With Democrats like Bean, who needs Republicans?
Melissa Bean, (IL-08), bluest of Illinois’ blue dog Democrats, recently served as the temporary chair of the House Financial Services Committee which was hearing testimony about the need to reform the...
View ArticleCurrent Health Care Bill – A National Error
Progressive Democrats of America-Illinois (PDA_IL) Demands Truly Universal, Comprehensive, Cost-Effective, Equitable Quality Health Care For All WE OPPOSE PROFIT DRIVEN 'REFORM!'Under the proposed...
View ArticleSpineless Democrats? No, they're winning on health care
The push to "get something done" on health care no matter what front group is pushing it, comes ultimately from Democratic Party leaders who think that if they pass the Senate version, the lowest...
View ArticleMission Accomplished? Rahm Returns Home Triumphant
Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former Chief of Staff, supposedly master mined Democratic congressional victories in 2006 and 2008. And based on that record he is, according to Chicago media, the leading...
View ArticleWith Friends Like These...Illinois labor faces hostile state government...
By Bill Bianchi, Progressive Democrats of America-IllinoisOver the past year, organized labor has suffered serious sets back across the union movement’s Midwestern homeland. In Wisconsin, Indiana,...
View ArticleSocial Security and Medicare can be made stronger and better through...
By Sonja Rotenberg, Chair Illinois Single Payer Coalition 12/27/12Some Changes Are GoodRepublicans and some Democrats want to cut Social Security (even though it does not contribute one dime to the...
View ArticleWhy did Senator Durbin and nearly all of the Senate Dems vote to cut food...
Does cutting the country’s most important hunger prevention program represent a political strategy, a sincere belief in austerity or something deeper?Recently, in a series of actions, Progressive...
View ArticleWho are Illinois Most/Least Progressive Congresspersons? Check Out these...
Very Progressive? Not! In the 2012 federal election Illinois Democrats took 12 of Illinois’ 18 Congressional seats. Unfortunately, the five new Dems in the Illinois Congressional delegation are...
View ArticleCruisin’ to Syria. Here We Go Again!
It’s cruisin’ season folks. That time of year when America’s leaders think fondly of sending our missiles a-cruisin’ to foreign lands where they can drop in—with a big bang—on people our leaders don’t...
View ArticleReal Progressives Rising after Illinois Dem March Primary
Bill Bianchi and Lenny BrodyThe Illinois March primary elections produced important lessons for progressive activists in Chicago.First, Will Guzzardi’s 60% victory (in the 39th state rep district)...
View ArticleProgressives, let's fight for power, not just influence
A Populist Moment Needs a Long Term StrategyProgressive movements are simmering and bubbling across the nation, but so far none have been able to link movement enthusiasm and demands to the political...
View ArticleIllinois Democrats Betray Working People with Phony Minimum Wage Promise
Illinois Democrats have been saying for a long time that they want to modestly increase the state’s minimum wage to around $10.65 an hour. For several years, they have had everything a political party...
View ArticleHealth Care Advocates’ Fight Against Medicaid Cuts: “Profoundly Disquieting”
By Dr. Anne Scheetz About 200 Illinois health advocates and service providers attended the "Medicaid and Budget Advocacy Summit" Friday March 6th and vowed to ramp up pressure against Republican Gov....
View ArticleProgressive Blind Spots: Ignoring Bernie, Rejecting NO.
Why are major progressive activist groups not urging Bernie Sanders to run for President as a Democrat?Senator Elizabeth Warren (D- MA) has made it crystal clear. She is NOT going to run for President....
View ArticleChicago Ecoomic Royalists Eye Public School Money Pot
Why are so many of Chicago Financial elite so interested in public education?Like sleek predator birds circling a large wounded animal, Chicago's economic royalist are eyeing the Chicagol Public...
View ArticleTribune editorial slams Illinois Democratic Party leaders for abandoning the...
The world is upside down. Kristen McQueary, Editorial Board member at the Chicago Tribune, one of the country’s oldest Republican newspapers, wrote an editorial Wednesday, 10/23/15, that could have...
View ArticleBernie Sanders: Socialism Means America is for All of Us, Not Just the Rich!
In what might be the most important speech of this campaign, Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders defined and discussed what Democratic Socialism means to him and how it will impact America when he...
View ArticleFascinating Facts about Democratic Convention Delegates
An enormously complex convention delegate selection process has grown out of the long inter-Party struggle between the corporate wing of the Democratic Party that wants to block progressive candidates...
View ArticleThe UnDemocratic Party, Alan Grayson
Progressive Democrats of America has endorsed Grayson in his run for the Senate in Florida. They are losers!The Democratic Establishment: corrupt, mendacious sellouts.There, I said it.You’ve seen what...
View ArticleFive reasons why Bernie Sanders is right, Medicare-for-all will reduce...
Now that Medicare-for-all has become a key issue in the primary elections, people are starting to take a serious look at it and saying, “yeah it looks good, but what’s it going to cost?” Democrats...
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