Progressive Democrats Sonoma County

Guests: Tim Carpenter, John Nichols, Jim Hightower, Ariel Dorfman
Tim Carpenter (Progressive Democrats of America National Chairman), John Nichols and Jim Hightower on the unstoppable Occupy movement; Ariel Dorfman on his new memoir, “Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile” — about his exiles, returns, and vanquishing silence.

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PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA presents an evening with:

JOHN NICHOLS, Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine,

MICHAEL LIGHTY, Policy Director of the California Nurses Association,

and NORMAN SOLOMON, Co-chair of the national Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign.

Doors open at 7:30 pm.

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This is a rare opportunity to see these three dynamic leaders and speakers together in one room. Join us for an evening of community and celebration in support of Healthcare NOT Warfare!

No entry charge. Donations accepted. Wheel-chair accessible.

Cosponsored by the Expressions Program of the Humanities Department, Dominican University.

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PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA presents an evening with:

JOHN NICHOLS, Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine,

MICHAEL LIGHTY, Policy Director of the California Nurses Association,

and NORMAN SOLOMON, Co-chair of the national Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign.

WHEN: Saturday, October 15, 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:30.

WHERE: Guzman Hall, Dominican University; 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael, CA 94901.

Go here for a campus map

This is a rare opportunity to see these three dynamic leaders and speakers together in one room. Join us for an evening of community and celebration in support of Healthcare NOT Warfare!

No entry charge. Donations accepted. Wheel-chair accessible.

Cosponsored by the Expressions Program of the Humanities Department, Dominican University.

Norman Soloman – Donna Smith – and Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America join Thom Hartmann. The “Healthcare not Warfare” campaign is raising awareness about our deteriorating healthcare system that’s bankrupting millions of Americans and leaving them sick with nowhere to go. And while this is going on – our nation is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on endless wars in the Middle East. So the choice is simple – do we keep funding “black hole” wars – or start making Americans healthy again? Please sign “Healthcare not Warfare” petition at http://bit.ly/jZlPGZ

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Join local PDA members as we welcome PDA Advisory Board member and honored guest Lynn Woolsey, Healthcare NOT Warfare co-chair Norman Solomon, PDA Advisory Board member and Director of Administration and Public Policy for the California Nurses Association (CNA)/National Nurses United (NNU) Michael Lighty, along with Tim Carpenter, Conor Boylan, and Dr. Bill Honigman of the PDA National team for the last leg of the PDA California Healthcare NOT Warfare Tour. Celebrate with us as we honor Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and her six years with PDA.

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Join local PDA members as we welcome PDA Advisory Board member and honored guest Lynn Woolsey, Healthcare NOT Warfare co-chair Norman Solomon, PDA Advisory Board member and Director of Administration and Public Policy for the California Nurses Association (CNA)/National Nurses United (NNU) Michael Lighty, along with Tim Carpenter, Conor Boylan, and Dr. Bill Honigman of the PDA National team for the last leg of the PDA California Healthcare NOT Warfare Tour. Celebrate with us as we honor Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and her six years with PDA.

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PDA Press Release
March 15, 2011

Progressive Democrats of America and allies have planned vigils at congress members’ offices in districts all over the United States for midday Wednesday. They will be demanding an end to the war in Afghanistan the same day General David Petraeus is questioned by the House Armed Services Committee and the day before the House is scheduled to vote on ending the war (resolution HCR 28).

“People everywhere have been supporting the activism in Madison, Wisconsin, this week,” said PDA National Director Tim Carpenter. “We’ve seen a people’s movement compel Democrats to stand up straight and push back, a far superior outcome than continued ‘bipartisanship,’ in the view of most Americans. We’re taking that energy national this week to insist on a change in priorities. Our country is bankrupt morally, not financially. We need to move the money where it can do some good.”

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February 25, 2011
By Tim Carpenter

After bailing out the bazillionaires on Wall Street, and throwing billions at a bad war in Iraq and a failed war in Afghanistan, the GOP’s answer to the voters of America is austerity and more sacrifice for anyone earning under a hundred grand a year—and that’s most of us. We can kiss goodbye our jobs, home ownership, our children’s education, healthcare, Social Security, and a host of other necessities that generate prosperity.

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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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By Pamela Powers
TusconCitizen.com
February, 22, 2011

Who said the progressive movement was dead? It is alive and well in Tucson, Arizona.

An estimated 300 activists, liberals, Green Party members, and Democratic Party foot soldiers crammed into a large meeting room at the YWCA on the west side of Tucson Monday night for the inaugural meeting of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), Tucson Chapter.

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Pick up the phone for the Day of Action – National Lobby Day

Monday, November 29, 2010

Progressive Democrats of America is bringing an army of citizen activists to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, November 30, in advance of the full release of the Debt Commission’s report expected on December 1. Rubbing shoulders in congressional elevators with the usual representatives of corporate power will be ordinary unpaid citizens advocating for majority positions on jobs, election funding, energy, and Social Security.

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Now that the dust has settled following Election Day, PDA presents a two-part election analysis podast. In this episode, PDA National Director Tim Carpenter interviews author and journalist John Nichols and PDA field coordinator Conor Boylan. Produced by David Pakman of Midweek Politics.

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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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Tim Carpenter, Jim Hightower, Donna Smith, John Nichols, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Laura Flanders, Sen. Russ Feingold, Thom Hartmann!

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Adam Klugman speaks with Progressive Democrats of America Director Tim Carpenter, on the eve of Fighting Bob Fest, September 10, 2010, Madison, WI. Listen to Mad as Hell in America at MadasHellinAmerica.com

Guests: Tim Carpenter-PDA, John Amato-CrooksandLiars.com and Jane Hamsher-Firedoglake.com.

Tim discusses the upcoming election season for PDA and reviews the recent National PDA Conference in Cleveland, OH.

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Jam the switchboard on July 1

While President Obama’s debt commission works to undermine Social Security and Medicare as part of the nonsensical austerity measures proposed by neocons to relieve the debt created, in large part, by two wars of choice, Congress is poised to approve another $1 million per troop for a total of more than 33 billion dollars!

The pressure we’ve been applying on Congress to vote against the supplemental funding bill for the war in Afghanistan has made a difference. Forty House members have decided to vote no, and at least 10 more are on the fence.

Our sources are telling us that Congress will vote tomorrow, July 1.

Now that health insurance reform has become law, PDA is taking the fight for Medicare for All single-payer health insurance to the states. In this episode, Tim Carpenter interviews Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare4AllPA Director and Ben Day, MassCare Director about the single-payer efforts in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Produced by David Pakman of Midweek Politics http://www.midweekpolitics.com/

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Rep. Raul Grijalva called for a boycott of Arizona following the passage of SB 1070, the bill that has focused national attention on Arizona’s regressive immigration policies. “We’re on the wrong side of history,” proclaims Grijalva in part one of this episode. “Apartheid Arizona”–that’s how Dan O’Neal refers to his home state. Just days before the big demonstration in Phoenix, O’Neal discusses how PDA is impacting the debate. Listen to Tim Carpenter interview Grijalva and O’Neal on this timely topic.

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It was like Grand Central Station in Washington, D.C., last week when PDA teams of citizen-lobbyists took to three different tracks on Capitol Hill.

The Stop Global Warming/Environmental Issues Organizing Team has been focusing most of its energy on passing a good climate/energy bill, which actually addresses the problem. Frustrated by the many flaws in the bills under serious consideration, this IOT decided it was time to start the push for Plan B—the carbon tax with revenue returned to households.

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PDA National Director Tim Carpenter on the Thom Hartmann Program

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