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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / April 28, 2017
The Resistance Takes on Trump’s Assault on Climate Action
Just as the first hundred days of the Trump Administration began with the massive resistance of the Women’s March, they will end tomorrow with marches all across the country to stand up to his assaults on the fragile progress the country has ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / March 25, 2017
Democracy in the Balance: A Time to Resist and Restore
“Business must learn the lesson… that political power is necessary; that such power must be assiduously cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used aggressively and with determination — without embarrassment and without the ...
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Progressive Movement News / March 15, 2017
News Roundup, March 15
How to fix a broken Electoral College; what the Democratic Party should (and shouldn’t) do next); delving into Trump’s baseless allegations of voter fraud; and sci-fi lessons for movement organizing. How to Make the Electoral College ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / March 3, 2017
How Philanthropy and Civil Society Tell America’s Story – And Their Own
DA President Gara LaMarche delivered the following keynote remarks to San Diego Grantmakers, a donor network helping grantmakers’ philanthropy have greater impact, on March 2, 2017. The video above was played before his speech. Thank you. ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / February 26, 2017
Progressives Must Mobilize and Persuade – And Get Better at Each
The 2016 election is more than three months past, and we are living each day with its apocalyptic consequences. We need to fight Trump and what he stands for on multiple fronts. We need to fight the Muslim ban, the global gag order, a border ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / February 20, 2017
Trump and Us, One Month and Counting
Though it seems to many of us like it’s being measured in dog years, the Trump Presidency is just one month old, today. Though Donald Trump in office has proved every bit as appalling as his campaign warned us he would be, he’s faced many more ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / January 4, 2017
Inequality and Privilege
Sitting down for a quick talk as part of the Ford Foundation’s “Ford Forums” video series on inequality, Gara LaMarche talks about being an angry white man – and what it is that makes him angry.
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Progressive Movement News / December 16, 2016
News Roundup – Dec. 16
Inside Philanthropy reports on the progressive donor response to the Trump presidency; Issue One focuses on what it would take to really “drain the swamp”; Economic Policy Institute addresses the consequences of part-time work; and ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / December 16, 2016
The Next Elections Will Determine This Country’s Future. We Need to Start Working on Them Yesterday.
“Right-wing extremists now have virtually total control of state and federal offices in 30 states.” Progressives are mobilizing to resist the many assaults – on democracy, human rights, the safety net, the environment, and diplomacy ...
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Progressive Movement News / December 14, 2016
ACS Marshals Legal Experts to Lean on Trump
The American Constitution Society is organizing legal experts to speak out on many of Donald Trump’s unconstitutional campaign promises, extremist cabinet choices, and glaring conflicts of interest. In an open letter published Tuesday, they ...
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