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Following are some selected news articles which referred to PDA:
Cindy Sheehan's anti-war crusade coming to town
03/07/2007
...Progressive Democrats of America, a nationwide nonprofit organization, is organizing the forum. PDA National Director Tim Carpenter, whose lives in the Pioneer Valley, said the forum is part of a nationwide effort to press for the end of U.S. military involvement in Iraq. He said Sheehan's involvement has been important to the anti-war movement because of her humanistic approach....
Pressing for Peace
03/06/2007
The National Call-In for Peace is an effort by a coalition of peace and veterans groups to coordinate a unified phone campaign to urge Congress to reject the Bush supplemental appropriations request for $93 billion more for the war in Iraq.
Each day from March 5 through March 13, a different national antiwar group will take the lead in generating calls to Congress. The Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) are up today with CodePink on deck for tomorrow...
Prominent Voices for Impeachment to Go to Capitol
02/22/2007
Initial participating organizations represent hundreds of thousands of antiwar, impeachment, military family, peace, youth and women activists and lawyers. They include...Progressive Democrats of America...
Edwards Again Says He Was Wrong to Vote for War
02/05/2007
...Tim Carpenter, national director of Progressive Democrats of America, said in a recent interview that he believes many in that camp “have really reacted to some very strong statements [by Edwards] on the war. What he has shown is a capacity to grow and to learn.” ...
From the Basement to Rayburn
02/05/2007
...Panelists were joined in the conference room by allies from the NAACP, Progressive Democrats of America, Code Pink, Hip Hop Caucus, Peace Action, Campaign for America’s Future, Association of Farm Workers Opportunity Program and other progressive groups and people...
North County peace activists host year-end party
12/30/2006
More than five dozen people, many of whom describe themselves as politically progressive, turned out at the Oceanside library Saturday night for a "Kiss '06 Goodbye" party, marked with a potluck, politically themed merchandise for sale, and a screening of the documentary "Jesus Camp."
The North County Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Progressive Democrats of America, San Diego North County hosted the soiree.
Make It a Mandate for Peace
12/02/2006
...The coalition is a muscular one, comprised of more than three dozen national and regional organizations with strong track records on an array of issues. It takes in antiwar activist groups...religious groups...and political groups such as True Majority, the Backbone Project and Progressive Democrats of America...
Impeachment Conference
11/12/2006
Pennsylvania blogger John Morgan relates his experience at the Impeachment Conference: I made it to Philadelphia yesterday for the conference on impeachment after being delayed by an accident on the expressway. The wayward motorists made me miss the first 30 minutes so I missed Cindy Sheehan's remarks. I did listen to Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), Jodie Evans of Code Pink, and Bob Fertik of Democrats.com.
Mandate for Peace
11/10/2006
...ational peace groups have launched a "Mandate for Peace" campaign to immediately follow the election. Organized by United for Peace and Justice, Iraq Veterans Against War, True Majority, Progressive Democrats of America...the coalition intends to ramp up grassroots pressure on the new Congress to enact a speedy end to the occupation of Iraq.
Election Dysfunction
09/18/2006
...Bonifaz has also won the backing of national figures who have been active on behalf of voting rights, including U.S. Representatives John Conyers, D-Michigan, and Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Illinois., along with the support of the state's many Progressive Democrats of America chapters...
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