Tag: Progressive Democrats of America
Nationwide demonstrations propose defunding wars instead of defunding medicare and social security
Brown Bag Lunch Vigils at 100 congress members’ local offices on Wednesday, June 16, will carry the message “Hands Off Medicare and Social Security.” Organiser and National Director of Progressive Democrats of America Tim Carpenter explains: “Cuts to Medicare and Social Security will not balance the budget, but ending the wars assuredly will.”
Citizens in 18 States Push for State-Level Single-Payer Healthcare
In Wayne, Pennsylvania, on April 10, 2010, in conjunction with a regional conference of the Progressive Democrats of America, citizen representatives of fourteen states gathered and decided to begin a more coordinated collaboration aimed at passage of state-based, single-payer healthcare legislation. Groups in four additional states are also involved.