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Reflections on the 244th Birthday of the United States of America
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director, Progressive Democrats of AmericaForty-four years ago I sat among one million people under the Gateway Arch to watch a spectacular fireworks display over the Mississippi River in my hometown of St Louis, MO. The event was the...
If you want Joe Biden to Govern more like FDR than Jamie Dimon, Vote for Bernie Sanders on Tuesday in New York and Kentucky
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America | Common DreamsHeading into Tuesday's New York and Kentucky primaries, Joe Biden has already won enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination. Given that, it must seem counter-intuitive to...
Further Reflections on American Sovereignty in a Time of Popular Rebellion
photo: Wikimedia Commons By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America This article is an addendum to my column from last week, We the People are Sovereign. Let's Demand Justice, which raised the question of whether the people of the United...
We the People are Sovereign. Let’s Demand Justice.
photo: credit: KIMT By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America One of the central tenets of modern society is that the State has a monopoly on violence in order to ensure social order. In turn, the sovereign rulers of the State set the...
The Devil and Larry Summers
photo: Larry Summers seated at the White House - Reuters By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of AmericaLarry Summers is a recurring motif in American politics, rising to prominence every few years. Recently, he has been meeting with Joe Biden....
Memorial Day And Mail Voting – Ballots Not Bullets
By Mimi Kennedy, Board Member - Progressive Democrats of America Memorial Day Weekend, COVID-19. It’s summer’s kick-off, but we’re not gathering the way we usually do. Still, we remember our war dead. PDA was formed in 2004 to bring the peace movement inside the...
Media and the American Ruling Class, Reflections on Vice TV’s Bernie Blackout
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America I watched the new documentary Bernie Blackout on Vice TV this week. It tracks the unrelenting bias against the Bernie Sanders campaign in the mainstream media from the beginning to the end of the...
The Democratic Party’s Hand is Weak. Only Progressives can Strengthen it.
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America Before this year, it was almost unimaginable that anything can be a bigger story than a U.S. Presidential election. The quadrennial men's World Cup soccer tournament is often described as the...
A Glimpse of What Could’ve Been and Needs to be
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America On the last evening of the saddest April in memory, there was a virtual Town Hall that was most notable for going largely unnoticed. Had the same four participants done the exact same thing only...
We Can See Clearly Now, The Smog Has Gone
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America The idea that we can live more simply, that life could be so much better if we slowed down, that we could return to living in harmony with the planet - these thoughts are in the wind right now,...