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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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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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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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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / December 13, 2016
The Coming Fights of Our Lives, and How to Think about Them
The early steps of what will become the Trump Administration have obliterated any doubt that it will be the most extremist in American history, with devastating consequences for working families, communities of color, the safety of our water, ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / November 14, 2016
Opening Remarks from Gara LaMarche at the Fall 2016 DA Conference
On November 13, Democracy Alliance President Gara LaMarche opened the DA’s fall conference by addressing the election and rallying attendees for the fights ahead. Below are his remarks to the DA Partnership.
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / September 26, 2016
New American Majority Turnout is Vital to Win in November – and Needs Sustained Investment.
The Presidential polls have tightened alarmingly. Complacency is always a dangerous stance, no matter what the odds, but is absolutely unacceptable and unwarranted now and for the next 42 days. There is one sure path to a progressive victory in ...
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Blog posts, speeches, musings, and other updates from the Democracy Alliance President.