{"id":37173,"date":"2024-10-20T19:57:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T02:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=37173"},"modified":"2024-10-20T19:57:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T02:57:46","slug":"pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-october-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/20\/pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-october-20-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, October 20, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, October 20, 2024\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JmbiyBcB6PI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PDAMERICA Streamed live 6 hours agoWe at PDA understand why people roll their eyes when they hear political activists say, once again, that this year is the most imporatnt election of our lifetime. Invariably, this claim is made becuase of the inherent danger of the opponent. Well\u2026 this time that claim is objectively true. Trump and his oligarch-backed MAGA movement represent a much greater threat to the maintanance of our democratic republic than anything we\u2019ve seen since, at least, the defeat of post-Civil War reconstruction or the Civil War itself. Now, at PDA, we do take a different approach than other mass membership political organizations to this reality \u2013 in that we ask everyone to be just as active both before and after an election in the fight to preserve and expand democracy. No contemporary public figure personifies that spirit more than the great political journalist John Nichols, who will be our guest on this week\u2019s Town Hall. An ally of PDA since our founding 20 years ago, John will offer his understanding of the election as it heads into the final two weeks \u2013 and how progressives can help bring home an essential victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDAMERICA Streamed live 6 hours agoWe at PDA understand why people roll their eyes when they hear political activists say, once again, that this year is the most imporatnt election of our lifetime. Invariably, this claim is made becuase of the inherent danger of the opponent. Well\u2026 this time that&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/20\/pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-october-20-2024\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37174,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37173\/revisions\/37174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}