Progressive Democrats Sonoma County

February 24, 2011
By Mimi Kennedy, PDA Advisory Board Chair

It’s Tuesday Feb. 22, in Phoenix, AZ and since Saturday, the Progressive Democrats of America Arizona Tour has already mobilized hundreds of activists in Bisbee, Naco and Tucson. We sang with the voices coming through the notorious fence on the hyper-militarized border at Naco, and we joined hundreds of activists today at the Arizona Legislature in Phoenix to protest the shockingly inhumane and probably unconstitutional proposed state law (SB 1113) that seeks every possible way to punish anyone living undocumented in this state—regardless of how long they’ve been here or how embedded and valuable they are in their communities.

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October 22, 2010

Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Chair Mimi Kennedy, Chair of PDA’s Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign Norman Solomon, and other progressive leaders take to the road to get out the progressive vote on November 2nd.

“We believe the strategic approach to this election is to support the very best Democratic candidates in close races,” said PDA National Director Tim Carpenter. “This differs from those backing the most progressive candidates whom our electoral system is stacked against, and it differs from those working to maintain a Democratic majority by backing the least progressive Democrats. We want not only a majority that’s not Republican, but also a caucus within that majority that strives to represent the American people.”

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January 15, 2010

The following is the PDA reply to Lynn Woolsey’s response to the January 13 open letter concerning Woolsey’s scheduled appearance at a fundraising event for Jane Harman:

Dear Lynn,


Thank you for your letter, which we’re sending to PDA members and other progressives along with this response.


No effort to sugarcoat Jane Harman’s political record can change the realities that are overwhelmingly in sync with a salient pair of facts: In Congress, she is not a member of the Progressive Caucus. She is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition.

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Actress-activist Mimi Kennedy fuels satirical flames in the very funny “In the Loop,” back for a theatrical run in Seattle after opening the Seattle International Film Festival.

“I’m the chair of the Progressive Democrats of America, and I’ve been to Capitol Hill. I know the corridors of power — let’s put it that way. ...”

By Michael Upchurch
Seattle Times
July 26, 2009

Baghdad is never mentioned. The American president and British prime minister stay entirely off-screen. And no parliamentary or congressional sessions figure in the action.

Yet “In the Loop” — a motor-mouthed and epithet-strewn Anglo-American comedy — comes as close as any sobering news report to explaining how the U.S. steered itself into Iraq, with the U.K. at its heels.

On Wednesday, May 13, 2009, a rally was held on Capitol Hill advocating for a Single Payer Healthcare System. I talked with activists Mimi Kennedy and Tim Carpenter about the issue. Ms. Kennedy is an actress, author and a long time champion of progressive causes and also the Chair of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA); and a proud member of the the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Mr. Carpenter is the National Director of the Progressive Democrats of America. The spirited event was organized by the California Nurses Assoc/NNOC. The healthcare activists are supporting HR 676 and S 703, now pending before the U.S. Congress.

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By Mimi Kennedy

For activists and organizers, cyberspace often functions as the meeting place, a place of deep community. We meet—and come to know, cherish, admire, help and love one another—in this virtual realm. We learn names and written voices from e-mail; sometimes we hear each other’s physical voices on conferences calls.

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From: mimi kennedy
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 1:15 AM
To: letters@nytimes.com
Re: Governor Don Siegelman’s prosecution by Bush’s Justice Dept.

As a child, I heard about writers, artists and politicians in Communist Russia being imprisoned and hospitalized, careers ruined, for false reasons, because they were considered a threat to the government’s Party.

It can and did happen here.

By Mimi Kennedy, PDA Advisory Board Chair
February 3, 2009

Open Letter to Tom Daschle—and a Petition To Sign

Mr. Daschle, you are now exactly the wrong man for health care reform.

It is clear you will work for a solution that is a political compromise—and now, any compromise you might attain will be lethally vulnerable. From all sides, your compromise will be attacked as the work of a man unwilling to pay his fair share of burdens he willfully imposes on others, of a man who’s not even cognizant of his actions when he ducks those burdens.

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