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Following are some selected news articles which referred to PDA:
Democratic Platform Should Commit to Real Reform
08/01/2008
...They can do so by embracing a proposal by Progressive Democrats of America to outline a
guarantee of health care for all in the party's statement of goals and principles...
The Antiwar Plank
06/05/2008
...The closeness of this year's nominating contest and the fact that the process will be led by backers of Obama, Clinton and John Edwards guarantees a more diverse platform committee, one that will be disinclined to rubber-stamp cautious language produced by consultants. The Win Without War coalition is mounting a campaign to get superdelegates to back the antiwar planks--and it will deliver petitions supporting it to regional platform hearings this summer and at the convention--while Progressive Democrats of America is working closely with Jim McGovern, who is likely to emerge as an outspoken grassroots supporter of the move. Says McGovern of the Democrats, "We need to demonstrate that we get it, and the platform is the place to do that."
Group develops fresh new way to promote impeachment
05/15/2008
A group seeking to promote the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is hoping to further their case by appealing to many Congress members' well known sweet tooths. The Progressive Democrats of America have offered to send 'ImpeachMINTS' to Senators and Representatives in Congress...
Ready to clean House—and Senate—of GOP wreckers
03/22/2008
The Republicans’ use of filibuster and veto has been highly effective even as they connive to shift blame for the “do-nothing” performance of Congress to the Democrats. This crew is so heartless they even stymied programs like SCHIP, the children’s health care program that enjoys enormous bipartisan majority support across the country. Bush has vetoed SCHIP twice and twice the Democrats fell 12 or 13 votes shy of the two-thirds supermajority needed to override Bush’s veto. It remains in limbo today with millions of children losing health care protection as state’s exhaust their SCHIP funds.
“It has been very frustrating,” said Tim Carpenter, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA). “We have yet to get a real vote on ending the occupation of Iraq. We’d like to see Congress assume a much more aggressive role” ...
Super Tuesday: Where's the Candidate That Represents Me?
03/06/2008
This disenfranchisement was particularly excruciating, after last Wednesday's withdrawal of John Edwards, for what the late Paul Wellstone called "the Democratic wing of the Democratic party." That wing is hardly insubstantial. Progressive Democrats of America claims to be the fastest-growing political advocacy group in the country...
Universal Health Care: Can We Do Better?
03/06/2008
...Join the ever-widening circle of the Medicare-for-all movement by checking out the Progressive Democrats of America's (PDA) newly launched "Healthcare not warfare campaign."
The campaign is co-chaired by Conyers, Marilyn Clement of Healthcare NOW, media expert Norman Solomon, and Donna Smith, the founder of American Patients for Universal Healthcare. Its aim is to organize health care advocates and working families in congressional districts across the country to win support for Conyers' bill...
KUCINICH TOPS PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS POLL
12/05/2007
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, whose pointed opposition to the war in Iraq and outspoken advocacy of impeachment of Vice President Cheney has echoed the sentiments of the Democratic base, continues to prevail in surveys of members and supporters of activist groups on the party's left flank.
Kucinich, who last month won the most votes in a survey conducted by Democracy for America, has now come out on top of an online poll of members of Progressive Democrats of America….
When left isn't left enough, they rally troops
10/28/2007
Executive director Tim Carpenter said the Progressive Democrats are considering other challenges as well.
"We're going to look for candidates who challenge those Democrats who support the war...
Protesters call for end to Iraq war
10/28/2007
Mike Carano, 53, the Ohio co-coordinator for the Progressive Democrats of America, said "This isn't just a thing where a number of people come to
"This is across-the-country sentiment about ending the occupation, redirecting funds for needs in this country, our attempt to get Congress to stand up and have its prerogative to cut funding, to take charge. That's our hope."
There Was No Summer Vacation For Anti-War Movement
08/29/2007
-- Pledge for Peace Campaign Launched
-- Members of Congress Speak Out
WASHINGTON - August 30 - With Congress in recess, antiwar forces sparked by Progressive Democrats of America have launched the "Pledge for Peace" Campaign in preparation for September's debate on Iraq Defense Appropriations.
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