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Following are some selected news articles which referred to PDA:
War Made Easy
07/27/2007
In 2005, Norman Solomon released his book, War Made Easy, which exposes the manner in which US presidents manage to sell war, like clockwork, through the same fallacious arguments, largely with the help of a compliant media...
How Many U.S. Troops Will Remain In Iraq?
07/17/2007
...In an e-mail to its members, the anti-war group Progressive Democrats of America Tuesday urged them to "Tell Democrats that even if the Levin-Reed amendment passes, their work is NOT done. The Levin-Reed Amendment does not end the occupation and it leaves too many troops and all military contractors behind in Iraq."...
Progressive Democrats meet in San Luis Obispo
07/05/2007
As Plato noted 2,500 years ago, “Good men who do not concern themselves with public affairs will be ruled by evil men.” To end the rule of evil men in America, over a thousand progressive democrats met after the Democratic Convention in July, 2004 to hold the first convention of the Progressive Democrats of America...
Liberals adopt name for 'progress'
06/22/2007
Jeff Cohen of Progressive Democrats of America co-wrote a piece for the Los Angeles Times 21 years ago outlining the role of progressives in abolishing slavery and the women's suffrage movement.
"It has been so long since progressives were afforded their place in political debate that many have forgotten the rich history of the American left and its contributions to society," Mr. Cohen wrote. "History teaches us that what is 'left' today is often the common wisdom of tomorrow."
Liberals, Mr. Cohen wrote, "have often been Johnny-come-latelies hovering timidly about the edges of social movements while others put their lives and livelihoods on the line. Typically, the liberals have entered the fray only after the waters were tested and deemed safe."
"SiCKO" Offers Activists a Cure
06/22/2007
What a difference a movie makes. Michael Moore's "SiCKO" is breathing new life into the movement for non-profit national health insurance: "Enhanced Medicare for All."
Energized by "SiCKO," Progressive Democrats of America is intensifying its campaign in support of HR 676, which would establish single-payer Medicare for All.
Conyers endorses national effort to impeach Bush, Cheney
05/30/2007
DETROIT -- 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."
Conyers endorses national effort to impeach Bush, Cheney
05/30/2007
DETROIT -- 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."
Cindy's fight: Spurred by grief, Sheehan was motivated by patriotism
05/30/2007
The one thing that must be said of George Bush's presidency is that it made politics matter...
As Tim Carpenter, the executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, said, "Nobody has given more to the peace movement in recent years -- emotionally, physically, spiritually."
Whatever Happened to Signing Statements?
05/30/2007
Perhaps the best indication of the toothlessness and complicity of the new Democratic Congress is that President Bush, who between September 2001 and December 2006 used so-called “signing statements” and a bogus claim of extra-constitutional executive authority as commander in chief in time of war to invalidate 1200 laws or parts of laws passed by Congress, hasn’t issued a single one since January...
Some progressive Democrats like Progressive Democrats of America and Democrats.com are calling for candidates to mount primary challenges against the sell-out Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid who are making president Bush’s job so easy.
Democrats in Washington want to keep impeachment off the table
05/29/2007
WASHINGTON - The push to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is gaining a hearing in some parts of the country, but not in Washington...
"There's a lot growing in support," said Tim Carpenter, the director of the liberal group Progressive Democrats of America. "Whether Congress will respond, that's another question."
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