2010: A progressive strategy to win
11-18-2009 – 12:50 pm | Comments

By Brent Budowsky | The Hill
Progressives throughout the nation should rally around a strategy that could bring a surprise victory in the 2010 elections with a clear electoral plan and a program that is patriotic, …

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Video: Donna Smith on Bill Moyers Journal
5-23-2009 – 10:04 am | Comments
Video: Donna Smith on Bill Moyers Journal

Donna Smith on Bill Moyers Journal
Welcome to the JOURNAL. Health care reform. It's the talk of the town – if the town is Washington, D.C. But some possible reforms aren't being talked about at all. …

VIDEO: Donna Smith PDA National Co-Chair Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign
5-22-2009 – 7:59 pm | Comments
VIDEO: Donna Smith PDA National Co-Chair Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign

Donna Smith was on Bill Moyer’s tonight (re-broadcast in some areas Sunday check your local listings). Donna Smith is the PDA National Co-Chair of the Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign

IOT: Accountability & Justice Call 5-13-09
5-22-2009 – 5:40 am | Comments
IOT:  Accountability & Justice Call 5-13-09

Accountability & Justice Conference Call
May 13, 2009
Moderator: Susan Harman, CA09, susanharman1@gmail.com
CA: Dr. Bill Honigman, CD48 CDPP, Orange County chapter leader, State Coordinator, drbill@pdamerica.org; Dave Sonneborn, CA40, CD coordinator for Orange County, drsonneb@uci.edu; Tobi …

Storming the Barricades…
5-21-2009 – 8:48 pm | Comments
Storming the Barricades…

As part of our increased pressure campaign on Congress to pass HR 676, The Improved and Expanded Medicare Act, PDA with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), Healthcare-Now!, Physicians for a National Health …

Phun in Philly
5-21-2009 – 8:36 pm | Comments
Phun in Philly

Graphic torture pics are traffic stoppers @ Philadelphia Inquirer.

Insurance profits and good health care don’t mix
5-19-2009 – 12:14 pm | Comments
Insurance profits and good health care don’t mix

By Dr. Richard Staggenborg
Sen. Ron Wyden’s Healthy Americans Act is an ambitious attempt to address many of the problems in health care delivery. The Congressional Budget Office calculates that it will save the government money …

Montana AFL-CIO State Convention Reaffirms Endorsement of HR 676
5-18-2009 – 7:47 pm | Comments
Montana AFL-CIO State Convention Reaffirms Endorsement of HR 676

Helena, Montana. The 53rd Annual Montana AFL-CIO State Convention
reaffirmed its previous endorsement of HR 676, single payer health
care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). The
Montana AFL-CIO endorsed HR 676 for the first …

Winograd Launches Congressional Campaign at Venice Pier
5-17-2009 – 11:23 am | Comments
Winograd Launches Congressional Campaign at Venice Pier

Winograd4congress.com
Marcy Winograd, Founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Progressive Democrats of America, ended speculation
on Monday, May 11, when she held a campaign kick-off rally at the Venice Pier to announce her ‘Jobs with Dignity’ …