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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / July 15, 2016
Working for Justice after Last Week’s Turmoil and Violence
This is the height of the political season, with the two party conventions taking place later this month. But platforms and Vice-Presidential selections aside, in a year when the electoral stakes have never been higher, there is a palpable sense ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / July 5, 2016
Brexit Vote Has Echoes in the U.S., but Progressives Can Write a Different Ending
Last month’s Brexit vote in the United Kingdom sent shock waves through Europe and the world. The “leave” campaign had several things in common with the United States in this election season, making many anxious about whether ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / June 14, 2016
In Orlando, the Price of Hate and Inaction
Mass shootings occur with grim regularity in our country, whose gun laws are insanely growing steadily more lax, not more stringent, thanks to the enormous power of the National Rifle Association and its stranglehold on politicians petrified to ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / June 1, 2016
Social Movements Matter: The Untold Story of the Democratic Primaries
In its final stages, the Clinton-Sanders contest has been distressingly dominated by arguments over party rules while Donald Trump consolidates his control over the Republican Party and begins his general election campaign. But for most of the ...
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From The President / May 20, 2016
The Only Way to Run against Donald Trump is All Out
I don’t like writing about Donald Trump. I don’t like talking about Donald Trump. I don’t like his ubiquitous presence in the media. But we have to talk and write about Donald Trump, since what was not long ago unthinkable has happened:
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From The President / May 11, 2016
Remarks Accepting the North Star Award
On May 9, DA President Gara LaMarche was honored by the North Star Fund at their annual Community Gala in New York. His brief remarks accepting the North Star Award alongside fellow honorees Billie Jean King and George Gresham of 1199SEIU are below.
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From The President / April 11, 2016
Opening Remarks of the DA Spring Conference
On April 10, President Gara LaMarche kicked off the Democracy Alliance’s Spring 2016 Conference in Santa Monica, CA with the following remarks.
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From The President / March 9, 2016
The Poisoning of Flint is a Failure of Democracy, and Democracy is the Only Real Remedy
The public health, civil rights and political crisis in Flint, Michigan was spotlighted again by the debate between Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders that took place there Sunday night. Flint may seem an extreme example of the toll taken by ...
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From The President / February 15, 2016
Gara LaMarche on “The Business of Giving” Podcast
The DA’s President spoke with podcast host Denver Frederick and Matthew Bishop, senior editor of The Economist magazine yesterday. LaMarche discussed the role of philanthropy in a democracy, his theory of social change, and his views on ...
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From The President / February 9, 2016
Building Toward a 2020 Vision with 2016 Victories
Each presidential election always seems like the most important one in our lifetime. With the myriad of critical issues facing our country and the world – some of them, like climate change, threatening our very existence – an ever-widening gulf ...
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Blog posts, speeches, musings, and other updates from the Democracy Alliance President.