MSNBC rejected a TV ad calling for a boycott of Target Corp. after the retail giant made a political donation in Minnesota, continuing the controversy over corporate involvement in elections.
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Kalb, Segal and Tudor endorsed by PDA
Posted by admin on August 3rd, 2010
On Thursday, July 29, Progressives Democrats of America (PDA) gave their national endorsement to three progressive Democrats running for Congress: Larry Kalb in Washington’s second congressional district, David Segal in Rhode Island’s first district, and from Florida’s 12th congressional district, Doug Tudor.
Posted in politics 
Tags: David Segal, Doug Tudor, Larry Kalb, PDA, Progressive Democrats of America 
No Comments »Is Target Supporting Anti-Gay Candidates?
Posted by admin on July 29th, 2010
Those new campaign finance laws that allow corporations to get more involved in political campaign advertising are getting an early test. According to ABC News, Target Corp. is getting blasted by gay rights advocates after news emerged that the company had donated $150,000 to a Minnesota-based political group called MN Forward that is backing gubernatorial [...]
U.S. Army fires gay officer
Posted by admin on July 24th, 2010
A gay activist has been discharged from the New York Army National Guard for breaking the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on homosexuality.
UK: Tories filmed gay shower scene election advert
Posted by admin on July 23rd, 2010
The Conservative Party produced an election advert which showed two men in a shower ‘coming out’ as Tory supporters.The advert, one in a series of three, was to be shown in cinemas but was dropped for fear of a backlash from grassroots supporters.
Progressive Democrats of America Endorses Bastien and Gill for Congress
Posted by admin on July 23rd, 2010
On the eve of their national conference in Cleveland Ohio, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) announced it has endorsed two new progressive candidates for Congress, Marleine Bastien in Florida’s 17th District and Dr. David Gill in Illinois’ 15th. Both candidates won the endorsement of local PDA chapters and the unanimous endorsement of the PDA Inside [...]
8: The Mormon Proposition
Posted by admin on July 20th, 2010
A searing indictment of the Mormon Church’s historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California’s Proposition 8, and the Mormon religion’s secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights.
Posted in movies, politics Tags: Dustin Lance Black, Mormon Church, prop 8, Proposition 8, Reed Cowan, Senator D. Chris Buttars No Comments »Progressive Activists Converging in Cleveland
Posted by admin on July 19th, 2010
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), an activist organization founded in 2004, will hold a national grassroots leadership conference in Cleveland, Ohio, July 23rd to 25th. Hundreds of participants from around the country will train and strategize with the likes of local Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the Nation magazine’s John Nichols, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, health [...]
Former Air Force Officer Set to Testify in Gay Ban Lawsuit
Posted by admin on July 17th, 2010
A former Air Force major is expected to testify at a federal trial that involves the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prohibits gays from openly serving in the military.
GOP group challenges policy on gays in military
Posted by admin on July 13th, 2010
President Barack Obama’s remarks that the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy weakens national security shows it should be declared unconstitutional, a lawyer for the nation’s largest Republican gay rights group told a federal judge Tuesday.
Gay rights groups bash ‘don’t ask’ survey
Posted by admin on July 11th, 2010
Gay rights activists say a survey asking U.S. troops’ views on ending the ban on homosexuals openly serving in the military is insulting and biased. Servicemembers United, the nation’s largest group of gay and lesbian troops and veterans, told The Washington Post the survey includes “derogatory and insulting wording, assumptions and insinuations.”
