progressive Democrats of America director Tim Carpenter issued this statement on the Democratic leadership’s refusal to allow a vote on Barbara Lee’s Amendment for fully-funded, orderly Iraq withdrawal by end of 2007:
Move On To A Safe Place
04/03/2007
...In opposition to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan, Rep. Lee wanted to offer an amendment that would have funded withdrawal of troops, but she was not permitted to. But Lee has a lot of support, including: United for Peace and Justice, Progressive Democrats of America...
Senate votes to pull troops from Iraq by ’08
03/29/2007
...Tim Carpenter, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, told the World the votes are “a good thing,” adding, “for the first time, something approaching a deadline has been imposed on Iraq” by both the House and Senate. “Dozens of PDAers witnessed the House vote on Friday...
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