Amnesty International Blogging From Gitmo

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Monday June 04, 2007 · 7:03 AM PDT

2007/06/04 · 07:03

My colleague, Jumana Musa, is down in Guantanamo for the hearings today sent this update early this morning.

Just last Wednesday, a man died of an apparent suicide in a cell in the supermax facility at Guantanamo known as Camp 5. Four days later, I found myself at Andrews Air Force Base getting on a plane with journalists, lawyers, NGOs and other government personnel to come down to the base for arraignments in the case of Yemeni national Salim Ahmed Hamdan and Canadian national Omar Khadr. What struck me was the normalization of the situation.

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Monday November 06, 2006 · 9:19 AM PST

2006/11/06 · 09:19

Dear Voters,

The problem with our schools is not a Democrat or Republican issue. Rather, it is an educational performance issue that affects the future of Arizona's children. Over the last four years test scores have failed to improve and the standards for passing those tests have also been lowered. Read More

PDA's 4th of July Message: Election Protection

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Tuesday July 04, 2006 · 10:35 PM PDT

2006/07/04 · 22:35

Dear Progressive Democrats of America activists,

As we celebrate our freedoms and our Democracy today, we must continue to remember that the core of our Democracy is under attack. Our voting system must be reformed and protected to enfranchise voters, have all votes counted, and counted as cast. We at PDA make a guarantee that this fight will continue to be our fight. Today is a day to reclaim our democracy.

With our current system when a Registrar violates election law, officials look the other way. Read More

PDA Statement on Lieberman

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Monday July 03, 2006 · 9:48 PM PDT

2006/07/03 · 21:48

Lieberman Should Respect Primary Vote

"Senator Joe Lieberman has been a strong, long-time supporter of bedrock Democratic Party values. However, many Connecticut Democrats are understandably disappointed with the senator's continued support of the president's failed stay-the-course strategy. Lieberman's announcement today that he would run as an independent should he lose to Ned Lamont in the primary is sadly more about self-preservation than representing the interests of voters," says Tim Carpenter, National Director of Progressive Democrats of America. Read More

ELECTION INTEGRITY IN ARIZONA . . . not so much!

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Wednesday June 28, 2006 · 1:23 PM PDT

2006/06/28 · 13:23

By Mike Shelby, guest blogger on SpidelBlog, AZ.

If ever there was a justification to show that Arizona's recently passed so-called election reform bill, SB1557, was just a first step and that because of obstructionist, self-serving politicians and elections officials who engaged in power plays, petty personality squabbles, unscrupulous and disingenuous negotiations; I don't need to look any further than Monday's USA Today, Analysis finds e-voting machines vulnerable (http://www.usatoday.com/.... ). In the USA Today article, once again, is a listing of the reasons that electronic voting must come under the strictest of security and verification methods if we are ever to hope for accurate and honest elections. Only this time it comes from the non-partisan think tank, Brennan Center for Justice, from a 162 page full report1 (see the Executive Summary2) that took over a year to examine optical scanners and touch-screen machines using elections officials, computer scientists, and security experts to analyze the data. Read More

A Progressive Priority: TAKE BACK THE HOUSE

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Tuesday April 04, 2006 · 12:11 PM PDT

2006/04/04 · 12:11

By: Kevin Spidel, National Deputy Director, Progressive Democrats of America

The "Downing Street Minutes," the "Ohio Report," and the censure movement within the House have raised very little public scrutiny outside the progressive movement. Rep. Conyers and his fellow progressive House members tried hard to raise these facts in the public eye via the media, town halls, and working with groups like Progressive Democrats of America (PDA.)

However, no truly legitimate hearing was ever called in Congress to address the need for accountability behind some of the issues raised on these topics. Read More

Kerry/Ohio Lawsuit Update...

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Monday August 22, 2005 · 7:18 PM PDT

2005/08/22 · 19:18

PDA posted news last week to our base about Kerry possably backing away from the lawsuit. We asked 50k members of PDA to let Kerry know that he can't let us down. We sited a letter on the Conyers Blog. Many sceptics emailed us yelling that we were "crying wolf" on this situation.

Well the offical letter has been posted, and I drafted a response that I posted on the PDA blog. I also cross posted the note on my personal blog with a bit more background. Please see this here: http://spidel.net/blog/?p=56

Drudge gets a hold of story about Liberal Soldier in Iraq and sends hate posts to blog

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Tuesday August 02, 2005 · 8:11 AM PDT

2005/08/02 · 08:11

Folks have been following the Leonard Clark story. For those who have not, click here to see cross posts on the internet: link. Read More

Blogging from the Streets of Baghdad...

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Thursday June 30, 2005 · 3:53 AM PDT

2005/06/30 · 03:53

Our American solider Leonard clark has posted two more long letters worth reading at http://www.leonardclark.com/blog. Here is a snippit: Read More

Progressive Democrats take Voting Fraud Issues to the Floor of the Senate

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Tuesday December 21, 2004 · 8:09 PM PST

2004/12/21 · 20:09

For Immediate Release // December 21, 2004
Contact: Tim Carpenter (877) 368-9221
http://www.pdamerica.org

Progressive Democrats take Voting Fraud Issues to the Floor of the Senate

Washington, D.C. - Today, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) launched an online campaign to send thousands of emails to Members of the Senate, urging them to stand with progressive members of the House of Representatives on January 6th. Rather than have a repeat of the Senatorial silence of 2000, this election's certification should find at least one Senator, and perhaps many, who will stand with the voters who were disenfranchised and suppressed during the November 2nd, 2004 election. Tonight PDA is reporting over 11,000 emails sent to targeted Senators.
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A Small Victory for Progressives

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Friday July 23, 2004 · 2:49 PM PDT

2004/07/23 · 14:49

A Small Victory for Progressives
By: Steven Rosenfeld

Steven Rosenfeld is a long-time journalist who lives in San Francisco. He is currently senior producer of the Laura Flanders Show on Air America Radio.

The way to get a progressive platform for the Democratic party is not through negotation or coalition building. It's about winning. Read More

The People's Phase Two - Impeach!

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Saturday July 10, 2004 · 8:39 AM PDT

2004/07/10 · 08:39

Report: CIA Gave False Info on Iraq

Intelligence analysts fell victim to "group think" assumptions that Iraq had weapons that it did not, the bipartisan report concluded. Many factors contributing to those failures are ongoing problems within the U.S. intelligence community -- which cannot be fixed with more money alone, it said.

The committee's top Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, said "Tragically, the intelligence failures set forth in this report will affect our national security for generations to come. Our credibility is diminished. Our standing in the world has never been lower. We have fostered a deep hatred of Americans in the Muslim world, and that will grow. As a direct consequence, our nation is more vulnerable today than ever before."

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