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Most Valuable Progressives of 2008
A Pictoral History
PDA-Ohio Celebrating Five Years of Progressive Action
in Ohio
PDA-Ohio is a chapter of the Progressive Democrats of America
PDA-OHIO'S MISSION IS MOVEMENT-BUILDING. PUT DOWN THE CHANNEL CHANGER AND GET OFF THE COUCH. JOIN PDA-OHIO TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE TODAY.
"We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak....there is such a thing as being too late....Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with lost opportunity....Over the bleached bones of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: Too late." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. How is this?"
Ohio President, Rutherford B. Hayes (October 4, 1822 January 17, 1893)
President Rutherford B. Hayes
A Government of Corporations, by Corporations, and for Corporations.
"American citizens have repeatedly amended the Constitution to defend democracy when the Supreme Court acts in collusion with democracy's enemies, whether they are slavemasters, states imposing poll taxes on voters, or the opponents of woman suffrage. Today, the Court has enthroned corporations, permitting them not only all kinds of special economic rights but now, amazingly, moving to grant them the same political rights as the people. This is a moment of high danger for democracy so we must act quickly to spell out in the Constitution what the people have always understood: that corporations do not enjoy the political and free speech rights that belong to the people of the United States." - Professor Jamin Raskin, constitutional law expert at American University's Washington College of Law and Maryland state senator
THE CORPORATIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Jeff Cohen, Founder of FAIR
Real News Network
Jeff Cohen is a media critic and lecturer, founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he is an associate professor of journalism. Cohen founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986.
PDA Ohio members Mary Nichols Rhodes, Steve Smith, Michael Carano and daughter Sarah at Progressive Democrats of America event with national leadership team member Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR.
