by Kay Tillow | All Unions Committee For Single Payer Health Care–HR 676 At a reception honoring Congressman John Conyers and co-sponsors of HR 676, held at the Denver Democratic Party Convention, two of the speakers were Greg Junemann, a member of the national AFL-CIO Executive Council and President of the 75,000 member International Federation of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AFL-CIO VP & PNHP Physician speak at HR 676 Reception at DNC", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2097" });

By Jayne Lyn Stahl Cindy McCain reportedly spent $300,000 on the outfit she wore the evening of her husband’s nomination to be the Republican party’s official candidate for president. It would take the average American worker 10 years to earn what Mrs. McCain spent on one outfit. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Some Perspective", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2096" });

by Buzzflash | BuzzFlash@BuzzFlash.com Click here to register: https://www.buzzflash.com/store/buzzcon08/ When: Saturday, September 27, 2008 From 9 AM to 6 PM Where: The Philadelphia Convention Center in the Heart of the City What: Progressive bloggers, union members, and activist group members will convene to learn strategies for bridging class divisions without sacrificing progressive values. The conference will emphasize, through a series [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Day-Long Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2095" });

by Andrew Gussert | citizenstrade.org Obama Will Support Trade Agreements that Also Support American Jobs. Obama will support trade agreements that open markets for goods and services provided by our workers, but also include strong labor and environmental standards. He will amend NAFTA so that it works for American workers and stand firmly against agreements like CAFTA and the South [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Trade Policy That Stands Up For American Workers", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2094" });

by Nicole Muench I am a pro-life mom of a special needs child. Watching the Republican convention, made it clear that the McCain campaign is about smear; not solutions. Where were the specific ideas to fix our broken economy or health care? I agree with Barney Smith’s statement that we need a president who puts [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Pro-life Mom of a Special Needs Child’s View of Election ‘08", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2093" });

By Jayne Lyn Stahl Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee announced, at last week’s Republican convention, that the media coverage of Sarah Palin has been “tackier than a costume change at a Madonna concert.” And, Mr. Huckabee ought to know a thing or two about costume changes. His party is responsible for the biggest wardrobe malfunction in U.S. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Costume Changes", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2092" });

By Jayne Lyn Stahl In her damn the torpedoes acceptance speech, at the Republican Convention, last night, Sarah Palin, Alaska’s governor, not only won her party’s nomination, but she effectively auditioned for a remake of “Million Dollar Baby.” That said, the only reason, I can think of, for this dynamic duo is that both of their [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Damn the Torpedoes Again", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2091" });

Conservatism is addicted to snidery, and Gov. Sarah Palin looks to be just another pusher. by Bill Scher | Campaign for America’s Future Unwilling to forcefully argue that our government shouldn’t do anything to strengthen our economy, guarantee health coverage or generate clean energy, conservative leaders try to keep their movement mobilized by playing off of foils. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Sad Night for Conservatism", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2090" });

by Kim Gandy, NOW PAC Chair and National NOW President Senator Hillary Clinton was our first choice, and that of 18 million primary voters, but presumptive nominee Senator Barack Obama’s pick, Joe Biden, is a friend of women and a strong selection for Vice President. Biden authored and championed the landmark 1994 Violence Against Women Act [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obama and Biden: Running Mates", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2089" });

by William John Cox Although Americans have access to the greatest selection of information sources in the world, including books, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cable, and the Internet, the frequency of the news cycle has increased to the point where we have forgotten that our president and vice president have committed horrendous war crimes, or we [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Holding Murderers Accountable: The Case Against Bush, Cheney, et al.", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2088" });

by Leslie Cagan, UFPJ National Coordinator We are sending you this message because the situation in St. Paul is very grave and we’re concerned that the real story is not being told by the mainstream media. Over the past few days, the heavily armed and extremely large police presence in St. Paul has intimidated, harrassed and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Act Now! 1st Amendment Under Fire at the GOP Convention", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2087" });

Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison joins John Nichols from The Nation, Maryland Sen. Jamie Raskin, PDA’s Steve Cobble, and UFPJ Coordinator Leslie Cagan as panelists at PDA’s Progressive Central in Denver. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Keith Ellison and other panelists at PDA’s Progressive Central in Denver", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2086" });

By Jayne Lyn Stahl Is the nomination of Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, as running mate for Sen. John McCain a set up? Palin isn’t even the official nominee, and there have already been more leaks than on the Titanic. First, allegations that Palin tried to get her sister’s ex-husband fired from his job as a state [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Set Up?", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2085" });

Keith McHenry | The Food Not Bombs Movement Schedule a Food Not Bombs Presentation at your school In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County Prosecutors have formally charged 8 alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee with Conspiracy to Riot in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ramsey County Charges Nonviolent Food Not Bombs volunteers Under State Patriot Act, Alleges Acts of Terrorism", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2084" });

by Michael Moore | MichaelMoore.com (Last night, during his primetime speech from the podium at the Republican National Convention, Senator Joe Lieberman made the following statement: “… if John McCain is just another partisan Republican, then I’m Michael Moore’s favorite Democrat. And I’m not. And I think you know that I’m not.”) Dear Joe: John McCain IS [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Michael Moore Responds to Joe Lieberman", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2081" });

Conservatives don’t want to debate, they want to destroy their opposition. by Thomas Frank | The New Statesman. Posted on Alternet August 18, 2008. The most cherished dream of conservative Washington is that liberalism can somehow be defeated, finally and irreversibly, in the way that armies are beaten and pests are exterminated. Electoral victories by Republicans [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Plot Against Liberal America", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2080" });

Here’s a puzzle. (WARNING: This will probably make your brain ache.) Guy Townsend, Editor, PDA Website One morning a hunter left his camp and headed due south. When he failed to spot any game after traveling due south for five miles, he turned and headed due east. After he had traveled exactly 3.7 miles due east [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The power of logical thinking", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2079" });

By Jayne Lyn Stahl After eight years of the wild west, one would think we’d had enough of cowboys. Enter Alaska’s answer to Annie Oakley to walk everybody’s favorite, if ambivalent, maverick down the yellow brick road. And, what better day than today, when we pay tribute to the contributions of the working man and woman of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Let Them Eat Moose", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2078" });

by Congressman Dennis Kucinich in Denver at the Democratic Convention In my speech to the Democratic National Convention, I called on America to wake up to the corruption, lies, abuses and criminal failings of the Bush Administration over the past eight years. Now, more than ever, we need your voice to shout that wake-up call - all [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Wake Up America", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2077" });

by Rabbi Michael Lerner For all the media chatter about how far we’ve come since the Democratic Convention in Chicago,1968, or the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s. “I Have A Dream Speech,” if you were expecting that the words of the prophets had moved from the subway walls and tenement [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The High Priests Gathered to Praise the Dems-but the Prophets Were Missing", url: "http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2076" });