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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,...
Death in the 21st century: COVID-19 in Italy and America
By, Alan Minsky, Executive Director, Progressive Democrats of America Alan@PDAmerica.org Note: Recently, I was invited to write a weekly column for KPFK, the Pacifica Station in Los Angeles. This is my inaugural article, which was published today. It represents a...
Stay in the race Bernie Sanders. America needs you now more than ever.
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director | Progressive Democrats of AmericaProgressive Democrats of America calls upon Senator Bernie Sanders to continue his presidential campaign until the end of the 2020 primary season. We understand that many Democrats are calling for...
Joe Biden and Why America Needs a Strong Progressive Movement
photo: Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont at Sunday’s debate at a CNN studios in Washington, D.C.(Evan Vucci / Associated Press) | Los Angeles Times By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America In the second...
Rest In Power Randall Holmes
photo: Randall (right) - 4/23/11 at protest against Arizona anti - immigrant - SB1070 By Dan O'Neal Progressive Democrats of America lost one of our own last month. Randal Holmes, Phoenix PDA Chapter activists and the former chair of our National Election Protection...