PDA NEWS
RSVP Now for Thursday: Victory Team Call for Chicago Mayor’s Race, Wisconsin Supreme Court, and more!
RSVP Now For Thursday's Zoom, 9pm ET/6pm PT, with Chicago Mayoral Candidate Brandon Johnson and More. All Hands on Deck! Join us with Chicago Mayoral Candidate Brandon Johnson as we discuss how we help bring home the win. We'll also lay out how...
International Women’s Day: Equality Is The Goal, and Equity Is The Means To Get There
Celebrate International Women's Day, March 8, 2023, by Embracing Equity International Women’s Day started in 1911. Today, its essence ignites, inspires, directs, and connects audiences globally. Its motto—One world, one mission: a...
Support Climate Preserves on World Wildlife Day
Habitat Degradation and Uncontrolled Climate Change Fuel Wildlife Loss Around the World: Climate Preserves Can Slow the Destruction Today is World Wildlife Day, a United Nations International day to celebrate all the world's wild animals...
PDA to President Biden: Reject The Willow Oil Project
Signed: Alan Minsky, Executive Director of PDA, Los Angeles, California Conor Boylan, Chair of the PDA Board, Cleveland, Ohio Donna Smith, Chair of the PDA Advisory Board, Denver, Colorado Rev. Rodney Sadler, Vice Chair of the PDA Advisory...
Sunday Progressive Town Hall with L. Randall Wray, Economist and Author
This week's Town Hall is one that I've been anticipating since I became PDA Executive Director. I've known Randy Wray since I was a child, as he was a student of my father. Many of my father's students have gone onto great things, but none to...
Education is the Silver Bullet
A Free Society Needs an Educated Citizenry Republicans and other would-be authoritarians know this truth. An authoritarian state depends on control of the masses, and the masses are easier to control if they have minimal aspirations, poor...
Mass Shootings in America: Only Progressives Have a Solution
Only one political movement in the country cares to address our society's ills: the progressive movement Just like the climate crisis, massive wealth inequality, and our broken healthcare and embattled education systems—if you believe the...
Sunday Town Hall: Against the Privatization of Medicare, For the Establishment of Climate Preserves
At this Sunday's PDA Town Hall, we will learn about something very bad that PDA will mobilize against: "Medicare Advantage" programs and other privatization schemes targeting seniors. Then we will learn about something very good that PDA...
The Ohio Train Disaster: We Must Protect Human Life and the Planet from Corporate Greed
The East Palestine Ohio Train Catastrophe is an All-Too-Familiar Cautionary Tale Corporations and their political allies don't give a damn about working-class lives and communities. They oppose any protections that interfere with their...
Even More Simple Clicks For A More Progressive World
Here Are the Easiest Ways to Help Make the World a More Progressive Place for All While we certainly focus the lion's share of our organizing on human-to-human interaction (at the door events and on the phone) we recognize the...