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Following are some selected news articles which referred to PDA:
Hillary Gets Two Surprise Challengers
12/04/2005
Suddenly, Hillary Clinton has not one but two anti-war challengers in the 2006 Senate race. Cheered on by none other than "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war movement has been hounding Clinton for voting to support the war in Iraq and refusing to demand the immediate withdrawal of troops.
War, budget cuts ignite voter rebellion
11/18/2005
Bush’s policies "are out of step" not only with the nation but also with millions in the Republican base, Tim Carpenter, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), told the World. "We need to remember that in less than a year, we have become the majority..."
Senate Democrats Show Some Spine
11/01/2005
...Reid's mission was far more specific than to raise "some sort of stink about Scooter Libby." The Senate minority leader and his chief aide, Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin, were taking up what has been a long struggle, conducted mostly by antiwar groups such as Progressive Democrats of America: to force Senate Intelligence Committee chair Pat Roberts, of Kansas, to keep his promise to conduct a thorough investigation of whether the Administration distorted intelligence in order to "sell" the war in Iraq.
So much for the peaceniks
10/20/2005
...Even the anti-invasion hero of last year's primaries, Howard Dean, has struck a more measured tone since becoming chairman of the Democratic National Committee, arguing that "now that we're there, we're there, and we can't get out." Some of Dean's followers have joined with other liberal Democrats to create Progressive Democrats of America, a group intended to counterbalance the more centrist influence of the Democratic Leadership Committee.
Progressive Dems say ‘run to win’ in 2006
10/05/2005
Buoyed by their participation in the huge antiwar march a day earlier, hundreds of progressive Democrats gathered for a “grassroots strategy” session Sept. 25 aimed at breaking the Republican grip on all three branches of government in upcoming elections. The Sunday meeting at the University of the District of Columbia drew members of Progressive Democrats of America nationwide who reported their work in this November’s off-year elections in Ohio, California and other states.
Winning the Peace
09/15/2005
..."The bottom line," says campaign strategist Steve Cobble, who helped guide the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign and is closely aligned with the group Progressive Democrats of America, "is that a Democratic Party that tries to fuzz its message on the war loses."
San Francisco Bay Area Journalist Kevin Pina Held in Haiti
09/12/2005
Reporter Kevin Pina opened his family home to me last month in Port au Prince, Haiti when violence closed the orphanage where I usually stay to do human rights work. Tonight, Kevin sleeps in a jail cell like those I visited in Cap Haitian just weeks ago. He has become part of the story he risks his life daily to tell.
Mother's peace vigil gains support
08/11/2005
The mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who started a quiet roadside peace vigil near President Bush's ranch last weekend is drawing supporters from across the nation, including the Pacific Northwest.
Marc Ash | My Chat with Will Pitt
08/09/2005
With all that's on the radar screen at this point I decided to have a chat with long time TO contributor William Rivers Pitt. We talked about the state of the country, his new work with Progressive Democrats of America and a September full of mobilization. My interview with Will...
Activists aim to keep focus on pre-war meeting
07/23/2005
NORTHAMPTON, MA - Area anti-war activists on Saturday will commemorate the third anniversary of what has become an often-cited event - the meeting between high-level American and British officials about which the Downing Street minutes were written.
Leaked in recent months to the British media, the meeting's minutes quote a high-level British official who was at the July 23, 2002 meeting commenting on the apparent determination of the Bush administration to wage war in Iraq.
In the most frequently cited section of the document, the official alleges that the administration planned to "fix the intelligence around the policy."
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